Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Forward, capture the county seat of Kochi," Feng Quan's first order landed was such an order.

Twenty-five thousand troops were mobilized to attack the enemy.

At the same time, the captured [-] cannon fodder were placed in front, and their families were guarded in the camp near the pier.

"Deploy [-] soldiers on warships to defend the pier and the prisoner camp, and the remaining [-] militiamen will deploy from the pier to both sides to defend against the enemy's attack." Feng Quan said to all the following officials.

He said to a naval officer beside him: "You lead [-] warships, and [-] traffic ships immediately escort [-] merchant ships back, and by the way, take the Japanese cannon fodder and the family members of the common people back and imprison them. Then we will transfer [-] militiamen from Kumamoto County, and [-] cannon fodder samurai who volunteered to come, we are not strong enough."

Chapter 744 Zheng Keshuang's Discussion

As the warship brought back [-] civilians and prisoners, Zhang Qiang gradually understood the battle ahead.

He doesn't care how Xinlu Mansion arranges, he is now receiving Zheng Keshuang, Zheng Chenggong's envoy.

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Zheng Keshuang finally stated his purpose of coming here, "Your Majesty, Xiaosheng came here today because his father asked Xiaosheng to ask His Majesty for a matter. My father hopes to immigrate some Han people from the Kingdom of China to Australia. , Australia is still the name given by His Majesty, for which my father is very grateful, so I named it Australia, referred to as Australia, my father said that Australia is good, because this place is sparsely populated."

Of course Zhang Qiang knew that Australia was vast and sparsely populated, otherwise he would have sent troops to occupy it long ago, so it was the turn of Zheng Chenggong, an old pirate, to go there?

The reason why he fooled him away was because he wanted to annex Treasure Island and want one less enemy. If Zheng Chenggong was here, he needed to maintain the tranquility of the entire sea area. But the old fox Zheng Chenggong.

"How many people do you have now, and what is their composition?" Zhang Qiang asked, interrupting Zheng Keshuang.

Zheng Keshuang was a little upset. He was the favorite prince of his father at home. Ever since Zhang Qiang became king in the Huaxia Kingdom, Zheng Chenggong had long been king overseas. He was the real king, the king conferred by Emperor Longwu. Wu is just a marquis, and it is not yet time to become king, but he has already created such a big foundation, and it is not an exaggeration to become emperor according to the wishes of the people now.

But Zhang Qiang didn't want to become emperor when he didn't completely unify the original territory of Ming Dynasty.

I am still a king, so the people below don't dare to be too presumptuous, otherwise all these people below want to be kings, and if I don't make a few kings of the opposite sex, I will feel sorry for their hard work following me.

Zhang Qiang didn't want the subordinates to have no hope, no goals. The founding generals of previous dynasties who finally succeeded in rebellion wanted to enjoy it with peace of mind once their master proclaimed the emperor, so they created many second-generation officials, second-generation rich, Then it started to go downhill.

You must maintain the blood and motivation to follow your own people, otherwise these people may have a sense of slack after losing their rights and motivation after they settle down, and then some people start to think about whether they can be kings, and some people think about whether they can be kings They rebelled, so the founding emperors of all dynasties began to kill heroes. If they didn't kill them, it would be impossible, and the country they conquered would soon face collapse.

Zheng Keshuang was upset, Zhang Qiang saw it, and felt contemptuous in his heart, you are the son of a pirate who was beaten by Lao Tzu and fled, what are you thinking?Dare to wink at Lao Tzu, isn't this looking for a fight?

If so, don't blame me for being cruel.

But at this time, his self-cultivation is still very high. After all, he has been a prince for such a long time, and he is not so easy to get angry or emotional.

Zheng Keshuang finally broke free from his emotions, and said with restraint: "Your Majesty, our Han population has reached 100 million, and there are also nearly 50 Nanyang aborigines, but Australia is too huge. Last time The nearly 20 Southeast Asian natives you sold to us are still not enough. They are too lazy. My father heard that you attacked Japan. He stayed in Japan and knows that the Japanese have always followed our Han Dynasty. He is also very hardworking. They know how to endure and adapt to the environment much better than the natives of Southeast Asia.”

Zhang Qiang nodded. Zheng Chenggong was scheming, and he was right on this point. He knew that he was promoting Sinicization, but the Japanese had a high degree of Sinicization, but it was not easy to assimilate, so he wanted to get someone from here.

"Does your father mean that the natives of Southeast Asia are not wanted?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Indigenous people in Southeast Asia always have problems of one kind or another. As Zhang Qiang withdrew some of the Han Chinese from where, the indigenous people in Southeast Asia still have a large population advantage. Therefore, Zhang Qiang implemented a policy to immigrate some of the indigenous people in Southeast Asia with a high degree of Sinicization from them. In the core area, it was later discovered that some people were still somewhat difficult to naturalize, so they lost some of them to Feng Quan of Xinlu Mansion, allowing them to occupy the Japanese territory here, increasing the advantage of the Han people in power here, and weakening the Japanese population advantage.

Where did the third prince lose the most, reaching more than 40 people.

