Chapter 56: Zheng Ming's Tongzhi
Zhu Cizhuo is no longer the combinator Zhu Youxiao, he is already very satisfied with making a cheap profit, and he already has an island of more than 90,000 square kilometers as a territory, if he is willing, he can make a piece of land in the Americas that is larger than Australia, and he does not have Zhu Youxiao's idea of being a "public" in the world in later generations. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yang Ye's reluctance to move to Australia represents the thoughts of most people on Riyue Island, and it has nothing to do with the cold climate of Huangzhuang, and to put it bluntly, these people are unwilling to go there to "plant trees". The so-called predecessors carry the trees and the future generations enjoy the shade, the initial construction of Australia is certainly difficult, and it will take several generations of efforts to prosper.
But Zhu Cizhuo, who came from later generations, did not think so, Australia was a British colony in the previous life, and the development was slow due to the limited population and scarcity of arable land. However, the current Nanming Island has been greatly improved, with more than 30,000 hectares of directly cultivated land, a good growing climate for crops, and combined with planned resettlement, it will surely become a beautiful paradise for the rich in less than half a century.
The most fundamental purpose of participating in the war in the last days of the Ming Dynasty was still to immigrate, that is, to expand the living space of the Chinese, which was what Zhu Cizhuo wanted to do most for the Han nation when he came to this world.
Knowing that Yang Ye said such things at the banquet, Zhu Cizhuo was really angry in his heart, and at the same time realized the arduous work of immigrants to Nanming Island. Chu also recognises that Australia is indeed not a good place for the country, where there are multiple climate zones at the same time, but it is a huge greenhouse.
People's personality has a lot to do with the climate and environment they live in, and the more comfortable the climate zone, the more unfavorable it is for people's character, and the character of Chinese who live in greenhouses for a long time will become cowardly. Just like the current Riyue Island, the original residents of Riyue Island, because they have been living in the tropics, the temperature difference between the four seasons is not obvious, and the people they raise lack a sense of wildness and competition, which is similar to the Han nation that has been on top of the world for thousands of years, and finally it is difficult to escape the doom of decline.
According to the experience of the previous life, the winter in Huangzhuang should be over, although the ice and snow are still cold, but when winter comes, will spring be far away? Before the establishment of the republic, human resources were always an issue. After a few people discussed, they proposed the policy of exchanging labor for land, in addition to Shenwang Island, after all, there are huge amounts of arable land, grasslands and forests, and the main object of immigration is the countless hungry people in the Ming Dynasty.
The specific exchange is not within the scope of Zhu Cizhuo's deliberations, but the first batch of laborers still has to be recruited from Riyue Island, and it is really impossible to use compulsory apportionment measures, and the supply of food is supplemented by official positions and land rewards.
At this time, the upper strata of Riyue Island were all new humans after rebirth, although most of them were indigenous, but they were mostly branded with the imprint of traditional Han people, which was very different from the real original people. Seeing the weakened Daming, they all have a retro idea, and it is difficult to identify with the institution of the "Military Aircraft Department". At this time, the island country is still small, but the island country that King Daming has accumulated for decades is very rich, and Zhu Cizhuo is not too authoritarian.
As for the future system of court affairs, Zhu Cizhuo only promised to hold court meetings twice a month on the first and 15th days of the new month, and the rest of the court meetings will not be held again unless there are special circumstances, and only daily court meetings will be held with members of the Military Aircraft Department. Zhu Cizhuo said: "The Military Aircraft Department will implement a 24-hour duty system, taking turns to serve the side of the king's bed, and entering the Yangxin Palace every day to discuss matters. If the solitary retreat cannot be made early, the five ministers of each matter will make a decision after deliberation. In principle, democratic centralism is practiced, and the minority obeys the opinion of the majority. Of course, military affairs have the right to correct them after the fact, and they have the right to pardon the offenders. What do the ministers think? ”
The five courtiers looked at each other and nodded silently, and Lu Zhi said: "Your Majesty, the ministers thought that because they moved the capital to Shenwang Island Wangzhuang as soon as possible, I heard that the foundation of the palace there has been completed, and the palace above will be completed within two or three years." The temporary relocation of Wangzhuang is very beneficial to the future immigration work. At the beginning of the founding of the country, the official conditions such as ministers were poor, not to mention that most of them were small court meetings in the future, and the setting of the Military Aircraft Department was very suitable for the current political situation. ”
"Hehe, quasi-play! Anyway, it is convenient to come and go, and the orphan club will send a special car for the use of the military aircraft department. It's just that the last year has been a bit harder. In a few days, the founding ceremony will be held in Yuanwang City! It's that there may be fewer people participating. "It's not the same thing to build a country in Australia, but it's not the same thing to build a country on someone else's soil.
