On the tenth day of the eighth month, twenty days after the return of the personnel who went to Dongzhou to explore, all the rewards for the fleet personnel were sorted out.

The annexation of more than 500 tribes is a great feat, and the income worth more than 20 million taels of silver is a great achievement.

In contrast, the crops of corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, peppers, and rubber, which Zhu Zhanji valued the most, were only regarded as incidental credit for the trip.

When the six ministries sorted out these merits and made corresponding rewards and credits according to the corresponding system, Zhu Zhanji directly redefined this commendation.

The return of rubber and sweet potatoes was listed as a great achievement by Zhu Zhanji, and the income of more than 20 million taels of silver brought back was a great achievement, but as for the annexation of more than 500 tribes, it was listed as a small achievement.

As for the gold and silver awards, meritorious awards, and promotion awards for personnel of all levels of the fleet, there are no changes.

This made most of the ministers dissatisfied, thinking that Zhu Zhanji could not distinguish between the important and the important. In this era, the degree to which the civil servants of the imperial court attached more importance to false names still exceeded the actual benefits.

But Zhu Zhanji ignored their standards, and said directly in the early court: "Corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes can all be cultivated on the slopes and wastelands. As for the attachment of the indigenous people of Dongzhou, it is only a reputation for attachment, and most of them can't even speak my Daming words, how can they be said that they are my Daming people? In the future, meritorious service should be based on actual interests, and all other false names should be ignored. ”

The ministers couldn't persuade Zhu Zhanji, and they also told Zhu Di about it. It's a pity that Zhu Di replied directly: "I am old, and in the future, the opinion of the grandson shall prevail." ”

Jian Yi, Lu Zhen and others had no choice but to come back and persuade Zhu Zhanji, believing that fame is greater than interests, and that a heavenly kingdom should not be evaluated by actual interests, which will make the people more profitable.

The opinions of the two sides were different, and the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials directly refuted Zhu Zhanji's decree and demanded that a court discussion be held at the court meeting.

Zhu Zhanji became extremely tough, insisting that the cabinet write an article on the reward, which was published in the newspaper on the second day.

Today's newspaper has gone through more than a year of development, from the beginning of the semi-monthly to the five-day issue. Moreover, from the initial loss, it is now becoming breakeven.

This is mainly due to the large increase in advertising costs in various places, which make up for the cost of personnel and paper.

Many people have seen the effect of advertising, and many advertised products are in short supply. Those non-governmental chambers of commerce now advertise at any cost.

However, the most willing to spend money are still the major nobles, they now want to attract people to go to Nanzhou with them, in order to recruit people, they are most willing to spend money.

Although the fiefdoms of each family have not yet been determined, the criteria for this division have been revealed more than a year ago.

In the southern part of the country, there is mainly coastal land with pastures and fertile land, and there is more land in the south than in the north.

The land is divided into three grades according to its fertility and proximity to water sources.

According to the fertility of the land, Nanzhou was divided into seventeen pieces of different sizes, which were under the management of seventeen clans.

These seventeen clans are from the prince's mansion sealed during the Zhu Yuanzhang period, plus the Jingjiang Palace, there are still sixteen left. With the addition of Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, there are a total of seventeen.

Seventeen princes, among them there are many branches of the county kings, but their internal interest distribution, the Zongren Mansion does not care, only responsible for supervision and coordination.

Under them, the Duke's Palace can be divided into 10,000 li, which is about 2,500 square kilometers of first-class land, and if it is exchanged for third-class land, it will be tripled, that is, it will become 7,500 square kilometers.

In this land, the Ming Dynasty was exempted from taxes for five years, and after five years, taxes began to be collected depending on the income, but it was only one out of ten. At the same time, the Prince's Palace, which is in a management position, draws one out of twenty.

However, the prince's palace has no management authority over the dukes, marquises, earls, etc. on the territory, and they only have five percent of the income and honorary management rights.

The tax is calculated according to the income from the land and the income from farming, which does not include the minerals on the land. The ownership of all minerals belongs to the imperial court, and the owner of the land is responsible for development, but only forty percent of the income is paid, and the rest must be taxed.

Moreover, they could only mine, and all the refining had to be handed over to the imperial court, and the local officials were responsible for setting up the workshops, and the internal supervisors were responsible for trading.

In addition, the imperial court was also responsible for the supply of production tools for each family, and if there were mines, they were also responsible for providing mining tools.

In addition to the people, it is equivalent to the imperial court to bear the investment in its initial initial stage.

These hundreds of nobles, although every level, the territory is less than half, but the least earl can also divide hundreds of miles of land, and most of the income from this land is theirs.

