Zheng Zhilong thought about it for three days, and finally made a decision, dispatched another hundred big ships out, and led his soldiers to attack the northern coast. This time, it is not limited to northern Fujian, but to expand to the entire northern coast. He must make a tough counterattack to Li Yan, and he must not weaken his morale. Otherwise, how could he talk to Li Yan about the conditions?

Li Yan is so hateful, he just wants to ask for one more Guangdong, but he doesn't agree. So he had to let Li Yan know that he, Zheng Zhilong, was not one of those weak Ming Dynasty generals, and he would not be restrained.

As soon as this decision was announced, Zheng Cai immediately objected: "Big brother, is a hundred big ships too much?" As soon as our ship is withdrawn, the red-haired Dutchmen will rob the business. Those Dutchmen are very greedy, if we take a step back, they will be able to take ten hundred steps. ”

Zheng Zhilong was unmoved, and insisted: "Then let them let them go for the time being." After Li Yan agrees to our conditions, we can just get the business back. No matter how horizontal those Dutch are, Japan and the South Seas are also our land, if they don't know each other, we can fight with them again. How much strength the Netherlands has in the South Seas, we know very well, as long as they sink a few of their warships, they will be honest. ”

Zheng Cai muttered quietly: "How much do you have to lose?" ”

"Alright, don't be sorry." Zheng Zhilong heard it, or he didn't need to listen to it to know what his subordinates thought. He said solemnly: "After making money at sea for so many years, you are all worth a huge amount of money, do you still care about this loss?!" If Li Yan is subdued and let him give us Fujian and Guangdong, there will be more opportunities to make money in the future! That's it! ”

Zheng Zhilong decided to counterattack Li Yan, but it would take time for the ships to be transferred back, so for now, he still asked his subordinates to defend the Min River with all their strength and prevent Li Yan's troops from moving south. At the same time, he continued to intensify the liquidation of Li Zicheng's troops who had crossed the Min River, and made every effort to ensure the stability of southern Fujian and his control over Fujian.

Li Yan didn't have any awareness here, even if he was a person from the Intelligence Department, his ability to gather intelligence on Zheng Zhilong was quite weak. Therefore, many places along the coast still follow the previous will, but only slightly strengthen coastal defenses.

And what Daliang is busy with now is immigration.

Although land annexation in various parts of the south was also quite serious, the south was very little affected by the peasant uprising, and the local large landlords were still big landlords. And Li Yan had issued an order before not to recognize the land transaction after the eleventh year of Chongzhen, but these big landlords in Jiangnan are all noble families who have been inherited for five or six generations, and the accumulation of land has already been completed, and the Great Liang court cannot be deprived at will.

In order to curb the exploitation of tenant farmers by large landowners, in addition to using the fields of the feudal kings to set up government-run farms, Su Jing also suggested immigration. Shandong, Hebei and other places have been repeatedly slaughtered and plundered by the Qing army, and the population has lost millions, while Shaanxi and Henan are the hardest hit areas by drought and Li Zicheng and others, and millions of people have also disappeared, so immigrating to these places can be regarded as a solution.

Li Yan asked, "Is there enough money in the household department now?" If you want to emigrate, you need to prepare food, rations, farm tools, and the cost of settling in. In addition, local governments and garrisons should also be notified that they must properly handle accommodation and safety along the way, and whether the local government treasury is full? ”

The **** in charge of the household department immediately replied: "The household department has sufficient money and food, and according to the expenditure of five yuan per household, it can bear millions of immigrants this year." ”

"Military spending won't be affected, right?" Li Yan's first concern is the expenditure of the army, after all, the world is not at peace now, and the army must maintain priority supply.

Nodding: "It's enough, the food and salary are reserved in advance, and it won't have any impact." ”

Now the salt farms in the country are effectively managed by the government, although the profits are not as high as those salt merchants, but the country's large market is also quite considerable. Moreover, there are also the huge profits of border trade, various commercial taxes, and the profits of people's livelihood items such as grain, oil, cloth, etc., and the household department is really not as embarrassed as it was during the Chongzhen period.

Li Yan received an affirmative answer, and finally nodded: "That's good, you guys go and prepare an immigration plan as soon as possible." It is necessary to plan the route well, and to negotiate properly with the local state capitals, so that the expenses in various places can be reimbursed, and of course, there must be audits afterwards, so that they cannot have loopholes to exploit. The most important thing is that immigrants must be fair, and they must not favor one over the other, and let the immigrants and the indigenous people become at odds. ”

"Okay, we'll get it done as soon as possible." As the prime minister, Li Zhong immediately agreed.

At this time, Su Jing, who was a senator of the political hall, stood up and clenched his fists and suggested: "Your Majesty, when the minister suggests immigration, it should be in accordance with the old practice of the previous Ming Dynasty, the same family, not in the same place, so as not to form an antagonistic situation with the aborigines. ”

Li Yan nodded and said, "As senators, you can naturally put forward opinions to them, and as long as it is reasonable, the government will consider and accept it." ”

It seemed to be encouraged by Li Yan's attitude, but Hou Sui, who had never talked much, also got up, hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, the minister knows a little about the people of Jiangnan. Jiangnan workshops and trading houses gathered, even if the people have no land, they can still find a livelihood, if they can't give quite generous conditions, I don't think many people are willing to move to other places. Therefore, the minister thought that it was more effective to forcibly relocate a part of the people appropriately. ”

Li Yan did not agree, and said: "There is no need for coercion, it was originally benevolent government, but it made the people complain in their hearts, but it is not beautiful." Everything is their own choice, those who are willing to migrate, they will have their own land, and those who are not willing to migrate, let them fend for themselves. They chose it now, and they can't complain about it in the future. What the imperial court should do is to ensure social stability, fairness and justice. ”

Seeing that Li Yan seemed to be a little unhappy, the other few people who originally planned to show their faces also dispelled the idea of continuing to suggest. They know in their hearts that they are just being put in the government hall for the elderly, not to say that it is good, if they accidentally say it wrong, I am afraid that they will not even receive the salary of this pension.

Now that he had reached a conclusion, Li Yan quickly ended this collective discussion, but he did not rest, but asked about Luo Miaoxun again. After all, there is such a person who seems to know some about the Tessie battleship, so he can't just let it go. Li Yan has always been the concept of firepower first, and he is still very interested in warships that can be equipped with hundreds of cannons.

"That bandit, Luo Miaohyun, is the case over?" Li Yan asked.

Sun Sifu thought for a moment and replied, "The sentence is over." That Luo Miaohyun has no murder case, has a good attitude of admitting guilt, and is willing to compensate the losses of the maritime merchants, and is also willing to admit punishment. However, in view of their banditry behavior, the Dengzhou Criminal Department sentenced him to 20 years of hard labor. Some of his minions have murders in other robberies, although it was before our Liang Jianzheng, but those who should be sentenced to death have also been sentenced. The others, who had not been killed, were sentenced to several years of hard labor, but were not sent to a hard labor camp, but were temporarily locked in prison, waiting for the sailor to pick people. ”

Li Yan listened and nodded continuously, but said: "Send people to work nearby, after they know the punishment they will face, they can only be grateful when they are called by the sailor." Also, let Dengzhou send that Luo Miaohyun over, and let Zhang Han come too, to see if this Luo Miaohyun is worth keeping. ”

"Okay, Your Majesty will arrange it immediately."