The per capita expenditure of the Guangzhou Squadron should have been less than half of that of the Qiongzhou Squadron, but the reported accounts were only so much less, and it seems that many people in the South China Sea Naval Division were corrupt. Go back and let Jinyiwei check to see who is corrupting. Yun thought about it first.

He secretly wrote down the matter in his mind and began to think about what was in front of him.

"Just now I asked Aiqing why the people in other places are reluctant to migrate to Qiongzhou, why don't you say this?" Yun asked.

"Your Majesty," Li Shuli said, "Although the people of other places would not be willing to migrate over if they knew that Qiongzhou was rich and expensive, how could ordinary people in other places know about such a thing? Therefore, the minister did not include it in the reason why the people of other places were unwilling to migrate to Qiongzhou. Li Shuli said seriously.

Yun glanced at him, but didn't speak. Well, Li Shuli's idea can't be said to be wrong, but it is problematic to answer like this when the superior leader asks. Yun is magnanimous and will not take this matter to heart, if an emperor who is not magnanimous asks him to answer like this, Li Shuli's future future is estimated to stop at Zhengsipin.

Yun took his thoughts back to the matter in front of him, thought about it for a moment, and asked him a lot about the local situation in Qiongzhou, and took out a map of Qiongzhou and talked while comparing it.

Finally, Yun thought about it for a while, it was almost noon, and said: "Now it seems that the reason why the people of Qiongzhou are not very wealthy, but one of the most important points is that everything here cannot be produced by itself and needs to be transported from the mainland. ”

"Therefore, I decided to relocate hundreds of families of various craftsmen and settle them in Qiongzhou City, Danzhou City, Yazhou City and Wanzhou City, so that the local people can produce many items themselves, and the price of the province remains high."

"In addition, I also want to change the Yangpu Port in Danzhou to a dual-use port for military and civilian use, and allow past Ming merchants to stop here."

Finally, Yun thought about it for a while, it was almost noon, and said: "Now it seems that the reason why the people of Qiongzhou are not very wealthy, but one of the most important points is that everything here cannot be produced by itself and needs to be transported from the mainland. ”

"Therefore, I decided to relocate hundreds of families of various craftsmen and settle them in Qiongzhou City, Danzhou City, Yazhou City and Wanzhou City, so that the local people can produce many items themselves, and the price of the province remains high."

"In addition, I also want to change the Yangpu Port in Danzhou to a dual-use port for military and civilian use, and allow past Ming merchants to stop here."

"Your Majesty, it is a good deed to move many craftsmen to Qiongzhou Mansion, and the people of Qiongzhou Mansion will definitely be very grateful to Your Majesty; However, Yangpu Port in Danzhou was originally a military port, and if the people were allowed to use it at will, I am afraid it would not be appropriate. Li Xuliang said. Yangpu Port was built with the help of the manpower and material resources he organized in Qiongzhou Prefecture, and he was very familiar with it, so after hearing Yun's words, he knew what the situation was without looking at the map, and immediately raised objections.

"There are many wharves in a port, and of course the sailors will not mix the wharves with the people and merchants, nor will they allow any ordinary merchants to enter the wharves, even the families of the sailors and soldiers." Yun explained.

"But, Your Majesty, why do you allow the people and merchants to use the port?" Li Xuliang asked again.

Yun sighed in his heart Li Xuliang, you are too axis, and had to say: "I think that the reason why Qiongzhou is expensive is that even compared with Leizhou Mansion, which is also unable to produce many items, the price of goods is much higher, in addition to its remote location and local poverty, but also because it only had one port in Haikou Port before to transport goods from the mainland, and the roads on the island are not convenient, so it is so." We can alleviate this situation by opening the Yangpu port in Danzhou for the use of the people, and by adding another port on the west coast of Qiongzhou Island that can be used to transport goods. ”

"And the only people who transport goods must be merchants, so it is natural that merchants should be allowed to use the port." He roughly explained.

But the real reason is, of course, not only because of this.

Yun successively talked with Li Jiqian and Li Xuliang, and read the report submitted by the local Jinyi Wei in Qiongzhou before, combined with what he saw in later generations, he felt that he probably understood why Qiongzhou was not very developed.

First of all, of course, because of its remote location, it belongs to the border of Chinese civilization; The consequence of this is that few people are willing to migrate here, and this is not the place where Chinese civilization began, so it is sparsely populated; The sparsely populated population meant that there were not enough markets, and because of the remoteness of the area, it was difficult to access markets elsewhere, so commerce and handicrafts were lagging behind. This creates a vicious circle that has not been able to develop. These reasons may not be the whole cause, but they are certainly one of the most important.

