The time has come to July, according to the past experience, from this time of year every year, the next few months are frequent days of vacation, and by the National Day in October, the cities and towns on the moon can even take a whole month off. But for the traversers who are now in various parts of Borneo, it is unlikely that they can find any other meaning of existence than work.

However, the subjects of the new empire seem to have changed over the past few months, especially those who were the first to return from the dragon.

In the past few months, the walls of Brunei City have not been reinforced, and the original slab walls have been completely demolished, but the merchants in the city and the port not only do not see the panic, but walk more and more with their heads up. Compared with when the chiefs first came, Brunei City, as well as all the large and small towns under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, seemed to have changed in a short period of time, exuding vigorous vitality from the inside out.

Around Labuan, an industrial system is gradually being established, with wineries, sugar factories, seafood processing factories, porcelain factories, brick factories, iron factories and munitions factories in Port Slime, as well as Garbo's glass and eyeglass factories, as well as several coal mines in the mountains to the south of the bay.

In the past two months, the two new ships of immigrants from the mainland, except for the old and weak, have all been arranged to work in various factories after a simple epidemic prevention and purification, these poor people from the Ming Kingdom of Liangguang and Fujian, originally came with the idea of going to Nanyang to seek a livelihood, when they set off, they just received a letter or a message from here after an unknown amount of time to cross the ocean and send back, at that time the empire known as the Great Song Dynasty had not yet appeared in Borneo. And when they arrived here after more than two months of traveling south from the Luzon Islands, the first thing they saw was a scene that was more prosperous than their family had said.

The bay was filled with ships like a bazaar, and the patrols of the Fubo Army made the bay look orderly, and the tracks of cargo ships and fishing boats intertwined with each other, connecting the cities, ports, and fishing villages around the sea, but in a matter of months, the prestige of the empire had spread to the thousands of households in the places closest to the sea.

The first-time immigrants were stunned, and a few of them clamored about returning to the mainland before they had time to find their families as soon as they got off the boat.

After some investigation by the customs, it turned out that these people were thinking of immediately looking for a ship to go back to pull people, and seeing the prosperity in the port, the livelihood of the people everywhere was especially good, and it seemed that there was only a shortage of people. If you go back to your hometown to spread the word about the situation here, it is not difficult to bring thousands of villagers to come, since you are working hard, it is not a bad thing to have more fellow villagers, so every group of immigrants chose to stay mostly to recruit workers in various factories, but always let the three or five tribes go back to the mainland to report the news.

Such an idea can be said to be in the hands of the Senate, the Ministry of Industry is now in charge of the industrial planning of various places, and the allocation of materials on Labuan Island is still enough, but this population is really stretched. In a few months, the reputation of the Senate naturally spread, coupled with the promotion of medical immunization, not only the families around Brunei, but even the farther Fan Department has continued to have people come to pay for their membership, but after all, the chiefs of the Fan Department are different from ordinary immigrants, they always have their own land where they have lived for generations, and the population of the Ministry will also be restrained, and they will not be easily let go to this Brunei Province to work. There is still a serious shortage of manpower in various factories.

Now the equipment of all the factories and mines is in accordance with the shape of the early nineteenth century, and the production efficiency is naturally stronger than that of any country in this time and space, but the accumulation of technology is deliberately controlled by the time-travelers, and it is precisely for this reason that the demand for manpower is even greater, so in the past few months, with the convicts of the labor camps, the industrial population in the hands of the Senate has reached nearly 5,000, but it is still insufficient. Without him, many of the more than 5,000 people in Gaine are not only illiterate, but also unable to speak Chinese. If basic knowledge cannot be instilled, the rest of the industry is not even the most basic coolie, and can only be placed in the port to load and unload goods, which is undoubtedly a waste in the factory. Therefore, even though the manpower is overstretched, the younger naturalized people are still arranged by the Ministry of Rites to study in schools completely out of work.

Having said that, it is naturally excellent to be able to bring people from the coast of the mainland, Xu Xuance remembered that in history, in order to build Batavia, the Dutch did not do less in various parts of the Ming Dynasty in coastal defense to abduct fishermen. Driven by the fact that the Dutch can still carry nearly 10,000 Han Chinese in the Far East in a year, with the great prospects of Brunei Province as an endorsement, it is believed that there will only be more immigrants from the mainland and Indochina who can finally be attracted to the south of Borneo to seek a future.

It's just that the Senate is big, and the Dutch can't do it at the moment, not only the Ming Dynasty, even if Siam and Dayue in the north are also the countries of a thousand times, although they are not afraid of them in terms of military strength, but they can't put too much energy on military defense at the moment, everything must be centered on economic construction, and in the short term, the traversers only focus on the island of Borneo, and don't make other plans.

The Senate felt that it was good to go with the flow, the so-called good wine is not afraid of deep alleys, and the situation in Borneo would only be better day by day, even the Han immigrants who had just arrived here could see that if it were not for the little industry still in Manila, I am afraid that several ship owners carrying immigrants would choose to stay. And even if those Han boat owners chose to return to Luzon at this time, I believe that it will not be long before more people come here, and several people in the household department have also promised these proprietors generous policies, whether it is land allocation or commercial planning, and then policy support, all of which are much better than in Luzon, and the pedestrian division began to develop the fifth column on the Luzon side early.

