Chapter 8: Back to the Past Tense
After the relocation of Sun Moon Island, the commercial exchanges between the West and the West had long since ended, but the business here was very bleak, and the three large pools of the foreign trade wharf were often empty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The three ocean-going cannon cargo ships built in Riyue Island have not been dared to be leased, and only three of the eighteen thousand loan ships have been leased, and they still signed a contract with the merchants after a year's rent waiver, and they are worried that the deposit is too low, and the monks will join the merchants to escape from the territory with the shipwrights.
Moreover, there are ships and ships in the dock, and all kinds of craftsmen and technicians are still accepting apprentices to teach their skills, and the master and apprentice team of stone carving and wood art is the most powerful. This has become a pillar industry of Sun Moon Island, the magnificent castle in the Sun Moon Island landing, this small land to rise a housing boom, the main living Buddha after the meeting is ready to expand the original four cities in the Sun Moon Island area.
King Ming will not care about these things for the time being, he is more enthusiastic about the personnel structure adjustment of Sun Moon Island and the construction of the double-layer compound road on the back side, and he also has to review and expand the sea area of Sun Moon Island, which is not too big.
Zhu Cizhuo really wanted to tell him that with a territory of about 100 square kilometers, it was not impossible to settle down in the Yellow Sea near Shandong, or to negotiate with North Korea to expand the country by borrowing land. Such a small and closed country has great technology, and it is more convenient to send a ship out to be a pirate, so as not to wait for the pirate ship that is not capable of doing so to come from all over the place to "observe" or fire a blood sacrifice.
Zhu Cizhuo's heart has been very calm since he came to a foreign land, he can't help but think about the future, and he doesn't know if all this is an illusory dream. But the Ming King was quieter than him, and he couldn't even feel that he was thinking or planning, and he didn't have any time to think before acting.
There is a famous old living Buddha who is in charge of the Ming King in the Sun Moon Island, and he has also been sitting in meditation and chanting and practicing, and no one knows whether he is dead or alive when he sits there. Zhu Cizhuo didn't know how King Ming passed on instructions to him, because those things began to be implemented when King Ming had ideas, and the first exchange meeting between the old living Buddha and other living Buddhas had been held a few days or half a month ago, and this exchange meeting was usually only once a month.
Zhu Cizhuo didn't even understand what was going on on this Sun Moon Island, people outside couldn't see its existence without authorization, and passing ships could even pass by without being aware of it. And this country is indeed hanging under the ox cart, before the expansion of the territory, Zhu Cizhuo saw the newly built and expanded ox cart with his own eyes. The jewels in the car are also inlaid with several night pearls with different light colors, and Zhu Cizhuo even participated in the pre-design of the bathroom and toilet, and set up an independent ladder passage for "King Ming's return to the country" in the wardrobe.
It's just that Zhu Cizhuo has less and less extravagant hopes to return to his body, and the behavior of King Ming's own god shows more and more that he wants to possess himself for a long time, possess those gold and silver treasures and his own generational materials, and occupy this small territory created by him himself.
King Ming's enthusiasm for the construction of Sun Moon Island made Zhu Cizhuo feel cold and scared, and he seemed to spend all the accumulation over the years, planning and improving the small country of Sun Moon Island. The flowers in the territory have been selected and reset from trees, birds and animals, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishermen, etc., and even the grassland has been expanded to open wetlands and wild animal sanctuaries, and Sun Moon Island is becoming more and more like a paradise and a fairyland on earth.
The sudden increase in industry and commerce has brought about a dramatic change in the structure of the indigenous people of Riyue Island, and with the gradual inflow of new residents, the non-agricultural population has increased rapidly. The well-to-do and well-educated aborigines became the elite and wealthy merchants of the towns, along with the thousands of craftsmen and apprentices.
