Southern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty. Luzon. Peiming Street.

With the continuous support of tools and manpower in Daming, the originally fertile plain of Luzon Island was developed by Xu Chai Lao piece by piece and turned into a boundless fertile land.

Since the sixteenth year of Yongle, the internal supervision fleet has become the main route of immigration, and a large number of cargo ships from the Ming Dynasty are loaded with people and transported to the South Seas.

Subsequently, a large amount of grain was loaded in Nanyang and transported to Daming.

This kind of frequent exchange has surpassed the connection between Daming and Jiaozhi, because although this land is isolated overseas, the distance from Daming Fujian is still close to the distance to Jiaozhi.

Moreover, this land that has been blessed by God is really blessed.

Although Luzon is mainly mountainous, there are large tracts of fertile land between the mountains, and the plains in the center and north of the island are half the size of Jiangsu.

And there is no shortage of water here, and the water flows everywhere. If such a large area of land is fully developed into fertile land, the grain produced can supply half of the people of the Ming Dynasty to eat.

In the mountains of Luzon, there are all kinds of metal minerals, according to the continuous exploration of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty in recent years, there are more than a dozen copper mines and gold mines discovered.

Even Zhu Di is paying more and more attention to this place.

Although the development plan of Nanyang has been planned, Luzon Island has not been included in the development plan, because it is directly classified as a direct territory by Zhu Di.

The Daming Society directly dispatched officials here to educate the people, develop agriculture, and develop minerals.

However, it is not without its drawbacks, that is, the typhoon is a little too much.

Luzon has half a year and is prone to sudden typhoons without warning. The storms brought by the typhoon have seriously affected the lives of the locals.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty are tenacious, and they have not seen typhoons in Fujian, but there is absolutely no so much ownerless fertile land in Fujian for them to cultivate and plant.

No matter how difficult the conditions are, they have taken root here and multiplied.

In the past two years, more than 200,000 Ming people have been added to Luzon, who have been given tools and divided land.

In the face of these villagers, Xu Chai Lao did his best to serve them, digging rivers, repairing canals, and striving to make every piece of land not lack water sources.

Therefore, the current Luzon is developing more rapidly than Jiaozhi, which is still plagued by bandits.

Xu Chailao's prestige in Luzon is now increasing day by day, and even the officials appointed by the imperial court are full of admiration for this four-rank prefect who is not from a professional class.

Although this person does not read the books of the sages, he does the deeds of the sages.

However, recently, Xu Chai Lao has one more trouble, because Zhu Guiyan, who was locked up here by Zhu Zhanji, is now dying.

Three years ago, Zhu Zhanji imprisoned his uncle Liao Wang Shizi in Luzon and forbade anyone to communicate with him.

Even a person with a strong personality who has been unable to communicate with people for three years and is imprisoned in an isolated place can become insane, let alone a pampered and tyrannical son.

At first, he tried to escape by climbing the wall, but later, he was afraid of the guards' spears and no longer wanted to escape.

In the second year, this Zhu Guiyan went crazy and wandered around naked in the small courtyard all day long.

The guards who guarded him every day delivered his meals on time, and he had become accustomed to grabbing them with his hands instead of chopsticks.

His body became dirtier and dirtier, and he gradually lost his weight and lost his human shape.

Xu Chai Lao wrote to the court several times, and no matter what the requirements were, they could be met, and the commendation decree issued by the emperor himself was still placed in the small ancestral hall of the family.

However, there was never a reply to Zhu Guiyan's question, and it seemed that everyone had forgotten about him.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth years, the imperial court sent envoys twice, sent hundreds of Confucian scholars, and a military guard of more than 5,000 people to assist Xu Chailao in establishing a perfect ruling structure on the island, but when it came to the prince of Liao, no one could give Xu Chailao a result.

The Liao Dynasty has indeed lost power, but no matter what, these are all children of the clan!

Even if the emperor didn't mean to forgive, why didn't even anyone in the Liao Wangfu pay attention to this prince?

He originally hoped that when His Royal Highness Taisun returned to the country, he would be able to think of this prince and bring him back.

But His Royal Highness stayed overseas for three years, and was finally urged by the emperor to go back to Daming, and did not pass through them on the way back.

This Zhu Guiyan was forgotten again.

Now, except for the local children around Zhu Guiyan's courtyard, who often take a look at the madman with great interest, no one remembers him at all.

Since last winter, although it is not cold in Luzon in winter, Zhu Guiyan, who has gone crazy, slept in the heavy rain all night, and it was only after a few days that the guards could see that Zhu Guiyan's situation was wrong from the untouched food.

After the situation was reported, Xu Chai went to see Zhu Guiyan for the first time in three years, but found that he was almost dying.

He could only find someone to treat Zhu Guiyan while entrusting the grain ship of the internal supervisor to bring the letter back to Daming.

But he himself did not expect to be instructed, so he could only do his best and obey the destiny of heaven.

It may be that Zhu Guiyan has suffered for a long time in the past three years of captivity, or it may be that Zhu Guiyan has been protected by God, although the doctor only prescribed him a few doses of medicine, he actually survived strongly.

It has been more than two months now, and he still has not lost his breath and is still alive tenaciously.

It's just that this kind of lying in bed and living without moving is probably worse than death.

On this day, Xu Chai Lao led a group of subordinates to inspect the newly renovated royal annex on Beiming Street.

Located on the only hill on Beiming Street, this royal palace is surrounded by a river and a three-zhang high wall.

The city wall has four urn cities, each of which can accommodate a thousand soldiers to defend it.

The annex has a large hall, a main hall, and ninety-seven houses, forming a castle-like complex of ninety-nine rooms.

The interior is full of greenery and flowers.

However, none of these expenses were borne by Xu Chailao, nor by the people of Luzon, and all the expenses were borne by the internal supervisors.

On the contrary, the people of Luzon were able to earn wages by selling bricks and tiles and providing services.

There is more than one such courtyard, there is one here in Luzon, one in Star City, and one in Kezhi in the West.

This annex was prepared for Zhu Di's expedition to the west, although he could not live for a few days, but the majesty of the royal family could not be lost.

Feeling that there was no omission, when Xu Chai was about to leave, a servant ran over with a little eunuch.

"My lord, a ship from the imperial court has arrived."

As soon as he heard that a ship had arrived from the imperial court, not a ship from the inner prison, Xu Chai Lao perked up and asked, "Who is the envoy?" ”

(I couldn't stand the toothache and went for an injection.) Today's promise of 12,000 is still 4,000, I'm sorry everyone, and I will try to make up for it tomorrow. These two cases are not counted. ）