"Do you have to go to sea?"

In the wooden pavilion by the lake pond in Shitaizhuang, Zhu Yijun looked at Shi Yiwen, and after learning that he had returned to the capital, he immediately rushed to Shitaizhuang in a hurry.

"Hmm!"

Nodding, Shi Yiyan smiled.

"This sea always has to go out, after all, no one else knows about it except me, and they don't know where to set up the trading station."

"You can tell someone!"

As soon as his words fell, Zhu Yijun said with some eagerness.

"After all, the risk of going to sea is very big, it's better not to go to sea, I read someone wrote in the book, going to sea is a risk of death, Zhiyuan, I ...... As a friend like you, I don't want any accidents for you, and as for the money, it doesn't matter how much you earn......"

Listening to Zhu Yijun's sincere words, Shi Yiwen's heart couldn't help but be a little moved, after all, he was the emperor, and it was rare to be able to say such a thing.

"Mingzhi, this Nanyang still has to go down after all, as for safety, don't worry, the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the West several times back then, and there was no risk, right? Besides, this trip to Nanyang is not just a matter of earning some silver, but it is related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, so no matter what, I must go there in person! ”

"The foundation of eternity? What does this mean? ”

Zhu Yijun wondered.

"Outcasts!"

Looking at the little emperor, Shi Yiwen spit out two words.

"The problem of displaced people in all dynasties and dynasties is endless, especially in the peaceful and prosperous era, there are both powerful and powerful people annexing land, and there are people breeding, more people and less land will naturally have the people become homeless, and the emergence of a large number of displaced people has increased the factors of social instability, and the people have been displaced, and they have taken risks and become thieves. Therefore, since Emperor Taizu, my Ming Dynasty will try to resettle displaced people as much as possible, give land, plough cattle, and let them settle back to their hometowns, but now there is land in the court to settle displaced people? For example, most of the displaced people in Shaanxi, Henan and other places fled to the Jingxiang Mountains to reclaim the mountains for a living, and if there were Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's people among them, sedition, it would definitely endanger the ...... of the Ming Dynasty."

Although he is young, Zhu Yijun naturally understands the seriousness of the problem of displaced people, after all, this is what all emperors of the Ming Dynasty must learn, and it is also specifically mentioned in the Emperor's ancestral training, after all, Emperor Taizu himself is a beggar and a homeless, so he naturally knows what will be born among the homeless.

"What's the connection with Nanyang?"

"It's a big connection!"

Seeing that Zhu Yijun was a little confused, Shi Yiwen explained.

"Ming Zhi doesn't know, Nanyang is different from my Ming Dynasty, my Ming land has been reclaimed for thousands of years, and the land available for reclamation is already very little, but all parts of Nanyang are sparsely populated, where the rivers are dense, the four seasons are like summer, if you can send immigrants to the local reclamation of farmland, planting rice, you can harvest three seasons of rice a year, like the banks of the Mekong River, if you reclaim it, it only takes decades, you can become another Jiangnan, become the granary of my Ming Dynasty."

When referring to the granary, Shi Yiwen continued.

"The old saying often says that the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, when the Sui Dynasty built the Grand Canal, it was the rice grain in the south of the Yangtze River that was transported to the north, but the grain in the south of the Yangtze River was not enough for my own use, because the world was peaceful, and the population of the south of the Yangtze River was growing day by day, so to my dynasty there was a saying that "the lake is ripe and the world is full", the Huguang rice grain replaced the rice grain in the south of the Yangtze River, even if it was Jiangnan, it was necessary to buy millions of stone rice grains from Huguang every year, but Mingzhi, if we look forward, in the Qin and Han dynasties, Jiangnan was a bad place where the plague was rampant, and the Jin Dynasty was clothed in the south. Millions of northerners in order to escape the Wuhu into the south of the Yangtze River, only then there was the prosperity of the south of the Yangtze River, as for Huguang, in the Song Dynasty was also rampant with miasma and plague, until the Southern Song Dynasty began to develop for immigrants, to our dynasty, Huguang replaced the south of the Yangtze River to become the new "land of fish and rice", but what about the future? ”

sighed at the changes in the mulberry fields and seas in the world, and after asking rhetorically, Shi Yiwen looked at the little emperor with a solemn expression.

"Now Huguang is more and more populated, and eventually it will be as dense and narrow as Jiangnan. When the grain produced by Huguang is only enough for local consumption, Jiangnan, which depends on Huguang rice grain, will inevitably see rising grain prices, famine everywhere, and even cannibalism......

This is of course alarmist, after all, Shi Yiwen took out potatoes, corn and other high-yield crops from the warehouse, these crops can grow normally on the slopes of the mountains without picking the ground, which is enough to feed more people, but now he needs more than these, what he needs is to direct the eyes of the little emperor overseas.

Zhu Yijun, who is familiar with history books, knows very well that in the three "well-dressed southern crossings" in history, from the "Yongjia Rebellion" to the "Jingkang Shame", millions of Han people crossed the river from the north to the south of the Yangtze River, so that the center of gravity of the world shifted from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River! Although there is not much mention of such a great change in the mulberry field and the sea in the history books, everyone can feel those great changes from those few words.

"Are you saying that in the future, Nanyang will become another Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Mingzhi, like Java Island, the land is far more fertile than Jiangnan, as for the Mekong River Basin is also a place with fertile water and soil, but now it is sparsely populated, if there are immigrants to cultivate, it is easier to produce two or three stone of rice grain per mu, there is no four seasons, the year is summer, the high yield of three crops a year, as long as someone cultivates it, it becomes another lake, another Jiangnan, it is just a matter of time."

Someone has to do it, of course!

As long as there are people, Nanyang will become another Jiangnan, become another land of fish and rice, maybe there are such and such deficiencies in the local area, but those can be overcome, after all, in another time and space, Southeast Asia has always been the world's most important rice exporter, at the beginning of the 20th century, Southeast Asia is known as the granary of Asia - French Central South, Thailand, Dutch East Indies and Myanmar, exporting tens of millions of tons of rice every year. Maybe for now, those rice are not important to the Ming Dynasty, but what about decades later? Especially with the arrival of the Xiaoice Age, after the drought and cold in the north led to a reduction in grain production in various places, how can Daming's food security be guaranteed?

These problems may not be visible to people in this era, but Shi Yiwen must take all this into account, and of course, he also needs to take into account the millions of displaced people in the north when the Xiaoice River arrives a few decades later, and those displaced people are not absorbed by the factories of this era. If you want to settle them, Southeast Asia is the best choice.

"However, the sea route is indeed very risky!"

"Risk? There is no risk if you have nautical charts! ”

Looking at the little emperor, Shi Yiwen said with a smile.

"Isn't there a chart of the Three Treasure Eunuchs in the palace!"