Gradually, Zhu Cizhuo discovered a strange phenomenon, those foreign craftsmen and technicians in the past, all those who looked too strong in the West, or those foreign families, finally entered various nursing homes on Sun Moon Island. The Mengjiala and Persians, who looked similar to the Han Chinese and intermarried, or who were very rarely rapidly sinicized, left behind a small number of children.
With the continuous migration of Han and Mongolian refugees, the population of Riyue Island increased "rapidly", and Zhu Cizhuo learned through the budget accidentally revealed by King Ming's own god that the population of Mijing would stop at about 80,000 on the day of the "forty-nine days". About 50,000 of them will be non-agricultural population, and more than 30,000 will serve the industrial and commercial workers in the port area and the central personnel inside and outside the castle. The top center and the castle serve the army attendants and craftsmen with a pre-staffed population of 6,000, and a supernumerary black account limit of 10,000. The long-term planned population of Riyue Island is "12 or 30,000 people who live for a long time, which is about the same," these are the benefits that King Ming rarely revealed to Zhu Cizhuo.
Sun Moon Island has not extradited the victims for hundreds of years, except for the Great Living Buddha, Zheng Guoshi and the officials and people of Mi Island did not know that the Ming King himself was here to operate, and a political crisis at the upper level was inevitable. At this time, Zheng Zhi's grandfather had been in the position of national teacher for fifteen years, and Zheng Zhi was born in the castle for less than six months, so he did not know the situation outside at all.
This is the first grandson born in the National Teacher's Mansion after the Zheng clan took charge of Sun Moon Island, and the room was full of strange fragrances when he was born, and he was still holding the jade ruyi stick and the jade unicorn in both hands. His mother, Liu, was pregnant for 14 months before giving birth to him, and he did not cry or make trouble when he was born, and he was recognized by the living Buddha of the temple as the reincarnation of King Dawei Deming, and would become the lord of Sun Moon Island.
This person is Zhu Cizhuo, and he is also the god of King Ming. At this time, Zhu Cizhuo was already desperate, and he was in no mood to care about the political battles in the fort. The inaction and greed of the national teachers failed to get the support of the army this time, perhaps because the marriage of the son of the national teacher a year ago was too luxurious, which caused the dissatisfaction of the people in the country, or perhaps because the national teacher used the Jie Shen Treasury to buy too many ancient paintings and calligraphy.
The final outcome was that the Zheng father and son were expelled from the country, and only the Liu family was allowed to continue to stay in the castle as a nurse, because the annual salary of one family was reduced to 12,000 yuan, and the "Little Ming King" lived in the Ming King Dharma Hall in the Qianbao under the personal protection of the Great Living Buddha. Zhu Cizhuo has no intention of caring about these, ignoring and thinking about it, and treats everything around him with nothing in his eyes.
However, sometimes I think of Jin Qiaoyun and the military dog Huolong, who have been in the world, because when I think of them, one person and one dog will always appear in front of me quickly, and the old living Buddha can also allow Jin Qiaoyun, who is two years older than the Liu family, to hug him. It's just that King Ming is very cold to Jin Qiaoyun, and even his face is angry, and he is still worried about the foreign beauty who has already married and has children.
Jin Qiaoyun was unconcerned, and happily told Zhu Cizhuo that he might be one or two years older than Jin Qiaoyun when he left the customs in the future. This sentence reminded Zhu Cizhuo, and also reminded King Ming's own god, because at this time, the thirteen-year-old Zheng Shuang had already gone to King De's Mansion, but it was not so easy for people who borrowed their bodies to return to their souls to take revenge.
The childhood was very long, and when the fort was finally completed inside and outside, there were already armed merchant ships on Sun Moon Island, and more than seventy ships were able to make some profits. Although there were not many merchant ships, nine tall and sturdy capital gunboats were enough to run rampant in the South China Sea, and the "Taiwan Ocean Trading Company" had been established in the southern part of the Eastern Domain before the Netherlands.
