In the original history, the king of Sulu, under the pressure of the Spaniards, asked Qianlong to be incorporated into China, but Qianlong refused. Now that the King of Sulu had seen the strength of the Ming Dynasty clearly, in order to avoid being attacked by the Spanish or similar red-haired people, and referring to the situation in Luzon, he made a wise decision.

Zhu Youxiao naturally couldn't ask for it, although Sulu had long been the target of his annexation, but Sulu's proposal to annex it made all this more logical. He sent Sun Chuanting to Luzon and named the king of Sulu as the Duke of Sulu, hereditary succession.

In this way, the whole of Luzon became the land of the Ming Dynasty. The election for the lower house of Luzon also kicked off at this time. The Luzon people had already known about the privileges of the legislators in the early propaganda, but since they were now only running in northern Luzon, there were only fifty seats, and the competition was fierce.

In the newly recovered island of Mindanao and other islands, propaganda about the House of Representatives has also been launched. A large number of Henan people came to Mindanao and other places, opened Chinese-language schools, and introduced new farming methods, so that the rice production of Mindanao, which was already economically stronger than that in the north, has increased dramatically.

Zhu Youxiao also asked people to promote sugarcane on a large scale in Luzon, and the yield of sugarcane is higher in the tropics, so Zhu Youxiao felt that it should be able to be planted in Luzon, and the machines used to make sugar from sugarcane were also being manufactured and tested, and Zhu Youxiao was ready to turn Luzon into an agricultural production base of the Ming Dynasty.

And Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong, who had completed the task, returned to Dayuan with the fleet. They will rest and recuperate in Dayuan, the three-masted gunboats built at the Qingjiang Shipyard will continue to arrive in Dayuan, and Zheng Zhilong's fleet will undergo a large-scale rearmament, replacing the original pirate ships suitable for gang-jumping operations with powerful three-masted gunboats.

Yan Siqi's East China Sea Fleet did not need to be redressed, and he received an order to go to Japan after repairing, completely occupy Ezo Island, expand the range of whale catches, and resettle on Ezo Island to build soap factories and candle factories. Because the soap and candles in China were already sold out, and because of the weather, the raw materials would be transported to the capital and there would be a lot of waste, so Wei Zhongxian proposed to open a factory directly in the whaling grounds, and then ship the soap and candles back would greatly reduce the cost.

Zhu Youxiao was very surprised that Wei Zhongxian could make such a suggestion. He praised: "I can't imagine that the factory minister can think of such a good method, but it really impresses me." ”

Wei Zhongxian said a little embarrassedly: "It wasn't the slave maid who came up with it herself, it was proposed by the subordinates in the cooperative, the slave maid thought it was good, and specially asked Xu Ge Lao and Sun Ge Lao, they all said yes, so they came to report to the saint, the slave and the maid are not so smart." ”

Zhu Youxiao laughed and said, "Factory Chen, you are wrong. Now that you are the great butler by my side, you don't need to be smart enough to have any ideas. You just need to listen to other people's opinions, analyze them yourself or consult other smart people, and then make a decision. You've done a great job, not just by coming up with a great way to increase your soap candle production, but because you already know how to get it. Minister, I'm very optimistic about you. ”

Wei Zhongxian smiled like a chrysanthemum: "The slave thanked the saint for his praise." Later, the slave and maid knew what to do. ”

Yan Siqi's East China Sea Fleet first came to Nagasaki, found some Japanese to be tongue men, and then sailed to Ezo Island, after passing Honshu, the East China Sea Fleet first blocked the sea between Honshu and Ezo Island, and then landed on Ezo Island.

After the Ming army landed on the island, they met the Japanese army, armed with old-fashioned arquebuses and bamboo guns, and were quickly defeated by the Ming army. After capturing a few prisoners and inquiring about them, I learned that there were still Japanese who had not evacuated and were now living in Fukuyama Castle.

The Ming army immediately let the captives lead the way and marched towards Fushan Castle. Soon came to a dirt enclosure. Yan Siqi smiled: "This is Fushan City? ”

The captive replied, "Lord Heaven, this is Fukuyama Castle, which was founded by the Matsumae clan more than thirty years ago. There are more than 1,000 armor soldiers in the city. ”

Yan Siqi asked the tongue people to call the door and ordered them to go out of the city immediately and surrender, otherwise the city would be slaughtered. When the city lord Matsumae Heijiu heard the news, he stood at the head of the city and saw that there was a black and oppressive Ming army outside, and the armor and weapons were shining with cold light, and he opened the city and surrendered without saying a word.

Yan Siqi looked at the Japanese people who came out in a row, and felt very bored. Matsumae Heihisa held a sword, knelt down in front of him, and said, "The Matsumae clan, the lord of Fukuyama Castle, is willing to serve the lord of the country. ”

Yan Siqi took the sword, gently pulled it out, looked at it and said in Japanese: "This sword is not bad, how many soldiers and how many fields do you have under your name now?" ”

Matsumae Heihisa saw him take the sword, and said with great relief: "Report to Lord Shangguo, Fukuyama Castle has 1,300 armor soldiers, more than 6,000 Ezo people, and more than 10,000 acres of land. “

Yan Siqi quickly discovered the problem: "Why is there only such a little land?" You can't meet your needs. “

Matsumae Hirahisa said: "Lord Shangguo, Fukuyama Castle is mainly based on fishing and hunting, so there is not much land to be reclaimed. “

Chen Shouyi, the internal official who came with him, was overjoyed after listening to the translation of the tongue man, he was worried that Ezo Island was too far away and cold, and it was not easy to recruit people who were willing to come to fish, and now he knew that there were a large number of locals here who were good at fishing and hunting, and this problem was perfectly solved.

Yan Siqi also realized this problem, he waved his hand and said, "You get up." I've appointed you as the director of Ezo Island, so let's bring someone to build us a house first. “

Matsumae Heijiu was overjoyed, he thought that his life was not in danger, and he didn't want to appoint himself as the director, so he kowtowed a few times before getting up and said, "Please show the lord." “

Yan Siqi said to Chen Shouyi: "Gonggong Chen, you tell Songqian to be in charge." “

Chen Shouyi said to Matsumae Hirahisa through the tongue: "I heard that it is cold in winter here, so the house built should be thick, you first lead people to cut down the big trees, we brought a new type of saw, sawed the trees into thick planks and then built a house." We have people who specialize in building houses, and you just let them do what they do. “

Matsumae Pingjiu did not promise, he asked the Ming army to live in Fushan City temporarily, Yan Siqi shook his head and refused: "No, we will live on the ship first, only Gonggong Chen will bring some people to live here, and we will move after the barracks are built, you can let people send some food to our ship first." “

Matsumae Hirahisa called in a few Japanese soldiers, and they began to carry grain with a large number of Ezo locals. Ezo people are about the same height as Japanese, and the man has a red beard and a lot of hair on his body and face. The Ming people were very strange and came to watch.

Chen Shouyi said: "No wonder they can live in such a cold place, it turns out that they have more hair than us. Strange, why are they redbeards? Are they the same as red-haired ghosts? “