Zhou Chong, who was far away in Songjiang Mansion, didn't know what was going on in Beijing, and he didn't know that Jiang Bin, who was already hopeless to meet Zhengde, was just like the original history because of the influence of the military academy, and he also jumped from a military academy instructor to a cronie around Zhengde, and Zhengde's life trajectory seemed to return to the original path again.

After a year of construction, the city center and several major arterial roads have been built, the Governor's Office of the Four Seas and several subordinate yamen have also moved to Shanghai New Town, and it is worth mentioning that a small part of the construction of the port of Shanghai has been completed, and now some ships can dock.

With the attraction of the port and the Governor's Palace, many people have begun to buy land and build houses in Shanghai New Town, after all, here as the Governor's Mansion and the emerging port, whether it is used for shops or residence, it is a very good choice, taking advantage of the new city has just been built, the land price is relatively cheap, so many people with vision have begun to buy land in Shanghai New Town, so that the construction of Shanghai New City has injected a new amount of money, so that the construction speed of Shanghai City has accelerated a few points again, I believe it will not take a few years, In the future, the prosperous city of Shanghai will appear in the land of Daming.

In the sand table room in the governor's palace, Zhou Chong, Wang Shouren and Jiao Fang were standing next to the huge sand table, listening to Zhang Cai, who had just returned from Nanyang, explain the development situation of Nanyang. Some time ago, Zhang Cai was sent to Nanyang by Zhou Zhong to inspect the local situation in Nanyang on the spot, so that the Governor's Office could adjust and prepare for the next step of Nanyang's strategy.

"My lord, please see, with the occupation of Malacca by our Ming Dynasty, the original Kingdom of Malacca is not reconciled. But there is nothing we can do to stop our further devouring of the Malay Peninsula. Now the entire southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula have been effectively controlled by our Ming Dynasty. It's just that this peninsula is densely jungled, and there is no way to reclaim other places except for the coastal area, so for us, the biggest resource on this peninsula in addition to the port is the timber in it, and several iron and tin mines have been found in the local area, which is said to have a lot of production. Now there are merchants who have bought mining rights to open mines, and it is believed that they can attract a lot of immigrants. ”

After introducing the Malay Peninsula, I saw Zhang Cai's hand pointing to the south, and then pointed to Jinzhou on the other side of the Strait of Malacca: "As for Jinzhou here, the progress made is even more unexpected to me, since the old port was annexed, we have migrated a large number of immigrants to Jinzhou, originally because of the fertile land and hot climate there, which is very suitable for the cultivation of rice, tea and various spices, but some time ago Jinzhou discovered several gold mines. In addition, the Governor's Office organized Xu Na and others to prospect for mines on the island, and as a result, more gold, silver and other mineral deposits were discovered. In this way, it attracted countless people to the island to pan for gold, especially in the southern coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, where several sea ships would rush to Jinzhou every day with gold diggers. ”

Hearing this, Zhou Zhong took the lead and said with a smile: "Gold and silver are moving, Jinzhou is not too safe, but these gold diggers are rushing to Nanyang one by one, it seems that we are going to find a few more gold mines in Nanyang, so that we can definitely speed up the pace of immigration in Nanyang, as long as there are more people in the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang can be completely stabilized!" ”

"It is indeed a good way to attract people to Nanyang with gold and silver, but the safety of those gold diggers also needs to be guaranteed in Nanyang, otherwise if the gold diggers are too dead or injured, I am afraid that many people who are going to go to Nanyang will be scared away." Wang Shouren also opened his mouth to add at this time.

Regarding Wang Shouren's worries, Zhang Cai smiled and said: "According to the inspection envoy, rest assured, I have just said that the development of Jinzhou is a little unexpected, for example, with the entry of those gold diggers, the army stationed in the old port has also begun to clean up the local forces on the island, and now except for the Aceh Kingdom in the northwest corner of Jinzhou, which has not been eliminated, the remaining local forces have been completely swept away, if there is a Ming immigration attack somewhere, then the native people within a radius of fifty miles will be killed, Therefore, it is rare for Ming immigrants to be attacked by natives, but the local climate and the poisonous insects and beasts in the jungle still pose a considerable threat to the immigrants of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Hearing Zhang Cai lightly say that a place was attacked and the natives within a radius of fifty miles were going to be slaughtered, Wang Shouren's face couldn't help but show a little unbearable, but he had also been to Jinzhou himself, knew the local situation, and also knew about those lazy and stupid natives, so although he felt that this decree was a little cruel in his heart, reason told him that this was the most suitable decree for Nanyang immigrants.

Compared with the unbearable in Wang Shouren's heart, Zhou Chong and Jiao Fang did not show any unusual expressions, among which Zhou Chong came from later generations, and he naturally had a hostile attitude towards the natives of Nanyang, in his opinion, what kind of cruel decrees should be applied to those natives. As for Jiao Fang, he has long seen through the world, is not bound by the world's etiquette, and is as firm as iron, in his opinion, as long as it can be beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, it can also make his side's power rise again, then even if it kills all the natives of Nanyang, it is only a trivial matter.

