According to the Nanyang expedition report submitted by Zhang Qin and the topographic map, latitude and longitude of the islands along the way drawn by Wang Haichong, the Nanyang landform was roughly presented in the sand table of the world's map in the palace after being sorted out by the people of the Surveying and Mapping Department.

The sand table is a large hall covering an area of more than 600 square meters, which paints the Tang Dynasty territory and the surrounding mountains, rivers, landforms and cities in the sand table. It's just that most of the area of this sand table is still blank, and Li Yu looks forward to one day filling the blank space of this sand table of the world's map.

But it's clear that this is a long way to go.

Looking at the newly added sea and land terrain of the South China Sea in the southern blank space of the sand table of the Surveying and Mapping Division, Li Yu showed a greedy gaze.

Although the South China Sea is tropical, except for Java Island, which is a fertile island formed by the fertile volcanic ash brought by numerous volcanic eruptions, the environment of the other islands is relatively harsh, and tropical diseases are rife. But it is undeniable that Nanyang is strategically located in the world; underground and seabed mineral deposits; Suitable cash crops are the pearls of the sea that can support a nation to establish global hegemony and cut off the main communication routes between East and West.

The reason why a strong political power was not born in Nanyang in later generations is directly related to the ethnic group that occupies it and the political system that has not been unified.

In other words, the nature of those natives in the South Seas is that even if they give away country Z and the North American continent, they will not build a strong country, and they will waste the treasure land of the South Seas.

Of course, the tropical island of the South China Sea alone is still a little insufficient in Li Yu's opinion, and it needs a piece of land in other climates and environments that is not small to supplement it, so as to be foolproof.

Li Yu's gaze moved southward from the South Seas on the sand table, leaving a large blank space there, an ideal foundation place.

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"Nanyang, Nanyang......"

Li Yu was thinking about the establishment of three prefectures in Nanyang and Yijing, and he should start arranging immigrants to reclaim the land. The Nanyang expedition came to Puluozhong (i.e., Singapore Island) from Luo Yueguo, and had to send another army to station.

For this reason, Li Yu asked Cui Yuqing, the head of the Andong Pioneer Group, who was in charge of immigration affairs, and the prime minister, who was in charge of recruiting immigrants from various places, to inquire about the number of immigrants who could move overseas at the end of this year and early next year.

"Your Highness, judging from the data currently available to Chen, the number of disaster victims we have received in Guanzhong and Henan and some immigrants who bought tickets to go overseas to earn a living at their own expense has left more than 67,000 people after the two immigrant fleets on the way to Taiwan transported more than 51,000 people."

Cui Yuqing turned out the detailed account book.

"Hedong has recruited 22,000 people by the end of the year and is willing to go overseas."

"There are 37,000 people recruited in Hebei."

"Huainan has recruited more than 29,000 immigrants."

"There are more than 15,000 people in Jiannan who are willing to emigrate overseas."

"There are 43,000 immigrants in Shannan Province."

"Gangnam Province has recruited more than 68,000 immigrants, and we know that more poor people are going to our recruitment points."

"There are less than 7,000 people who are willing to emigrate."

"There are 10,000 people in Hexi who are willing to go overseas to settle down."

"There are 11,000 immigrants in Lingnan."

The prime minister of the Anton Pioneer Group, who is responsible for recruiting immigrants in each of the remaining eight places west of the Daojia River, has reported the number of immigrants he has recruited this year.

Except for Longyou and Hexi, which have a small population, it is reasonable that there are few immigrants recruited, but the ratio of the remaining seven immigrants to the total local population is very small.

However, fortunately, Datang is large enough, although the official population is only more than 30 million, but there are more than 40 million people in various places, such as hidden households, fugitives, slaves, disaster victims, and displaced people. (Too many people think that the peak population of the Tang Dynasty in the past few hundred years is not as good as the total population of the Sui Dynasty in the past 30 years, but they don't know that the Sui Dynasty has a lot of people because of the Da Suo Maung Yue and the Nationality Loss Law to catch black households, while the Tang Dynasty pays taxes according to households, and the local government, Haoqiang, and private households wantonly conceal the number of households, so the total number of people officially counted is lower than the actual population.) ）

Although the number of people recruited by each province in a year is small, it adds up to more than 300,000.

