Jiang Bin and a few brothers who share life and death are eating baked sweet potatoes while looking forward to a better life after entering Beijing, and Zhou Chong, who is far away in Songjiang Mansion, is also eating baked sweet potatoes with others, but he, the governor, is not as good as Jiang Bin Such a small commander, at least people are still around the stove in the house, eating sweet potatoes warmly, and drinking tea when thirsty, but he can only raise a fire in the field, while roasting the fire while gnawing sweet potatoes in the cold wind.

This is a wasteland on the east coast of Songjiang Mansion, Zhou Chong, Wang Shouren, and Jiao Fang are around a big fire, and there are many people around who are holding bamboo poles back and forth to measure, as if they are surveying something.

A few months ago, Zhou Chong, who received Zhengde's will, finally moved the governor's office of the Sihai Governor's Mansion from Shuangyu Port to Songjiang, as soon as the news came out, both Shuangyu Port and Songjiang Mansion caused a huge sensation, among which Songjiang Mansion was very excited, because they all knew that the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas was in charge of maritime trade, and if the Governor's Office was moved over, it would definitely drive the local economy, and the rich could use this to expand their wealth, and the poor would have more ways to make a living, so they were very welcome to this matter.

After all, Shuangyu Port was originally a small area, and it started by smuggling, and then with the support of the Governor's Palace, it could develop into a large port of hundreds of thousands of people, and now if the Governor's Office moves to Songjiang, it will definitely have a huge impact on the maritime trade of Shuangyu Port, so many people immediately ran to Songjiang as soon as possible after receiving the news, and then bought land and purchased industries.

The relocation of the seat of government was agreed upon long ago, and it was related to the future development of the Governor's Palace. For some of the possible consequences after migration. Zhou Zhong and they had already expected it. Therefore, he will not make changes because of the interests of some people, and in order to show his determination to relocate, Zhou Zhong took the lead in moving the Governor's Mansion from Shuangyu Port to Songjiang Mansion.

After the Governor's Office was moved to Songjiang Prefecture, the local prefect also actively cooperated. Xu Shenzhong's father has been transferred to the capital to serve, and the current prefect's name is Yu Ji, which has the same name as a god stick in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he is a middle-aged man about forty years old, white and fat, very sleek, and he is also stammering with Zhou Chong's new boss, and even wants to give up the prefect's yamen to Zhou Chong's office, but Zhou Chong refused.

After moving the Governor's Palace, Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang's subordinate yamen also began to move to Songjiang. The new yamen had not yet been built, so they could only be like the governor's palace in Zhouzhong. Temporarily rent a private house to live in and work, although Songjiang Mansion is not big, but there are still a lot of empty houses, especially some people are scrambling to give up their own houses in order to tie up with the various yamen, so subordinate yamen like the inspection department are quickly settled.

After Wang Shouren arranged the affairs of the Inspectorate Division, he immediately began to plan the affairs of the Naval Academy with Zhou Chong, speaking of which, the Navy was not valued by the imperial court, and most of the attention was attracted by the Army Military Academy in Beijing, so the Naval Military Academy received very little resistance, and the teachers and students were almost ready, just waiting for the military academy to be built and start classes.

Today, Zhou Zhongzhong came to the construction site of the military academy with Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang, which is a hilly area near the sea on the east side of Songjiang Mansion, and the entire military academy is built on a hill near the sea, of which the seaside side is the main body of the military academy, and the school buildings, canteens, dormitories, etc. have been built almost, and some of the school buildings that were built earlier have begun to have instructors teaching in them, but the training ground in the back mountain has not yet been built, and the three of Zhou Chong are here to supervise the measurability of the training ground today.

Speaking of the training ground of the military academy, it is not just the kind of training ground in the ordinary military camp of the Ming Dynasty, but includes a variety of terrain, as well as firearms testing, fixed slipway and so on, the scale that needs to be built is not smaller than the school building in Qianshan, and even costs more money, after all, the students in the military academy will not only sit in the classroom to study, most of the time they need to transform the knowledge they have learned into practical skills on the training ground, only in this way can they become qualified military cadets.

It is now the winter of the ninth year of Zhengde, although this year's winter is not as cold as the seventh year of Zhengde, but it comes very early, and the temperature drops very quickly, at least much colder than the usual winter, such as Zhou Chong, the three of them supervised the measurement of the training site by the craftsmen in the back mountain for a while, and the result was that after a while, the whole body was chilled by the mountain wind here, and the old Jiao Fang felt unbearable, and the snot flowed out.

Zhou Chong himself can't stand the cold, the winter here in Songjiang is cold and damp, and the breeze makes people's whole body feel like they are soaked in ice water, not to mention northerners like Jiao Fang, even people like Zhou Chong who grew up in Songjiang can't stand it.

