Seeing that the princes were very conscious, Emperor Zhu nodded with satisfaction - this is the benefit of Ming Jun in the court, and even a group of "pig princes" now know that they have worked hard!

However, it is not enough to know how to work hard, but also to know how to use strength, and how to use strength.

Colonial statehood burns money and lives, and it burns for many years, but you can't just take your own money and paste it in, otherwise you have to pay for death!

For example, except for the United States, which has mines underground (there are big gold mines in that area!). And outside of the principalities of Malacca, which happened to be at the center of trade and convenient for carrying out the business of blocking and collecting fees, the other colonial powers seemed to be some start-up companies in later generations, and they had to burn the investor's money viciously, and it took him ten or twenty years to make a lot of profits...... Moreover, the trade of colonial statehood will burn not only money, but also human lives!

This is also the reason why Zhu Cihong has been holding back on the issue of colonization in Nanyang!

The Gulf of the Americas looked far away and had to cross the Pacific Ocean, but because of the currents and wind belts that could be used, it was no more dangerous and time-consuming to cross the Pacific Ocean than to travel to and from the South Seas for Ming captains who were already able to measure latitude more accurately. Although the North Pacific Westerly Wind Belt (the route to the New World) can sometimes be squalluous (mainly in winter), the trade winds on the way back from the New World are very mild, with typhoons only blowing in late summer and early autumn.

Therefore, the Pacific galleons of the Ming Dynasty usually avoided winter when heading east, and late summer and early autumn when heading west. Therefore, no more lives were devoured on the transpacific route than on the route to the South China Sea - capsizing and dying were inevitable! However, with the continuous enhancement of the Ming Dynasty's seafaring ability, the mortality rate at sea was still acceptable, even lower than that of the Westerners of the same era, after all, East Asians were "immune" to scurvy!

But as soon as the migrants arrived at their destinations, the death rates on both sides of the South Seas and the New World were very different. The Gulf of the Americas region has a comfortable climate, fertile land, abundant produce, and is also very "clean" with few deadly infectious diseases.

Immigrating to Southeast Asia is different, the climate in that area is hot and humid, which is very different from most of the Ming Dynasty, so there will be many immigrants who are not adapted.

What's even more terrifying is that it has always been a place of miasma and disease. If there are ready-made land and cities to live in, the mortality rate can be lower, and if you go to the jungle, more than half of the deaths in a few years are considered to be few.

In the just-concluded Battle of Pattani, the Japanese samurai army commanded by the barbarian general Xu Zhengjing (Bao Ke Zhengjing) had many outbreaks of epidemics, and more than 10,000 people were lost before and after!

More than ten times more people died of disease than in war!

In the Ming Dynasty immigrants who cultivated half-cooked land such as Jinou, Jinghai (Jinghai Navy has now been incorporated into Jinou Army, known as Jinoujun Jinghai Mansion), Siam, and Xiyang (Western Army), also suffered heavy losses due to tropical infectious diseases such as malaria.

According to Jinyiwei's secret investigation, the death rate of the immigrants in three years exceeded 2 and a half percent - this is still the case rate when there is a large amount of cooked land available in Jinghai, Siam, Xiyang and other places.

And the prisoners who have been exiled to Taiwan over the years, except for those "eunuch remnants" who have been taken care of by the Zheng family, the death rate within three years is more than 50%!

Therefore, the business of going to Nanyang is, to put it bluntly, burning people's lives!

What the? Got cinchona?

It has not yet been discovered by the Spaniards, and the origin of the cinchona tree is in the Peruvian Viceroyalty of the Kingdom of New Spain, and the Ming expedition cannot enter it at all. Even if you can get in, it's useless, because no one knows what the cinchona tree looks like. If you want to get this treasure, you must occupy the territory for a long time, and then contact the local natives before you can use various means to get cinchona seeds.

Even if Zhu Cihong has any means to get the seeds of the cinchona tree, he will have to "ten years of trees", and it will probably be twenty years before he really produces cinchona frost in large quantities.