"Yes, Australia is too big. We have developed five cities. Each city has 20 Han Chinese, 100 Southeast Asians, and [-] my father's old tribe who immigrated from Japan. But it is still unable to feed the population. Where is it? There is not much arable land, so we need to develop more arable land, so we need to continue to open up wasteland cities. My father has designated five cities, and each of us brothers has one city. Now we need at least [-] million people to fill the place, so I Father asked us to go back to our hometown to see if we could immigrate some Han people there.”

Zhang Qiang was silent. Zheng Keshuang meant Han people, mainly Han people. It seems that Zheng Chenggong also hoped that Australia would be dominated by Han people, but the land is vast and sparsely populated. Some Southeast Asian aborigines need to be treated as slaves, and the Japanese are to be used as laborers. .

If these slaves and Japanese labor are used to feed 200 million Han Chinese, then the required population is not a tiny bit.

"I promise you, what benefits do I have, or how did you get so many people from us?" Zhang Qiang asked.

Zheng Keshuang quickly replied: "Of course, the Huaxia Kingdom can't be given to people in vain, right?" Pay money," Zhang Qiang rolled his eyes and looked at him. The Huaxia Kingdom has 1000 million taels of silver in its treasury. With these [-] million taels of silver, the Huaxia Kingdom can issue one billion Huaxia Yuan, let alone gold. , the gold has reached [-] million taels, which Zhang Qiang has collected over the years.

Every time I fought pirates, dug out pirates’ nests, and beat Zheng Chenggong, all Zheng Chenggong’s wealth in Baodao was taken away in one pot. At least tens of millions of taels of silver and nearly 100 million taels of gold. It can be said that one-twentieth of Zhang Qiang’s treasury was contributed by Zheng Chenggong Yes, there is also Dalongwu Nanming, but Longwu Nanming is a poor country, and the money is all collected from those landlords and old fortunes, at least one-twentieth of the weight.

Later, Lu Kingdom, Yongli Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo in Yunnan, Qiongzhou Island, Annan Small Country, Laos Small Country, Burma Small Country, and the warlords and vassal kings who fought against the Qing Dynasty seized a lot of gold and silver treasures.

These gold and silver treasures are enough for the Huaxia Kingdom to issue 100 billion Huaxia Yuan now, but there are too many banknotes that cannot be issued, otherwise the paper money will depreciate, so now only about [-] million Huaxia Yuan has been issued, which is enough for the Huaxia Kingdom to turn around. Outside transactions are still converted in silver taels, and some are converted in goods.

Zheng Keshuang seemed to have seen through Zhang Qiang's mind, and continued with a smile: "My father is going to buy some warships from the Huaxia Army. Compared with us, the warships and warships of the Huaxia Army are very tall and advanced. The Kingdom has bought 180-ton and [-]-ton warships, and now my father wants to buy some [-]-ton warships, [-]-ton warships, and of course it would be even better if he could buy some thousand-ton warships."

Zhang Qiang laughed, this Zheng Chenggong was getting older and more cunning, he was having a headache for the warships of the Navy over the past ten years, the warships were old, and he was going to develop new warships, so he came to make his own ideas.

Chapter 745 Selling Ships and People

He looked at Zheng Keshuang and asked, "Then what are you going to use to buy our ships and population?"

Zheng Keshuang apologized and said with a smile: "If it is gold and silver, your Majesty, you know that since our family moved to Nanyang, Nanyang is relatively poor, and we don't have much savings, so we hope to use Australian iron ore and guano to buy it this time. We know that His Majesty is making every effort to develop the agriculture of the Huaxia Kingdom, but agriculture is limited to many places in China with few lands, many people, many mountains and few lands, and the yield is insufficient. Therefore, fertilization is needed. My father went to Australia and found that there are bird droppings on the islands in many places. , Guano can increase grain production, so it is very rare. Now we have been experimenting with bird droppings for two years, and found that it is indeed useful, so my father hopes to use bird droppings to increase the grain production of the Huaxia Kingdom, so that Your Majesty does not have to worry about it. Worrying about feeding hundreds of millions of people in the Huaxia Kingdom."

"Okay, this is good." Zhang Qiang nodded. Even if he has never seen bird droppings, especially those from the islands in the sea, Zhang Qiang has read a few books on time travel. If what Zheng Keshuang said is true and they have experimented, then it is OK Trade, so the Ministry of Agriculture doesn't have to worry about increasing crop yields.

I don't want to ask the system how to make fertilizers to increase crop production.

When I asked the system for these things, I originally wanted a matchlock gun made by myself, but when my time-traveling avatar no longer needed a matchlock gun, the system hadn’t contacted me for a long time, and I didn’t need to pay anything if I wanted to. Spirit points are getting more and more, and they are useless.

The system seems to be born specifically to help his avatar who travels through the game world, not for himself.

Sometimes Zhang Qiang also feels sad, but this system does not do much, which makes Zhang Qiang, who has no ink, very upset. Other traversers are knowledgeable, know this, know that, just click You can turn stone into gold with just a few clicks. Even people without much skill have a system. The system is selfless help, and it has pushed the protagonist of others to the altar. As for myself, I am still playing the old beauty. , Stirring the water everywhere, planning how to profit everywhere.