So in this case, Zhou Zhong took Jiao Fang to find a leeward place, asked the guards to cut some dry branches and start a fire, and found some sweet potatoes from the canteen where the craftsmen cooked, and when the fire started, he separated the half-burned black ash into a pile, and then put the sweet potatoes in it and buried them.

When the body was roasted, the sweet potatoes inside were almost stewed, just when they were about to eat, Wang Shouren smelled the taste and came to it, and the three high-ranking officials of the Governor's Mansion were chatting while pulling out the sweet potatoes in the ashes, uncovering the outer skin that had been burned black, revealing the tender meat like topaz inside, and a sweet breath made people have a great appetite, and no one was polite at the moment, and they buried themselves in eating, and after a while, the three of them had black ash on their hands and faces, and there was no trace of the demeanor of an official.

"My lord, this sweet potato you dedicated to the imperial court is really good, not only the yield is high, but also raw and cooked can be eaten, I heard that now the farmers of the Ming Dynasty are planting this thing, and even the border army has used sweet potatoes as military food, and I have achieved food self-sufficiency in the northern region, and I am not so dependent on the food in the south, so that the freight alone can save a lot, not to mention other manpower and material resources." Wang Shouren ate the roasted sweet potato, and said with a smile on his mouth full of black ash.

"Ha Lu haha~, so we can not only focus on the country, but to look outward, you see sweet potatoes, corn and peppers, these are produced thousands of miles away from the continent, where there are not only these crops, but also rich in gold and silver, the Portuguese for what will agree to compensate us two million taels of silver at once, the main thing is that the new continent discovered by the Europeans is rich in silver and gold, resulting in European silver is not very valuable, in addition to the copper and gold of the South Seas, the Japanese country is also rich in silver, These are what we urgently need, and we only need to maintain a strong navy, these overseas resources are at our disposal, and the military academy is the first step for Daming to go to the sea! After hearing this, Zhou Chong also said with a smile, his words actually did not conform to the mainstream values of the Ming Dynasty, and even in the eyes of some readers, they were undoubtedly robbers.

Hearing Zhou Chong's description of overseas, Jiao Fang also smiled and said: "Yes, yes, the old man has lived a lifetime, and his eyes are only limited to the Ming Dynasty, but it wasn't until he came to the Governor's Mansion that he found out that our world is very big, and the overseas products are even more abundant than the Ming Dynasty, if we don't take it, sooner or later it will be cheaper for others, so we Daming must not be polite!" ”

Jiao Fang has lived for such a long time, he has long seen through the world, and he does not have the pedantry of ordinary scholars, and he is also very supportive of Zhou Chong's robber theory, and even in his opinion, as long as he can make the people of Daming live a good life, it is normal to rob all the overseas.

Wang Shouren is not only a master of Confucianism, but also a philosopher, when he first heard Zhou Chong's bandit theory, what he thought of was that he saw the Turen riot in Nanyang, and the local Han people's disgust with those Turen, the current population of the Ming Dynasty has been overloaded, and if you want to let the extra people live, you can only start to expand outward, and in the process of expansion, there will definitely be a fight with the outside world, as for the overseas resources mentioned by Zhou Chong, in his opinion, it is just a bait to attract the people of the Ming Dynasty to take the initiative to migrate, After all, everyone is pursuing profits, only to see the real benefits of gold and silver, in order to attract more people to migrate out of the Ming Dynasty, for example, now the Nanyang side has been rumored to have discovered a lot of gold and copper mines, it is said that now there are people along the coast of the Ming Dynasty who have taken the initiative to take a boat to the South Seas to pan for gold.

Thinking of Nanyang, Wang Shouren suddenly thought of something, and immediately spoke: "Your Excellency Governor, some time ago, according to the report of some merchants who went to India, the Portuguese seem to have begun to increase their troops on the Indian side again, and at the same time, many warships have arrived in India from Europe, do you think the Portuguese will not die and attack Nanyang again?" ”

"Brother Bo'an, you have to remember one thing, those small European countries, whether they are Portuguese or Spanish, and even French, English, etc., these Europeans are all a group of robbers, they will never give up on our Ming and Nanyang, now what we have to do is to increase our strength as quickly as possible, and then completely defeat them on the sea, and even let them go back to their European hometown forever, only in this way, our Ming will be safer!" Zhou Zhong has a vicious way, for those European bandits, he does not have the slightest good feeling, if it is not too far away, he really wants to lead the Ming fleet to Europe to wreak havoc, let those European white-skinned ghosts taste the power of the Ming bandits. (To be continued......)