"Stay!" Yun Xi hurriedly interrupted: "Uncle Eighteen, forget about the rest, 200,000 exiled prisoners, Da Ming now has a total of how many exiled prisoners a year, you and I want 200,000!" ”

"In the northwest, northeast, and south of the seas, where are there no need for people?" Yun Xi thought for a while, and finally said: "At most, you will be given two or three thousand people a year, and they are all men and no women." ”

"Okay, two or three thousand." Zhu Yang said immediately, as if he was afraid that Yun Xi would regret it.

Although Zhu Yang is not very well-informed in Yunnan, he also knows how many exiled prisoners Daming can have in a year, and he also knows that people are needed to fill the vacancies in all directions, so the 200,000 yuan quoted is a sky-high bid, so that Yun Xi can give him a few more people. For him, two or three thousand people are actually quite a lot.

Yun Xi also reacted to Zhu Yang's purpose at this time, but since he had already promised, he would not regret it, but just laughed and teased Zhu Yang a few words.

"But I won't leave Yunnan to give you these prisoners." Yun Xi said again: "It is thousands of miles away by land in Yunnan, and it would be good for a thousand people to go out and five hundred people to the place." ”

"But Yunnan, where do you go from?" Zhu Yang asked.

"Here," Yun Xi said, pointing to the place on the map that was about Rakhine, "take the sea route and send it to you from Rakhine." ”

"By sea?" Zhu Yang muttered to himself: "This is also done? ”

"Why not?" Yun Xi said with a smile: "In the second year of Jianye, the two countries of Zoli and Western Zoli came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and I sent sailors to escort them back, and on the way to explore the sea conditions of the West West of Sumatra, and also anchored in the Bengal area. Isn't Rakhine not far east of Bengal? It can definitely be found. ”

"And sea freight is much less risky than land transport, and the cost is much lower. It's just that most people are more afraid of the sea, and the exiled prisoners who will be sent to you after that can only be sent to the south of the Five Ridges. ”

"And here," Yun Xi suddenly thought of something again, pointed to the vicinity of Ren'anqiang and said to Zhu Yan: "In the future, you will go west from here to the sea, build a canal, and connect Ava with the Western Ocean." Yun Hee said, his finger moving westward to the shoreline.

"The Great Jinsha River (Irrawaddy River) originally originated in Yunnan, and can go down the river to Ava City and even Bagan City. If you build a canal to link the Dajinsha River with the West, it will be more convenient for places such as Mengyang in western Yunnan to connect with the outside world, and the rule of the Ming Dynasty over these places will be further strengthened. ”

"At that time, if the Tusi in Mengyang and other places rebel, the army can set off from Guangzhou and other places, ship to Rakhine, and then transport it to the south of these Tusi to deal with them, which is more convenient than traveling thousands of miles or even thousands of miles by land to Yunnan."

Historically, the price of goods shipped from China or India, around the Cape of Good Hope, the entire South Atlantic, from Gibraltar to the Mediterranean Sea to turkeys, was much cheaper than the price of goods shipped from India to Turkey by land in Basra and other places, but the distance was more than doubled, which is enough to show the huge cost advantage of sea transportation, whether it is to transport troops or goods.

Zhu Yang was speechless for a long time, this was really beyond his imagination, from Liangguang and other places around such a big circle of sea soldiers, even the Mongols had never done this.

"Why, Uncle Eighteen can't accept sea freight? That's not going to work! Eighteenth uncle, your fiefdom is close to the Western Ocean, and you must accept sea transportation. Whether the people of a place are rich or not depends on two points, the first is the local products, and the second is whether the transportation is convenient. Property is inherently unchangeable, but transportation can be. ”

Yun Xi said the words 'if you want to get rich first build roads' to Zhu Yang in his own language, and finally said: "There are still many people who have come to me to stop shipping, saying that the sea is stormy and there are many drifts. Hum! If the sea transportation is changed to river transportation, the wind and waves are indeed gone, but the things that have been invaded by the government, wealthy clans, local ruffians and bullies along the way are ten times as much as the drifting on the sea. ”

Zhu Yang came to his senses at this time and said to Yunxi: "I know, Your Majesty." ”

"I knew that Uncle Eighteen wouldn't be as incomprehensible as those elm heads. Now the situation of land transportation is difficult to change, the railroad carriage can only be laid in very flat places, most places are limited to the conditions are difficult to use, and the only way to change the transportation conditions is river and sea transportation. ”

"By the way, when it comes to railcars, you can also build railcars in the plains, but the plains of Myanmar are already full of rivers, so railcars are not very useful." Yun Xi said again.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhu Yang could only reply like this.

Then the two chatted. Yun Xi is less than a year older than Zhu Yang, he is completely the same age, Zhu Yang went to Yunnan to be the prince in the 28th year of Hongwu, and the uncle and nephew got along in Beijing for a long time, and they got along very well. At this time, Zhu Xi talked about the peculiar customs of the southwest people, and Yun Xi talked about the strange things he got from the reports of Jinyiwei and Zhensi, and chatted happily. Time flew by, and soon it was already dark.

