My Daming New Empire

Liu Sheng clapped his hands and said in surprise: "This poem was written by His Highness? Who dares to say that His Highness's literary talent is not good enough in the future? I don't want to serve you!"

Huang Yuan was also taken aback, and sighed: "His Royal Highness, I heard that this poem seems to be under the que, has there ever been a complete poem?"

Zhu Zhanji was also taken aback. He never wanted to be a copywriter. Could it be that this poem hasn't come out yet?

He himself is not sure...

He could only hide it and said: "This is just a feeling, and there is no special idea, so let's treat it as a broken sentence..."

Zheng He went on to say: "Although it is a broken sentence, the language is straightforward, but the meaning is profound and majestic, it seems that His Highness has his own hills and valleys in his chest..."

Zhu Zhanji was ashamed and said quickly: "Stop, stop. It's just a momentary feeling, so I shouldn't praise it like this. I have a few catties and a few taels, and I still know it in my heart. Besides, poetry is a small way, in my eyes , is not as useful as a good policy theory.”

They all knew his personality well, and shook their heads and laughed, but they insisted on letting him write a couplet for each of them, and then they put it away contentedly.

Zhu Zhanji was really ashamed. He, who had never known shame, felt his face burning.

([-] erupted the day before yesterday, and then it was abolished all of a sudden. I am still adjusting...trying to erupt again.)

Thank you, super cowardly hair ball, see people with lights, Shan Qingying for your reward, thank you for your support

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"This island is enough for a mansion. Although there are many mountains and little land, there is also a large plain in the west, which is enough to feed millions of people. It is such a pity that it is so deserted."

Chen Wu, a member of the Third Fleet, nodded and said, "Since the 20th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu moved his people to Quanzhou Prefecture and Zhangzhou Prefecture. There have been countless civil disputes over the years. If His Highness allows the people to move back, it will be regarded as You have done a great deed. However, this is the will of Emperor Taizu, and even the emperor will not be able to disobey it."

Because Zhu Di snatched back the emperor's throne from Zhu Yunqi, in order to flaunt his orthodoxy, he followed the rules and regulations that Zhu Yuanzhang had established at the beginning.

Although the sea ban is useless now, the imperial court has never said that it will cancel the sea ban.

It is not easy for him to overturn Zhu Zhanji's regulations and immigrate to Dongfan.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below.Zhu Zhanji had thought about this for a long time, and said to Chen Wu: "Taizu's rules, of course, cannot be broken. But such a big island, with tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land and camphor trees all over the mountains, naturally cannot give up. Since the navy is going to To build a water village here, I license you to recruit troops in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Anyone whose family has joined the navy can bring the whole family to immigrate to the East to grow food for the water village.”

Chen Wu was originally from Tong'an, Quanzhou, that is, from Xiamen in later generations. He was a soldier and was in Quanzhou, so he knew the local situation very well.

Hearing that Zhu Zhanji's solution was not a solution, his eyes lit up, and he said softly: "Your Highness, will His Majesty agree? Besides, the construction of the water village and the recruitment of recruits require a lot of money..."

Zhu Zhanji turned his head to look at Zhu Zhen, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about this matter, Zhu Zongbing will arrange it."

Chen Wu also looked at his boss, and seeing him nodding with a smile, he knew that the upper management had already negotiated, and it was fine for him to follow suit.

Being able to help the people in his hometown solve practical difficulties, he thought it was his duty to do so, and immediately bowed and cupped his fists and said, "Young minister will definitely do my best!"

At this time, Zhu Zhen said: "Chen Shen is responsible for recruiting 1 people in Quanzhou, and Xu Shen is responsible for recruiting 1 people in Zhangzhou. Each person will be given ten taels of silver to settle down, and the navy will provide ships. Is it difficult to transport family members to Dongfan?"

Xu Shaoguang's general clasped his fists and asked, "Master Commander, is there a quota for this family?"

Zhu Zhanji shook his head and said: "As long as there are no more than ten people, it is fine. Also, remember not to affect the dissatisfaction of local parents and officials in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou."

Today's government, in addition to collecting taxes based on land, also collects taxes based on head count.The more the population, the higher the taxes, which are all political achievements.

If several 10 people were pulled away because of conscription, the local parental officials would naturally not agree.

Therefore, what Zhu Zhanji expected is to relocate 10 people from each of the two places with the help of family members, which is enough for the time being.

