At the same time that the first batch of officials from the Ministry of Industry who were responsible for exploring the Great Wilderness stepped on the treasure ship, under the direct leadership of Ji Gang and the secret participation of Jinyiwei, a rumor soon spread in Shuntianfu.

At the beginning, the content of this rumor was very normal, it was nothing more than that Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng slaughtered the officials of the vassal state who killed the people of the Ming Dynasty after they went to sea, and changed the old port propaganda department to the old port government, but as it was spread, this originally normal news changed its taste:

The New World discovered by the Emperor Taisun and the Champion was full of gold and silver mines, and even walking could be tripped over gold, and the Manchu magnates and clans were now gathering their own manpower to prepare to go to sea to grab the minerals.

Then the official government of Shuntian Prefecture refuted the rumors on the Daming Weekly, saying that the imperial grandson and the champion did discover a new continent overseas, but that continent was not as magical as the rumors, and there were indeed some mineral deposits on it, but it was not up to the level that people could stumble when they walked, and I hope everyone will not believe the rumors and do not spread rumors.

The refutation of the rumors of Shuntianfu did calm people's hearts, and many people thought that this matter was probably what the newspaper said, and there was no place where you could trip over gold while walking.

But immediately after, another news came out of the imperial city:

The emperor was ready to open up the Great Wilderness, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could move to the Great Wilderness, and was ready to distribute land to the people, but the civil and military officials and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty were collectively opposed, and the emperor was so angry that he threw several teapots.

The matter spread with a nose and eyes, and even Zhu Laosi dropped a few teapots, and it is said that he also killed several little eunuchs with a cane.

Then the cabinet began to refute the rumors in the newspapers, saying that Zhu Laosi did not break the teapot at all, and there was no such thing as killing the little eunuch with a cane, and the matter of the Great Wilderness was even more illusory, and I hoped that the people of Daming would not believe the rumors of some people.

Then Shuntianfu and other state capitals jumped out, saying that there were omissions in their work at home, and not only began to register the landless people under their rule, but also said that they would arrange land for these people in the shortest possible time, and the grasslands north of Liaodong and Nuergandusi or border cities could be chosen at will, with 100 mu per person.

Then, the Daming Xungui group headed by the British Duke also jumped out, and they were recruiting people one by one, saying that as long as someone was willing to go to sea with them, they would give each person fifty yuan of treasure money for settling down silver, and ten yuan of wages every year in the future.

The people of the Ming Dynasty suddenly came to their senses.

Feudal official?

Then the fuck is a pit man!

If the Great Wilderness wasn't full of gold mines, why did they have to hurriedly trick everyone to Liaodong and Nuergandusi? Even the ploughing cattle that were originally said to be nervous have now become less nervous, and the original fifty acres of Yongye Field and fifty acres of ration fields have directly become one hundred acres of Yongye Field, and those nobles have also begun to recruit people, if there is nothing to say about this, who will believe it?

It's better to be an emperor!

The emperor who cared about the people planned to let the people go to the Great Wilderness to collect gold, but those dog officials and black-hearted nobles were unwilling, so the emperor was so angry that he dropped the teapot and said in the newspaper that there was no such thing!

Just when the people were still planning to observe and observe, several treasure ships that came back from overseas docked directly at the port of Tianjin Wei, and boxes of things began to be transported to the capital.

According to the rumors in the rivers and lakes, although the boxes transported back by the treasure ship are not too big, but the weight is extremely heavy, so that the carts are creaking, and later someone saw with their own eyes that a car was crushed apart because it was loaded too much, and the yellow gold nuggets rolled out of the box that fell, and it was bright and dazzling!

Then, a stream of news came out of nowhere that the emperor and the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty were in a hurry, and dismissed many ministers in the court, intending to force these people to agree to let the people move to the Great Wilderness.

And this news was quickly confirmed - there were indeed many officials above the court who were dismissed and went home for some reason, and even the official documents of the court published in the newspaper had the words that such and such an official was temporarily dismissed from his post and had another appointment.

Immediately afterwards, the newspaper published Yang Shaofeng's signed article - "The Great Wilderness is a treasure given by God to the Ming Dynasty".

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Yang Shaofeng, the six-headed champion, was besieged by many ministers in the court because of this article, so he could only hide in the Yang family Zhuangzi and not come out.