If we can get more than 300,000 immigrants every year, we can move millions of people overseas by the first year of Hongdao (683), which is enough to support a country.

The figures reported by the head of the Anton Pioneer Group and the prime ministers were still satisfactory to Li Yu.

The only thing that surprised Li Yu was that Gangnam Province, which is not the most populous, has the largest number of people willing to move overseas.

Li Yu asked puzzledly: "How can so many people in Jiangnan Province be willing to move overseas?" ”

The prime minister in charge of the recruitment of immigrants in Gangnam Province replied with a somewhat embarrassed face: "Your Highness, this is because Gangnam Province has a large population and has always been wealthy, and the taxes paid by the imperial court have always been much higher than those of the other nine provinces. Even in the fourth year of Yonghui, there was an uprising of Chen Shuozhen, a female streamer in Muzhou, eastern Zhejiang, with tens of thousands of followers and several counties. Therefore, the local people could not bear the heavy taxes and had the intention of fleeing, seeing that His Royal Highness gave a few hundred acres of land and two or three years of preferential conditions for tax exemption, there were many people who were willing to emigrate overseas. Nuofei has the local government and strong to stop it, and I am afraid that the number of immigrants we recruit will double. Some people in the three prefectures of eastern Zhejiang, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Ming Prefecture, which are close to Taiwan, heard that His Highness had opened up Taiwan and used the land to absorb the common people to reclaim the land, and as many as 20,000 or 30,000 people spontaneously sailed to Taiwan. ”

As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "I see, it seems that this king's overseas expansion should be a good deed for the poor people of the Tang Dynasty." ”

"There are many reckless mountains in Shannan Province, and the land is barren, but it has always been a gathering place for displaced people and runaways, and they can't eat and dress in the mountains all year round, and their lives are very hard. Hearing about His Royal Highness's good deeds, the people in the mountains came to join the ...... with their children and daughters with a happy face."

The Prime Minister of Shannan Province also talked about the situation of the immigrants he recruited, and his words sometimes showed joy, which means that he can recruit more immigrants and leave a better impression in front of His Highness.

"Your Highness is benevolent and righteous, His Royal Highness Nofei has provided a large number of overseas borderless lands, and I don't know how many poor people have been ruined under the oppression of taxes, natural disasters, harsh officials, and powerful people......"

Some of Cui Yuqing and others came from the heart, and some just patted Li Yu's sycophants for Wei to praise.

Li Yu smiled faintly, but his heart was not easy.

Whether it is what the prime minister of Gangnam Province or Sannan Province said, he can think of the scene at that time.

The heavy taxes of the imperial court and the oppression of the harsh officials forced ordinary people to flee their homes and seek a way to survive. Nofi has him in this plane to stir up the storm and point out another way out, and I don't know how many people are still struggling and can't see hope.

Although the way out provided by Li Yu is not as good as he advertised, and there are several years to survive a truly happy life, accompanied by tropical diseases and ferocious barbarian attacks on the way, the prospect is worthy of affirmation.

After all, there are many high-value cash crops in the tropics, and the climate and environment of three crops a year are good enough for a family of five to live a well-off life.

For the tragedy of cannibalism in the Central Plains in a few decades, there is almost no need to worry about it when it comes to the tropics.

The only concern is that they will arrive in their new hometowns and will be able to implement the hygiene guidelines he has set, otherwise it is not known how many people will die from tropical diseases.

Li Yu could only ask for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas in his heart, and then prepare enough quicklime for immigrants to clean up the disinfection of their residences, and strictly ordered the officials of the governors of each colony to implement their own hygiene guidelines for the soldiers and civilians in their jurisdictions, and if they caused a large-scale epidemic outbreak, they could only be severely punished.