The idea of going to Southeast Asia to farm is very good, but Zhang Lingyang also understands that now is not the right time. For example, Myanmar, Annam and other Southeast Asian countries are nominally vassal states of the Great Zhou, but they are only in name.

In fact, the Great Zhou was only the nominal suzerainty of these countries, but it did not station troops in its country or interfere in its national affairs, so it was not a good time to move people to Southeast Asia at this time.

At present, the focus of Zhang Lingyang's attention is on the purchase of land by the people in full swing throughout the country, and the other is the establishment of municipal shipping divisions in several coastal ports.

As the land of the gentry was forced to be transferred, the gentry in the coastal provinces of Jiangnan, Liangguang and other coastal provinces set their sights on the hot maritime trade business.

Needless to say, if the city is not sound, the tax revenue that Da Zhou will lose every year is not a small amount.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang selected a group of students majoring in finance and accounting from the students who were about to graduate from the Royal Academy to fill the city. On the other hand, since the city shipping department must be sound, the maritime inspection team must also be sound.

Within a few days, Zhang Lingyang issued an order to select tens of thousands of outstanding soldiers from all over the country to go to Tianjin Wei to undergo a three-month training by the Royal Navy.

At the same time, the private fleet also began to be built.

At present, the shipyard of Tianjin Wei is making every effort to build the warships of the Royal Navy, and there is no time to spare at all, and there are not enough personnel to build private ships for the city.

However, the Royal Academy has already begun to design the private boat.

Unlike regular warships, the firepower requirements of private ships are not so high, and at the same time, they are not as big as battleships, and in general the difficulty is much smaller than that of warships.

But this does not mean that there is no difficulty in designing the private boat, there is still a certain degree of difficulty, that is, the speed of the private ship is faster, and it is faster than the speed of most sea ships.

Otherwise, it would have become a joke if the smuggling team found the smuggling ship at sea and could not catch up with it.

At the same time, Zhang Lingyang also set out to build a shipyard in Jiangnan and Guangdong, and then purchased high-quality wood from Southeast Asia to build warships.

In fact, in the entire Great Zhou, there were not many timbers that could build warships. Except for some high-quality timber in Liaodong, which has just begun to be developed, there is simply no sufficient amount of high-quality timber in the mainland.

Zhang Lingyang does not plan to log on a large scale in eastern Liaodong, so he can only aim at Southeast Asia.

In fact, the Siberian region that the Great Zhou had just obtained from the Rus' State was full of high-quality timber, but the distance was too far away, and the gains outweighed the losses in transportation alone, so the idea of fighting Southeast Asia had to be attacked.

The distance between the two Guangxi and Southeast Asia is already close, and even the Jiangnan region, which is a little far away from Southeast Asia, also has a developed shipping system, so there is no need to worry about transportation.

As for the technical aspect, with European experts as the leading and graduating students as technicians, Zhang Lingyang thinks that it is enough.

Although most of the students of the Royal Academy have little experience, Zhang Lingyang has time, and it does not mean that he has to build a qualified warship within a certain period of time.

In the early stage, it is natural to let these recent graduates accumulate experience.

There are a lot of things, and none of them are not for Zhang Lingyang to worry about.

Regarding the matter of industrialization, there is indeed no one in the DPRK and China who can share the burden for Zhang Lingyang. These ministers, who looked down on Europe and did not want to understand it, were naturally very resistant to industrialized things.

"Do I want to find someone to share the pressure on me?" Sometimes when he has insomnia, Zhang Lingyang will have such thoughts in his mind.

is busy and exhausted every day, which makes Zhang Lingyang, who is used to a lazy life, very unaccustomed.

The ministers are unwilling to support themselves, and sometimes even work against themselves, Zhang Lingyang naturally can't count on them.

Xungui and the eunuchs in the palace are all interested in themselves, but Xungui are a bunch of big bosses, and they don't say a word when they let them fight, but let them engage in these small things, I'm afraid that no one has such patience. Besides, the matter is handed over to Xungui, and Zhang Lingyang is still worried that they will mess things up.

As for the eunuchs in the palace, one-tenth of them are literate, and Zhang Lingyang can't count on them.

For no reason, Zhang Lingyang remembered Zhou Chang, Li Tai, and Zhu Yang of the first class of Enke in the second year of Tai'an.

If I remember correctly, the three of them now hold the positions of Yangzhou prefect, Jiangning prefect and Hangzhou prefect respectively.

It's been two or three years now, and it's time to transfer them to the capital.

At breakfast the next day, Zhang Lingyang asked Xiaofuzi about the recent situation of Zhou Chang and the three of them, and after knowing that the three of them had done good things in office in the past two years, he didn't say more, Zhang Lingyang directly ordered Xiaofuzi to transfer these three people to the capital.

Originally, Zhang Lingyang wanted to assign these three people to the six departments, but after thinking about it, these three people had low qualifications, and they were afraid that they would cause jealousy and exclusion from their colleagues, so they were not assigned to the six departments.

Besides, Zhang Lingyang transferred these three people to the capital to share his pressure, once they entered the sixth department, their own work was very busy, how could they have the time and energy to share the pressure on themselves?

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang set up another department, called the Confidential Department, and Zhou Chang and the three served as Zhang Lingyang's confidential secretaries.

Of course, Zhang Lingyang's position as a confidential secretary will not be set too high, just according to their current official position, no one will give them a half-level promotion.

Although Zhang Lingyang is full of expectations for Zhou Chang, Li Tai, and Zhu Yang, Zhang Lingyang really can't say whether these three people can be qualified for the position of confidential secretary.

In the end, Zhou Chang and the three grew up reading sage books, so what is the same view of the West in their hearts? No one knows but themselves.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, time unconsciously entered the winter.

With the arrival of winter, the affairs of the DPRK and China have gradually decreased, and Zhang Lingyang finally has more leisure here.

It is a good thing to have leisure, so that Zhang Lingyang has enough time to go to the harem and exchange feelings with the concubines, and then make due contributions to the development of the royal family.

On this day, after being busy for most of the day, Zhang Lingyang got up and came to Changchun Palace, and saw Queen Wang sitting there with a sad brow, looking like she was in a hurry.

"Queen, what's wrong with you? Is there something on your mind? Zhang Lingyang sat directly beside Queen Wang, took Queen Wang's hand and asked.

Queen Wang nodded and said, "Your Majesty, in a month it will be the 60th birthday of the queen mother, and the concubines are worried about this matter!" ”

"What's there to worry about? Can't you just order the people below to do it according to the usual practice? Zhang Lingyang said disappreciably......