Then, the Ming Dynasty dared to speak the most, and Deng Zhen, the iron-faced imperial historian who had sprayed the emperor, the court, the military government, and the inner court, publicly spoke for Yang Shaofeng in the newspaper, saying that the power of the people of the Ming Dynasty should be opened up, so that the people could choose to go to the Great Wilderness or other places, such as Liaodong or Nuergandusi.

All kinds of rumors with noses and eyes are flying all over the sky, and it is not clear where they came out, and they slowly spread more and more evilly, until March of the twenty-third year of Yongle, which was spread for several months, and the whole court was also talking for several months before the curtain finally came to an end:

Emperor Zhu Laosi of the Ming Dynasty was arbitrary, allowing the people to go to sea and immigrate to the Great Wilderness, and like Liaodong and Nuergandusi, each person could get a hundred acres of Yongye field, and whatever was in the field belonged to the people themselves.

The last sentence, no matter what is in Yongye Field, belongs to the people themselves, which immediately attracted everyone's attention - if it is an ordinary fertile land, do you need to specially mark such a sentence?

!

Like the original Di Bao, as the mouthpiece of the court today, every sentence and word on it is worth repeating repeatedly!

If the news in the newspaper is just a fire, then a few small officials in Shuntianfu resigned and did not do it, and the thing that asked to go to sea to go to the Great Wilderness was to pour a barrel of oil on this fire - "Go to the Great Wilderness and dig gold mines!" ”

These six words seem to have an inexplicable attraction, those who have not yet been allocated land, those who think that their families have too little land, or simply feel that their families are too poor and want to fight for wealth and wealth, they all rush to the government to register for immigration.

……

In the Wenhua Palace, Xia Yuanji felt that his heart was aching now, and he was happy.

Because there are more than 100,000 people who want to migrate to the great wilderness.

But if you want to transport 100,000 people to the Great Wilderness, even if you count all the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, you can only transport 20,000 people at a time, and it will take two and a half years to send these people over according to the calculation of transporting them twice a year.

And that's just an ideal data that stays on paper.

The responsibility of the treasure ship is not only to relocate the people, but also to distribute food, seeds, farm tools, cattle and sheep to the people, which also need to be transported by the treasure ship.

In addition, the minerals on the Great Wilderness, the silver from the Iwami Silver Mountain of the Wa Kingdom, and the tribute and trade goods of overseas feudal states also needed to be transported back and forth by treasure ships.

In this way, if you want to transport 100,000 people to the Great Wilderness, the time required is not one or two years at all, but at least three years.

Unless the household department takes out the money again and builds treasure ships on a large scale.

However, the reality is that even if Xia Yuanji is willing to pay for it, the conditions required to build a treasure ship are not so easy to meet, and it is estimated that it will take three years to wait for a large number of treasure ships to be launched.

All kinds of messy things are piled up together, and Xia Yuanji can't help but feel sad.

But happiness is also real happiness, because in a few days the first batch of immigrants will be sent to sea.

Without counting the military expenses and other revenues of the Japanese state compensation, just one Iwami Silver Mountain can make the treasury extra millions of taels of silver every year, and what if you add the gold mines of the Great Wilderness?

In the thirteenth year of Yongle, there were only eighty-six taels of gold in the treasury, and it was impossible for him to happen again, and he could straighten his waist and pole as a household secretary, and in the future, the Ming Dynasty would build a road if he wanted to, and he would build a bridge if he wanted to!

Well, add dinner and eat an extra steamed bun!

Thinking that he was going to eat one more steamed bun at night, Xia Yuanji's heart was faintly reluctant - he blamed the emperor, if it weren't for the emperor being too picky, just lunch and dinner, how hard would he be so hard?

The dignified household department is still in the book, and the treatment of the working meal is not as good as those laborers on the construction site!

Bah!

Wu Zhong looked at Xia Yuanji, who was babbling inexplicably, and his face instantly became extremely ugly: "What are you talking about?" The map and mineral distribution map drawn by my Ministry of Industry are so incompatible with your Xia Lao's eyes? ”

Xia Yuanji glanced at it, and said with a smile: "How come, although this map and mineral distribution map are only a rough idea, the general situation of the Great Wilderness has been drawn, and the rest is to slowly refine and fill, how can the old man be dissatisfied?"

The old man is crazy, that bastard has found a big problem for us, but he can't come out of the Yang family's Zhuangzi, and the old man is not happy, so he unconsciously snorted. ”

Wu Zhong glanced at Xia Yuanji and ignored Xia Yuanji's nonsense - since he had Iwami Silver Mountain, who said that Yang was crazy and who are you anxious about, and now that there is a gold mine in the Great Wilderness, you are still willing to smack him?

