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Thirty miles outside Tongzhou, Yang Bajin is taking his eldest son to weed in the dry land allocated to his family.

Yang Bajin has two sons, and the eldest son, Yang Dafu, was rejected by the personnel of the New Army Recruitment Station because he was over 30 years old, and he was unable to get the salary and eat the emperor's grain.

Although the youngest son Yang Dagui is in his twenties, he is also on the older side of a group of eighteen or nineteen-year-old recruits, but after all, he did not exceed the line drawn by the recruiting station, so now he went to Zhuozhou, entered the big camp, and became the emperor's new army reserve.

This also allowed Yang Bajin, the lieutenant chief, to continue to straighten up and speak. Because in the entire tunzi, the tun households from Tiannan and Haibei are basically one or two men from every household to apply.

Others don't know the above policy, but Yang Bajin, as the lieutenant chief, knows it, and the boss calls this military service, and if he divides the emperor's field and eats the food given by the emperor, he has to serve the emperor in the military.

This point, in Yang Bajin's view, is simply natural and correct, after all, if you farm the landlord's land, you have to pay rent to the landlord, you carry long-term work for the landlord's family, you have to listen to people's greetings.

Thirty miles of the original Huangzhuang boundary, now divided into hundreds of families, almost every family out of military service, Yang Bajin family of three single men, if you can't go to one, he is not hard-hearted.

Now that the youngest son has got his wish, Yang Bajin is also angry in his heart, and when he sees someone, he wants to come up and say a few words about going to Zhuozhou to send recruits to the camp.

At noon on this day, the sun was poisoning, Yang Bajin and the nearby fields of the new tunhu, sitting on the side of the road gossiping, was boasting about how big the Zhuozhou camp was, suddenly heard a rush of horses' hooves, was in doubt when three stagecoaches galloped in front of him.

Yang Bajin ran into the customs from Liaoyang, and lived in Gyeonggi for many years, so he was naturally well-informed, and said to the tunhu around him: "Riding a stagecoach and carrying a small flag, I know at a glance that this is an urgent delivery to report the military situation!" ”

What Yang Bajin said is right, this is an urgent delivery just sent out by Thirty Miles, and it is an urgent military report of Six Hundred Miles.

In the afternoon of the same day, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City, got this military newspaper from Zhang Weixian, the minister on duty at the Military Aircraft Department.

The military newspaper was jointly signed by Wen Tiren, the new governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and the content was not complicated, saying that Emperor Chongzhen had already known the news, that is, the two joined forces to recruit Zheng Zhilong, the pirate leader off the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and then folded it up to ask the emperor for his consent, and granted him the official position of Fujian coastal defense guerrilla.

Historically, in March of the first year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, tried to recruit Zheng Zhilong, and the imperial court then gave Zheng Zhilong the post of Fujian coastal defense guerrilla.

Now in March, the imperial court added the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang was stationed in Fuzhou, and the governor of the same city, Xiong Wencan did not dare to make decisions without permission, so he had to wait for Wen Tiren to take office, so the surrender of Zheng Zhilong was postponed to May.

Fortunately, Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua were both working in Tongzhou, one was dealing with the affairs of the martial arts hall, and the other was dealing with the affairs of the military garrison, so in the evening, the ministers and the military aircraft were rarely gathered.

Emperor Chongzhen sent the military newspaper from Fujian to all the ministers, and then said: "Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan, appeased the pirate leader Zheng Zhilong, there is one less big kou in the southeast sea, and one more guerrilla, in general, this is a good thing, I am very happy." However, after appeasing Zheng Zhilong, how the imperial court should be placed, where it should be placed, and how to deal with its subordinates, the Qing and others will discuss it. ”

Hearing the emperor's words, the important ministers present looked at each other, and in the end, it was Li Guoyi who spoke.

Li Guoyi bowed down and said, "Your Majesty! Since the Apocalypse years, the minister has heard that there are pirates along the coast of Fujian, among which the leader is named Li Dan, this person is entrenched in Japan, remote control the southeast of the Kou to make trouble, and another large sea of robbers named Yan Siqi, entrenched in the ocean east of the Fujian Sea, its place is called Dongfan Island.

Zheng Zhilong and his people were under the command of Li Dan and Yan Siqi, who defeated the Fujian general army Yu Zhigao at the beginning of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Chenguan Wen Tiren and Xiong Wencan played a sparse song, Li Dan and Yan Siqi are all dead, if the Zheng family returns to the imperial court, it is really a blessing for the imperial court, and from then on Minhai can be a little peaceful. ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "Jinyiwei and Dongchang have reported that Zheng Zhilong has 700 ships and 30,000 troops on the Fujian Sea, and the red-haired people in the southeast sea are afraid of him. Now that its subordinates are attached, if the imperial court only makes it a guerrilla, I am afraid it will be difficult to win the hearts of its people. ”

After speaking, he looked at the ministers. At this time, Sun Chengzong said: "Your Majesty, the minister does not know much about the affairs of the southeast sea, but he knows that this kind of pirate who crisscrosses the sea, even if he belongs to the imperial court, will not be honest and obedient, even if the imperial court orders him to be the chief soldier, the minister may not be able to accept the hearts of his subordinates.

