Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 409 The Great Immigrant

At this time, there are three main ports in the Strait of Malacca.

They are the Port of Penang, the Port of Medan, and the Port of Malacca.

At this time, Penang Port was a small port that had not yet been controlled by European colonists. It was a port controlled by the Malays themselves, and ships from various European countries could dock later.

Medan Port is a port controlled by the Dutch on the island of Sumatra.

As for the port of Malacca, it is now the territory of the Portuguese. Historically, it will become the territory of the Dutch in a few decades, and it will become the territory of the British in the [-]th century.

After the Royal Fleet arrived in Malacca, it immediately launched an attack on the port of Malacca.

With advanced weapons and superior numbers, the Royal Fleet occupied the entire Malacca in less than a few days.

Not long after that, the Ming army launched an attack on Medan Port on Sumatra Island, and successfully captured the port.

So far, the Royal Fleet has completely controlled the entire Strait of Malacca.

Under such circumstances, the more than 2000 troops mobilized by Spain to support Luzon Island were stopped outside Malacca, and they could not get through at all.

However, it is conceivable that after Ming took control of the Straits of Malacca, European countries would naturally not be reconciled. Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands would definitely deploy troops from the Middle East, India and other regions to unite for a decisive battle with the Ming army.

If the decisive battle is won, the European countries will be able to regain control of Malacca. If they fail, they will have to let the Ming army control the Strait of Malacca. In the future, all their merchant ships passing through the Strait of Malacca will have to pay tolls to the Ming army.

Just a few months after the Ming army took control of the Strait of Malacca, the Spaniards in Manila finally couldn't resist surrendering to the Wu army.

"General Yang, I hope you will treat my soldiers well. Our king will definitely be willing to spend money to redeem us."

Outside Manila, Philippine Governor Juan de Silva handed over his sword and formally surrendered to Yang Jikang.

It has been more than half a year since Manila was trapped.

The reinforcements had not arrived for more than half a year, and the food in Manila was finally unable to support the Spaniards' expenses, so Juan de Silva had to surrender to Yang Jikang.

With the surrender of Juan de Silva, the entire Luzon Island fell into the hands of Wu Jun.

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"Great."

Wu State, built in the palace of Nancheng.

Wu Wang Zhu Changxun was very excited when he learned that his army had captured the entire Luzon Island.

In front of him was a map of Asia, and his eyes lit up a little as he looked at the location of Luzon Island.

"King Wu, controlling Luzon Island is only the first step. Next, we need to immigrate people to develop on Luzon Island. Only in this way can we firmly control Luzon Island and obtain the greatest benefits." The officials under his command said to Wu Wang Zhu Changxun.

"You're right, but the population in our country is still a little insufficient, so we have to immigrate more from Daming."

Zhu Changxun thought for a while and said: "Let's go to Quanzhou, contact the merchants and people there, and see if any Ming merchants and people are willing to go to Luzon for development. Anyone who is willing to go can get it for free. soil of."

"King Wu, in fact, we can ask Daming Daily to advertise for us, so that more people will know about Luzon Island, which is much faster than digging people ourselves." The official suggested to Zhu Changxun.

"This method is good. Write a letter alone. You go to Daming and let the Daming Daily send the news as soon as possible." Zhu Changxun said.

There are only about 100 million people on Tiwan Island, which is still too small compared to Ming Dynasty.

To develop Luzon Island, it is not too much to immigrate several million people, so at present, we can only find a way to immigrate from Daming.

The envoy sent by Zhu Changxun arrived in the Daming capital after more than a month, and then met Zhang Qingfeng.

"Uncle, the current situation is like this. We need a large number of immigrants to develop Luzon Island, so King Wu wants to advertise on Daming Daily and Royal Daily, and ask uncle for help."

At Zhen Dongbo's mansion, the envoy of Wu State said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Well, our family will report this matter to the Lord Long Live, and if the Lord Long Live agrees, there will be no problem." Zhang Qingfeng said.

Zhang Qingfeng naturally supported the development of Luzon Island, but there was Emperor Wanli above him. If he didn't get the permission of Emperor Wanli, he couldn't agree to Wu's request on his own.

Soon, Zhang Qingfeng reported King Wu's request to Emperor Wanli.

Emperor Wanli was naturally very happy that his favorite son had conquered Luzon Island. Hearing that it was just an advertisement on the Da Ming Daily, he immediately agreed.

This year Shandong, Helan, Shaanxi Province, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places reported disasters successively, resulting in many refugees. Instead of spending money for disaster relief, it is better to spend money for them to emigrate.

After obtaining the consent of Emperor Wanli, several newspapers, such as Daming Daily and Royal Daily, published news that Wu Wang Zhu Changxun had regained Luzon Island controlled by the Spanish and wanted to emigrate to Luzon Island.

Wu Wang Zhu Changxun promised that as long as the people of Ming Dynasty emigrate to Luzon Island, each person will be allocated at least [-] acres of land and will be exempted from tax for three years.

If a businessman is willing to go to Luzon Island to invest in a plantation, he can get at least [-] mu of land for free. If he thinks it is not enough, he can also buy land from the Wu court at a low price. One mu of land on Luzon Island only costs one tael of silver.

At the same time, the newspapers also publicized that the grain grown on Luzon Island can be harvested three seasons a year. As long as you come here, you will not only have to worry about food and clothing, but also earn a lot of money selling grain every year.

The propaganda of Da Ming Daily is very useful.

After learning about the situation in Luzon Island, many people applied to the imperial court for immigration.

At the same time, Emperor Wanli also issued orders to the affected provinces, asking the government to persuade the affected people to emigrate.

Immigration fees can be withdrawn from the Royal Bank.

As the Little Ice Age became more and more serious, more and more disasters were suffered in various places in Ming Dynasty, and this also provided natural conditions for immigration.

In order to develop maritime trade, Zhang Qingfeng invested in more than a dozen shipyards in the south in the past two years.

At the same time, he also placed orders for hundreds of merchant ships from various shipyards in the south, which also made Daming's shipbuilding industry unprecedentedly prosperous.

"Palmprint, Tianjin Shipyard has built the new ship you designed, and it has been launched into the sea for sea trials, and it has performed very well."

One day, a eunuch under his command reported something to Zhang Qingfeng.

The current Zhang Qingfeng was conferred the title of Zhendong Bo by the imperial court, most people call him his title, and the person who is still called Zhang Yin must be his confidant.

"Really? Go and make arrangements for me. I will go to Tianjin Port the day after tomorrow." Zhang Qingfeng said to his subordinates.

Two days later, Zhang Qingfeng left the capital along a wide concrete road in a four-wheeled carriage, and then headed towards Tianjin.

This cement road was invested and built by Zhang Qingfeng two years ago in the name of the Royal Commercial Bank. This road is currently very busy, and thousands of horse-drawn carriages pass through the toll booth every day.

In more than two years, this road has recovered one-fifth of the investment in road construction. It is believed that it will be fully recovered within ten years, and the next 20 years will be pure profits.

(End of this chapter)