Now 20 years have achieved a lot, but the system helped me at the beginning, and almost ignored me later, what is this?

I don't know what the system wants, what can I give to the system?

Just when Zhang Qiang was talking with Zheng Keshuang, Zheng Keshuang introduced the importance of guano to Zhang Qiang. After the introduction, Zhang Qiang felt that it was beneficial and was about to agree, when the system suddenly popped up, "Australia's iron ore, every ton of iron ore The system gives you 1 resource point, and you can use the resource point to buy technology products, or directly purchase the products provided by the system."

Zhang Qiangdao didn't see it now, because the system didn't give him a system interface that others couldn't see, but he could see like other traversers.

Forget it, he didn't have much hope for this system, so he calmed down and continued to negotiate with Zheng Keshuang.

Zheng Keshuang said: "Your Majesty, after we arrived in Australia, we found that the iron ore there is easier to dig than Qiongdao. They are all open-pit mines. With a shovel down, it turns into a piece of iron stone. This is simply enviable. We are drooling. I still think that the land there is huge, but after a long time, I feel that there are no resources. I didn’t expect to find so many iron stones. According to the craftsmen, the iron stones there are better than our Ming’s iron stones. Now we have mined a lot, but these The iron stone can't find a buyer at once, and it can't be turned into gold and silver, but when I came this time, my father said that he hoped to exchange these iron stones for the immigrants and warships of the Huaxia Kingdom, warships, and please allow His Majesty to agree."

Yes, of course Zhang Qiang agreed. Qiongdao iron ore is difficult to exploit, and the transportation distance is long. He spent more than 200 million captives and hard labor, plus a hundred thousand militiamen, to achieve an annual output of 80 tons. It was originally a million tons. , but 90 tons are mud. After being crushed and transported to the Huaxia Kingdom, it has become about 30 tons of pig iron ore. After continuous refining, it can produce 40 tons of refined iron, 80 tons of wrought iron, and [-] tons of pig iron every year. [-] tons, almost [-] tons.

This must be higher than the initial production, and higher than the 50 tons after I made great efforts, but it takes a lot of work. Australia’s ore is famous in later generations. Even if it is not smelted, it is at least [-] to pull [-] tons. Tons are real iron stones, which can be directly used as iron ingots. Intermediate purification can be carried out without the primary purification of Qiongdao, and then sent to the high-level purification plant of the Huaxia Kingdom government for wrought iron purification, and then refined to become refined iron. Iron can already make ordinary cannons and matchlock guns, and when turned into steel, it can make new cannons and flintlock guns.

"Tell me, how should I sell it to you?" Zhang Qiang was very happy about these things that were beneficial to the development of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Zheng Keshuang smiled and said: "There is no rush, just leave it to the people below. I am mainly talking about whether it can be sold. Who is His Majesty going to sell to us? We mean that we want 100 million Han people. After all, we are all Han people, Han people are all our people, if they are other people, they are of different clans and ethnic groups, and when something happens, everyone will not be twisted together."

Zhang Qiang did not expect that Zheng Chenggong would pay so much attention to the identity of the Han people. He himself is a Chinese-Japanese mixed race, but now he pays more attention to the Han people. It seems that there are still some students taught by the modest gentleman of the Donglin Party who said that the water is too cold and refused to die for the Ming Dynasty. something bloody.

Of course the Han people can’t sell it to them like this. I still need a lot of Han people to assimilate my own alien races. However, there are many Nanyang Han people in the territory. These people are relatively few, and they may be able to make up enough, but these people are active in business and scattered all over the place. If you want to clear them all, you need the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of People's Affairs. The people near Jinling Mansion handed it over to them.

Then the Han people in Southeast Asia who have been mixed for several generations are handed over to them, and the Han businessmen from Japan and Lu are handed over to them. This is almost the same, plus some chieftains from Yunnan, Guizhou and Yunnan. Those are also Han people, but they are among the Han people. There are Hakka, Tujia, Miao and other Han minorities. Handing over these people can just purify some Han ethnic groups.

It would be nice to give some more of these people.

Then give them some Han officials and their family members who were unsuccessful in their own territory in the Nanming Kingdom. The vacated positions can just accommodate the descendants of the people and officials of the second generation of the Huaxia Kingdom. These people have passed various exams, and some I have already experienced the test of land reclamation, and I am worried that there is no place to resettle. I will be resettled in an idle position first, and then promoted later.

Then arrange where the indigenous people in Southeast Asia who have been naturalized for several years will go. One can reduce the population of Southeast Asian indigenous people in those countries, and the other is where the third generation of people in the core area can be arranged. Zhang Qiang found that after such an arrangement, the territory in the territory There are more Han people and fewer foreigners. If more Japanese from Xinlu Mansion were given to Zheng Chenggong, then Zheng Chenggong would definitely be grateful.

The two sides talked for several hours, and Zhang Qiang issued an order to ask the cabinet to discuss the matter. Most of the cabinet ministers contacted Zheng Keshuang's subordinate officials, and asked Zhou Porridge to compensate Zheng Keshuang. As long as he knows.