Before the empire was established, Li Mingxun took advantage of the victory and the restoration of the capital, and swept across the southern part of the desert with the army from Liaodong, completely expelled the Qing regime to the north of the desert, and went south to liberate the two provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi, directly cutting off the convenient connection between the northern part of the desert, the Western Regions and Tibet. When the war was extremely smooth and the Mongolian troops were competing to surrender, both the commander-in-chief and the army's senior leaders or the front-line generals had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the victory to sweep across the northern part of the desert and to make a contribution to the battle. Of course, this idea was held down by Li Mingxun, and the main energy of the imperial army turned to the pacification of the southwest and the stability maintenance of the restoration area.

The reason why Li Mingxun temporarily suspended his march to Mobei was that in addition to the extremely unacceptable army soldiers and war horses found in the Battle of Monan, he was unwilling to take risks. He knew very well that the Qing Dynasty was not stable in Mobei and was able to pursue victory was a good strategy. The longer the delay was, the more the ability to integrate various divisions was given to the Qing Dynasty. But is it obviously impossible for the empire to enter Mobei when the unstable situation inside the pass? After all, the empire was really unfamiliar with Mobei. The biggest enemy was no longer the army that remnants of the Qing Dynasty and the backward and barbaric Mongolian tribes, but the harsh natural environment. The harsh natural environment may bring huge casualties, or it may lead to annihilation of the entire army!

When the country was stable and the southwest was peaceful, the plan to march into the north of Mobei was raised again. However, this time, the command, the army and the Lifan Academy were much more cautious. They no longer saw the pride brought by the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides. Instead, they were worried about the harsh logistics supply. The Security Bureau took the lead and tested the logistics costs of the Imperial Army entering the north of Mobei through smuggling and experimenting with the logistical cost of the two years of secret experiments. The report formed by secret experiments over the past two years shows that the difficulty and huge expenses of logistics supply are definitely unimaginable to the whole country.

According to the experiments conducted by the Security Bureau, considering the continuity of military logistics supplies, the most reliable supply is not vehicle transportation, but carriage. There are no roads on the grassland, and a rain and snow may cut off the supply. The most efficient way to transport food and grass is camels rather than mules and horses. The carrying efficiency of camels is more than three times that of horses and mules. When crossing harsh natural areas such as deserts, camels also have more advantages than war horses.

Although the empire did not have enough camels, the experiment still used camels as the most efficient animal. As a reference, the result was that one stone of rice was transported from Datong, Shanxi, and through the desert through the city of Guihua, and the cost of reaching the north of the desert was twenty-four taels of silver. From the capital, passing through the Yanbei Pacification Zone, and going west of the Daxinganling to the desert was twenty-two taels, and the cost of going to the west of the Daxinganling Mountains was twenty-two taels, while the cost of going from the middle road to the west of the West Road was higher. The cost of transporting grain from Liaoning to Qiqihar, and passing through Zalantun to the north of the Mobei was thirty-two taels, while the cost of rice and grain from the main grain-producing areas of Haixi and Yongning provinces was even higher. This was just a small batch of transportation. Considering that the 100,000 troops needed to pacify Mobei and the three routes needed to advance, the cost of transportation in large batches would definitely double.

Li Mingxun recognized the cost summarized by the report. In his memory, in the original historical time and space, Kangxi expelled Galdan and recovered Mobei, the transportation cost was "two golds and one stone". At the peak of grain demand, the price of rice and grain that arrived in Mobei was close to one hundred taels.

In the later generations of Zuo Zongtang set the northwest and quelling the Aguba rebellion, the logistics cost was already outrageous. The cost of purchasing grain alone exceeded 60% of the military expenditure. In addition, the transportation cost was 17% of the transportation cost, the logistics cost was 80% of the military expenditure, and the arms cost consumed was less than 5%. In the war to quell the Aguba, the two key factors were the stable war funds brought by borrowing foreign funds (the foreign funds accounted for less than 20%, but they were stable, and they mainly paid the soldiers). The second advantageous factor was that the Qing army could obtain tens of millions of kilograms of grain supplies from Russian merchants.

(History is so funny. Russia supports Aguber to split the northwest of China, and Russian smuggling merchants are the most important grain supply merchants for Zuo Zongtang to pacify the northwest.)

It is precisely because of these factors that Li Mingxun used food and grass supply as the best solution for the empire to march into the northern part of the Mobei region. The first thing to solve this problem is the frontier settlement, Hexi Corridor, Hetao, Yunzhong Appeasement Zone, Yanbei Appeasement Zone and Qiqihar Appeasement Zone are the main locations for frontier settlement, and are the main directions for large-scale forced immigration of the empire. However, immigration settlement is an inefficient means, and often takes more than ten years to show results. Is the empire willing to let the remnants of the Qing Dynasty survive for ten years?

