The imperial court issued a holy decree to regain the love and quickly sent an envoy to Zhoushan.

Although Chen Yue said not long ago that he had captured Dongfan Island and expelled the Dutch, he did not say that he himself was also on Dongfan Island, and now that the Chinese New Year was approaching, the imperial court instinctively thought that Chen Yue should be in the fiefdom of Zhoushan.

In charge of delivering the decree was a eunuch named Zheng Xin, one of the celebrants' inner eunuchs, escorted by a team of brocade guards. First rode to Zhenjiang, and then took a boat along the canal to Hangzhou, and then enlisted a naval ship in Hangzhou, and went straight to Zhoushan, the urgency of the imperial court's conscription, the envoy did not dare to slack off, and when he arrived at Zhoushan Island, it happened to be the day of the Spring Festival.

However, what shocked Zheng Xin, the eunuch who passed the decree, was that Chen Yue, the Duke of Qi, was not on Zhoushan Island. And the person in charge of Zhoushan Island is only the head of a national government, named Zhang Chengkai.

"The matter is urgent, may I ask where the old man of Qi Guogong is now?" Zheng Xin eagerly asked Zhang Chengkai, who welcomed him ashore.

"Grandpa Guo has just conquered Dongfan Island, because the climate there is warmer than Zhoushan, so he decided to spend the New Year in Dongfan, so he summoned the people of Guogong Mansion there. If the Holy Envoy wishes, he can send a ship to take you to the East, which will take about ten days. ”

Zhang Chengkai said respectfully, what he said was the truth. After conquering Dongfan Island, the resettlement of Shandong immigrants, the original Ming people of Dongfan Island, all kinds of affairs, although the Chinese New Year is about to come, Chen Yue has no time to return to Zhoushan.

And because Zhoushan is narrow and too close to the mainland, the center of gravity of the Duke of Qi will be transferred to Dongfan Island in the future, Chen Yue simply ordered the Duke of Qi to be moved to the Dayuan, the shogunate divisions, and a group of people have all gone to Dongfan, leaving only a few people in Zhoushan. Because he was responsible for coordinating the shipbuilding workshop, Zhang Chengkai was left in Zhoushan.

Thinking that he would have to take a sea boat for more than ten days to reach Dongfan Island to deliver the decree, Zheng Xin seemed to have swallowed a yellow lotus, and when he just came by boat from Hangzhou, he was seasick and dizzy, and he had already vomited out all his bitter gall.

"Gonggong Zheng, can you ask Gong Qi to come back to Zhoushan to receive the order, let's just wait here." Some subordinates quietly suggested to Zheng Xin, which made him very excited.

After a while, Zheng Xin shook his head, the situation in the imperial court was urgent, and he would never dare to delay in Zhoushan.

"Please also ask Director Zhang to send a sea ship quickly, our family will immediately go to Dongfan Island to deliver the decree to the Duke of Qi!" Zheng Xin forcibly suppressed the fear of the sea in his heart, and resolutely said to Zhang Chengkai.

"I will do it when I leave, and I will ask my father-in-law to go into the city to rest for a while, and I will go down and arrange it immediately, after all, the ten-day sea journey needs to arrange manpower and bring enough food supplies." Zhang Chengkai said with a smile.

When Zheng Xin went down to rest, Zhang Chengkai quickly sent a bird boat and sailed towards Dongfan Island, telling Chen Yue of the intentions of the imperial court, so that he had time to make countermeasures.

Dongfan Island, Pingnan City.

After nearly a month of hard work, the 30,000 immigrants from Shandong were basically settled. Although the dwelling is simple, it is just a shack made of mud and bamboo, but it is good to have a home.

The large amount of grain that Chen Yue purchased from Susong and other places in Zhejiang, plus the fish brought from Zhoushan, was enough for these 30,000 people to eat for several months. In the spring, the land can be cultivated and cultivated, and as long as one season of grain is harvested, the whole island will be completely settled.

There were originally more than 20,000 Ming people on Dongfan Island, most of whom were immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong, plus 30,000 immigrants, and the total number of people on the entire island was more than 60,000, and now all these people have been registered and incorporated into Beigang and Dayuan counties.

At present, Beigang County only controls a radius of dozens of miles with Beigang as the center, with only a few thousand households and no more than 30,000 people. Dayuan County also only controls the southern plain of Dongfan Island and the surrounding areas of the Taijiang Inland Sea.

For Dongfan Island, which is under the control of the Duke of Qi, it is only these two small areas, and the other huge areas are still in a barbaric and undeveloped state.

For the areas under control, it is ruled by the three levels of counties and villages.

Originally, the land reclaimed by the Ming people belonged to them, and the government issued a land deed, and later paid taxes according to the land deed, and it was strictly forbidden to conceal the land population, and the violators were severely punished. The Ming people in Dongfan have just arrived for more than a few years, and there is no big gentry family like the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much local power, and Dongfan is different from the Ming Dynasty, and the rule of the Qi State Mansion goes deep into the countryside, even if you want to hide the population and land, you can't do it.

For the new immigrants, each person, regardless of age, was allocated 20 acres of land, and the government provided the seed tools, and when the spring came, they cultivated it themselves. In order to prevent the family from endangering the rule too much, the Qi State Government issued a rule that no more than three adult males were allowed in each household, and no more than ten mouths were allowed, and the family must be divided if it is exceeded.

Because Qian Fenglin made a detailed registration when he immigrated to Zhoushan, when assigning the resettlement site, those immigrants from the same village and the same ethnic group were scattered and resettled, so as to prevent them from grouping, basically the immigrants were scattered with the original Ming people.

Fortunately, Dongfan is big enough, and immigrants will not rob the original Ming people's resources, and there is no problem for everyone to live in peace. On the contrary, the arrival of immigrants is also beneficial to these early Ming people, at least many of their things can be sold at a good price, and many people take out things that they can't use at home and sell them, and the government will buy them and then distribute them to immigrants, which is a small fortune. After the initial hardships, the immigrants gradually settled in, and everything was regularized.

After the Chinese New Year, there will be immigrants from Shandong, and Chen Yue will also recruit immigrants from Fujian and Guangdong. However, with the experience of these 30,000 migrants, and the current three-level official system in the county and township, the resettlement will be much easier in the future.

In the future, the focus will be in Dongfan, Chen Yue decided to spend the New Year on Dongfan Island, and ordered someone to move Qian Fenglin, Shan Minglei and the Shogunate of Zhoushan to Dongfan, of course, Wu Wan'er, and Kou Baimen in Hangzhou. Kou Baimen lives outside Hangzhou with peace of mind, and incense is poured on Chen Jianghe's grave every day, which really touches Chen Yue, and she can't bear to stay alone in Hangzhou during the New Year.

Pingnan City, the castle left behind by the Dutch, has now become the capital of Qi and the core of the entire Dongfan Island. Now the lights are everywhere, and the joy of the New Year pervades the entire castle. The Japanese trade made a huge amount of silver, and after seizing the big officials, they seized a huge amount of material wealth from the Dutch. Now there is no shortage of money in the Qi State Mansion. A large number of reward materials were distributed, and the entire Pingnan City was in a jubilant state, full of the joy of the festival, which was in stark contrast to the gloomy and sad Ming court.