According to Fan Wencheng's suggestion, Duoduo announced the news of Huang Taiji's death, and then did not follow Fan Wencheng's choice of any good days, but just gathered the high-level of the Manchu Qing Dynasty together and immediately carried out the enthronement ceremony.

Duoduo himself has no culture, plus the Manchu Qing Dynasty up and down, except for the Han officials, the rest of the Manchus have no culture, and they don't care about any auspicious problems.

As soon as the news of Huang Taiji's defeat and death came out, the whole Liao was shaken, and even the Ming army in western Liaoning was also alarmed, and hurriedly reported to the Beijing division.

Chongzhen received the news and was puzzled, when Zhao Yan had already sent an explanation. Zhao Yan said in the recital that there was no such thing, Huang Taiji was still in North Korea, but it was just a lie spread by Duoduo in order to seize power, Chongzhen put down his doubts, and then issued a holy decree, urging Zhao Yan to enter North Korea and rescue the barrier.

At this time in Liaodong, Zhao Yong's first battalion had already connected Fuzhou, Yongning, and Gaizhou, and had completely controlled the Liaodong Peninsula, and was advancing towards Yaozhou, Haizhou, Anshan, and Liaoyang. The civil servants had also taken a boat to the Liaodong Peninsula and began to plan for the construction of the farm.

Now that it has entered the stage of external expansion, Zhao Yan deeply feels that the population is not enough to fill the land, and it is necessary to build farms.

Intensive farming has no future, not only is it tiring, but also the personal output value is very low. For example, the grain output of various places in the Ming Dynasty, as far as wheat is concerned, can reach three stones per mu in some places, and rice can even reach four stones in very few areas, but it is very tiring, and a person can only cultivate more than ten acres of land at most.

Like the situation of Denglai, each household is given 50 acres of land, if it is a husband and wife, it is 25 acres per person, so Denglai's agricultural production is a model between intensive cultivation and extensive planting, so there is only one stone yield per acre, if it is absolute intensive cultivation, the yield per mu will be higher.

So far, although there are poor people recruited from other places every day, Qingzhou Mansion has never been able to fill it.

In this environment, it is necessary to develop farms with a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry, and extensive planting, although under this model, a labor force supports no more people than intensive farming, but the meat production is higher, and the ability to resist disasters is stronger, and the personal output value is also high, and colleagues do not need to be so tired.

The reason why the disaster resistance will be stronger is because if the disaster year comes, there is enough land as a buffer space, and it can be converted in the mode of intensive cultivation and extensive planting at will.

According to the preliminary estimate of the prospectors, the cultivated land area of the Liaodong Peninsula is about 10 million mu, and if the first battalion can advance to Liaoyang, the cultivated land area will rise to 15 million mu.

And the Han people in Liaodong are at most more than 1.5 million, and this has to count the land in the areas that have not been recovered, if the entire land in Liaodong is evenly distributed to these more than 1.5 million people, one person will not be able to divide thousands of acres.

The model of the farm is a new type of major at Denlai University, which is mainly guided by missionaries from the West, and after experiments in Qingzhou, the specifications of ordinary farms were finally determined.

Ordinary Han people were given 300 mu of land per household, of which 200 mu was used as pasture to feed cattle and horses, and the remaining 100 mu was used for extensive grain planting.

The Han people in Liaodong will raise horses, and if they reclaim according to this model, they will get a large number of war horses in less than ten years.

At present, more than 260,000 Han people in Liaodong have been rescued, with a total of about 70,000 households, and each household has 300 mu of land, which is just enough to digest 21 million mu of land.

Although it seems that there is not enough land, in fact it is not possible for everyone to become a peasant, and Zhao Yan will also build cement factories, steel factories, shipyards and other factories in Liaodong, which naturally requires many workers.

With the current situation in Shandong, it is impossible to immigrate too many people to Liaodong, California, Hokkaido, and Australia are Zhao Yan's preferred immigration areas, and those areas must still need immigrants, but now even the enrichment of Qingzhou has become slow.

After the administrative staff and the students of the agricultural department of Denglai University arrived on the Liaodong Peninsula, the fleet began to transport technicians and various materials from various factories to Liaodong.

The war situation in Liaodong also affected the nerves of many Shandong squires, Zhao Yan asked Longkou to set up a celebration banquet, and those squires came to Longkou to congratulate Zhao Yan, and Zhao Yan took the opportunity to throw them a suggestion to go to Liaodong to open a shipyard.