What Yun did was first to let the local area have a certain handicraft industry and reduce the price of goods through state support; The second is to provide policies according to local advantages and local conditions to develop business here.

If you want to talk about the advantages of Qiongzhou, the first thing that most people in later generations think of should be the beautiful environment and beautiful scenery, but this is not an advantage in this era. As the old saying goes, there are clouds and poor families, and the people who have the ability to go and are willing to travel to other places in this era do not even have one ten-thousandth of the total population of the country, and most of the people who are less than one in 10,000 also go to Yangzhou in "fireworks in March", Suzhou and Hangzhou in Suzhou, "there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou", Luoyang, Xi'an, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Shudu, the land of abundance, and now the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the first city in the world, except for the people who have to go to Qiongzhou due to job transfers, even the extremely famous Xu Xiake in history has not come to Qiongzhou.

The real advantage of Qiongzhou at this time is its geographical location. Qiongzhou is located in the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, which was a great disadvantage in the era when the maritime trade routes were not developed, but in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it has become an advantage.

In this era, although there were already routes from the Dashi Peninsula to Daming, the navigation technology was still unable to resist natural disasters, a typhoon could wipe out the entire fleet, and there was no weather forecast all up to the captain's experience, so most of the fleets sailed along the coastline.

In this way, the advantages of Qiongzhou Island are revealed. Most of the fleets that sailed from the Western Ocean to Daming sailed directly to Champa after passing through Malacca, which later became southern Vietnam, and followed the coastline north to the Gulf of Tonkin and east to the coastline of Daming after passing Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, there is another route to Daming after Manraka, that is, from Polozhong (Singapore) to Borneo (Kalimantan Island), along the northern coastline of Borneo through Palawan Island, the Philippine Islands across the Bass Strait, through Taiwan Island to the coastline of Daming. Even historically, although Zheng He's fleet did not have many ports on the way, it was also these two routes.

The other line doesn't care about it, and the first line will inevitably pass through Qiongzhou. And the vast majority of the fleet does not have large ships like Zheng He's fleet, and there must be more ports that need to be anchored on the way. With the opening of Yangpu Port in Danzhou, they can stop at Yangpu Port to replenish grain and vegetables; At the same time, because Yangpu Port has become a dual-use port, there will also be some merchants who come here to do business, so that the local commerce can also rise, coupled with the initial establishment of handicrafts, thus forming a positive cycle and promoting the economic development here.

This is very similar to the development model of Singapore in later generations. Located at the choke point of the Manraka Strait, Singapore has adopted active measures to attract ships passing through it, making it one of the most developed cities in the entire Orient. The geographical location of Qiongzhou is not as good as Singapore, coupled with the gap between the times, the effect is certainly not as good as Singapore, but it will definitely be effective.

Yun even wants to open more ports here to attract passing ships to stop, but now the only large ports built in the entire Qiongzhou Prefecture are Haikou Port in Fucheng and Yangpu Port in Danzhou, and the rest of the ports are now too small to even make it difficult for the Qiongzhou Detachment of the South China Sea Navy Division to stop the whole army, and it cannot be opened for civilian use, and Haikou Port was originally used for both military and civilian purposes, and he has no port to open, so it can only be so.

"Li Aiqing, you must combine with the sailor yamen to complete the construction of Changhua Port as soon as possible." Yun suddenly instructed Li Xuliang to instruct. Changhua Port is a military port under construction, located in the south of Yangpu Port, according to the plan, it will be the third largest port in Qiongzhou after completion, and it can also be opened up for military and civilian use.

'I have to tell the local sailor yamen when I go back. Yun thought again.

At the same time, Yun looked at the east coast of Qiongzhou. Now all the large ports under construction are on the west coast, and Yun doesn't know why, but it seems that there are many typhoons on the east coast and few typhoons on the west coast. Either way, he felt that there should be such a port on the East Coast. But he watched for a long time, and then studied the twists and turns of the sailor's yamen, and found that all the ports on the east coast were not large, and they were all under construction, so he had to give up.

decided on this matter, Yun's purpose of meeting Li Xuliang today had been achieved, and because it was already noon, Li Xuliang got up and wanted to bow and retreat.

Yun was just about to return the gift, but suddenly thought of something and said, "Li Aiqing is slow." ”

Li Xuliang straightened up with a puzzled face, and listened to him say again: "I suddenly thought that the name Qiongzhou is too unlucky, isn't this a curse that the people here have been poor?" The name must be changed. ”

"I wonder why His Majesty wants to change?" Li Xuliang asked.

"Do you have a good name?" Yun asked.

"The minister didn't dare to name this house, and asked His Majesty to show it." Li Xuliang bowed and said.

