In the next few days, in addition to accompanying his wife and daughter, Zhou Zhong also had to accompany his mother Empress Dowager Zhang, who had just met him, the empress dowager with a strong personality suffered too many misfortunes in the first half of her life, and watched her husband and daughter die one by one, but she survived, and now she can recognize her son who has been missing for many years again, and naturally has endless words.

In fact, for the mother of the Empress Dowager Zhang, Zhou Zhong is still a little emotionally repulsed, after all, he is not the original Zhou Chong, and he does not attach much importance to the blood and family affection in this life, in his heart, his relatives are only Aunt Wang and Bang'er, Duo'er, plus Jinxuan's wives and daughters, but for this noble mother who suddenly appeared, Zhou Chong still couldn't accept it for a while.

However, it doesn't matter if I can't accept it in my heart, this does not prevent the relationship between Zhou Zhong and the Empress Dowager Zhang, after all, feelings can be cultivated, and I accompany the Empress Dowager Zhang every day to talk about family life for a while, and then tease the daughter in Jinxuan's arms together, and even sometimes the Empress Dowager Zhang will urge Jinxuan and Lingyun to let them quickly have another son, so that the Ming Dynasty will be stable, and as a result, Jinxuan and Lingyun are shy.

However, although Jinxuan and Lingyun were shy in front of the Empress Dowager Zhang, they were not shy at all, the two took turns to squeeze Zhou Chong, and it was a few months for Zhou Chong to leave, and now Xiao Biesheng is newly married, naturally like glue, and he also wants to conceive a son as soon as possible, after all, this child is likely to be the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty. This also made Zhou seriously painful and happy, the only sequelae was that he was sleepy every day, and his legs and feet were a little weak, so he had to make more big supplements in the kitchen. Otherwise, he really won't be able to hold on.

In addition to spending time with family. The rest of Zhou Chong's time was spent discussing with Zhengde about the relocation of the victims to Nanyang. After careful persuasion last time, Zhengde finally agreed to this matter, but after all, this is a matter related to the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule, so it must not be sloppy, and the two of them have been carefully studying the details of this matter these days.

"Brother Huang, we must be cautious about the relocation of the victims, we can't force those who are affected, but we must lure them to their advantage. This requires publicity in advance, such as asking the government to send people to spread the wealth of Nanyang, and that each family can get food subsidies from the imperial court, and this food is also to be distributed to the victims anyway, and now it can be exchanged for the disaster victims to go to Nanyang voluntarily. Zhou Zhong looked at the disaster situation in Henan Mansion, and said to Zhengde, who was studying the map of the South Seas next to him.

"Well, I also know these things, the emotions of the victims are unstable, so naturally they can't be strong, but now I'm a little worried. How many victims can be accommodated in such a small place as the port of Malacca? You must know that hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by the disaster this time, although there may not be many people who are willing to go to Nanyang in the future, but there are still tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and so many people will pour into Malacca City at once, how should these victims be arranged, and where will so much food be mobilized? Zhengde said with a sad face at this time.

Zhengde as an emperor, although he is not very dedicated as an emperor, but he also knows a lot about government affairs, for example, from his point of view, the relocation of the victims is a big project that costs money, and it is still a small matter to lure these victims to move to Nanyang, but how to arrange these victims after they move out, where to live, and where does the food consumed every day come from? These are all issues that he needs to consider, and they are all big problems, and one bad one will cause unrest among the victims.

However, when Zhou Zhong heard Zhengde's words, he laughed, and only after a while did he speak: "Brother Huang, you think too much, and you underestimate the digestive ability of Malacca City, not to mention anything else, after the last Portuguese massacre, the population of Malacca City has been reduced by half, although the houses in the city are somewhat damaged, but simple repairs can live in people, and the weather in Malacca is hot, even if you sleep in the open air, it is nothing, at most, you can set up some tents, and there will be no place for the victims to live." ”

Zhou Zhong paused at this point, and then said: "In addition, when it comes to arrangement, it is not a problem, the port of Malacca has just been accepted by us, and it is the time when we need manpower, and I also plan to mobilize merchants to build shipyards, timber mills, iron factories, etc. in the port, these require a large number of manpower, if the disaster victims cannot be digested, then divide the land around the port of Malacca to them, anyway, many of those lands are already terra nullius, and they are very fertile, as long as they are willing to work hard to cultivate, plus the local climate, You can plant rice uninterrupted throughout the year, and I believe that it won't be long before there will be another grain producing area in my Ming Dynasty. ”

Hearing Zhou Chong's words, Zhengde also nodded again and again, and then asked: "The problem of relocating these victims has been solved, but the daily consumption of food by these victims is not a small amount, even if the country can squeeze out these grains, but if you want to transport it to Malacca for thousands of miles, the freight alone is a lot of expenses......

