My Daming New Empire

He is also 62 years old this year, and he doesn't have a good few years to live.This exploration of Dongzhou has made a great contribution. After returning, let's enjoy a few years of happiness.

For Yang Dao, who blamed himself, he actually admired it very much. Such a young man with affection and righteousness is very rare among generals.

Although he is a servant, he can't have too much contact with the military general Yang Dao, but he has also decided that when he returns to the capital, he must recommend this young man to His Royal Highness Taisun.

Since he wants to dig a canal, why not send him here later.

There are not many other things in Dongzhou, but the population is still quite large.

According to the survey of officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the population of Dongzhou as a whole is no less than 3000 million.Although it is not as good as Daming, there is absolutely no shortage of manpower needed to dig the canal.

Except for the 1000 or 100 soldiers and more than 2000 old farmers who had been determined to stay in advance, the entire fleet lost nearly [-] people, and the remaining [-] people all gathered together again.

April 26 is an auspicious day for the zodiac selected by Qin Tianjian.In order to avoid typhoons that may appear after August, the fleet did not wait until May [-] to set sail, a few days earlier than originally planned.

It took a whole day for the fleet to leave the port, and on the first day of May, all the ships entered the Daming Ocean, which is the scheduled route in the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, everyone noticed the difference in this route.

Originally, everyone was full of fear for this trip, and they would not see land for the next few months.Daming Ocean is so huge that its future is uncertain.

But as they made their way westward, the ocean's currents pushed them forward, and it was smoother here than in many coastal seas.

And now the wind is going smoothly, the fleet is flying fast, can run more than eighty miles per hour, and can travel thousands of miles in a day.

This speed was unexpected by everyone, and it also made everyone temporarily forget their fear of the sea.

Except for the Polynesians drifting on the ocean, their fleet is also the first time that humans have left the coastal waters and marched into the ocean on a large scale.

Those Indians were even more astonished. Such a huge sea-going ship was enough to scare them, but now it was running like flying, making these Indians think that the Ming people were blessed by gods.

However, the fast speed made many ships overwhelmed. After a few days of traveling, some cargo ships experienced water seepage, and the cost of sails exceeded everyone's expectations.

As a last resort, the fleet could only lower part of the sails to slow down the ship.

Just as the fleet was heading westward along the latitude of about ten degrees north, a fleet also arrived here in Dongshan Prefecture of Luzon Island, and began to build a cement pier at the mouth of the Cagayan River in the northernmost part of the island. .

Their arrival was warmly welcomed by Zhizhou Xie Zhenqi. Immediately, Xie Zhenqi took the newspapers of the last six months and began to read them carefully.

The Jiezhen period was in June last year. After Zhu Gaochi's July [-]th passed, he was awarded an official by Zhu Zhanji and boarded a cargo ship to Luzon.

On this trip, he not only brought a team of more than 300 officials, but also a delegation of more than 700 various craftsmen and agronomists.

Of course, it is impossible for so many people to be officials assigned to Dongshan State, but to supplement officials from the entire Luzon.

They first arrived at Beiming Street in Luzon, and met with the chief envoy Xu Chailao.

Xu Chai Lao was overjoyed when the imperial court sent more than 1000 people to Luzon at once.

Luzon has been upgraded from the government to the chief secretary, and there is a severe shortage of officials at all levels. Let alone 1000 people, even if there are another 1000 people, there will be placement arrangements.

Among them, Xie Zhenqi, who was only 25 years old but was awarded the post of Zhizhou, was of course the most valued by Xu Chailao.

He not only met the various requirements for understanding Zhenqi, but also gave important tasks to some officials brought by Xie Zhenqi.

Moreover, in order to show his respect for the No. [-] scholar, he also arranged for his two grandsons who had just passed the Tongsheng exam to worship Xie Zhenqi as their teachers.

For Xu Chai Lao, a great talent like Xie Zhenqi is the most respectable.

