Chapter 1                                                              

"Bah." Zhu Jianjun came out of the ground in a dirt face. He was wearing very ordinary linen clothes. People never thought that he was the prince's prince who was below one person and above ten thousand people.

What is even more unexpected is that Zhu Jianjun is not in Beijing, but in Lan County, northwest.

This is how Zhu Qizhen tempered the prince.

First of all, Zhu Qizhen had high hopes for the prince. After all, under the laws of the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult for Zhu Qizhen to be able to make it easy, let alone, changing a prince in the royal family would almost kill a son.

Although Zhu Qizhen was cold, he was not as inhumane as he was.

Therefore, as Zhu Qizhen’s political successor, Zhu Qizhen naturally needs to train with sincerity.

Secondly, Zhu Qizhen was only in his thirties, which can be said to be early in the Spring and Autumn Period, but the prince was almost adult. If he had been in the capital and was idle, some people would say that he would be alienated from his father and son, which would cause trouble.

It’s better to let him go while he is young and try to temper him for a few years. Let’s see what the sufferings of the people look like.

And where is the most miserable place in the world?

In fact, no matter which place, the people at the bottom have their own sufferings.

But overall, the people in the northwest are a little harder than the people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, which is limited by the natural environment.

Yu Qian was the one who Zhu Qi Zhenxin had, so Zhu Jianjun was thrown to the northwest.

Although Zhu Qizhen wanted to throw the prince over alone, neither the empress dowager, the queen, nor the cabinet ministers outside would agree.

Queen Mother Sun and Queen Qian have been fighting openly and secretly for many years, but the only thing they have to do with the prince is the unified front.

So, Zhu Qizhen had to make a little regression.

It was to ask the prince to bring his little team here.

Who is the prince’s little team?

First of all, the prince's best friend, the British Duke Zhang Mao. Zhang Mao led several guards of the Qing Dynasty palace to protect the prince's safety.

There is also Yu Qian’s son Yu Mian.

Yu Mian has now become the county magistrate in Nanzhili, but Zhu Qizhen has recovered him and asked him to accompany the prince.

In this regard, it is also for Yu Qian's sake.

Yu Qian was over 60 years old, and with the wind and sand in the northwest, his body was not as good as before. However, in the Ming Dynasty, father and son were in the same position as the official, but he was not in accordance with the rules.

Although Yu Mian followed the prince, although it was also in the northwest, it was not in the same system as Yu Qian. Not to mention, the prince's identity is kept confidential. To outsiders, the prince is only one thousand households.

Yes, it is affiliated with the Lanzhou Zhongguwei military farming thousands of households.

Zhang Mao and Yu Mian are both his followers.

Careful people may find that there is no civil servant arranged by the prince. This is also Zhu Qizhen's intention. He does not want the prince to have too much contact with civil servants and officials.

As the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you must know and understand the Neo-Confucianism, but if you really believe it, it will never work.

But Zhu Qizhen also didn't know how to teach the prince.

The reason is very simple. Everyone's thoughts are formed by a specific environment. The reason why Zhu Qizhen has such thoughts was cultivated by nine years of compulsory education.

Before adulthood, the foundation was laid.

But the prince is different.

Zhu Qizhen didn't have much time to teach the prince one-on-one in detail. He could only let the prince go straight to the truth at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty.

And the thousand-household official of Zhu Jianjun was arranged by Yu Qian for Zhu Jianjun.

This was also done by Yu Qian according to Zhu Qizhen's wishes, allowing Zhu Jianjun to contact the Ming Dynasty at the bottom. Zhu Jianjun, a thousand households, had to bring more than a thousand soldiers and their families, as well as some herders affiliated with Mongolia to do one thing, which was to build an irrigation system along the Agan River.

The Agan River is a tributary of the Yellow River, which flows from the north bank of the Yellow River into the Yellow River.

It is also the most important part of the Northwest Water Conservancy Project planned by Yu Qian.

The reason why the Wei Army did this is related to another thing, that is, Yu Qian had the reason why he operated Lanzhou as an important town in the northwest.

After all, in the Ming Dynasty, Shaanxi Province had territory in four provinces: Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai. Xi'an was really far from reaching the northwest.

