After four months of sailing, Zhang Qianfang's ocean-going fleet finally returned to Luzon. Song Yingxing found Yang Jingchen and said: "Governor Yang, the emperor has ordered me to preside over the planting of rubber trees, please set aside a piece of land, and prepare enough manpower for us, we will plant rubber trees here." “

Yang Jingchen said: "There is no problem with this. It's just that I'm curious, why don't such an important species be planted in the mainland, but here? “

Song Yingxing said: "The emperor said that only a hot place like Luzon is suitable for planting rubber trees. Although I don't know how the emperor knows, the place where we found the rubber trees is indeed hot. By the way, the people who help us plant rubber trees are paid, so we just need to recruit. “

Yang Jingchen said: "There are criminals in the Governor's Palace who are going to be sent to the mainland for labor reform, and if they are used to plant rubber trees, they can save wages and boat fares. “

Song Yingxing shook his head and said: "The emperor said that people who are forced to work cannot do such delicate things, so in order to be safe, let's recruit." The stakes are too great for students to let it go wrong. The students will have to go to the barracks later, and the rubber plantations will be under military management to prevent anyone from sabotage. “

Song Yingxing would stay in Luzon to supervise the establishment of the rubber plantation, while Zhang Qianfang and the others would leave Luzon by boat and go to Tianjin after a short rest. After changing ships in Tianjin, he still returned to the capital by water.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Qianfang, who was kneeling in front of him and his shoulders were still shrugging, and hurriedly got down from the throne and helped him up.

Zhang Qianfang burst into tears and said: "I haven't seen the emperor for ten years, Weichen thinks about it very much, he lost his honor in front of the king, and asked the emperor to surrender his guilt." “

Zhu Youxiao patted him on the shoulder and said: "Bai Ce (Zhang Qianfang's character) met me when I was a child, although I haven't seen it all these years, but I remember Bai Ce's merits clearly. “

Zhang Qianfang said: "The credit of Weichen is given by the emperor. The emperor's sage, the minister has long been well aware. The minister has only known one sentence over the years, that is, the emperor has meticulously implemented what the minister says, so the minister has been unfavorable over the years, and it is really unfavorable for the emperor to live without a residence. “

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "After coming back this time, I will go to Quanzhou to rest for a while, I have already seen your performance, since there is such a good situation in the Americas, then of course we can't give up this place." It's just that this time it should be the army that will go to the Americas, and your ocean-going fleet will go to Malacca, and take this choke point into our hands, and by the way, control the spice production area in our hands, and the Spanish power in Asia will be completely expelled from it. “

Zhang Qianfang said: "The minister doesn't need to rest, he can set off immediately." “

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Don't worry, what our monarchs and ministers have done can be called unprecedented, there is no rule to follow, we must take our time." A little slower will allow you to better deal with the problems that arise. This time, in addition to occupying the Strait of Malacca, the ocean-going fleet also had to complete the actual occupation of Goa, which the Portuguese had given us. This place is far away, and there is still a long way to go beyond Malacca. “

Zhang Qianfang said: "Wechen has seen the sea charts, to occupy the Strait of Malacca, we need to defeat Aceh, Johor and Pattani, and at the same time, the Portuguese did not send the Strait of Malacca to us, we have to deal with the melee of many countries." “

Zhu Youxiao said: "Yes, we have to fight multiple countries at the same time, but it doesn't matter, the most of our Ming is people." I have ordered a large-scale conscription in southern Fujian, Guangdong, and other places. The people of these two places live in places similar to those in Nanyang, and after the fight, they can immigrate to Nanyang with their families, so that they have the motivation to fight, and secondly, they can firmly control these places in our hands. “

At this time, Sun Chuanting said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the minister thinks that using razing can get a good effect. “

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It is indeed effective to control razing, at least in the early stage. It's just that I'm afraid that there will be tigers and troubles, so the minister thinks that after pacifying a place, either large-scale immigration or Sinicization education can be carried out, so that these places can truly become the land of the Ming Dynasty. The vassal states didn't work much, they worked at the time, and they didn't work much later. “

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "The Strait of Malacca must be controlled in our hands. Didn't the local kingdom recognize it as a Ming vassal in the past? Then use this as an excuse, even if it is a war with the Portuguese. Now that the Portuguese are trying to break away from Spain, they should not be able to take care of these places for a while, and such an opportunity must be seized. “

Sun Chuanting said: "As long as the Portuguese don't get in the way, with our Ming army, we can easily sweep away all parts of Nanyang." Now that the situation in Luzon has been calmed down, the locals are proud to be the Ming people. The Ordnance Bureau has already opened a sub-bureau in Luzon, and in the future, military operations against the countries of the South Seas will be based in Luzon, which will be of great benefit to our supply system. “

Zhu Youxiao smiled a little proudly: "I didn't expect that the Luzon people would be so good, Yang Jingchen said in his compromise, and after 20 years, the vast majority of the Luzon languages will disappear in Luzon, and everyone can speak Chinese and use Chinese characters, becoming the most solid supporters of my Ming Dynasty, and it seems that the political system implemented in Luzon is still very effective." “

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "We are sincere to them, of course they will reciprocate with sincerity." The Luzon people felt that Luzon was the Luzon of everyone, not just the Luzon of the Ming and Han people, and naturally supported the rule of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon. It's just that this system has a long way to go before it can be implemented in Daming. “

Zhu Youxiao sighed and said: "Luzon has never had a strong political power, so it is easy to change, and it will take at least fifty years for me to be like Luzon." Let's not rush, let's take our time. The newspapers have been building momentum for property protection laws, and we do it first, and then it's easier. “

Zhang Qianfang asked: "Your Majesty, when the minister first came back, he looked at the newspaper, which said that the property of the Ming people should be protected, but haven't we been protecting the property of the Ming people?" Why is this emphasized? “

Zhu Youxiao said: "Don't we have a sentence called the county order of breaking the family, and the order of destroying the door?" Of course, stealing and robbing property will be punished, but it is very easy for the government to want you to go bankrupt. Although there were strict regulations on the seizure of homes and confiscation of property when revising the "Da Ming Law", I want to use a stricter law to make private property sacrosanct and inviolable for everyone to understand. To put it bluntly, the purpose of this law is to limit the power of the government, so it is necessary to conduct public opinion propaganda first, and then the law can be announced as a matter of course. “