Because of such a boss, Xie Zhenqi's official career in Luzon has been smooth sailing.

However, as a magistrate in a fledgling state, he encountered numerous difficulties from the very beginning.

Because of this state, even the state capital has not yet been determined.

It took a month for Xie Zhenqi to travel the entire state, and finally chose the location of Tuguegarao, the capital of the later Cagayan state, to build the state city.

It is located in a bend of the Cagayan River, almost in the center of the entire valley. The downstream can accommodate large ships to go to sea, and the upstream can easily communicate with the indigenous people in the mountains.

The imperial court stopped accepting the output of the Baguio Gold Mine for one year. Now the Baguio Gold Mine has four pits, which can produce 15 taels of gold every year. In addition to the salary of the miners, 10% is left for Luzon, which can net [-] taels a year. More than ten thousand taels of gold.

10 taels of gold is 100 taels of silver, which is used to build the cities of the three state capitals. Although it is not ample, it is definitely a lot.

Moreover, now that the city walls of Daming have been abolished, without this biggest expense, there is more than enough funds for the construction of each yamen.

The funding of 30 taels of silver attracted many craftsmen and merchants in the Ming Dynasty. They not only brought various technologies, but also activated the local economy.

In more than half a year, the urban construction here has begun to take shape.

Moreover, Xie Zhenqi knew very well that he would not stay in Lusong for too long. He did not build the yamen magnificently, but took out 6 to [-] taels from the small funds to build a large-scale building by the river. The marina, as well as multiple markets and warehouses.

For him, making achievements is the most important thing.

Apart from supervising the construction of the city, he entrusted all the officials of the Ministry of Industry to worry about it. His main energy was spent on educating the people and building roads.

He also put aside his arrogance as the number one scholar, and even took the farmers to the fields to plant rice seedlings himself.

The envoys who explored Dongzhou returned and brought back many crop seeds and rubber saplings.Luzon is a sugarcane producing area and rubber planting area that Zhu Zhanji attaches great importance to.

Under Zhu Zhanji's suggestion, Xie Zhenqi also chose to plant sugar cane and rubber in addition to rice.

The local natives in Luzon are actually relatively lazy. The local products are rich and there are all kinds of fruits. They don't have much interest in farming. They are lazy if they can.

Growing rice is hard work, but growing sugarcane and rubber is much easier.

Sugarcane only needs to be harvested once, and the government will collect it directly in the state city, and then transport it to the sugar factory to boil sugar.

As for the rubber tree, once planted, it will benefit for many years.

Therefore, after vigorously promoting rubber planting during the Jiezhen period, the effect was not bad. Now, many rubber saplings have been planted in the surrounding areas of the valley.

But for Dongshan Prefecture, which has an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, there are still too few saplings.

At the beginning of this year, he got the news from the inner eunuch, knowing that the fleet heading for Dongzhou will return in May, and it will be able to return in July and August, and the first stop of the return is Luzon.

So during this period of time, he traveled across mountains and rivers to Beiming Street many times.

On the one hand, he was lobbying the internal supervisor to allocate more saplings for him, and on the other hand, he was lobbying Xu Chai Lao so that his Dongshan Prefecture could get more saplings.

Only when the relationship between these two aspects is settled, can it be possible to get more rubber trees than others.

Now, many officials are not enthusiastic about planting rubber trees.Because rubber trees are not like rice and sugarcane, they can be profitable in that year.

It takes several years for rubber trees to produce rubber. For officials, their performance cannot be shown during their tenure.

But Xie Zhenqi was different. He knew Zhu Zhanji's importance to rubber trees very early on.Especially after the first batch of rubber was shipped back to Daming last year, Zhu Zhanji immediately arranged for Blue Smoke and their Chemical Research Institute to nitrate and vulcanize the rubber and obtain some rubber samples.

According to different processing methods, rubber products with different softness and hardness are obtained.There are too many things that can be made from hoses, hard shells, and rubber. Many things are unheard of before.