As for forcibly driving the natives to open up or something, this kind of thing can be done by honest Han farmers?

Don't say that the peasants can't do it, and neither can the landlords on the side of the Ming Dynasty! The land of the Ming Dynasty was mainly a murderer who went out with two knives and hacked to death when he met a peasant who resisted rent and tax, where was there a peasant uprising?

Therefore, for a long time in the future, the colonization of Nanyang will be a history of blood and tears.

Since it is a history of blood and tears, then "leeks" are needed...... And "leeks" can't be forced to grow! Let them grow consciously and voluntarily!

Therefore, it is definitely not possible to forcibly colonize Southeast Asia. Don't wait for a while, there are not many people in Southeast Asia, and the country has become a piece of reverse.

And "leeks" have to have a certain amount of capital, how can they be "leeks" without capital?

In the final analysis, the development of the South Seas is a business, so you can't just fool the poor people to go south, so the mortality rate is not two and a half, but six or seven - recruit the poor eggs, send them south, and then give them land and tools, which have to spend public money, but seventy percent died within a few years, and most of the remaining half went out of business because of poor management, isn't that fooling around?

Therefore, we have to let the "leeks" who have a little capital, a little ability, and a little bad conscience go to Nanyang with the dream of making a fortune and glorifying their ancestors.

In this way, the probability of survival will be relatively high, and it will also be easier to develop.

"Since you are all willing to plant trees for future generations, then I will take the big guys to plant trees together!" Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "And I still have a lot of experience in planting trees!" ”

In fact, he doesn't know how to plant trees, but he can cut leeks when he does...... Now the princes in the Huangji Hall are stretching their necks and fantasizing about their descendants and princes, and in his eyes, they are also big leeks that are thriving!

Zhu Cihong paused, and then said, "You have to listen to me about this!" You have to do this...... To do big business, we must take a long-term view, we can't make money in a hurry, we have to develop competitiveness first, do you know what competitiveness is? On the Nanyang side, it is the people who can develop and operate!

The place where competitiveness is cultivated is the Kingdom of Luzon! The 250 miles of land allocated to you is not for you to make money, but for you to develop competitiveness first.

And to develop competitiveness, you must first attract strong talents! If you don't hesitate to be reckless, you must be eclectic...... Therefore, the 250 miles of land allocated to you is enough for your own family to take 10 miles to build a Zhuangzi for your own use, and the rest will be divided into 24 barons, all of which will be used to attract talents.

And this talent can't be limited to just one category, at least there must be big farmers, craftsmen, samurai and veterans who are responsible for cutting people, Langzhong who knows a little bit of medical skills, there must be scholars who can help educate and manage, and finally there can be monks and Taoist priests. They also have to be introduced one by one, and they must be encouraged to bring their customers or clansmen to Luzon with them......"

Emperor Zhu is teaching big leeks how to set small leeks!

Only when the big leeks are covered with small leeks, there is a drama in the development of Nanyang!

Because the big leek people have few lives and few lives, you can burn them if you burn money, but you can't count on them if you burn your life...... I have to let the little leeks come out.

And these little leeks can't just have a life left, they have to have a little capital and ability, so that they can do things for the big leeks.

"Your Majesty," asked Zhu Youlang, the king of Yongming County (that is, Yongli in history), with his beautiful hair in his hand, "where are the ministers going to recruit usable and reliable people?" ”

Zhu Cihong glanced at him and said in his heart: Aren't you a Yongli Emperor who is quite capable of pulling people's heads in history? Why do you have to ask me now?

"There are many ways to recruit talents," Zhu Cihong thought for a while, "You can openly advertise the newspaper to recruit, you can send people to recruit in the barbarian army, you can go to Annan and Japan to recruit, in short, you must be eclectic, regardless of background, only look at ability...... My Twelve Duchies will soon be recruiting, and the uncle can learn from them when the time comes. ”