The imperial court will use these taxes to establish a three-level management government, one is the governor's palace, which is responsible for the security protection of the entire Nanzhou.

Then there were seventeen state capitals, which were responsible for the various administrations of each prince's territory. Finally, it is the lowest management system based on county governance, which is responsible for the local people's livelihood.

The civil administration is in charge of production, agriculture, taxation, and is responsible for coordinating conflicts between regions, and the internal supervisor is responsible for the commercial sphere and controls imports and exports. Then the navy was directly subordinate to the governor's palace, based on the major ports, and was responsible for maintaining order.

It is worth mentioning that there is no army in Nanzhou. Because there are no foreign enemies in this land, there are only hundreds of thousands of natives, and it is impossible for the Ming people to be the opponent of the Ming people.

Except for the three thousand guards that each of the major royal mansions could bring from Daming, the entire Nanzhou did not have any military strength.

Moreover, the imperial court also issued a death order, strictly prohibiting any royal palace from developing its own power, and the number of guards could not exceed 3,000.

This is also to prevent the major royal palaces from becoming bigger and self-reliant in the future.

In order to maximize the development of Nanzhou and not destroy it, Zhu Zhanji launched the book Nanzhou Development Guide.

Except for a few areas in the south and east that grow grain and practice food self-sufficiency, most of the area is divided into pastures.

In this development guide, it is clearly proposed to build Nanzhou into a military horse base, wool base, and mineral base of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, the concept of land desertification was put forward for the first time, and the idea of grassland protection was also required to be implemented in the northwest region.

Today's Ming Dynasty is not the original Ming Dynasty, and the grain of Nanyang has been continuously transported to the mainland, and there is no shortage of food.

Because there is no shortage of food, the price of grain is low, so that there is no money to be made from farming, and the annexation of land is correspondingly reduced.

Of course, the main reason is that today's Daming commerce is developing rapidly, and the benefits of commerce far exceed the benefits brought by land.

Coupled with the immigration policy that has been implemented over the years, the population of the southeast and the Central Plains has been losing to all directions.

The Ming Dynasty was also the period when the government immigration, and the pattern of China's population genealogy in later generations was actually laid in the Ming Dynasty.

Until the 21st century, most people still know about the migration of the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi.

It's just that the immigrants during Zhu Yuanzhang's period were cruel and inconsiderate of the lives of the common people.

But in the Yongle period, especially in recent years, the imperial court had sufficient funds, and cement roads, post stations, and everywhere along the way.

Ordinary people who get the immigration stickers can not only be taken care of during the migration process, but also get free food, seeds, and tools after arriving at the destination.

The tree dies, and the man lives. When a large amount of land can be obtained and a home can be settled, the power of the people to explode is enormous.

In the three years since Zhu Zhanji came back, not counting Tang Sai'er and the 40,000 people who emigrated from Shandong to the extreme west, they have migrated from Shandong and Shanxi to the northeast Nuer Gandusi, and the people in the Beihai (Lake Baikal) area have exceeded 200,000.

In the more populous southeastern region, more than one million people emigrated to Dongfan (Wanwan), Luzon, Borneo, Star City, Old Port, and Maluku (Spice Islands).

The population of Daming has exceeded 60 million, and the people who have emigrated are still a minority, and they are also the local poor.

When their immigrants left, Zhu Zhanji did not worry about hollowing out the Ming Dynasty, but because of the departure of many poor people, there were many fewer local contradictions in the local area.

In this Nanzhou resettlement development, the navy alone will send 50,000 people, and more than half of the navy will be transferred from the army to the navy.

After Zhu Di returned from his western expedition, a large number of soldiers were faced with a situation where there was no war to fight.

They were military households and could only fight, so at such a time, entering the navy and acquiring a large area of land in Nanzhou became a good way out for them.

They will not break away from the naval control for the time being, and the imperial court will pay for the military expenses, and they will be stationed in Nanzhou for three years, and they can choose to immigrate to Nanzhou with their families in the future, or return to China.

They are only the first batch, and in the future, more of the army will be transferred to the navy. Whether it is the South Continent, Europa, South Asia, or the East Continent, a large number of naval officers and men are required to be stationed.

On the contrary, because there are no enemies in the Ming Dynasty, there is no need for so many soldiers.

In this era, the army of the Ming Dynasty is about to begin to be simplified, professionalized, and elite.

During the period before Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji's Chan ceremony, all parts of the Ming Dynasty were boiling, not because of the change of the emperor, but because the army was going to be transferred from the army to the navy.

And the major royal palaces are also recruiting more people to go to Nanzhou with them, and they use various means and preferential conditions to attract people to follow them.