It's really like Yang Crazy said, you are going to the grave to burn newspapers, fooling ghosts!

Seeing that Wu Zhong didn't answer his words, Xia Yuanji said to himself: "By the way, in two days, it will be the day when the first batch of immigrants will go to sea, and I don't know what the scene is like?" Do you think those immigrants can really dig for ore? ”

Wu Zhong lowered his head and flipped through the topographic map of the Great Wilderness, and replied without raising his head: "The gold and copper mines discovered so far have been marked in advance, and they can only dig up some corners and corners.

However, there are many places with gold ore and copper ore in these corners and corners left for them, but I don't know which lucky one will get to them. ”

Xia Yuanji shook his head and said, "That has nothing to do with us, it's already rare to be black enough to detain all the minerals." ”

Wu Zhong laughed and said mockingly: "Yes, the reason why these corners are left is because you Xia Laojiao also plans to create a few myths of mining and getting rich to attract more people to the Great Wilderness, you have a conscience!" ”

was ridiculed by Wu Zhong like this, even the thick-skinned Xia Yuanji couldn't help but blush, and changed the topic: "Speaking of which, there are more and more of these things now, and I feel more and more busy." ”

Wu Zhong hummed and said, "Who said it wasn't?" You say, in all dynasties, have you ever heard of a Ministry of Industry Shangshu who had to worry about a project thousands of miles away? Now you have one in front of you! ”

Lu Zhen shook his head and agreed: "The Ministry of Rites can make an exception?" You're better, what you have to worry about is just the project in the Great Wilderness, the old man, the Book of Rites, is not only the social science and imperial examination in the Great Wilderness, but also the social science in the old port. ”

After sighing, Lu Zhen continued: "Whether it's the old port or the Great Wilderness, these two places are far overseas, the government test and the township test are better, and when it comes to the meeting test and the palace test, and some of them are tossed!" ”

The official secretary Shangshu Jianyi also said with a bitter face: "How good can the official department be?" Originally, it was two capitals and thirteen provinces, but now?

Yang was crazy, that bastard slapped his brain, and made the good old port propaganda department into the old Hong Kong government, and the problems that could be solved by the old port propaganda envoy are now returned to the ministry.

What's even more annoying is that the old Hong Kong government can't be regarded as a government at all, but should be upgraded to the old Hong Kong political envoy, and the Great Wilderness will be divided into nine political envoys, and the original Nanjing will be changed to Zhongjing, and then set up a Nanjing from the Great Wilderness.

The good two capitals and thirteen provinces have become three capitals and twenty-three provinces, and the old man is now losing his hair one by one! ”

Chen Qia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also had a bad look at the same time: "Isn't the bad things in the Ministry of War less than yours?" Now it seems that the Criminal Department is the most relaxed! ”

Seeing that the firepower was inexplicably concentrated on himself, Jin Chun, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, also changed: "The Criminal Department is the most relaxed? It's just nonsense! All the manpower of the Criminal Department is now concentrating on sorting out the files of previous years, isn't it just to distribute prisoners to the Great Wilderness? ”

After thinking about it, Jin Chun felt that compared with the other ministries and the military government, the Criminal Department was indeed the most relaxed one, and suddenly couldn't help but gloat a little: "By the way, then Yang said that he was found in the Great Wilderness according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", but the old man remembered that there was more than one great wilderness in this "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and King Zhao said last time that he was going to find another new continent?"

Tsk, now that a great wilderness has made you like this, then if you wait for King Zhao and Yang to find a new continent similar to the great wilderness......"

Xia Yuanji's face suddenly changed: "Even if there is a gold mine, it can't work!"

Now there are still so many empty places in Liaodong and Nuergandusi, and I don't know how many years it will take for the great wilderness to be filled, where will the old man get so many people for him to go to the new continent? ”

Wu Zhong shook his head with a smile and said: "I heard that the Great Wilderness is full of minerals, and there are many high-yield grains on the New World, so that I don't have to worry about famine anymore." ”

Xia Yuanji's face changed again: "Then you still have to find what you should find, let the people of Daming have more children, and there will be people." ”

Xia Yuanji's words fell, and several bigwigs in the Wenhua Hall suddenly burst into laughter.

Wu Zhong shook his head and said: "Zhuangyuan Gong is right, no one can escape the law of Shixiang!" ”

Zhu Laosi, who had been looking at the recital, also laughed, shook his head, and then suddenly said, "I have a matter, but I want to discuss it with Zhongqing." ”