Obviously this is impossible. Li Mingxun will not leave such a problem to his descendants to solve, and the empire cannot accept the army that has maintained more than one million for a long time. Li Mingxun has always been committed to finding ways to quickly and effectively solve logistics supplies. Wu Liji's report gave him new inspiration.

Technology and talent are indeed necessary conditions for solving the efficiency of settlement, but Li Mingxun is more clear that the catalyst is still capital and market, so Li Mingxun finally decided to use Shangtun as the main method of cutting-edge settlement!

"Mr. Zheng, please use tea."

The attendant put the brewed tea on the table beside Zheng Yuechen and said with a smile. Zheng Yuechen quickly got up and bowed to thank him, but he had no idea of ​​drinking tea. Not only did he not want to drink tea, but he was also rushing in his abdomen, clearly wanting to pee, but looking around, there was only a smiling attendant in this magnificent palace, and there was no one else. This was the palace and the residence of His Majesty of the Heavenly Dynasty. If he asked to urinate, he would be disrespectful. If Long Ting was angry, it would be a loss of life.

Zheng Yuechen secretly scolded his wife, saying that he would make soup in the morning. After drinking so much, he came to the palace. Where can I solve it? When he thought of the person he was about to meet was the emperor of the empire, the supreme existence, the mysterious half-human and half-god, Zheng Yuechen became even more nervous, and his desire to pee in his heart became even more anxious.

"My lord, can you..." Zheng Yuechen looked around, sat down and stood up again, clamped his legs, and was uneasy. He finally made up his mind to ask where the east toilet was, but suddenly someone sang: "Your Majesty is here!"

"Good people greet you... greet your Majesty!" Zheng Yuechen hurriedly knelt on the ground. The violent physical change made him feel excited and his body trembled violently because he forced himself to hold it in.

"Get up, why are you so nervous?" Li Mingxun sat down, raised his right hand and asked casually.

"It's really the emperor's dignity, and the people are frightened..." Zheng Yuechen didn't dare to say anything more, and stood aside.

"Sit there, don't be too polite. Li Decan has reported on your contributions to North Korea," said Lee Myung-hoon.

Zheng Yuechen sat on the chair. He was specially sent by Li Decan to accompany Li Bai to the capital. Unlike Jin Bing, who was mainly surveillance, Zheng Yuechen's identity was even softer. After all, Li Decan didn't want Li Bai to come to the capital and make any trouble.

The empire gave Li Bai the title of honor, and the matter of North Korea's surrender had already fallen into the ground. Zheng Yuechen, who had made great contributions in this matter, was also rewarded. With his own ability, North Korea lifted military control and ended up as a member of parliament. Zheng Yuechen was also running around the capital. He was familiar with the relationship and the second was to discuss cooperation with the nobles and chaebols in the capital. He never thought that he would be summoned to the palace early this morning, which was beyond Zheng Yuechen's expectations.

Li Mingxun chatted with Zheng Yuechen for a few words, got to the point, and asked: "I heard that your Zheng family is in Jeju, Haixi, and Liaoning. Is there any such thing?"

"Yes, Caomin is some farms in the empire, but that's all legal income, Caomin..." Zheng Yuechen never thought that it was because of this, so he wiped the sweat from his forehead and quickly explained.

Because he helped Li Decan's family escape from Korea, he had been working with the empire for more than ten years. In the early years, he only smuggled between Jeju and Seoul. However, with the rise of the empire and the continuous failure of the Qing Dynasty in the war, Zheng Yuechen, a privileged businessman in North Korea, also began to plan a retreat. As a businessman, the principle that eggs cannot be placed in the same basket is brought out from the womb.

Therefore, Zheng Yuechen has been secretly investing in the empire and asking his son to take care of it as a way out. As a businessman of a feudal dynasty, he, like many gentry landlords who fled overseas from Zhu Ming during the national crisis, the first thing he did when he arrived in Jeju was to purchase land. Jeju only had dry fields and hillsides, but there was a crucial institution, the Imperial Military Horse Farm.

It happened that Li Decan was the head of the military control district in Jeju at that time, so Zheng Yuechen used this relationship to reclaim land on a large scale. Although rice and wheat could not be planted, the beans and corn produced were exactly what the Imperial military horses needed. As Li Decan went to Yongning and served as the deputy chief executive, Zheng Yuechen drove the farm to the Haixi Province. He also started with military horses and official horses, and then planted food to export to North Korea and Japan, which was trapped in civil war. Of course, this model also continued until Li Decan was in charge of Liaoning. Therefore, Zheng Yuechen had farms in many places in the empire. These industries were legal or illegal. Li Mingxun did not want to pursue them. He recruited Zheng Yuechen, just to ask from the experienced guy in Shangtun what kind of policy orientation could allow merchants to go to designated places to conduct Shangtun.