"By the way, what's going on with that Aceh Kingdom, with the army stationed there in the old port, it shouldn't be difficult to destroy a small country of natives, right?" Jiao Fang asked at this time, it seemed that he wanted to clean up Jinzhou completely, so as not to worry about the security of Jinzhou in the future.

"Rest assured, the reason why the Kingdom of Aceh has not been wiped out is not that the old port is not overwhelmed, but that there is really no oil and water in Aceh, at least Xu Na and they have not been able to find gold mines there, and the Kingdom of Aceh is mainly composed of some Muslim merchants, who come and go between Malacca and the Indian coast, if we want to enter the Indian Ocean, we need the assistance of these Muslim merchants, plus the Kingdom of Aceh is willing to surrender to our Ming, so the old port has not destroyed the other party for the time being. Instead, with the help of the route mastered by the other party, Daming's goods were transported to India. Zhang Cai introduced with a smile again.

"I see, I'll just say that with Li Yi's character as a kid, how can he tolerate such an eye-catching guy as Aceh by his side." Jiao Fang said with a smile on his face.

However, Zhou Chong saw Jiao Fang's appearance, but he secretly laughed in his heart, Jiao Fang was not ignorant of the reason why Li Yi, the prefect of the old Hong Kong, left the Aceh Kingdom, the reason why he specifically asked was actually to let Zhou Chong understand that Li Yi did not make any mistakes in governance. And the reason why Jiao Fang defended Li Yi was precisely because Li Yi was also from the north, and he was previously excluded before he was arranged to the city department, but he didn't expect to meet Zhou Chong, a big lucky star, and now Li Yi has achieved the position of the prefect and has become an important figure in the northern officials, so Jiao Fang naturally wants to support him in every way.

"Li Yi did a good job this time, although the old port was later than Malacca to the Ming Dynasty, but the development there is the latecomer, the entire Jinzhou has been occupied by him eight or nine tenths, if it is another two years, I can propose to the imperial court to promote the old port government to the old port political envoy, and then all the adults will be recorded in history because of this!" Zhou Chong said with a smile, for Jiao Fang's hard work, Zhou Chong naturally has to be considerate, not to mention that Li Yi is indeed doing very well in Jinzhou.

Hearing Zhou Chong's words, Jiao Fang's face also smiled, if the old Hong Kong government is promoted to the old Hong Kong political envoy, then Li Yi can at least become a political envoy, so that their northern officials also have one more senior official, plus Zhou Chong's support in the future, their northern officials will have a little more hope of turning over.

After introducing Jinzhou, Zhang Cai's fingers began to move eastward, and then pointed to the largest island in the South Ocean, that is, Borneo and began to introduce: "This is Borneo, the largest island in the South Ocean, but although the area is large, there are not many places suitable for living on the whole island, the middle is mountainous, all covered by dense forests, surrounded by plains, but it is also densely forested, the jungle is full of poisonous insects and beasts, the natives on the island are fewer than other islands, and only in the northwest coastal area of Borneo, There were more natives living there, and there were even some natives in the kingdom, but they had now been wiped out by the fleets of Malacca and the Old Port, and Suna had also discovered gold mines there, and now there have been some settlements centered on gold mines. ”

Hearing Zhang Cai's introduction to Borneo, Zhou Zhong also nodded in agreement, even in later generations, the population density on Borneo is much smaller than that of other islands in the South Seas, and the most essential part of the entire island is the northwest of the island, that is, the future Brunei, now there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to develop the entire island, just need to occupy the richest place on the island.

Next, Zhang Cai introduced the Luzon closest to the Ming Dynasty, speaking of which although Luzon is the closest to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty began to immigrate to it very late, but now it is developing rapidly, and it is the only island in the South Ocean that can be compared with Jinzhou, this is because Luzon Island has also found a lot of gold and copper mines.

Among them, the gold mine attracted many gold diggers, and the copper mine attracted the attention of the Ming court, because the copper ore reserves on Luzon Island were too large, according to Xu Na's preliminary estimate, if it was fully mined, the copper ore on Luzon Island alone could meet the Ming Dynasty's demand for copper. In addition, although the Ming Dynasty allowed the circulation of gold and silver, but the most important currency is copper money, for the people, copper is money, now Luzon Island found such a large copper mine, the imperial court naturally can not deal with it calmly, the Ministry of Industry has now begun to meddle in the mining industry in Luzon.

After talking about the above islands, Zhang Cai finally talked about the most reluctant Java Island, which is still ruled by the Danmu Kingdom, but now the army of the Governor's Palace is ready, just waiting for Zhang Cai to collect information, and he will start attacking Java Island. (To be continued......)