It's just that the political hall can't wait anymore, the salt field in Dudong City, the sugar factory in Shenshan Township, the technology used is primitive in the eyes of the traversers, and they all have to rely on manpower to pile up, Dudong is okay, the original Tanjung Maya is making salt by itself, although the method used is more simple, the salt is ready-made, and it can be used with a little adjustment. The reason why it is located in Shenshan Township is to reward the merits of the Shenshan tribes for being the first to follow the dragon, so that they can have some industries, and the other is to have a better location for the future attack on Luzon, the newly built port in Kota Kinabalu is in good condition, and there is no problem at all with large merchant ships, and the economic invasion of the Luzon Islands is a military and political extension, and this is what Guo Lansheng deserves, and his two sons are now sent to schools in Brunei.

The rainy season has just begun, and taking advantage of a little leisure time, the heads of the eastern and western prefectures finally have time to sit down and sort out the resources in their hands.

"At present, the factories under the direct management of the Ministry of Industry, including Jototong and Kota Kinabalu, have a total of more than 4,000 workers."

"Is it a labor camp?"

"No, but there are less than 800 people in the camp."

"Why so little? Now, except for the south, the whole of Borneo is basically under our control, and there have been many battles before and after, so we have captured so many people? ”

"There are not many people who are sent back to Brunei, and the population that can be driven at will is a good thing, and no one wants to send it back easily, especially in the newly occupied Miri and other places, most of the people who are pulled to build roads are these prisoners and prisoners."

"Say ...... again"

"Nowadays, the fanbui everywhere is really smart, just to surrender, but the obligation is not exhaustive, there are only a few closer to the obedient, and the farther ones are not very obedient to the mountains and forests."

"Wait a little longer, it's really impossible to clean up these now, so it's better to have another half a year, and when the students are all cultivated, then we'll see what these tribes have to say."

"There are also these Tu children in the school, right?"

"There are also three or four hundred, which can be regarded as the protons of each family."

At present, with the successive military victories, more and more people are passively and actively sending their children to the Sili Harbor School, and perhaps some natives are thinking of knowing themselves and their opponents, and many more are making it easier to trade with the city. Sugar and porcelain from Port Slee, as well as a variety of small and practical household utensils and agricultural implements, are in high demand for all families. The chiefs exchanged deerskins, cowhides, and timber for these items, and a few families with a little money even used the silver dollars they had accumulated in the old years.

The Senate was happy to see these deals come to fruition, but a few radical elders said that the trees were state-owned assets of the Great Song Dynasty, and there was no reason to pay them any more. But fortunately, the Fanbu don't need much, and more elders also feel that there are still some benefits for the people of the Fanbu to drive, anyway, what is consumed is their own industrial products, there is no need to be so stingy, even in order to develop the scale of the factory, it should also be encouraged, Xu Xuance and the senior members of the Senate who are closest to him are sober-minded, any verbal allegiance is vain, and only the bond of interests is imposed on him, so that this newly formed imperial territory can be woven more densely, Each line of interest is a node in latitude and longitude.

Therefore, in the end, except for the requirements for the protection of individual tree species, the rest was left to the natives to do it, after all, it is a joke to cut down the forests of Borneo with the efficiency of the natives, and it is even more impossible to do what has not been done in the 21st century.

In addition to holding as much land as possible suitable for cultivation, the Senate did not restrict the development of the barbarians, as long as there was food in the war, sugar and salt could not be eaten.

After talking about development, it is natural to look outside.

"These days, the pedestrian division has been collecting information from passing merchant ships from all over the surrounding areas."

"Until the rainy season is over, there will be no movement in Luzon and Java."

"There is a lot of chaos on the island of Java now, the news that the Kuching camp just came yesterday, I heard from the businessmen who came from Banten that the king of Banten, Kadir, fought with the Dutch a month ago, suffered several losses, and now wants to contact Mataran to take revenge."

"Will Agung be willing to listen to Banten?"

The king of Mataran, Pharambahan Agung, who had destroyed Bajang and Danmu by his ancestors thirty years earlier, now controls most of the eastern part of Java and claims to have 100,000 warriors in the country.

"In other words, if you are the lord of Mataran, are you happy to watch the two families fight to the death, or is it better to help the family? If I remember correctly, Kadir was only twenty-five years old, and it was when he was young and vigorous, and the Panam Bahan family could not tolerate him. ”

With enough intelligence to back it up, the answer is obvious.

"But in this case, in a year or two, the Dutch will have a firm foothold in Java."

"If you stand firm, you have to knock them down."

"But don't forget, Matalan's hands aren't clean either."

Yang Chenxu said that it was naturally the Danmu Kingdom that was destroyed by the grandfather Senabadi of the current Mataran lord Agung, and the first generation of the Danmu country, Xie Guobo, was a serious Chinese of 800, who founded the country in Central Java in the sixteenth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, and died in three generations. Although the bits and pieces of chickens and dogs in these historical materials are troublesome to find, they are all recorded by Yang Chenxu in his little black book, just to become famous in the future.

Another person added: "The idea of attacking Java is too far ahead, but on the Kuching side of the camp, the progress of the work of absorbing the surrounding barbarians and merging the villages seems to be too slow." ”

Because the strength is too much, it is also a good thing to make the surrounding barbarians more afraid, but this makes the thorns who originally had the intention to provoke trouble dare not come out, Liu Dawu is a loyal elder, after all, it is not good to be ruthless to the tribes who surrender to the Shun, and the political affairs hall is also worried that if it is delayed like this, it will not only delay the local economic construction, but over time, the ministries will gradually become a big trouble.

It's just that halfway through the discussion, he was interrupted by Zhuangzi Li, who hurriedly came in.

'The Chinese merchants of Yamaguchi-yo have rioted? ’