With Xiao Zhuo's activities, the matter of the Ming Dynasty's recruitment of merchants with the army spread in the southeast coastal areas, and more and more merchants knew about it.

Most of these businessmen were ready to try their luck in Annam. In these years, there was no one who dared to do business at sea, and countless people gathered their own ships, and the powerful merchants sailed directly to the sea off Annam, while the weak merchants temporarily formed a group with people with good relations and rushed to Guangzhou to explore the direction of the wind.

There are also a small number of businessmen who feel that their current business profits are already very high, and it is not worth delaying their business for the sake of how much money they can make, and they do not go to Annam.

However, none of this has anything to do with Yun now, and he forgot about it for the time being after he instructed Xiao Zhuo. Anyway, with Xiao Zhuo here, at least the businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will pass by, and the businessmen in the Liangguang and Fujian areas will not be able to ask what is going on when they see a large number of businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang running over. When they learn the truth of the matter, they will also go to the sea off Annam to try their luck.

After dropping off Xiao Zhuo at Jiaxing, Yun's fleet continued southward and arrived in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, at the end of September. He stayed in Fuzhou for another day, first, to rest the ship, and second, Zhu Wenzheng's brother-in-law, Wang Kegong, who is now the uncle of Zhu Zanyi, the king of Jingjiang, and now serves as the commander of the Fuzhou Guard. It's a relative, so I can see it.

But it's just a matter of seeing. Wang Kegong is also in his sixties and nearly seventy this year, and he is not a very good general, even if he wants to go to the battlefield, he doesn't dare to let him go. What's more, people feel that they are living a good life in Fujian now, and they are not willing to go to the battlefield.

After seeing Wang Kegong, Yun continued to move forward. In mid-October, the fleet sailed to the mouth of the Pearl River and was about to reach its first destination.

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"Yang Ren, the political envoy of the minister Guangzuo (the envoy of the Maritime Affairs Institute and the secretary of Bao'an City, Zhang Yanfang) has seen Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Yang Ren and Zhang Yanfang, who were allowed to be sent to Guangzhou at the end of Jianye's second year, knelt down and said when Yun slowly walked down from the boat. As the two of them knelt down, all the people who greeted Yun behind them knelt down.

Yun walked down with a smile and said to them, "You Aiqing don't have to be polite, get up." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Yang Ren and Zhang Yan said and stood up after kowtowing again. The officials behind them kowtowed a few times according to their rank and then stood up in turn.

Yun waited for them to stand up, and smiled at Yang Ren: "Why did Yang Qing make it so grand!" I came to Bao'an City today, not Guangzhou City, there are officials from Bao'an City to greet me, why did Yang Qing bring all the officials of the Guangdong Political Envoy Department over. Yun probably counted the number of officials present, and felt that even if the Bao'an City Department counted all the officials who had not entered the stream, it would not be enough to make up so many people, so he guessed that Yang Ren brought all the officials of the Political Envoy Department over.

"Your Majesty, although this is Bao'an City, not Guangzhou City, it is also a place under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, the ministers are the political envoys of Guangbu, and these officials are the people of the political envoys of Guangbu, and they have come to greet them from now on." Yang Rendao.

But his fart slapped on the horse's leg. Yun frowned, and said: "The Yamen of the Political Envoy Department is in Guangzhou, and you can just come to Bao'an to greet it, it is very inappropriate to bring many officials of the Political Envoy Department here, don't do it next time." He considered that Yang Ren had worked hard for more than a year, so he did not severely reprimand.

When Yang Ren heard this, he also knew that his horse had been patted, but after all, he had been an official for many years, and he still said with an unchanged face: "Yes, Your Majesty, this time it is the minister Meng Lang." Then he immediately ordered a few words to the officials who belonged to the Hirofu Political Envoy Department behind him. After a while, all of them left.

At this time, the officials of the Bao'an City Bo Division also returned to the Yamen, Yang Ren and Zhang Yanfang were beside Yun on the left and right, accompanying him to the Yamen of the City Ship Division, while talking about the situation of the Bao'an City Ship Division; Dozens of guards surrounded the three of them in a circle.

By the time he arrived at the Yamen of the City Division, Zhang Yanfang had already told him about the situation here, and after sitting down in the Yamen, Yun had nothing to ask.

However, Yun still rewarded Zhang Yanfang with a few words. In less than two years, the tariffs of Bao'an City have exceeded two-thirds of those of Shanghai City, and there is a tendency to continue to catch up.

After Zhang Yanfang thanked him, Yun asked casually: "What is the problem with Bao'an City now?" He felt that there was nothing worth telling him about the development of Shanghai City for so many years, so he just asked casually.

But he didn't expect that there was really a problem to report to him. "Your Majesty, now there is indeed a question in Bao'an City that needs to be decided by Your Majesty." Zhang Yanfang said.

"What does it take me to decide? You are both the secretary of Bao'an City and the envoy of the Maritime Affairs Academy, and I have handed over all the matters related to the city of the city to you, can't you deal with it? Yun was a little curious about what was going on. In addition to expanding the number of police officers in the city, as long as he can ensure that the tariffs continue to rise, Yun will not interfere although he must understand everything; Zhang Yanfang has also been in the Yamen of the City Department for more than four years, and he knows this very well, what is it that makes him unable to make his own decisions?

"Your Majesty, this matter can't be completely counted as a matter of the City Ship Division, but because the only Yamen who is in contact with foreign merchants now is the City Ship Division, Zhang Yan will report to His Majesty." Yang Ren said.

"What the hell is going on?" Yun asked again with more curiosity.

"Your Majesty, it's a few businessmen from the outside who have asked for naturalization."

"I didn't encounter such a thing when I was in Shanghai before, but just last month, a few foreign businessmen suddenly asked to settle in Daming and become Daming people." Zhang Yanfang said.

"Huh? How could a foreign businessman do this? Yun was a little surprised, but also a little relieved. Surprised because he thought that these merchants were running around all year round, what was the point of becoming the people of the Ming Dynasty? You know, the current policy of the Ming Dynasty is to allow foreign merchants to settle in the two cities for a long time, but they are not allowed to go to other cities, if they just take their families over to seek stability, just settle in the city, there is no need to become the people of the Ming Dynasty. Now there are some foreign businessmen who have moved their families to Shanghai and plan to live in Shanghai. What's more, after really becoming a citizen of Daming, although it is convenient to move in Daming, there are more taxes to pay, and there are also conscriptions, so it is better to just settle in the city.

Happily, it is also because these businessmen run around all year round and want to become the people of the Ming Dynasty. There are foreigners who want to immigrate to the Ming Dynasty, which is the treatment that only the economic power of later generations can have. Although he didn't like many people to immigrate to the Ming Dynasty, it was a symbol of development after all.

'Isn't it time for a formal immigration bill?' Yun thought about it and asked, "Have you asked them why they want to become the people of the Great Ming?" ”

"Your Majesty, the ministers have asked, they claim that the original country is in turmoil, and the Ming Dynasty is stable, so they want to become the people of the Ming Dynasty." Zhang Yanfang replied.