If you are stable, it does not mean that you will put the Qing Dynasty aside. For Zhu Yicheng, the Qing Dynasty must be destroyed and the Western Regions must be taken down.

Not only the Western Regions, but also Tibet, and Mobei, these are all homelands in Chinese history. What the Ming Dynasty did not do, but what the Ming Dynasty must do now must do, and it must do.

In addition to the above problem, it is to occupy the control and development of the territory of the Western Regions. Zhu Yicheng deliberately forced the Qing Dynasty to develop into the Western Regions. In addition to the policy of first Liaodong and then Western Regions, there is another main reason for it to use the Qing Dynasty to clean up all ethnic groups in the Western Regions.

The ethnic composition of the Western Regions is extremely complex. From the Han Dynasty to the present more than a thousand years, hundreds of ethnic groups and countries have existed in the Western Regions, and when the Mongols ruled the Central Plains, ethnic groups and cultures from the West began to enter this region continuously, thus once again enhancing the diversity of ethnic, culture, religion and other aspects of the Western Regions.

In this case, if the Ming Dynasty intervened in the Western Regions too early, it would inevitably encounter many problems. It would be better to let the Qing Dynasty clean up in the Western Regions first. Then, after the Ming Dynasty completely solved the Qing Dynasty's problem, the Western Regions would be much more convenient to deal with it.

As a king, Zhu Yicheng is considered qualified in this regard. His actions meet the requirements of the inner sage and the outer king will allow the Western Regions to better integrate into Chinese civilization in the future, rather than creating a mess and investing the country's precious wealth and energy into this bottomless pit.

This was also reflected in the Ming Dynasty's capture of the Hexi Corridor and the occupation of Zhenyuan City. Because of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had less chaos in the local area after swallowing these territories, especially the influence of nobles, princes and even religions of all races, which made the Ming Dynasty less trouble in this regard.

Judging from the current situation, it is necessary to temporarily slow down. In addition, Zhu Yicheng plans to immigrate to the Western Regions and conduct preliminary development of the Western Regions, thinking that he will be prepared for further westward advancement in the future.

In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the Ming Dynasty throughout the world, the population of the Ming Dynasty has no longer supported such large-scale immigration.

First there was Xinming, then Luzon, followed by Liaodong and Mongolia. By the way, there are also places such as Nanlu. Although the Ming Dynasty has the largest population base in the world, the population of the Ming Dynasty is still far from reaching the tens of billions in later generations, and even the 400 million people in the late Qing Dynasty were far from that of the population.

In recent years, the total number of immigrants overseas, including the local area, has exceeded 8 million. If this number is placed in Europe, it will be enough to be the total population of several European countries.

However, based on the huge need for population immigration everywhere, the population of eight million is far from satisfying. Not to mention other places, even a Xinming cannot satisfy it.

According to previous statistics from the Military Affairs Office, if we want to meet the needs of immigrant population in various places, the Ming Dynasty would need at least 30 million or even more in addition to the current immigrant number. Such a figure could not be achieved by the current Ming Dynasty. You should know that Zhu Yicheng's population was about 35 million after the Battle of the Central Plains. After taking over the Yunnan-Guizhou provinces in the southwest, the total population of the Ming Dynasty did not exceed 42 million.

In this way, it is equivalent to evacuating the entire Ming Dynasty's local population to meet the needs of immigrants everywhere. This is simply impossible. So in desperation, the Ming Dynasty could only use the population of North Korea or even Japan as part of the immigration targets to fill the gap.

Under such circumstances, some ministers in the court proposed to follow the colonization methods of Western countries and control the rule of the local Tu population with a small population, thereby adjusting the Ming Dynasty's overseas territorial policies.

This method is not without reference. This is how European countries do it in various colonies in the world. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the population base of European countries is much worse. Even France, the largest country in Europe, has a population of only nearly ten million people.

Britain, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands...the populations of these countries are even smaller, ranging from millions to nearly one million. However, they are able to expand their colonies around the world, with overseas territory several times or even dozens of times higher than their homeland. They rely on Europe's unique colonial policies and use force to suppress them with a small population basis, thus driving the locals to maintain their plunder and rule in the colonies.

However, this suggestion was directly rejected by Zhu Yicheng. Although Zhu Yicheng knew that Western colonial methods had advantages, using this method in the absence of a population base can alleviate many problems and can also have good results.

However, the disadvantages of this colonial method are also obvious. In the early 19th century to the mid-20th century, a series of colonial independence revolutions broke out around the world, which led to the complete collapse of the Western colonial system.

This is the root of the disaster laid by Western colonial methods back then. Zhu Yicheng never thought of using colonial methods to rule overseas from the beginning. The strategy he set was a policy of integrating overseas and locality. Although the implementation of this policy is relatively difficult, the cycle is long, and the investment is huge and slow to achieve results, from a long-term perspective, Zhu Yicheng has outstanding vision in doing this. He believes that after decades or even hundreds of years of operation, these territories will become real territories like the local area, and it has been since ancient times.

In order to achieve this goal, the Ming Dynasty has been encouraging the people to have more children in recent years. In other words, the court supports the people to raise more children, and the more they give birth, the better.

In order to implement this policy, the court has also introduced a series of measures to encourage births, including government rewards and tax exemptions for population births. In addition, the court spared no effort to implement children's education. At the same time, it has severely cracked down on the bad habits of the people such as drowning in infants to ensure the continuous growth of the population base.

These policies have been implemented in recent years and have achieved remarkable results. Although the population birth rate statistics in this era cannot be as accurate as those in later generations, it is extremely gratifying from the growth of the numbers in the Yellow Book. Unfortunately, it takes nearly twenty years for a child to grow up from a baby, and it takes decades of accumulation to truly reflect the real outbreak of the population. This is the reason why far water cannot save the near fire.

Zhu Yicheng has been considering this issue, and the Western Regions issue before him is the top priority.

To this end, he decided to carry out "military farming" in the Hexi Corridor to Zhenyuancheng area, which can solve the nearby resettlement of retired soldiers. Secondly, it can maintain military suppression in the Western Regions, and thirdly, it can reduce the pressure of immigration from inland to the Western Regions. As for the fourth point, it is to reduce the logistical pressure in the Western Regions.

The military farming system has existed since ancient China. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao relied on the military farming system to solve the military food problem, which ultimately laid the foundation for unifying the world.

The subsequent dynasties also had the fact of military farming system, even in the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhu Yuanzhang directly set up a military household system to replace the military farming system, but its core was the same.

Now, the military household system has been abolished by Zhu Yicheng, but the military farming system can still be used. Of course, Zhu Yi has become a resurgence of the military household system and decided not to use the "military farming system" as a title, but to adopt another title from later generations - the Construction Corps.

In the past few days, Zhu Yicheng has been thinking about the organization and details of the Western Region Construction Corps. He is planning to form a construction corps of 100,000 with 30,000 retired soldiers (official officers) and his family.

This construction corps adopts the administrative structure and management model of later generations, and exists in the form of reserves, half-people and half-man and even half-man. They stationed in the Western Regions and carried out a series of "constructions" for the local area.

In the eyes of the world, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and there is no production. But in fact, this is not the case. The Western Regions can not only produce cattle and horses to adapt to breeding, but also cultivate. In addition, the Western Regions have a long time of lighting, which is especially suitable for some crops, such as cotton and other crops.

In addition, the Western Regions also have rich underground minerals, which are all resources in the Western Regions. For example, this construction corps can operate smoothly, which will not only allow the Ming Dynasty to take root in the Western Regions, but also solve the current huge logistical pressure in the Western Regions, making some materials, including military rations, self-sufficient.
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