When the world's turmoil began to stir rapidly due to the wings of Zhu Heji's "big butterfly", this Emperor Zhu had been living peacefully in Beijing and seemed not to care much about the changes in the world.

He is just concentrating on dealing with a lot of things in the country... and by the way, he is still waiting for the arrival of the future American Khan.

The country now ruled by Zhu Heji is still very different from the Great China that people in later generations have in their minds. The Great China of later generations is the home of 1.4 billion people, and 1.4 billion people are busy there doing all kinds of things.

It is an information society and an industrialized country. The pace of life and work is extremely fast.

The country ruled by Zhu Heji now only has a population of more than 60 million, which is the number after adding the millions of people in North Korea. The current Ming Dynasty includes Pingxi King Wu Yingxiong, Shunyi King Ge Erdan, Chaha

The territory owned by the three major vassals, King Burni, was even larger on paper than the republics of later generations! There were only so few people scattered over such a vast land, except for the population of a few industrial and commercial central cities.

Slightly more densely populated, most places are vast and sparsely populated. Some are remote or in provinces that were severely damaged during the Ming and Qing wars. You may not see a single inhabited place if you walk along the official road for a whole day.

Villages. Many once prosperous prefectures and county towns are in a state of complete desolation, and there are even wild beasts roaming the cities.

When doing things in such a vast and sparsely populated agricultural country, don't think about efficiency. Most things are done slowly... If there is no one to do things, of course they won't be done quickly!

Things that may seem very simple to later generations and can be accomplished in a short period of time can now be done slowly in months or even years.

Even the "great emperor" Zhu Heji could only wait patiently for the group of impatient bureaucrats below to carry out the instructions issued by the Ming court step by step.

During this period, Zhu Heji's court was mainly busy with three major events.

The first was to regain the entire province of Gansu, establish political power in various parts of Gansu, suppress Confucian rural sages, organize local imperial examinations to select officials, implement the land equalization system and the military system, and establish a three-level education system of "elementary education - primary school - academy" -

These things seem easy, but they take a lot of effort to implement. It is no exaggeration to say that establishing a colony in the New World is easier than this!

Because starting from the south of the Yangtze River and adding some supplies in Japan, it will take three months to finally cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the top of the New World. And starting from Nanjing to the westernmost place in Gansu Province is at least 5,000 miles. It is a long and slow journey, and it takes 100 days to travel 50 miles a day.

Three months have passed!

And if you want to transport a ship of supplies to the New World, as long as the ship does not capsize, the consumption on the road will be negligible. But if you want to take the land route from Nanjing to send some food to the westernmost state capital of Gansu Province, the delivery rate is 10% per 1,000 kilometers (

This is a data delivery rate that can only be achieved by one-stop relay transfer), and more than 99% can be consumed on the road... The cost is so high that it is beyond imagination!

The second major thing that the Ming Dynasty court is busy with is preparing to deal with the three warlords, Wu Yingxiong, the king of Pingxi, Wu Guogui, the general of Pingxi, and Zu Zeqing, the governor of Guangxi, hiding in nooks and crannies in the southwest!

Zu Zeqing, one of the three major warlords, was actually easy to deal with. The two countries were connected by the Xijiang River water transport, and they could also take the sea route to Qinzhou Bay to land (Qinzhou Prefecture belonged to Guangdong at this time), but it was not easy to deal with Er Wu who was huddled in Yunnan.

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Because Erwu's territories are all vast and sparsely populated, and most of the places are high in mountains and densely forested... If the Tomorrow's soldiers don't want to march all the way in, burn, kill, and loot, they have to advance on the borders of Hunan, Hubei, and Shaanxi provinces

Build military stations and stock up on supplies.

In addition, the humans in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces under the rule of Erwu were already as rare as giant pandas. So Zhu Heji didn't want to go on a killing spree... If he killed again, there would be no more people! There really was no one left, I thought.

It is very difficult to re-develop and construct these three provinces. Perhaps in Zhu Heji's lifetime, he will never see a Sichuan that can be called the land of abundance.

Therefore, the crusade against Er Wu and Zu Zeqing was basically seven parts politics and three parts intimidation.

It would be ideal if we could scare them away to Myanmar and Annan!

Therefore, while the Ming court was slowly preparing for a crusade, it also sent an endless stream of messengers into Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi to negotiate with various figures.

The third major event that the Ming Dynasty court is pushing forward with all its strength is of course the colonization of the New World!

Although it is easier and cheaper to go to the New World from Nanjing than to Gansu, the New World is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty now... and Zhu Heji did not want to send precious people to the New World to work for Westerners.

What he wants is a colonial country that can strangle the Great American Empire and deliver various resources and precious metals to the Ming Dynasty!

To achieve this goal, it is not enough to just capture the narrow section of the west coast in the north... If the future Great American Empire captures the vast central plains in the north, or even penetrates deep into the Rocky Mountains in the north and west

.Then they will complete industrialization sooner or later, and will absorb a large number of white European immigrants, turning themselves into a powerful country with tens of millions of people, rich resources, and developed industry!

By then, the Ming Empire would have to cross the Pacific to support its American vassal states.

So Zhu Heji's plan was to control the vast and boundless Great Plains in central North America before the European whites!

Without the resources and fertile land of the Great Plains of North America, the American Empire would not have been able to attract enough white immigrants, and it would have been impossible to complete industrialization—the iron ore in North America was all in the Great Plains area west of the Great Lakes region. Without iron ore,

There is no Great Plains where cotton and wheat can be grown, and there is no gold, silver, or oil in the West. If you want to industrialize, you will only have to endure hardship...

In order to capture the Great Plains in central North America, Zhu Heji needed a Mongol Khan who could lead tens of thousands of Mongolian households across the ocean to the New World... After all, each Mongolian household could control it.

The territory is far wider than 10,000 households of Han farmers and craftsmen!

Regardless of how open the Great Plains in central North America is, if there are 30,000 to 50,000 Mongolian households, they can basically control it firmly. By then, the Han people of the Ming Dynasty will be able to establish another gold mining industry in the Rocky Mountains.

, a wealthy country digging for money, it will be difficult for North America to think of imperialism again.

And the Great Khan who led the Mongols to herd sheep in North America... was of course Ge Erdan's son!

Well, it was Ge Erdan’s wife Anukedun who gave birth to her. If this wasn’t Ge Erdan’s son, who else could it be?

In the Shunyi Palace in Beijing, Zhu Heji is holding the future American Khan in his arms, smiling so hard... Although the child was only born a few days ago, he is not small and weighs as much as

He weighs eight pounds and eight taels! He has a tiger-like head and a majestic appearance. His brows are furrowed when he sleeps, and he looks like he is "unaware of himself". I guess he will be a majestic and good man when he grows up!

"Hahaha, Anu...you have contributed a lot!" Zhu Heji looked back at Anu, who had just given birth to a son and his body was moisturized a lot, and asked with a smile, "This child is famous.

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"Yes," Anu said with a smile, "Celling...it means longevity."

Zhu Heji smiled and nodded: "Oh, Zhu Changshou, not bad, not bad."

"Saint!" Anu glanced at Zhu Heji angrily, "How can he be called Zhu Changshou? He should be called Choros. Changshou."

Zhu Heji smiled and said: "I will give him the surname Guo, and he will be a baby with the surname Guo. From now on, he will be called Zhu Celing!"

When Anu heard this, he knelt down to Zhu Heji with great joy and said, "I thank the Lord for your kindness."
Chapter completed!