Facts have proved that as long as you open your mind, then you can reach the sea and the sky!

Ding Kuichu, a native of Yongcheng, Henan, was a person raised in the 40th year of Wanli (1612) and a jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli (1616). In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), he was promoted to the governor of Baoding, and in the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), he was appointed as the head of the household department. In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the official went to the governor of Hebei, and he was responsible for good deeds.

In May of the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the Qing army, with Azig as the general, led more than 80,000 divisions, invaded from Dushikou, attacked Yanqing, Changping and other places, invaded the capital, and plundered 180,000 people and animals. Due to the failure to resist the invasion of the Qing army this time, the Xinjiang ministers had the responsibility to defend the territory, and Ding Kuichu was sent to prison.

He has a favor and actively seeks to recover, it was not so smooth, and he didn't want the governor of Fujian to be vacant, everyone thought, hey, since Ding Kuichu has the heart to serve the country, why not give him a chance?

So Ding Kuichu proposed it from the Criminal Department, changed into an official uniform and went to draw lots, but the lottery was suspicious ----- the lottery!

Who is not easy to choose, and he is such a criminal minister?

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the people around him, Ding Kuichu felt full of malice.

Thinking that he spent money to get rid of the crime of the powerful people in the DPRK and China, and the people collected money to do things, and he did it, and the position he was given was not low, but he fell from a kang into a firekang.

It's really an official word!

In desperation, he entered the Forbidden City in a daze, and was instructed by the emperor in person, and the emperor asked him to act with a camera, one to solve the overseas rebel group in the southeast province; Second, prepare to open the sea ban and make money!

Emperor Chongzhen was vague, and Ding Kuichu only felt a sudden pain in his head.

When the emperor asked him about his strategy, Ding Kuichu played: "The overseas rebel group in the southeast province has no monarch and no desire to serve the country, which is really hateful and intolerable. However, it is not a disaster, and it should be slowly drawn. ”

As for the ban on opening the sea, Emperor Chongzhen has high hopes, the Ming court is too poor, there are many places to spend money, and the problem is that there is no return on consumable financial resources.

Ding Kuichu kowtowed again and again: "The minister must do his best to be loyal to the country!" ”

Faithful?

It's real with money!

Emperor Chongzhen asked him to step back and watched him walk out of the palace gate, for the overseas silver, the emperor stretched his neck and waited.

The silver did have it, but it all went into someone's pocket!

Let's say that Ding Kuichu took office and went to Fuzhou, and it was the foreign ginseng who would see him in the future, different from the straightforward Wang Daochun, Ding Kuichu and the foreign general said a few words, no more, no less, which is the correct attitude towards his subordinates.

Soon he understood the situation clearly, and he had three paths in front of him: first, the evil southeast mansion; Second, make good friends with the southeast government; 3. Neutrality.

The golden mean, he chose the middle strategy and partnered with the Southeast Mansion to do business!

He did not interfere at all with the recruitment of people from the Southeast Prefecture to cross the border, and allowed the Southeast Prefecture to recruit people, and the official cards of various places were useless!

He accepted bribes, paid all the tributes paid by the southeastern government and merchants, and was very "professional", so he would not cause trouble for others when he received money.

Simply he organized a fleet of more than ten ships by himself and started doing business with the Southeast Mansion!

Naturally, he made a lot of money!

Opinions on him were polarized, and the local officials and gentry of Fujian were deeply satisfied with him, and loudly praised him as a great lord of the blue sky!

Qingliu hated him, and his reputation quickly slipped into the stinking ditch.

The courtiers spoke of him, and when they said that he was rich; Second, he said that he was greedy enough!

A close friend persuaded Ding Kuichu to have a standard for being a man, and said bitterly, "People are doing it, and the sky is watching!" Ding Kuichu sighed: "I am poor in the twilight of the day, and I can only do the opposite!" ”

This is the answer when Wu Zixu, the former Chu minister, rebelled against Chu and led the Wu army to capture the Chu capital, his friend, Chu Chen Shen Baoxu, questioned him.

In private, he confided with them and said: "What am I afraid of, if there is a kind of them, they will change another person to be Min Fu!" ”

The words are really to the point, no matter how others impeach him, Ding Kuichu's position has always been stable.

Because he increased 100,000 taels of silver and 300,000 stone of grain a year to serve the imperial court, and the money and grain supplied to the imperial court in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the southeast have been steadily rising.

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A succession of Fujian Fu was helpless for the southeast province, and even colluded, the governor knelt down, restricting the southeast province to fly out of the way, the development of the southeast province, the development of Southeast Asia has entered the fast lane.

Millions of Chinese go to the South Seas!

Under the organization of the Southeast Province, Chinese mainland has set off a mighty movement to go to the South Seas, and its propaganda is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even the remote towns in Shanxi Province have propaganda leaflets from the Southeast Province: "Migrate to Southeast Asia and create a new life!" ”

The leaflet has the seal of the southeast marquis of the Ming Dynasty and the dragon and tiger general Yan Changwu, as well as the seal of the former Ming Emperor, the former superintendent, and the former military department Shangshu Sun Chengzong, and then the seal of the former Dengzhou governor Sun Yuanhua, etc., anyway, there is the endorsement of the Ming officials.

Immigration points are generally set up in various provinces, prefectures and counties, and local governments are generally resigned to it, which is the advantage of having an official status!

Many officials were bribed, and because of the propaganda at home, many officials gradually understood that the southeast province was actually the power of the Han people, and they forged ahead, seized new territory for the Han people, and created a new life for the Han people.

So, the officials with a clear conscience waved and let them go.

Among the people who go to Southeast Asia, the southeastern provinces are the majority, accounting for sixty percent, and for those Chinese who go to the South Seas on the southeast coast, due to the geographical location, their dependence on land is lower than that of the peasants in the hinterland of the mainland. Many of them have long been accustomed to the fishing life of "using the sea as their fields", so their fear of the sea is the smallest among the entire Chinese people.

Immigrants from the north account for one-third of the total, and the further north you go, the more new immigrants there are.

Due to the invasion of the Northern captives, they lost their homes, and many of them emigrated to Southeast Asia due to the fear of the Northern captives and their disappointment with the Ming court.

The people in the hinterland of the Central Plains were small, accounting for only one percent, but as the peasant army galloped in the Central Plains, the war caused the Central Plains immigrants to gradually increase, showing a straight upward trend.

The sea ships were loaded with Chinese and supplies, and the western route departed from the mouth of the Pearl River, passed through Annam, the Mekong estuary, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra, and reached Java; The eastern route starts from the ports of Fujian, passes through Taiwan, Luzon, and the Kalimantan Peninsula to Java.

There were also some branches along the way, for example, some ships on the western route went to the Kalimantan Peninsula, while some ships on the eastern route did not go through the Kalimantan Peninsula and went south through Mindanao in Luzon to enter the newly seized Spice Islands in the southeastern province to seek a living.

There is an endless stream of sea vessels, and the whole South China Sea and Southeast Asia can hear Chinese, as the saying goes, "everywhere in the sea, there are Chinese" from the southeast province to open up Southeast Asia!