"Your Majesty, the minister thought that he could postpone immigration and build the Chi Road, these two national policies cost millions of taels of silver dollars every year, and have always been the biggest burden on the empire." Guo Yunhou suggested.

"These two national policies must not be stopped, they are related to the future of the entire empire, although the cost is huge now, but future generations will definitely continue to benefit from these two national policies." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, Governor Liu Youfu of Leng Zhou requests that all prisoners in the empire be exiled to Leng Zhou." Zhou Yingqiu said. After Liu Youfu arrived in Leng Zhou, he found that what he needed most was people, Leng Zhou was too big, he knew that it was not realistic to immigrate to Leng Zhou now, so he had to go off the rails and ask for the prisoners to be exiled to Leng Zhou.

"What do you think?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"I think this suggestion can be considered, although it will be expensive to transport these prisoners to Leng Chau, but it will save a lot of money compared to holding these prisoners." Guo Yunhou agreed.

"The minister seconded the proposal, as Guo Ge Lao said, the exile of these prisoners to Lengzhou would not only save the treasury expenses, but also solve the problem of Leng Chau immigration." Zhou Yingqiu also agreed.

"Then deal with it according to Liu Youfu's opinion, the prisoners before the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, except for the death row prisoners, all the rest of them were exiled to Lengzhou, and those who are willing to bring their families can bring their families." Zhu Youxiao said. As for how to deal with these prisoners after being exiled to Leng Chau, the matter will be handled by the local officials of Leng Chau.

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Zhu Youxiao left Beijing for a few months, and there were a lot of government affairs that Zhu Youxiao needed to deal with, and Zhu Youxiao was busy in Songjiang Mansion for three days before he was basically sorted out. Regarding the Yansui disaster relief, it was finally decided that the Imperial Community Chest would fund the disaster relief, but in fact, the existing funds of the Imperial Community Chest were not enough to complete the disaster relief, and the small private also donated 100,000 taels of silver dollars to raise enough funds for disaster relief.

Zhu Youxiao's last day in Songjiang Mansion was to meet with businessmen from Songjiang Mansion.

"I have summoned you here to hear your opinions on maritime trade." Zhu Youxiao said.

"Your Majesty, although the sea trade has developed rapidly in recent years, we still can't compete with the Westerners, our caravan can only reach Batavia at the farthest, and we can't go further west, in fact, the farther west we go, the greater the profit, but unfortunately we can't get this part of the profit." Jiang Yan said.

"Is it because of pirates?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"It's because of pirates, indeed." Jiang Yan replied.

"For the time being, the power of the empire cannot be projected to the Western Ocean, but the empire will gradually loosen its control over armed caravans in the next two or three years, allowing merchants to form their own armed caravans." Zhu Youxiao said.

Zhu Youxiao's statement made the scene lively. Private ownership of armed ships was strictly forbidden in the Empire, and now the Empire has suddenly allowed private ownership of armed ships, which for a moment has made merchants look excited and worried.

"Of course, there are requirements for private ownership of armed caravans, and it cannot be unlimited. In fact, there is still a lot of business that can be done, and there are a large number of gold, silver, copper, iron and other ores in Luzon and Lengzhou in the empire, and I am ready to relax the control over the mineral development in these two provinces, and all those who develop minerals in these two places can be exempted from tax for five years. Zhu Youxiao said.

For Zhu Youxiao's policy, there are not many businessmen who are interested, and when they go to Luzon to open mines, businessmen feel that it is a bit far, while Lengzhou is even farther away from the empire, and it is more difficult to open mines.

Seeing that the businessmen didn't seem to be very interested, Zhu Youxiao thought about it and said, "I will bring cinchona trees from South America to me." ”

"No." Wang Liqian said. For cinchona trees, most people in this era still don't know the use, in the Ming Dynasty, except for Zhu Youxiao, no one knows its use, so all people don't understand why Zhu Youxiao spent a lot of money to buy cinchona trees from Nanyang?

Zhu Youxiao pointed to the cinchona tree and said: "This tree was bought by me from South America, and a very important use of this tree is that its bark can be used in medicine, and it is a special medicine to cure the 'pendulum', which can almost be said to be a medicine to get rid of the disease." ”

The merchants were really more interested in this news, if the cinchona tree could be planted on a large scale, it would be able to obtain income immediately, and at this time, someone immediately asked: "Your Majesty, can this tree be planted in the empire?" ”

"Cinchona is a bit demanding on the environment, as far as I know, only Taiwan and Luzon can be planted, and it is difficult to grow in other places, so I specially brought a few locals and a batch of seeds, if anyone is interested, I can let them be responsible for teaching everyone how to plant." Zhu Youxiao said.

Hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, several businessmen at the scene expressed their willingness to try to plant cinchona trees. After the medicinal value of cinchona bark was known to Europeans, it was once known as the "holy medicine", and the Dutch made a lot of money for it.

Zhu Youxiao understood that in order to complete the immigration to the new territory, he could not rely on the imperial court alone, but also relied on the power of the people, and in order to attract more imperial people to Luzon and Taiwan, he really did everything he could, and he was willing to give up this kind of cinchona tree that could bring him great economic benefits.

The advent of the cinchona tree prompted the empire to produce its first plantations.

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After staying in Shanghai for a few days, Zhu Youxiao embarked on the journey back to Beijing, although he passed by Yingtianfu in the middle, Zhu Youxiao did not stop, but left directly, he had left Beijing for too long, and he was now like an arrow.

In April, Zhu Youxiao received a secret report from Dongchang: In mid-March, Houjin cast a red-coated cannon in the Alchuka Fortress, and the cannon body was engraved with the words: Tianyou cheers the general. After the gold-cast cannon was successful. After the success of the Houjin cannon, it was decided to build a new city hundreds of miles away from Shenyang and named it "Jilin Wula".

Yuan Chonghuan Shangshu asked to send troops to Jilin Wula, and destroyed the city while it was not completed, but Zhu Youxiao did not send it. Hearing the success of Houjin casting cannons, Zhu Youxiao was originally a little worried, but when he heard that Houjin built Jilin Wula City, Zhu Youxiao was immediately overjoyed and wanted to rely on the city to compete with the Ming Dynasty, which was definitely good news for Zhu Youxiao.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also received a secret report, saying that after Huang Taiji returned from Shenyang, his physical condition had been poor, and there was a struggle for power inside, and Abatai was exiled by Huang Taiji to Manjing Station further north.

On the eighth day of the seventh month, Huang Taiji gathered the ministers of Baylor to discuss and set up an official system, including the household department, the ritual department, the military department, the criminal department, and the industrial department. Baylor manages the affairs of the department, and each department has eight members of the government under it, and a number of Qixinlang and pen posts. Each does its own thing, and does not leave anything behind. This time, Huang Taiji's official system is very different from history, and the Han people have not been reused this time, which has a lot to do with the defeat of Houjin.