King Qing and King Fu both glanced at Chongzhen with some surprise, and soon King Qing reacted and said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, can you tell me what kind of land it is, what kind of potential it has, so that I can go back and persuade the children of the clan in the clan to pay for it." ”

King Fu also pricked up his ears, wanting to know what the emperor said about the potential land, over the years he finally understood a truth, basically Zhu Youzhen said that good land or industry, the final return is always amazing. Although he gave up his feudal state, he did not give up the pursuit of wealth.

What's more, he felt that his relationship with the emperor was much closer than that of other clans, so what was the benefit of this, he should naturally intervene first, and he couldn't let the foreign vassals take advantage of him.

Zhu Youzhen didn't speak, he dipped his fingers in the tea and drew a simple map on the coffee table, and then said: "This is the mainland, this is the Nanyang Islands, I ordered Zheng Zhihu and Edmund Dantes to go out of the Lombok Strait to search the waters below the Nanyang last year, and last month news came from the south that they had found an extremely large continent in this area, and it took several months just to circle the entire continent."

The north and west of this continent are mostly arid desert areas, the eastern coast is mountainous with rich animal and plant resources, and the southern coast has many plains and rivers. There are quite a few savages on the continent, but they are still in a very primitive era, and they will not cause any hindrance to our development of this continent.

Although the Dutch had discovered the continent, they did not occupy it, so I have decided to include it and the surrounding islands in the Ming Dynasty.

I plan to spend 10 years mapping the continent and the surrounding islands, and first to establish ports and settlements in the east and southeast of the continent. Since my uncle felt that there was a lack of income in the domain, I could hand over a part of the land on this continent to the clan to form a colonization company for development. ”

King Qing asked impatiently, "I don't know how this colonization company that Your Majesty said will be formed?" Also, what exactly is the land potential of this continent? Can it compare to the land of Jeju Island or Taiwan? ”

Zhu Youzhen took out a tissue and wiped the tea stains on his hands, and then said slowly: "Whether the land over there can reach Jeju Island or Taiwan, I don't know very well." However, they did find some gold ornaments among the natives on the mainland, so I thought that this continent must have relatively rich gold reserves..."

King Fu suddenly couldn't help it, and he couldn't help but interject: "Can the gold reserves on the mainland over there be comparable to the gold mines in Taiwan?" ”

King Qing also looked at the emperor with great concern, Chongzhen glanced at the two of them and said: "Although it has not been surveyed yet, Taiwan's gold mines must not be compared with this continent, after all, Taiwan is just an island, and there is a whole continent over there." It's just that before you find gold, you still have to invest a little cost.

What do I mean, the company that colonizes this continent also needs to invest at least 2 million yuan, so it intends to recruit 100 shares at a price of 20,000 yuan per share. Of course, each feudal clan can enjoy preferential treatment, buying three shares at a preferential price of 15,000 yuan per share, and the rest at the market price.

In addition, all shareholders who have purchased the shares of the Continental Colonization Company can occupy 100 square kilometers of land in the New World, the prince and the earl can occupy 50 square kilometers of land, other clan members and relatives below the earl level can occupy 10 square kilometers of land, and ordinary people can occupy 1 square kilometer of land.

However, any application for land enclosure must be surveyed within 10 years to determine the topography and natural resources of the enclosed land, otherwise the land that cannot be surveyed will be automatically nationalized. In addition, the gold and silver deposits in the enclosed land belong to the company, but the landowner can receive 10% of the output as the company's lease fee for mining on leased land.

What do the two uncles think of such conditions? ”

Even if Chongzhen gave them a 75 discount, the price of 15,000 yuan per share made King Fu and King Qing a little hesitant. After all, after the reform of the clan, the normal annual income of a vassal king is now only 5,000 yuan. The annual income of the county king is lower, about 1,500 yuan.

Like the shares of Sihai Trading Company, which is owned by Fuwang, the annual dividend is about 20%. This made him more wealthy than other vassal kings, but 15,000 yuan per share was equivalent to his entire income for a year. As for Qingwang's annual income is less than 5,000 yuan, if you want to buy a share, you have to use the old capital, which is more cautious.

The two glanced at each other, and King Qing asked Chongzhen with some troubles: "Are Your Majesty sure that you can really find gold mines there?" Qing Fan took out his old book to buy shares, if he couldn't find the gold mine, everyone would have to drink the northwest wind. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said: "Uncle why is he so worried, I plan to put all the land on this continent under the name of the mainland colonization company, and after the company is established, the land can be sold to the outside world." As long as it is a Ming person, you can go to the mainland circle to occupy one square kilometer of land by paying 10 yuan to the company, and if you operate for more than three years, the land belongs to the person.

In addition, we can also recruit gold miners, as long as they pay 5 yuan per month to the company, they can explore gold mines or collect sand gold on unowned land. After the gold miner discovers the gold mine, he reports to the company, and he can get 3% of the gold mine's income. Or they can mine it themselves by paying 30% of the company's output, but the gold must be sold to the company.

As long as 200,000 people travel to the continent, the company will not lose money. Of course, if my uncle is still worried, after five years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs can take back the shares in my uncle's hands with a 50% increase, and after 10 years, I can take back 100% of the shares. ”

Hearing Chongzhen say this, the two vassal kings were relieved. Chongzhen immediately handed over the task of recruiting share capital to King Fu and King Qing, and agreed that the two would get a 3% handling fee for every share sold, which could be regarded as completely calming King Qing's emotions.