"In that case, I will give this place a name." Yun said: "This place is located in the south of the Ming Dynasty, the south of the sea, and it will be renamed Hainan in the future." ”

He immediately ordered someone to call in Hu Yan, a scholar who was guarding the side room, and instructed him to draft this holy decree, and after a while the holy decree was drafted, he transcribed several copies, and allowed him to take out eleven copies and give them to Li Xuliang, so that he could keep one copy for himself and distribute the rest to the prefectures and counties of Hainan Prefecture, and send the rest to the post stations and send them to all parts of the country.

After Li Xuliang, Hu Yan and the others retreated, Yun stood up and stretched his waist, and said to himself: "I have also benefited the people, although it seems that this should be the matter of the magistrate and should not be taken care of by me personally, but who makes other people not have this vision?" I can only reluctantly do such a thing myself. ”

With that, he put on his coat and left the outer study and walked towards the backyard of the palace.

As soon as he walked out of the outer study, Huang Lu whispered in his ear: "Your Majesty, Li Yanshi stayed in the courtyard of Concubine Yun Niangniang in the backyard for an hour, and he left Niangniang's courtyard half an hour ago, and he did not speak to any palace maid eunuch on the way to and fro. ”

Yun nodded, walked to the backyard, and came to the dining hall in a short time. At this time, Li Sha'er was already waiting here, and when she saw Yun walking in, she immediately bowed and said coquettishly: "The husband is finally here, and the concubines are hungry." ”

"Are you hungry? That's not good, it's not good to make my concubine hungry and thin," Yun Ye joked with her: "Huang Lu, you go to the kitchen immediately to announce the decree, if they have any meals that can be made quickly, they will serve a meal for Sha'er immediately." ”

"Husband," Li Sha'er said with a smile, "Although the concubine is hungry, she hasn't reached this yet." ”

"Then too," Yun said deliberately, "I can't starve my concubine." If I lose weight where I shouldn't, then I'm going to be sad. As he spoke, he made a gesture of grasping something with both hands.

"Husband, you're so bad." Li Sha'er's face flushed slightly and said, "How can anyone say such a thing in broad daylight." ”

"Concubine Ai is right, I won't say it during the day, I will say it at night in the future." Yun smiled.

Li Sha'er teased him a few more words, and the soup before the meal had been delivered, and the two of them sat down and talked while drinking the soup.

"Husband, I heard that you only talked to Jiqian for an hour, and he left? You haven't seen each other for half a year, so you should have a lot to say, why did you only say it for such a short time? Yun asked.

"Your Majesty, although the concubine and her brother have not seen each other for half a year, all the brother can say in the past half a year is nothing more than the war with Annan, and the concubines don't like to hear these things; The only things that the concubine can say to her brother are some trivial things that happened in Beijing and the affairs of the brother's family and the two children of the concubine, and there is nothing to say. ”

"And His Majesty has gathered the soldiers of Lianzhou, Leizhou, and Qiongzhou, and the ships of the sailors will all take turns to fight to clear the ships of the Annanes, and the brother of the concubine will have something to do in the afternoon, and it is inconvenient to stay for a long time. So the concubine let him retire after talking to him for an hour. Li Sha'er said.

The first reason she said was lying. She really didn't want to listen to Li Jiqian talk about the war, but the first parents almost put their hearts on their children. Because she cared about her children, she even asked Xi Yao for permission to send letters from her courtyard every day before leaving, so that she could know about her children's situation. If Yun hadn't personally ordered her to follow, her two children would have been more than half a year, and she wouldn't have eaten her milk, she would definitely not have followed Yun Nan. They never finished chatting with others about their children, how could Li Shaer and Li Jiqian have 'nothing to say'?

The second reason is the real one. Now that the war is going on, it is inconvenient for Li Jiqian to engage in specializationAlthough everyone understands the existence of privileges, it is one thing to use privileges in peacetime, and it is another thing to use privileges at critical moments in war. Li Sha'er thought about Li Jiqian's development in the army, so she didn't keep him for too long, and just said something for an hour before letting him retreat.

However, although Yun has been a father more than a dozen times, because of his special identity is different from ordinary people, and because he has too many children, he doesn't know much about the feelings of first-time parents, so he accepted her reason.

However, Li Sha'er was still apprehensive, so she immediately changed the topic and said: "Speaking of which, Sister Xue's eldest brother is also in the Shui Division, and now he is also stationed in this area, if Sister Xue can also come over, she can also reunite with her brother." ”

"Yes, if Xiyi also comes over, she can meet and talk to Ran." Yun said: "But she fell into witchcraft a few days ago, although she will be raised for a few days, she is still a little weak, if she continues to take the boat to the south, I am afraid it will not be good for her health, so she can only stay in Guangzhou Mansion to recuperate." ”

"It's a shame."