"Your Highness, we have recruited more than 300,000 immigrants to gather in the coastal ports, and they consume a lot of grain and grass every day, and we have to prepare winter clothes and shelters for them. Now that the funds of the Anton Pioneer Group this year have been exhausted, I hope that His Royal Highness will allocate a sum of money......"

Cui Yuqing anxiously asked Li Yu that he had come to present to His Highness today that in addition to the immigrants he had recruited, more importantly, he had come for the funds of the Anton Pioneer Group. Although the budget of the Anton Pioneer Group under his charge this year is 500,000 yuan, it cannot withstand the daily consumption of more than 300,000 migrants who are transported all the way to coastal ports and wait for the arrival of sea ships.

Moreover, the Andong Pioneer Group was still responsible for the food, clothing, shelter, and agricultural tools of the immigrants who arrived on the overseas islands before they received the grain harvest the following year. 500,000 yuan a year will be gone by the end of November.

Before His Royal Highness's southern expedition, all the industrial institutions belonging to the Yanwang Mansion were under the sole responsibility of the secretariat, and Xin'er Mushroom Liang did not approve the funding application of their Anton Pioneer Group because the Yanwang Southern Expedition was in urgent need of money and food.

In the end, Cui Yuqing had no choice but to borrow 100,000 yuan from several wealthy banks in Datang to support the situation, and waited for the funds applied for after King Yan came back to be approved and the money would be returned.

The funds of the Andong Pioneer Group were insufficient, and after Li Yu returned to Pyongyang, Xin'er told him that he had a headache for a while.

To be precise, the lack of sea capacity has led to the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of migrants who can only wait for the return of the fleet for a long time at the port of departure, and the money and food consumption in the waiting time cannot be stopped.

Li Yu has only two fleets that can transport more than 50,000 people at a time, and it takes a month for each port in the Yangtze River basin to travel to and from Taiwan at the earliest, and it takes more than two or three months in the Yellow River basin.

"I have approved the funds you applied for, and I will give you an extra 50,000 yuan in case of emergency." Li Yu said quite painfully.

It is said that the southern expedition cost millions of guan, and Li Yu's treasury was almost bottomed out, and the 150,000 guan allocated this time was converted from the property seized by Silla.

Cui Yuqing and other prime ministers of the Anton Pioneer Group suddenly looked happy, and the funding problem that had plagued them for more than a month was finally solved.

The sea transport capacity was already insufficient, and now Li Yu wanted to carry out immigration to the South Seas, and suddenly worried about the old problem of increasing the sea transport fleet.

It will take a year for the fleet to go back and forth to the South Seas, and there is not enough capacity to fill the islands of the South Seas with enough immigrants to control the main islands.

"By the way, Mr. Cui, how many immigrants are currently moving into Taiwan?"

Because of the Southern Expedition, Li Yu has not paid attention to this aspect since the wave of immigration to Taiwan started at the beginning of the year, so that it is not clear how many people have immigrated to Taiwan at present.

Cui Yuqing was still happy to get a large amount of money in his heart, and when he suddenly heard that Li Yu asked about Taiwan's immigrant population, he immediately replied: "Your Highness, in addition to the two fleets that are still on the road carrying more than 50,000 people, only the two fleets have transported more than 52,300 people into Taiwan at the beginning of this year. In addition, the Taiwan Governor's Office has reported back that there are about 20,000 immigrants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who spontaneously went to Taiwan......"

"In other words, there are more than 60,000 people in Taiwan at present?"

"Your Highness, plus the families of the Chaos Guards stationed in Taiwan who moved in, there should be more than 70,000 mouths."

Cui Yuqing added.

"So much of the Book of Scriptures?" Li Yu was a little stunned.

Coupled with the more than 50,000 people on the road, shouldn't Taiwan move into more than 120,000 people?

In Li Yu's view, there is no need for Taiwan to move in more than 100,000 people in the initial stage, and the development of Taiwan Island is currently limited to the western plain, and in the future, the eastern sea route of Taiwan Island will start to develop the north and south ends of the Yilan Plain and the Taitung Rift Valley Plain.

But now, Li Yu really doesn't want to waste the extra population on the island of Taiwan, because it will delay the development of the Nanyang Islands.

However, both fleets were on their way, and it was impossible for them to change course to the South Seas. If this is really done, not to mention that most of the captains and sailors in the fleet have never been to the South China Sea and are not familiar with the sea conditions of the shipping routes, it will have a very bad impact on the immigrants who want to start a new life in Taiwan.

Not to mention that there will be a riot, the immigrants will definitely have a sense of being deceived, and the news will definitely be transmitted back to Datang, so don't think about recruiting immigrants in the future.

What's more, there are still some powerful people in the Tang Dynasty among the immigrants!

However, most of the immigrants carried by the fleet were penniless people in the Guanzhong area, and they had not eaten the last meal, and these people were fooled.

They joined the Anton Pioneer Group in exchange for the opportunity to go overseas to divide their fields to survive, which was tantamount to selling themselves to the Anton Pioneer Group. You must know that when they boarded the ship, each of them signed a contract: from the signing of this contract, the signatory must unconditionally obey the opening of the Anton Pioneer Group for five years, and the violator will be punished as a fugitive.

As for the method of treatment, it depends on Li Yu's manpower needs to develop overseas places, of course, the most dangerous place must be this gang of criminals.

Thinking of this, Li Yu opened his eyes and smiled, and when the fleet arrived in Taiwan, he picked out 10,000 strong and healthy victims who would not be given land first, but would live and recuperate for ten days and a half months. Captains and sailors who were familiar with the Nanyang routes were dispatched to form a fleet of immigrants from Taiwan to the South Seas, and the 10,000 immigrants were transported in batches to the Luzon and Yanshui Prefectures on Luzon Island and the Boni Prefectures in Borneo. There were 3,000 people in each governor's house, and the other 1,000 people were sent to Polo Chung (Singapore) from Luo Yueguo.

If it goes well, by the autumn harvest next year, there will be four self-sufficient and stable advance bases in Nanyang, which will undoubtedly be much more convenient for further development in Nanyang.

Li Yu habitually tapped his index finger and said: "When the two immigrant fleets arrive in Taiwan at the end of the year, Taiwan's population will exceed 120,000." That's too much for an island to move in in a short period of time......"

Cui Yuqing and the others looked at each other, and some didn't quite understand what His Highness meant?

"It is not a good idea to put such a large population in Taiwan, in contrast to the three prefectures established on the two islands of the South Seas, which have no Han people except for the army. For the three governors in the deep fierce island barbarian siege, it is really not a good phenomenon. This is not conducive to the imperial court's control of the newly occupied territory, nor is it conducive to our Andong Protectorate to profit from it. ”

Li Yu paused: "Therefore, after the two fleets arrived in Taiwan, 10,000 people were carefully selected from the victims who joined the Andong Pioneer Group, and six men and four women were transferred to the three governor's offices in batches for resettlement......