After hearing Zheng Yuechen briefly talk about his own past, Li Mingxun nodded slightly. He raised his hand to signal that no one in the study room would wait for him. Li Mingxun said: "The water is clear and there is no fish, and the person is too careful and there is no disciple. For more than 20 years, I have always understood this principle and use it to take responsibility. Do you understand?"

"Your Majesty is broad-minded and understands the feelings of the people. Even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors are not as good as those of the people......" Zheng Yuechen praised with the flow.

Li Mingxun knocked on the table and said, "I treat you like this today. You saw that there are only two of you and me left here. So, no one knows what you say, and I will not blame anyone for your past. Of course, if you are still scared, you won't say some of the names of people, but I want you to know what prompted you to focus on Shangtun land in the empire. In this process, what kind of help do you think is the most important."

Zheng Yuechen was puzzled: "Your Majesty... Caomin really doesn't know what you mean."

Li Mingxun shook his head helplessly and had to give an example: "Do you know the situation in the Qiqihar Appeasement Zone?"

After getting Zheng Yuechen's nod, Li Mingxun continued: "It was a sparsely populated desolate place. Now I need a large number of merchants to reclaim wasteland there, and it will reach a scale of one million in five years. If you are one of the investors, what do you need me and Lifanyuan to do for you?"

Zheng Yuechen understood, but his first decision was not to answer Li Mingxun's question, but after he went back, he must invest all the money his family could raise in Qiqihar to reclaim the wasteland. No matter whether it is profitable or lost, only in this way can he feel at ease.

Li Mingxun looked at Zheng Yuechen, and when he saw him listening to his words, he looked nervous and seemed extremely uncomfortable, and his legs were shaking like sieve. Li Mingxun asked: "I have pardoned you for not guilty and will not pursue the past of you and your partners. Why are you so nervous and dare not tell the truth?"

Zheng Yuechen fell to the ground with a bang and said, "Caomin didn't want to hide it. He really ate too much soup before entering the palace. At this moment, he was anxious..."

Li Mingxun couldn't help laughing. It turned out that he was urinating. He quickly called someone and took Zheng Yuechen to the bathroom to solve his personal problems. However, he never thought that it took half an hour to go. When he came back, Zheng Yuechen actually changed into the clothes of the attendant. Later, he found out that Zheng Yuechen entered the bathroom in the palace, but he didn't know how to use the ceramic toilet in the palace. He was so anxious that he scratched his ears and his forehead, and he didn't dare to vent his sluts at will. He went out to find the attendant, but he couldn't find it. In the end, he urinated his pants and had to change it before he dared to come back to meet again.

Although Zheng Yuechen was a little embarrassed, Li Mingxun saw through but did not say it out loud. Instead, he directly let him sit opposite him to answer. When Zheng Yuechen saw Li Mingxun asking for advice sincerely, he gritted his teeth and expressed his experience of the continuous expansion of his family's success in the years: "Your Majesty, the affairs of the world, no matter how big or small, pay attention to the right time, place, and people. However, the people think that the secret to the success of the family's business camp is to straighten out the various policy relationships required by Shangxun. To put it bluntly, it is to understand policies, use policies, and improve policies."

"You are talking about it more specifically." Li Mingxun said.

Zheng Yuechen hurriedly said: "The world is prosperous and prosperous for profit, and the same is true for Shangtun. It seems that Qiqihar is desolate and the prospects for Shangtun are unclear. However, the grass-roots people have always dared to be the first, so that they can achieve today's results. However, it is not a risk to be the first, but to try their best to ensure a stable profit without losing money.

For example, when the Jeju military horse farm was established, the amount of feed was required. Not only did Jeju land reclamation not start, but many military brigades were also stationed in many military brigades. Rice and grains were relied on the South China Sea and the prices were high. At that time, a stone of rice was priced at three taels, and a stone of feed was also one taels and two taels. At that time, grass people had a small savings and took the initiative to cooperate with the military horse farm and signed a seven-year agreement. At first, smuggled North Korean rice supplies, and four cents of silver were lost for each stone. However, at the same time, wasteland was reclaimed and miscellaneous grains were planted. Two years later, Jeju Shangtun produced corn, soybeans, and black beans, which were still supplied at the original contract price. Each stone was already profitable. After seven years of cooperation, it was a huge profit and more than 30,000 mu of fertile land were obtained.
Chapter completed!