"Your Majesty is wise!" All the ministers praised together, and Han Yi, the eldest, continued, "Your Majesty was the first to establish the country, and the ministers thought that they should draw up an era name. The minister pondered again and again, is the 'Guangqi' era name feasible? ”
"Oh...... Anything else? Zhu Cizhuo didn't object to the era name, but he didn't think about this kind of thing.
"The minister thinks that it is more appropriate to use the name of 'Tongzhi', Shuangming rules the world together, and the monarch and the minister govern the country together, and there will be a pretext when the God King and the Holy Venerable are held accountable in the future." Jia Xu's idea is fresher, but Zhu Cizhuo remembers that this era name seems to be the last emperor's.
"Chen Lu Zhi attached to Jia Shilang's discussion." Lu Zhi was the first to respond.
"The ministers seconded it!"
"If you govern together, you will govern together! In the future, I will be fortunate to be the emperor, and this era name ......" Zhu Cizhuo can't remember whose era name this is, but at this time, it is still a little inappropriate to say that he will change the era name after ascending to the pole in the future. "It's a good year name, and it suits me very much." It's just that it is appropriate to add another article of government and civilian governance, after all, the construction of Ming needs the strong support of more people. The people's feelings in the country of Sun Moon Island are different from those in the Ming Dynasty. ”
This is naturally a sentence on the scene, and all the ministers claim to be it, but they all mistakenly think that Zhu Cizhuo secretly has the ambition to dominate the world.
Sun Moon Island is really an island country that can't be smaller, and if it weren't for the support of that big fleet, such a small island would not have the genes to build a country at all.
Those captives were fortunate to become the first batch of prisoners after the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of them were Chinese, they were the soldiers of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian.
The armed merchant ships of Riyue Island have existed in the South China Sea for more than half a century, and they defeated the Dutch who had just entered Taiwan more than ten years ago, and Zheng Zhilong almost established the Nineteen Zhilong in that year.
Since then, Sun Moon Island has been competing with Eighteen Zhi for trade in the South China Sea, and sometimes it will be secretly exchanged by the Great Mighty Deming King, to be precise, half of the wealth gathered by Sun Moon Island comes from the "tribute" of Eighteen Zhi and Western pirates.
After more than a month on Taiwan Island, the Dutch are still looking forward to Riyue Island retreating to the south again, and at the same time, they are also contacting surrounding forces to fight for Taiwan, and Ming Ting and Zheng Zhilong are naturally the main objects of connection with the Dutch.
The fleet of marine merchant ships on Sun Moon Island was already very large, and some of them were "retired" personnel in the Eighteen Zhizhong, and the merchant ships or armed fleet of Zheng Zhilong's family were not as large as Zhu Cizhuo's previous life, with a total of less than a thousand. However, because of the low tax revenue on Riyue Island, the merchant fleet has exceeded the 3,000 mark from less than 1,500 ships in the past month or so after the occupation of Taiwan.
At this time, the overseas trade in the Ming and Fujian areas was mostly in the hands of Zheng Zhilong, and the ocean-going trading companies on Riyue Island cooperated with local merchants in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong provinces along the Daming coast to establish 16 commercial ports, and most of the foreign trade goods still came from China.
It's just that at that time, Zhu Cizhuo always wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty and had no intention of becoming the lord of Riyue Island, so he suggested that the ocean-going trading company should be placed under the rule of the island government and be the main economic lifeline of Riyue Island, otherwise in the future, the tens of millions of tax profits could completely become the income of the royal family, and the more than 20,000 naval divisions and land could become private troops in the name of justice.
Of course, because of the existence of King Dawei Deming, Zhu Cizhuo's actual possession is much stronger than only having military power, and the only subject who can own the resources of Sun Moon Island after the aboriginal people move out is the royal family. Lu Zhi's purpose in proposing to move the capital to Nandao was actually for this part of the savings, that is, the 50 million taels of cash reserves that Banu had taken away from the national treasury.