At this time, the Eastern Domain Island was later Taiwan, and after Zhu Cizhuo learned of the year, he instructed the Ming King to fight against the pirate base on Taiwan Island, temporarily seizing a foothold and commercial interests. In the next 20 years, the naval battles will become more and more intense, and the pirates along the coast of China may have to fight against the Ming Dynasty sailors after being driven away.
Zhu Cizhuo has been occupied by the Ming King for more and more years, and he has become less and less concerned about these things, and in the forty-nine days, the half month after Zheng Zhi's birth has become twenty-four years, which is more than seventy-three years since the first establishment of Sun Moon Island in the foreign land.
Sharing a body with the god of the Ming King, due to the slight influence of the same mind and each other, the biggest change is that the Ming King seems to have given up the plan to let Sun Moon Island enter the world. King Ming was in the Heavenly Realm of Sun Moon Island and thought that he was sitting in the pass to practice, and he would not have thought that he was using his power for personal gain, this was originally a private territory where the Three Realms did not know the internal affairs, and King Ming could do whatever he wanted.
Although there were only a few steps from the car to the island through a closed staircase, Zhu Cizhuo deduced that this secret island, which could not be seen from the outer steps, was located in the vast South China Sea, and was gradually drifting from the vicinity of the Philippines to the Taiwan Strait. It is not clear how fast he is advancing, but it is known that the secret island began to drift from the Bay of Bengal to the eastern part of Sri Lanka towards the China Sea more than a hundred years ago, a decision made by the Zheng family after many years in power.
Zhu Cizhuo and King Ming's gods don't communicate with each other, and they both want to use their own thoughts to influence each other's thoughts, and of course King Ming's gods know that Zhu Cizhuo hates to occupy his body. However, Ming Wang himself could not go to the future, he was more interested in the person "Zheng Cizhuo", and discovered Zhu Cizhuo's guns and other future items that he became interested in industry and technology.
In fact, the development of Sun Moon Island has been controlled by Zhu Cizhuo, and after the investigation of King Ming's own god, he already knew that Sun Moon Island was the only one in the Three Realms that had not returned to his place, and he showed a rare hesitation about whether to choose to return to the world. But at the same time, he, like Zhu Cizhuo, is unwilling to live in the middle of such a small world forever, after a long time, it will be boring after all, and he will lose his enterprising spirit and become like a walking corpse.
That's because Zhu Cizhuo was worried about the dying Han nation-state, and King Ming felt that it was too depressing to live in this small place for a long time because of his extraordinary divine powers, and at the same time, the spread of his tantric Buddhism in Dongtu was not satisfactory, which doomed both of them to be unwilling to live here and live quietly.
Mingjiao was originally one of the esoteric sects in Buddhism, but it became a cult when it spread to Middle-earth, and after being banned by the imperial court, it led to the White Lotus Sect and the Smelling Fragrance Sect, so it has not been widely accepted by the people of Middle-earth for 2,000 years. Zhu Cizhuo is only a little superstitious, and he is not interested in whether Buddhist Tantra can be magnified.
Under the control of Zheng Zhi, the "childhood", the naval battles in the south of Taiwan were constantly escalating, and the financial capital of the Jieshen Treasury was increasing day by day, and 6,500 ironclad knights were still being trained, and the cost of developing and replacing artillery, handcuffs, and armor weapons was not a small amount.
Merchant ships have become gunboats, and earning silver has become burning money, and the fundamental purpose is to make greater profits in the future, not to mention that most of this large amount of silver flows between officials, merchants, soldiers, and civilians on the island, and the cost of compensation and compensation for the dead and wounded officers and men is much greater.
In addition, the construction of the Friendship City in Tainan requires expenses, and in order to support the construction on the island, the country has suspended the collection of taxes and silver on ocean trading companies. Even the cost of expanding and repairing the company's ships and the supply of weapons and ammunition remained only on the books, and the territory of 112.5 square kilometers and the population of less than 60,000 people on Riyue Island could not sustain the huge war expenses.