A navy of 5000 people can guarantee the safety of Dongfan's route. 20 people, 10 people will be arranged in the south of the island, and 10 people in the north of the island. First, the work of land reclamation will be done well.

When this place develops slowly, it will naturally attract more businessmen and immigrants in the future.

Chen Wu was overjoyed, and couldn't help but knelt down and said: "The minister is from Quanzhou, so he is naturally aware of the conflicts between the immigrants and the locals. Now that 10 people have been relocated, the conflicts among the people will naturally be much less. Your Highness's move is a benevolent government. also!"

Everyone couldn't help laughing, this Chen Wu is just a military officer who is fluent in literature and ink, and now he is imitating civil servants to flatter him, so it is naturally a bit blunt.

But it is precisely because of this bluntness that his attitude is very sincere, which is not annoying.

Zhu Zhanji smiled and said: "Okay, let's go to Penghu. Even if the navy wants to set up two navy divisions in Dongfan, the Penghu inspection department can't be abandoned. This is the throat guarding the southeast of my Ming Dynasty."

There are two navy villages, one is located in today's Tamsui, which will also be the estuary of the Tamsui River in Taipei in the future.

After the typhoon, after coming out of Jilong Bay, Zhu Zhanji alone decided to set up the Navy's Dazhai here.

Although it is a little far away from the plains, there is a freshwater river here, which facilitates the transfer of materials on the island.

As for the other Navy Dazhai, in Zhu Zhanji's plan, it is set in Anping in the south, which is Tainan City in later generations.

There is now the largest city on the island, and it is also the place where the Han nationality and the ethnic minorities on the island are most closely integrated.

The vast plains from Taichung to Kaohsiung can also develop a large amount of fertile land.With the arrival of the Little Ice Age, food will be the most important foundation of this huge empire.

Not only in Dongfan, including Siam, Chenla, Champa, Cochin, and the major islands in Southeast Asia, will become the grain base of Ming Dynasty.

As long as Daming has inexhaustible food in his hands, a fleet that cannot be canceled, and a huge transport fleet.Zhu Zhanji will not be too worried about future peasant uprisings.

Just for this, Zhu Zhanji couldn't find a bosom friend at all.

Many people also think that there is a lot of wasteland in Daming, and there is no need to go abroad to open up wasteland, and there is no need for so much food, including Zhu Di.

Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to deal with Zhu Di by making wine.

Although Daming is now self-sufficient in food, it is not abundant.In the event of natural and man-made disasters, there are many people who cannot eat.

On the one hand, Zhu Zhanji reminded Zhu Di of the importance of grain reserves, and on the other hand, he attracted Zhu Di with the huge profits of wine making, which made him reluctantly agree to Zhu Zhanji's Dongfan development plan.

Moreover, in addition to camphor and grain, the development of Dongfan also has a major specialty, which is sugar cane.

China's sucrose refining technology has been developed for more than 1000 years. From the crude sucrose in the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, China brought back a large number of sucrose workers from Magadha, India. Since then, sucrose technology has led the world.

But in the Song Dynasty, the Arabs learned to refine white granulated sugar. They bought sucrose from the Song Dynasty, processed it, refined it into white granulated sugar, and then sold it to Europe, earning a lot of money.

Because there is no sugar cane in Europe, they can only extract sugar from beets, which is not very sweet brown sugar.Not only the quantity is small, the quality is poor, but the price is also very expensive.

After Kublai Khan conquered Central Asia, he brought the technology of refining white sugar back to the Yuan Dynasty.Then the workers of the Yuan Dynasty used the methods of the Arabs, combined with their own technology, and invented the yellow mud and water decolorization method.

Since then, China's white sugar manufacturing has begun to lead the world, and began to export abroad.

In today's Ming Dynasty, although the proportion of this trip is not large in the foreign trade, it has always been very stable, and the supply is in short supply.

And Dongfan is very suitable for growing sugar cane, which can also bring huge benefits to Daming.

You know, people in the Western Regions, apart from tea, have the greatest demand for sugar.

Although the Arabs are the originators of sugar refining, they do not have sugar cane, and they have no competitiveness at all in terms of sugar export.

As long as Daming curbs their import of raw materials in the future, they can only obediently buy sugar from Daming.

Because the typhoon was delayed for a few days, Zhu Zhanji didn't have much time to stay in Dongfan. He had to return to the capital before August [-]th.