"If Your Majesty has such concerns, you can give him the rank of commander of his own guard, and give him the post of general of coastal defense, and the leaders of his subordinate departments can also confer the rank of officers of thousands and hundreds of households, and at the same time give him the posts of guerrilla, garrison, and general of coastal defense, and order him to dispatch his own troops to exterminate pirates from other departments, so that the purpose of dividing his forces, collecting his subordinates, and cutting his edges and corners may be achieved."

At this time, it is a good idea to set up a Dongfanwei on the island of Taiwan, which can not only arrange the so-called "Eighteen Zhizhi" under Zheng Zhilong, but also develop the current island of Taiwan, and at the same time promote the large-scale migration of the southeast coast in advance.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen said to Xu Guangqi, Li Banghua, and Zhang Weixian, who had not yet spoken: "Li Aiqing, what Sun Aiqing said is reasonable. If you have any ideas, please share them all. ”

At this time, Xu Guangqi said: "Your Majesty, now that Zheng Zhilong's troops have surrendered, the minister thinks that this is a good opportunity for a day. Except for the uncivilized savages of the Dongfan tribes, the vegetation on the whole island is dense, and there are many streams, especially suitable for reclamation and farming, it is really a good place to transfer and resettle the hungry people of my Ming Dynasty.

"Now that the imperial court has added the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the general leader of the disaster relief and relief of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, and the affairs of recruiting people for reclamation, it is better to let the governors of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces take this opportunity to move hundreds of thousands of disaster victims along the coast to Dongfan Island for reclamation, one can eliminate the chaos of the hungry people in Fujian and Zhejiang, and the other can enrich the east, and one day it will be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Please think about it, Your Majesty. ”

Xu Guangqi's idea was exactly what Emperor Chongzhen had in mind at this time, and the population of Taiwan in later generations reached 23 million, which shows how great the potential for developing Taiwan is.

At the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, the population of the entire Ming Dynasty was only a little more than 100 million, and all the displaced people in the world, taken together, were only three or four million people living in the northwest.

However, it was these three or four million displaced people who ended up messing up the whole world.

Now, if we find an opportunity to transfer all these three to four million displaced people to Dongfan Island, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds, first, to develop the desert island, and second, to stabilize the mainland. Even if it is a million immigrants to the East, it can at least reduce the number of soldiers or followers of the thieves by one million.

At this time, Zhang Weixian, the minister of military aircraft, said: "Your Majesty, since it is known that Zheng Zhilong and others are unruly and unruly, the imperial court will grant him an official position, and let him attack and destroy other pirates, one to thwart his front, and the other to divide his people, so that the imperial court can sit and reap the profits, and when the new army of the imperial court is trained, if it is sincerely attached, then listen to Xuan to come to Beijing, if it is not sincerely attached, listen to the tune and do not listen to Xuan, the imperial court can send people to destroy it." Nowadays, if a large number of immigrants to the East are immigrated to the East, the people who move are the people of the Zheng family, which is tantamount to strengthening the power of this generation. ”

As soon as the British public Zhang Weixian's voice fell, Li Banghua continued: "Your Majesty, although the British public's words are reasonable, the minister thinks that the lesser of two evils and the heavier of the two benefits. Nowadays, recruiting hungry people to reclaim the east has its disadvantages and advantages.

The disadvantage is that Zheng Zhilong led the crowd to return, precisely because there are few people in Dongfan, the livelihood is difficult, and the supply is difficult, the immigration settlement may be in the hands of the Zheng family, and it may become more and more difficult to control it later.

"And the advantage is that the famine in our interior is serious, and there are more and more displaced people, which is a major source of chaos.

"The minister thinks that the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Even if there is a rebellion in the future, the Zheng clan will only be based on an island, and it will be a disaster but a southeast, but once the displaced people are in chaos, it will be a great trouble for my Ming henchmen. Your Majesty is invited to take a clear look. ”

These people have actually spoken very thoroughly, and their opinions have been fully expressed.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately ordered the cabinet to draft a decree to grant Zheng Zhilong, who had returned, as a general of Quanzhou coastal defense, and his subordinate leaders Zheng Xing, Zheng Ming, Zheng Cai, Chen Hui, He Bin, etc., were appointed to the posts of guerrilla, garrison, and capital division in Nan'an, Xiamen, Penghu, Beigang and other places.

At the same time, the imperial court set up Dongfanwei on Dongfan Island, with Zheng Zhilong as the commander, and his younger brothers Zheng Zhihu and Zheng Zhibao as the commander of the Dongfanwei and commanded the affairs, and set up five thousand households in Dongfan from north to south, and Zheng Zhilong's subordinates held official positions such as thousands of households and hundreds of households.

In addition, the Quanzhou City Shipping Department was opened, with Zheng Zhilong as the Quanzhou City Shipping Division, and ordered it to collect the commercial tax of foreign merchant ships passing through the Fujian Sea and docking at Quanzhou Moon Port.

At the same time, Wen Tiren, Xiong Wencan, and Zheng Zhilong were sent to forcibly relocate the victims of Fujian and Zhejiang, and crossed the sea to Dongfan Tunken.

On the second day, these holy decrees were dispatched by Jinyi Wei to Fuzhou at an expedited speed of 600 miles.