But Yun Xi and Zhu Yang didn't realize it, until Wang Xi came over, and took advantage of the chat between the two of them and said, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Min, it's already dark, do you want to hold the lamp?" ”

"Oops, it's already dark." Zhu Yang looked out the window where he couldn't see anything clearly, and said, "Originally, I went back to the house at the beginning of the unitary time, but now it is the middle of the time." ”

"Go back and meet Dao Mudan's daughter?" Yun Xi smiled: "It's so late, since people haven't been included in the palace by you, they won't be waiting for you in the palace, a woman's reputation matters." ”

"And since it's so late, I'll leave you in the palace for a meal. My nephew tells you that it has been a long time since I have left my clan relatives to eat in the palace, which is a great grace to you, and I don't want to be grateful immediately! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the minister is terrified, thank you for your kindness." Zhu Yang half-knelt on the ground in response to Yunxi's joke.

The two laughed for a while, and Yun Xi instructed someone to tell the imperial chef in the imperial dining room to cook more for one person, and then took Zhu Yang to Kunning Palace.

When he came to the gate of Qianqing Palace, Xi Yao immediately greeted him and saluted Yun Xi: "Your Majesty." Then he smiled slightly at Zhu Yang and saluted: "I've seen Uncle Huang." ”

"I can't help it." Zhu Yang said. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to help the queen, but immediately reacted and retracted his hand.

Xi Yao was also taken aback. It was also common for her to see the vassal king, and the salute was just for show, but she didn't want someone to really stretch out her hand to help her.

For a while, the atmosphere at the scene was a little awkward.

However, this embarrassment was immediately broken, Siqi, Xianqin and others walked into Kunning Palace with bags of books in their hands, and when they saw Yunxi and Xiyao and others at the door, they immediately saluted and said: "I have seen my uncle (imperial brother), I have seen my uncle (imperial sister-in-law)." ”

They looked at Zhu Yang again, and Xianqin asked softly, "Sister-in-law, who is this, which uncle or brother?" ”

Xi Yao immediately walked over, touched her head, and said with a smile: "This is your eighteenth uncle." ”

"I've seen the eighteenth uncle (His Royal Highness King Min)." The two of them said immediately.

Zhu Yang immediately guessed that this was Xianqin and Siqi. He had already inquired clearly, and now there were only four little girls in Kunning Palace, and their relationship with him was different, and he could tell who was who by his title.

"Sister Xianqin is good, the little girl of the Lan family is good." Zhu Yang also said with a smile.

"Where's Aunt Baoqing?" Yoon-hee asked.

"Uncle, Baoqing's mother asked her to go back, and she has been with her mother for the past few days." Siqi said.

Yun Xi said "um", said a few more words, and walked into the hall with Siqi in one hand and Xianqin in the other.

As he walked, he asked, "Do you want to pay tribute to the gentlemen today for their early years and thank them for their hard work and teaching?" ”

"We are grateful." Xianqin said: "At the end of each class today, Aunt Baoqing took us to stand up and salute the early years of my husband, and thank him for his hard work. ”

"Well, that's good, respecting teachers is our traditional Chinese virtue, and we must respect Mr."

"You should consider giving these ladies some New Year's rewards, according to what they like." Yun Xi said to Xi Yao again, and she also hurriedly agreed.

When they came to the dining hall, the imperial chef of the imperial dining room quickly delivered the food to Kunning Palace, and Yun Xi asked Zhu Yang to sit next to him and eat while chatting with him.

But Zhu Yang always felt hairy, as if someone was staring at him. At first, he didn't care, thinking it was his own delusion, but more and more he felt that something was wrong, he couldn't help but look around, and saw Xianqin's eyes full of complicated feelings staring at him, as if he wanted to ask him something, but he didn't dare to ask.

"What's wrong?" Yun Xi asked, while following Zhu Yan's gaze, he also saw Xianqin's unusual gaze.

"Xianqin, do you have anything to ask Uncle Eighteen?" Yoon-hee asked.

"I," Xianqin said a word, but she was silent.

"Xianqin, what's wrong, it's all family, what's not to ask?" Yun Xi said again; Xi Yao also spoke of comfort.

After hesitating for a while, Xianqin mustered up the courage to say, "Uncle Eighteen, how is my fourth sister doing in Yunnan now?" ”

"Hyun-chae? Xiancai is very powerful now, she now lives in Lin'an Mansion, a place where Han people and southwestern barbarians live together, and has become a well-known local Langzhong, many barbarians come to her for medical treatment, and she has a high reputation in many villages. Zhu Yang said with a smile.

"Hmm." Hyun-kin breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sister Hyun-chae is fine." I've heard that Yunnan is all barbarians, and there are cannibalistic people, even if someone takes care of it, it may not be able to protect it thoroughly. It's okay. ”

"Yunnan has me and Mu Sheng, we will definitely be able to protect Xiancai thoroughly, how can we let her have an accident. Besides, she is now very beloved by the local barbarians, and she will be fine without us. Zhu Yang said.