Wei Liangqing was dumbfounded when he received the holy decree, when he came to Danong Island, the imperial court moved about 5,000 immigrants from the mainland, which is obviously a little less, Wei Liangqing had to recruit people from the local Ainu people, and finally built for three years before the agriculture and animal husbandry of Danong Island developed, and now it has become an important grain and meat base in the Ming Dynasty. But where did he go to recruit people? The population of agriculture and animal husbandry is already tight, and he has no power to move the people of fishing and soap factories and candle factories, not to mention that they have no idlers.

Hou Guoxing, as a large agricultural state, has nothing to do on this island. He gave Wei Liangqing an idea: "Zhizhou, I do know that there is a place where there are a large number of people. ”

Wei Liangqing smiled bitterly: "I know what you mean, should I go and grab the widows over there?" First of all, I don't have soldiers, and it is impossible for the local garrison to help me rob people, and second, I robbed the Japanese people to complain to the imperial court that we were provoking, isn't that looking for scolding? ”

Hou Guoxing said with a smile: "If you can't find anyone now, you're really looking for scolding." First your uncle will scold you, and then the emperor will also scold you. I'll tell you, in fact, you don't have to rob people at all, I have a way to get the Japanese people to come and help us mine. They are coming by themselves, and the emperor's voice scolding you should be quieter at that time. ”

Wei Liangqing hurriedly said: "Is there any good way, tell my brother quickly." If the Japanese people themselves want to come, the emperor probably won't scold me. ”

Hou Guoxing said: "Don't look at me as if I have nothing to do every day, in fact, I still do a lot of things." My Jinyi guards infiltrated the island of Honshu and found out a lot of news, which I can't tell you. However, the living conditions of the local Japanese people are not good, and many of them do not have enough to eat all year round. If we recruit people from there, give them half a stone of rice first, and the people who rush to come will break their heads. ”

Wei Liangqing said: "But what should I do if the Japanese go to the court to cry like this? ”

Hou Guoxing said with a smile: "Those big names are not fools, you gave rice to the Japanese people, and you also pulled the Japanese people to Danong Island, reducing the mouth of eating, they can't ask for it." In fact, if we used grain to buy sulfur from the daimyo who produced sulfur, it would be more affordable. ”

Wei Liangqing shook his head and said, "This can't work. Their sulfur was originally going to be sold to the Ordnance Bureau, what is the difference between what we bought and what the Ordnance Bureau bought, now it is the imperial court that needs more sulfur. And if there are people competing to buy, they may raise the price, so that the court will have a loss. My uncle told me not to do anything harmful to the court. The method of recruiting people you said is very good, I am not familiar with this matter, can you lend me some manpower from the brocade guards? ”

Hou Guoxing said: "What kind of manpower to borrow, local officials can't serve Jinyiwei, do you dare to use it if I borrow it?" That's it, I'll ask Jinyiwei to help you recruit people, anyway, they're going to go over there to spy on the news, and befriending the daimyo is also one of them, and it's most suitable to buy people directly from the daimyos. But first of all, I have to say well, the brothers have worked hard, you still have to pay according to the head, you can rest assured, I don't want a penny, it's all the hard work of the brothers. ”

Wei Liangqing naturally complied with everything, and the recruitment of miners was supposed to pay, and he quickly finalized the price of one yuan for a miner with Hou Guoxing. And there is no cap on the number of miners, as many as you want.

Hou Guoxing returned to Qianhu in a hurry and explained this matter in detail to Deputy Qianhu. The deputy thousand households of the Jinyi Wei Thousand Households Office are actually supervising the thousand households, so everything must be explained to the deputy thousand households, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings. Deputy Qianhu pondered for a while and said: "Qianhu, this is not a small amount, our expatriate funds are not easy to account." ”

Hou Guoxing sighed: "What can you do if you don't enter the account, Danongzhou will enter the account." What should I do when the Ministry of Household Affairs or the Economic Survey and Statistics Bureau comes to check the accounts? I don't want to go to jail. What does it matter if there is more money, this is the hard-earned money that our brothers exchanged for blood and sweat, and it is not the two of us who are embezzled, am I a person who needs to be corrupted? Besides, this matter is beneficial to the imperial court, to Danongzhou, and to our Jinyiwei, I don't believe that anyone can say anything about such a thing. ”

Seeing that his attitude was so resolute, Deputy Qianhu naturally couldn't ask for it. This matter is shared by the entire Qianhusuo, and of course the brothers hope that they can have some extra income after working hard outside. Besides, even if the household department thinks that the money is too much, at least it will not think that it is embezzlement by thousands of households and themselves, and it can only warn that it will not take an example, and will not collect all the money back.

Hou Guoxing saw that Deputy Qianhu had no objections, so he called the suppression of the intelligence affairs of the Japanese and told him about it. In the end, he emphasized: "You let those hundred households and daimyo make it clear that as long as we are in good health and there is no illness, don't find me some sick fathers to come back." ”

Zhen Fu said: "In this case, the daimyo of the Wa Kingdom will like it very much, one person is half a stone of rice, and those miners of the Wa Kingdom can't get it, and all of it belongs to the Daimyo." ”

Hou Guoxing said: "As for who the rice is given, we don't care, we only need people, and when the Japanese people come to Danong Island, we will tell them that they bought it with half a stone of rice, so that they will only hate those big names and work harder." If they perform well and are willing to change their names to Sinicization, we can also give them a second-class household registration of the Ming Dynasty, so that their children can become real Ming people. ”

A ship of 400 materials can be loaded with 1,000 stone meters, and it can be exchanged for 2,000 people. It only took five ships to exchange 10,000 jubilant miners for the 10,000 jubilant miners. For the Japanese people, the days when they could eat enough and not have to worry about being conscripted to fight were like gods, so the daimyo said that the Ming people wanted to recruit miners, and they all rushed to come for a while, and the daimyo not only put their Anjia rice into their own treasury, but also some people dedicated what little wealth they had to the daimyo in order to be able to be miners, so that the daimyo were overjoyed.

Wei Liangqing only spent 10,000 yuan to solve the problem of the miners in the sulfur mine, and these widows only had one yuan a month, which was only one-sixth of the salary of the Daming miners. But being able to eat enough and have money to get is not a good thing that can be encountered casually, and the one-yuan silver coin of the Ming Dynasty can buy at least one stone of rice in the Wa Kingdom, and these Wa people are already very satisfied.

The solution of the miners' problem gave Wei Liangqing a new idea. There is still a large amount of land on Danong Island that has not been reclaimed, and the current manpower is only enough for the existing land management, so he discussed with Hou Guoxing to use the same method to import a large number of farmers from the Wa State to carry out the development of Danong Island, so that Danong Island has become the largest agricultural production base in Daming.