Zhu Cizhuo was still concerned about the population issue under his rule, and when he heard that there were so many pirate ships gathered in the ocean trading company on Riyue Island, he asked: "There must be a large number of people in so many merchant ships, can we dismantle some of them to settle in Taiwan, let them go ashore to do business or farming, and their children can also receive corresponding education, it is much better than being displaced in the past." ”
Lu Zhi said: "The number of businessmen is indeed quite large, and the population living on the island may be less than 30%, and the preliminary statistics should be more than 100,000. The families of these merchant ships lived in coastal countries, some of them on deserted islands. The matter of gathering and moving to Taiwan Island had been suggested to the Emperor Taishang before, but these people were racially chaotic and had different customs, and their thief nature was difficult to change for a while. That's why the emperor has never made a decision. ”
Zhu Cizhuo thought for a while and said: "Zhuge Jin, there is another General Administration of Immigration under the Ministry of Households, and in the future, the immigrants who move in will be investigated and persuaded to settle in Taiwan, Riyue Island, and Zhengming Island. In the future, taxation will be under the control of the Ministry of Taxation, which will manage the state treasury and grain depot, as well as the population statistics and resettlement under Zheng Ming's rule, which is the foundation of a country. In addition, it is necessary to supervise the taxation of all localities under its rule, and the tax rate is equal for all those who have business income, regardless of the royal family, the officials and the people, the nobles, and the nobles, regardless of the agricultural and commercial workshops. The decline of the Ming Dynasty is like this, which is the reason why there are too many clan lords and gentry. Daming is not without money, but tax evasion is serious, but the people who do not have land and property are taxed, and the thirty taxes have become nine or more than ten taxes. ”
"Your Majesty is wise!" The ministers praised, Jia Xu rolled his eyes and said, "In this way, Your Majesty may be able to give some titles to win the hearts of the people and boost their morale." Zhu Cizhuo said that Wang Liguo had not been awarded a single title this time, and he also took back all the titles of Zhu Youxiao.
"This is to avoid the evil that merit may exist, the Holy Venerable is fickle and easy to kill, or let the lone bear this notoriety!" Zhu Cizhuo said again, "Zheng Ming is at the beginning of the year, the war is about to start, and in the future, everyone will have more opportunities to worship the prime minister." It's easy to come and go quickly, and you'll remember it all. "Zhu Cizhuo has just been given a new life, and he is not sure what will happen tomorrow.
"Yes, Your Majesty! I will do my best for my Ming and exhaust my life's strength for the descendants of my Chinese people. "In order to save the Ming, decades of education have brainwashed the people, but it is those who can really understand this purpose.
Zhu Cizhuo continued: "In the future, the economic exchanges between the treasury and the royal family must also be equal, and the royal family's property must be uniformly priced and paid clearly at the end of the year. This time, it was because the island government owed the fort government military funds that Queen Ajman withdrew the money from the Jieshen Treasury without authorization. The treasury is the treasury, and the inner treasury is the inner treasury. "Sun Moon Fort has military production and high technology, and many commodities have not yet been produced on a large scale, which is the wealth created by Zhu Cizhuo for the world and the wealth of the Zheng Ming royal family.
"Yes, Honorable Divine Will!" Hearing Zhu Cizhuo's words, several ministers breathed a sigh of relief, which showed that the construction of Shenwang Island did not need to be financed by the treasury, and there would be no other expenditure except for immigrants.
"What are the strategies of the military planes for this military dispatch? What advice do you have for future migration? At this time, he had just sent someone to Beijing to negotiate the aid to the Ming Dynasty to resist Jin, and Zhu Cizhuo actually didn't have much hope after learning about it.
Zhu Cizhuo now has 100,000 hectares of land and grassland in Wangzhuang, as well as a group of immortals who serve him for free, plus the palace island that King Dawei Deming is expensive, in fact, he is now worth one of the richest people in the world. He has everything in the world, and he has what the world doesn't have, and now the money-making machine has started.
He himself is not short of money to spend, nor is he short of mountains, rivers and land, and he is not short of thousands of vast buildings. What Zhu Cizhuo lacks is human resources and food needed for human survival.