Before Zhengde's words were finished, he was interrupted by Zhou Chong: "How can the imperial brother forget, Nanyang itself is a big grain depot, there is no need for us to transfer grain from the country, as long as we take the money to Zhancheng, Zhenla and other places to buy, it is easy to buy a lot of cheap grain, if it is not enough, then I will send warships to all parts of Nanyang to rob, anyway, those natives are lazy and gluttonous, and it is too wasteful to occupy those rich islands." ”

Originally, Zhengde heard Zhou Zhong say that he would go to occupy land and other places to buy grain, and he immediately felt that he was suddenly enlightened, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he only wanted to solve the problem within the Ming Dynasty, but forgot to seek a solution from other countries. However, when he heard Zhou Chong say that he was going to send a large army to grab food, he couldn't help crying and laughing, if the sailors who let people know that the Ming Dynasty actually robbed those people who had turned into foreigners for a little food, I am afraid that his face as the emperor would be lost by Zhou Chong, so he naturally reprimanded Zhou Chong for absolutely not doing this, and Zhou Chong also smiled and agreed.

However, what Zhengde didn't know was that although Zhou Zhong agreed on the surface, he was thinking in his heart where he should rob if the food was really not enough, anyway, the sailor in his hands was idle now, so it was better to release the Lu to let them move, that is, they could train the army, and they could get food and property, which was really a two-way thing, and the Europeans in later generations did it.

Zhengde and Empress Dowager Zhang lived in Shuangyu Port for about half a month, and then they had to go back to Beijing, after all, with their identity, it was not easy to come out, I heard that it was Li Dongyang and others who were personally persuaded by Empress Dowager Zhang before, so they came out, and now they have to go back.

There are very few people who know the news of Zhengde coming to Shuangyu Port, and even Yu Wenyuan, the prefect of Ningbo, knows nothing, so he is quiet when he leaves, no one knows that Lu Dao In this half a month, Shuangyu Port actually lives in such two big people, and I don't know that Lu Dao Zhou Chong's current identity is no longer a simple admiral, but the only younger brother of the Ming Emperor, to put it mildly, if there is any accident in Zhengde, Zhou Zhong can naturally become the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but for some reason, Zhou Chong's identity has not been made public, except for Zhengde and Empress Dowager Zhang, only Zhou Chong and Jinxuan know the truth, as for Xie Lingyun, although she has also been with the Empress Dowager Zhang for a while, she does not know the true identity of the Empress Dowager Zhang, but she seems to have guessed something from the Empress Dowager Zhang, and has never taken the initiative to ask Zhou Chong about the Empress Dowager Zhang.

Zhengde came quietly, and the most reluctantly went quietly, when he left, only Zhou Zhong and Jinxuan held their daughter Xia Xia standing on the pier to see them off, Xia Xia is the daughter's nickname, because she was born in the summer, and her name is called Kangtai, although Zhou Zhong feels that this name is like a cold medicine in later generations, but he can only pinch his nose and admit it, because this is the name set by the Empress Dowager Zhang herself, the old man lost two daughters in a row, and he only wanted to let this eldest granddaughter grow up healthy and safe, so even Zhengde did not dare to object.

Sent away the Empress Dowager Zhang, Zhou Chong's life returned to the original track, his identity was kept secret, everyone only knew that he was the commander of the four seas of the Ming Dynasty, holding a military and political power in his hands, and this war against the Portuguese pushed his prestige to the top, no matter what the purpose, countless people came to visit him every day.

For these people who came to visit, Zhou Chong except for picking a few key people to meet once, the others were all pushed out, and all the time saved was used to accompany his family, after this life and death catastrophe, so that Zhou Chong knew more about cherishing family affection, especially the birth of his daughter, which made him feel a heavy burden on his body, and at the same time a little guilty, after all, when his daughter was born, he was thousands of miles away, so now he can only use this method to compensate for Jinxuan's mother and daughter.

In addition to Jinxuan and their mother and daughter, Zhou Zhong also has a sense of guilt towards Aunt Wang, Bang'er and Duo'er, although Zhou Hai has done a lot of evil, but he is after all Bang'er and Duo'er's father-in-law, and he is also Aunt Wang's father-in-law, but now Zhou Hai is not dead Zhou Chong can't tell them, and even Zhou Hai's death has his share of credit, and as long as he arrives in the capital, Zhou Hai can be said to be certain to die, whenever he thinks of this, Zhou Chong is a little afraid to face Bang'er and Duo'er.

But fortunately, Bang'er and Duo'er didn't know about it, Wushan's brocade guards would definitely not leak any news about Zhou Hai, and although several old people of the Zhou family such as Wangcai and Fugui knew the inside story that Zhou Hai was not dead, they were given a gag order by Zhou Chong, and they also left them in the port of Malacca to do things, so they didn't want to come back for the time being. (To be continued......)