Therefore, he planned to move the Lanzhou Central Guard out of Lanzhou City, and then build another Lanzhou Acropolis in the north of Lanzhou to serve as the northern barrier of Lanzhou City.

Yu Qian's plan is also due to the current evolution of the strategic form.

After the Battle of Yanran, the thorns shrank northwest and did not dare to violate the border of the Ming Dynasty. As for other tribes of all sizes, they were not seen by the border troops. Therefore, since Renxuan, the land outside the border walls that were shrinking in Daming has returned to the control of the Ming Dynasty.

The border line between the east and west of Xuanda Liao almost jumped thousands of miles northwest. Although the Gansu and Ningxia areas are not that exaggerated, they have also made progress.

First of all, Ningxia Town borders Dongshengwei.

At the top of the Yellow River, Yinshan Mountain is the Yinshan Mountain, and Dongshengwei is located east of Yinshan Mountain, and Ningxia Town is southwest of Yinshan Mountain. At this moment, it has been lifted through the plain between the Yellow River and Yinshan Mountain.

The Ming Dynasty has set up a station here.

In this way, there is another road from Beijing to the northwest.

However, Gansu and Lanzhou have not advanced too far.

The reason is very simple.

Not profitable.

Because Gansu Town and Lanzhou are not far north, there are large patches of yellow sand.

Even if the Yellow River was not there, Ningxia Town would be wrapped in yellow sand.

However, compared with Gansu, Lanzhou still has some room for expansion in the north. Compared with some cities in Gansu, it is simply built in the city in the west. There are also Songshan Mountains in the north of Lanzhou and some tributaries of the Yellow River. There is room for farming.

This is why Yu Qian’s plan to build Lanzhou Acropolis.

Of course, Zhu Jianjun doesn’t have to worry about building a city, he just needs to care about his own affairs.

However, it is not easy to build a water conservancy project in the northwest.

Starting from the 23rd year of Zhengtong, Zhu Jianjun stayed away from classics, history, and collections, and stayed away from bows, horses, riding and shooting, and all his thoughts were pounced on this river.

Compared with Hebei's water conservancy, water conservancy in the northwest is much simpler, that is, you just need to find a way to divert water and irrigate.

It rains in the northwest for about three months between summer and autumn in a year, except for this, it is drought. Every people live in a water-deficient environment.

Before Zhu Jianjun came, he probably didn't expect that someone would have to walk dozens of miles to eat a mouthful of water for many years.

When I first arrived, Zhu Jianjun was not used to it, and he got used to it after a year.

He just went down the well to inspect the river.

Maybe some people think I was wrong, how could I go down the well to inspect the river?

This is inevitable in the northwest. How much drought in the northwest is? It means that the evaporation is too large. If the water source that is attracted flows from the ground, it will cause great waste.

Therefore, some channels in the northwest are similar to those in Xinjiang. A secret passage is to dig out in the ground and then dig out the well on the ground to use water.

If Zhu Jianjun had just arrived, he might have cared about his image, but now he no longer cared about it. Speaking of Qianhu, this official position is not small, but in fact, the number of strong men he can be responsible for is only more than a thousand people, so Yu Qian added it to him.

Otherwise, according to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, a thousand households would definitely not be enough for more than a thousand people.

More than a thousand people were divided into several teams, and they were digging hard in the undulating ravines north of Lanzhou. Yu Mian was considered a technician and Zhang Mao was considered a construction team leader. But everyone had digged in the hole.

It also includes Zhu Jianjun.

Zhu Jianjun was pulled up from the well by a hanging basket, and Zhang Mao immediately reached out to pull Zhu Jianjun up.

Zhu Jianjun seemed to have just eaten a bite of dry soil. At this time, he couldn't help but: "Bao, bah." Zhang Mao handed him a sip of water. He sucked it carefully, then rinsed his mouth, and then drank the sip of water. He looked at the dusty faces around him, looking like people who used mud, and said, "It's done, this canal is completed."

In one sentence, countless soldiers began to cheer.

Even Zhu Jianjun's eyes were wet.

This river channel is about ten kilometers and can irrigate 20,000 acres of land. It is not much to say, but after Zhu Jianjun dug him out with his own hands, he realized how difficult it is in the world.

Even though he is a thousand households, the hardship he has suffered in a year is even more than what he has eaten in more than ten years.
Chapter completed!