So when the emperor came out of the side hall with the two vassal kings, the vassal kings who had been waiting for a long time did not see any dissatisfied look on King Qing's face, but followed the emperor with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened. Several vassal kings who instigated King Qing to make trouble couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what the emperor said to King Qing in the side hall, and he could coax him so happily.

King Qing, who was the first to the head, was leveled by the emperor without even revealing a bubble, and the few vassal kings who wanted to wave their flags and shout behind him naturally did not jump out and continue. After all, King Qing still has the confidence to make a fuss, and it is not a fair and honest means for the emperor to coax him to Sichuan. As for the other vassal kings, there was no excuse to make trouble, and they didn't have the guts of King Qing.

And for Chongzhen, holding a piece of the Wilderness Continent to settle the grievances of the clan is still good for him. Although the later Australia was rich in mineral resources and had large grasslands that could be used as pastures, this was also the first to be achieved after hundreds of years of exploitation by the British.

The expansion of the Four Seas Trading Company is almost at the end of its capacity, and if it wants to use a lot of resources to develop Australia, I am afraid that it will be a little difficult to make ends meet. For Chongzhen, instead of wasting these resources in Australia, it is better to speed up the development of North America, the South Seas and the Indian continent, where the return on investment is obviously faster.

As for those clan lords, more than 200 years of precipitation have allowed them to have a lot of wealth, and instead of letting them consume this wealth indiscriminately, it is better to turn it into capital for overseas colonization. This can be regarded as alleviating the contradiction between Chongzhen and these clan lords, so that Chongzhen can use his energy in more important directions.

After the sacrifice was completed, Zhu Youzhen even thought of the name of this continent, and he decided to use Jiuli Prefecture as the name of this continent, and the port of Melbourne in the southeast of the continent in the future was called Chiyou City, so that for the occupation of this continent, the Ming Dynasty could also use the name since ancient times.

Although Zhu Youzhen knew that there were gold mines in Australia, he did not know whether Australia's gold mines were rich or not. In his time, he knew better that Australia was rich in iron ore. Therefore, when he casually handed over this continent to the Jiuli Prefecture Colonization Company for development, in less than twenty years, he regretted selling the land on this continent too cheaply.

After all, only 20 years later, Jiuli Prefecture produced more than 60 tons of gold a year, worth 45 million yuan, and the company's income from gold alone exceeded 20 million yuan a year. Every year, the company's shares pay dividends of more than 50,000 yuan per share, which is equivalent to 25 times the par value. Chongzhen holds less than 23% of the company's shares, which makes the clan family's investment in this company extremely rich.

The only thing that makes Chongzhen talk about * is that with the gold fever in Jiuli Prefecture, the domestic people have shown one-sided support for overseas colonization actions. This dealt a great blow to the old school led by scholars, and the worldview of the Ming people became more open and free.

Of course, for the emperor in the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, he did not know that his casual actions would bring such a big change to the people of the Ming Dynasty. For him now, the barren continent in the south did not deserve much attention, and he was more concerned about the actions of the Manchus in the northeast and the European colonizers in the south.

Huang Taiji is naturally not a person who keeps to himself, after clearing the political situation of the four major Baylor co-ruling dynasties, he has been gathering power in the hands of the Eight Banners to ensure that the original tribal republic can truly become a centralized feudal dynasty similar to the Ming Dynasty.

After several years of recuperation, the Eight Banners not only regained their combat strength, but also accumulated a fortune that could be used in the Great War. In the past, the Jianzhou Jurchens mostly relied on the method of warfare to loot materials and populations from the Ming Dynasty to feed their tribes and start the next war.

However, in the second year of Chongzhen's Jianzhou Jurchen entry into the customs was frustrated, and after the defeat of Lin Dan Khan, the Mongol tribes of Southern Mo did not completely surrender to the Later Jin, so that the Later Jin lost a great opportunity to annex the Mongol tribes of Southern Mo and expand the territory to the northwest border of the Ming Dynasty.

If the current Qing Dynasty wants to launch a war against the Ming Kingdom, it must either break through the defense lines set up by the Ming people in Yizhou and Ningjin first, or it will penetrate the entire Monan grassland. This is not a very good option for *.

What's more, the reserves for waging war now require the hard work of the people of the Qing Dynasty to produce and operate. In the era of agriculture, it took three years of farming to save one year. Even if Hwang Taiji had introduced more hardy food crops, it would have taken four or five years to accumulate food for the next large-scale war in such a year.

It is precisely because it is not easy to reserve war materials in the Qing Dynasty that Huang Taiji is full of uncertainty about whether to break the stalemate between the Ming and Qing dynasties. If this blow can't hit the sore spot of the Ming Kingdom, then it will be a failure for *.

As long as the Ming State can continue to block this attack of the Qing army, then the next time the Qing army faces the Ming army, it will be even more difficult to maintain the confidence of victory. How can an army that has lost confidence in victory be able to deter neighboring countries?

Huang Taiji's heart was still hesitating, but he never let go of his preparations for war. The intelligence units set up by the Ming Dynasty inside and outside the Qing Dynasty naturally sent the Qing State's imminent move to Chongzhen's desktop.