In addition to the fact that the bottom line of the imperial court cannot be broken, the preferential conditions promised by many royal palaces to the people have been almost equal to those of the imperial court.

As long as someone is willing to go with them and settle down there, these people will be rich in the future.

Therefore, even if they do not have direct benefits, they can still achieve different levels of development depending on the size of the population.

However, many royal palaces are still relatively conservative, and only a few are radical. Because they don't know what area they're going to be assigned to.

It would be better if it was allocated to an area with fertile land, and no matter how many people could afford it. But if you go to a barren area, the more people there are, the bigger the food problem.

But they can only wait, wait until after the Zen Rang ceremony, and then draw lots.

Yes, in order to show fairness, the seventeen princes' palaces will draw lots. Nanzhou is divided into 17 areas, numbered 1 to 17.

The Prince's Mansion is divided into two draws, the first draw in the order of the lot, and the second time in the order of the draw area.

As for which area you can get into, it depends on your luck.

In Zhu Zhanji's view, there is no area in Nanzhou, even if it is the most desolate northwest, it will be the world's largest iron ore base in the future.

It's just that, in this day and age, it won't be developed so quickly.

The area of the prince's palace was to be drawn by lot, but the territory of the major nobles was uniformly allocated by Zhu Zhanji.

It is impossible for a duke who has made great achievements to draw a piece of desert and an inherited count to occupy a gold mine.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji has been harassed by the major nobles in the capital during this time. Zhu Zhanji was so annoyed that he had three prohibitions posted outside the imperial city, so that everyone could settle down.

First, it is not allowed to covet Dongzhou, and Dongzhou will no longer be allocated the scope. If you don't dare, cancel the division of Nanzhou.

Second, it is not allowed to bribe the waiter and affect the distribution. Once discovered, deprive the area of separation.

Third, it is forbidden to collude with the navy to attract manpower for future development, and once discovered, the division will be halved.

As soon as these three prohibitions came out, those unsettled nobles were like being poured a basin of cold water, and they immediately stabilized a lot.

Next, it was the civil servants who began to act.

Compared with the nobles, who could divide the feudal feuds and obtain the privileges of the land similar to the ancient feudalism, the civil officials certainly did not want to watch such a large benefit being obtained by them.

However, civil officials have a natural shortcoming, that is, their political capital cannot be continued, and their family power cannot be continued.

Therefore, the power of civil officials is not comparable to that of military generals and nobles.

Military generals and nobles have pro-army and families, and can form a powerful small group. This is the main reason why they were able to get the sub-seals, because the development requires manpower.

But the civil servants can't, but they have an advantage, and that is to deal with power.

In the three-tier management system of Nanzhou, the Governor's Office is only in charge of the navy, regardless of civil affairs.

The remaining 17 state capitals, as well as the future county level, were firmly in the hands of civil officials.

When Zhu Zhanji designed this management plan, he had already thought about it. Although the noble class is divided, this kind of division is not to increase their strength, but only to let them develop Nanzhou as soon as possible.

Their development needs guidance and constraints, and of course they cannot do without civilian officials. Therefore, except for this level of military institutions in the Governor's Palace, the rest of the administrative bodies must be handed over to civilian officials.

The civil administration was in charge of industrial production, agricultural farming, taxation, and was responsible for coordinating conflicts between regions. Use them to curb the military generals and the noble class, and this middle must also give benefits to the civilian bureaucracy.

Where does the profit come from? This has to talk about the internal prison class.

The internal supervision class of the Ming Dynasty is a huge interest group and the largest government agency in the Ming Dynasty.

In the early years of the campaign, almost all the captured children of different races were placed in the inner prison. The entire state-run economy of the Ming Dynasty was almost caught by internal supervisors.

The silk industry, the tea industry, the iron and steel industry, the salt industry, the import and export industry, and the mineral field are all under internal supervision.

This force is too great, and the source of internal supervision will definitely decrease in the future. Moreover, Zhu Zhanji is not willing to let the internal prison become more and more.

Therefore, in the future, it will be a development direction to reduce the number of internal servants, like the Qing Dynasty, and set up an internal affairs government to let civil officials intervene in some commercial fields.

(This chapter is a bit messy and short, and many book friends are saying that there is nothing new in the back, and it is old, and I am also thinking about this problem.) I dare not write about ethnic issues and religious issues, which is nothing more than changing customs. However, there is another aspect that should be new. That is the new world in which the protagonist becomes emperor decades later. That new world that looks like an overhead should be interesting. Recently, I have been sorting out my thoughts, striving to write a new idea that does not take the ordinary path without ignoring the protagonist. ）