Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are responsible for managing two things: first, the water used to make paper, which is not discharged directly into the river, but has to be made of bamboo, which is then blocked by a screen and filtered before it can be discharged into the river. The second is the rotation of paper trees, the paper mill can cut down trees, but the trees must be cut down in a planned way, how many trees must be cut down that year, how many trees must be planted, a cycle of ten years, so that there can be a steady stream of trees to use.

The landlords did not quite understand why this was the case, but the students had already stated that they did not agree to such conditions, so everything was not to be discussed. There's no way, it's not very troublesome to plant trees anyway, so let's plant them.

Things went smoothly, and Zhu Youxiao was very happy after receiving the report, and asked Wu Mengming and Xu Xianchun to write down what happened to them as a way to provide experience for future promotion.

And what he is most happy about is Yang Lian's change. Yang Lian has gone from being a well-known minister (that is, a troll) to a pragmatic official. The matter of pretending to be sick in Lu Long is simply incredible to him, you know, even people who don't like Yang Lian have always thought that he is an honest and trustworthy person. So Zhu Youxiao admired his behavior very much for the sake of doing things, in his opinion, if a person doesn't care about his face, he really cares about what he does.

When Yang Lian returned to Beijing to restore his life, Zhu Youxiao promoted him to the left governor of the Inspectorate and rewarded him with ten pieces of silk and 1,000 silver coins. The Academy of Chinese Literature also hired him as a visiting professor and invited him to give lectures here in his spare time.

What Yang Lian implemented in Lulong and Lantian was Zhu Youxiao's cultivator Youtian plan. Of course, this is just a pilot. I just want to see if it is better to let the landlords transfer their property from the land to industry, so that the land annexation can be turned into the sale of land and factories, and the wealth can be concentrated in industry, than if they keep buying land and the peasants have no land to plant.

Judging from the pilot projects in these two counties, it should be relatively successful for the time being. But this will not be possible until the cement factory in Lulong and the paper mill in Lantian actually make money. It's going to take some time to get results.

The winter of the fourth year of the Apocalypse seems to be earlier than usual, and it is only October, and it has begun to snow in the capital. At this time, it was snowing heavily in Pingxiang County, and the snow was four feet. In Changzhi, Shanxi, heavy snow fell for three days and nights, and even Wendeng and Rongcheng in Shandong were snowed three feet.

In fact, in August, when Lulong and Yutian were stormy, Xu Guangqi told the emperor to prevent the weather from changing too much this winter, and according to the temperature statistics in the past few years, he speculated that he was afraid that in the next few years, the winter snow would come earlier and earlier, and the snow line would move more and more to Vietnam.

It was also because Zhu Youxiao heard this warning that he was anxious to try to implement the plan for cultivators to have their fields in the north. Because the climate will become colder, the harvest will be greatly reduced, and the life of the tenants will become more and more difficult, and no one knows how many people will die under the pressure of hunger and cold.

Of course, in addition to this, Zhu Youxiao also thought about finding enough food from other places. Taiwan is doing better, and now in addition to supplying new immigrants, there is still a surplus to be shipped back to the mainland. But after all, the reclamation time is too short, the reclamation area is too small, and the number is not very large. So, Zhu Youxiao hit the idea to the hot Southeast Asia.

In September of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court sent an envoy to Annam. Now Annam is divided into two major forces, the Zheng clan in the north, the current supreme leader of the Thanh capital king is the fourth generation of the Zheng clan Zheng Jie, and the southern Nguyen clan, the current supreme leader Ren Guo Gong is the third generation of the Nguyen family Nguyen Phuc Yuan. There is also a Mo Dynasty in Gaoping in the north, and the emperor is Mo Jingkuan.

The envoy was the imperial historian Cui Chengxiu, who first came to Gaoping and met with Mo Jingkuan, the emperor of the Mo Dynasty.

Mo Jingkuan's first words when he saw Cui Chengxiu were: "Can the Celestial Empire borrow troops?" ”

Cui Chengxiu was inexplicable, and insisted on saluting and said, "Your Majesty, the foreign minister doesn't understand what King Mo means!" ”

Mo Jingkuan said: "Now that the Zheng family's uncles and nephews are fighting, it is a good opportunity for me to prepare to attack the Zheng family and recover the mountains and rivers." If we can get the help of the Ming Dynasty, then I will be very grateful. ”

Before Cui Chengxiu came, Zhu Youxiao gave him a face-to-face lecture, just to get a large amount of food from Annan. As long as this goal is achieved, he can do whatever he wants. And now after hearing the news, he thought of a question: If Annan is still owned by the Ming Dynasty, wouldn't it be simpler to ask for food?

As his mind turned, he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, with your military strength, can't you take advantage of the Zheng clan's internal strife to wipe it down in one fell swoop?" ”

Mo Jingkuan smiled: "Of course you can, but if you get the help of the Ming Dynasty, then I will look at the Zheng family like a chicken." ”

Cui Chengxiu said with a smile: "It's okay to borrow troops, but I don't know what the Mo Dynasty can do for Daming?" ”

Originally, Mo's ability to keep Gaoping was the result of Ming interference. Therefore, Mo Jingkuan said: "As long as the Zheng family can be destroyed, then the Ming Dynasty will have an order, and we will all obey it." ”

Cui Chengxiu said: "That's not as good as this, King Mo sent a person, along with my deputy envoy, to discuss the matter of borrowing troops from the South China Sea, and the foreign minister continued to travel south, which can help King Mo explore the reality of the Zheng family." ”

Mo Jingkuan naturally allowed it, Cui Chengxiu called the deputy envoy, and briefly explained the situation: "This is an opportunity, the imperial court has always thought that it is the right way to grasp Annan in its own hands, so you have to report the current situation of the Zheng family's civil strife to Huang Jingluo, and he will definitely consider sending troops to Annan." ”

He continued his mission to the Zheng clan. And the envoy of the Mo Dynasty went to Taiwan to meet Huang Kezhang and asked for troops to assist the Mo Dynasty in attacking the Zheng clan.

Huang Kezhang had already listened to the deputy envoy's report, and he felt that this was a golden opportunity. After the Ming Dynasty lost Annam in Xuande three years, many people have been haunted by it, feeling that Annam was originally Chinese territory, but it was stolen by the Li clan. Then Annan experienced the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Later Li Dynasty and Zheng Ruan, and the Ming Dynasty paid close attention. Now the Mo Dynasty wants to unify Annan, which is naturally in line with Huang Kezhang's intentions.

He met with the envoy of the Mo Dynasty and said: "The Mo Dynasty has always been friendly with the Ming Dynasty, since we want to eradicate the rebellion, then I should try my best to help." We have made an appointment that your country will send troops from the land to attack the northern land of the Zheng clan, and our navy will dispatch to directly attack Thanh Hoa, so that the Zheng clan can be annihilated in one fell swoop and the northern rivers and mountains can be recovered. ”

The envoys of the Mo Dynasty were naturally overjoyed, they did not have a naval army, and if there was the help of the Ming navy, even if it could not be said that they would win, at least it would increase their chances of victory.

Huang Kezhang summoned the admirals to discuss the matter of assisting the Mo Dynasty in attacking the Zheng clan. The generals were naturally overjoyed, since the battle with the Dutch, the navy on the Taiwan side had not fought for a long time.

The only admirals on Taiwan's side are Zheng Zhan and Chen Houfu. Both wanted to go to Annam, but Zheng Zha became the commander of the navy to assist Annam through threats and inducements.