Still, the squires and merchants were hesitant.

"You don't need to worry, Jiannu's vitality is greatly damaged, my Shandong army is fighting steadily, and it is a foregone conclusion that Liao will be restored within three years. Zhao Yan guaranteed them.

"The general has always been a promise, and he also has a great reputation in Shandong, and the villain will pay 200,000 taels to set up a shipyard." A merchant stood up and said.

"I'll give 500,000 taels." Zheng Shilian also got up at this time and said, as a Shandong businessman with the closest cooperative relationship with Zhao Yan, he has to say anything at this moment.

Under the leadership of these two people, the rest of the businessmen more or less contributed tens of thousands of taels, Zhao Yan said at this time: "If you invest less money, you can operate with others, so that the funds are abundant, and the shipyard can be larger." ”

"What the general said is very true, and let me talk about it." The merchants and squires nodded their heads, and a group of people discussed the matter of merging shares in Longkou.

Zhao Yan's face can't be left ungiven! This time, Liaodong won again, and the limelight was strong.

The money invested by those merchants was higher, while the money of the squires was much less, but after negotiations, a total of eight shipyards were reported to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and the funds reached more than 200,000 taels.

Among them, the 'Zhenyi Shipyard' composed of Zheng Shilian and four other shareholders has a maximum capital of 800,000 taels.

The Industrial and Commercial Bureau immediately issued the "Regulations on the Administration of Industry Regulations", which first prohibits all malicious competition, then reiterates the quality of ships, and encourages technological innovation in shipyards.

Those who compete maliciously and fail to meet the quality standards will be punished accordingly, and patents will be issued for technological innovation, and a series of rewards will be given for major technological breakthroughs.

In addition, there is also the management of equity, and if shareholders want to sell shares, they must seek the consent of other shareholders, etc., all of which are the rules and regulations of later generations.

The "Regulations on the Administration of Industry and Commerce" has a great deterrent effect on businessmen in this era, especially those with heads and faces.

If you violate the ordinance, your reputation will be stinky.

At the same time, in addition to the "Regulations on the Management of Industry Regulations", there is also a "Enterprise Management Proposal", the "Enterprise Management Proposal" is mainly to suggest to them the management mode of the shipyard, focusing on technological innovation, talent cultivation, and some methods of regular management, all of which are the experience accumulated by Longkou Shipyard.

In addition to accepting orders from the military, shipyards can also accept orders from civilian merchant ships and fishing vessels, but it is forbidden to manufacture civilian ships of more than 500 tons and any combat ships to any country other than the Ming Dynasty.

After the celebration banquet was over, Zhao Yan asked Quanguang to post a famous post and convene the first industrial and commercial conference on the 15th of next month, mainly to discuss the issues of loans and commercial taxation.

In this year's budget, 10 million taels will be used as interest-free loans to stimulate industry and commerce, but the targets of the loans are mainly some small and medium-sized businessmen, and they mainly rely on large-scale support to stimulate the development of industry and commerce in an all-round way.

At the same time, Denglai Bank also has a loan of 5 million taels, which is open to those big merchants. It's definitely a feast, a feast for business.

Although fifteen million taels may not be much compared to those Lianghuai salt merchants, those Lianghuai salt merchants relied on selling illicit salt, and the silver they earned was thrown into the treasury, and then they did their best to do extravagant things, which did not help the development of industry and commerce.

As soon as the news was released, the whole Shandong suddenly became a sensation, this time the industrial and commercial conference did not have too many restrictions and requirements, as long as there is a certain business experience, and some small workshop owners can participate.

At the same time, the advanced research results of Denglai Institute of Science and Technology and Denglai University will also be open to businessmen and workshop owners in Shandong at any time, giving them the strongest competitiveness.

…… After annihilating the Qing army's naval division, a total of 34 Qing warships were captured, and the remaining 20 or so were missing. After learning that Huang Taiji was not on board, the First Fleet immediately returned to Longkou the next day.

On 21 March, the First Fleet and ten frigates sailed out of Longkou under the orders of Zhao Yan, and the First Fleet was to go to the route of Yueben to intercept the Dutch merchant ships bound for the Yueben trade.

The ten frigates, carrying 2,000 soldiers and a large number of hundreds of guns, went to the South Seas, and their mission was to establish a stronghold on the island of Sumatra in the South Seas, and then rely on this stronghold to plunder passing ships in the Strait of Malacca.

The reason why the First Fleet went to the Zoben route was because they had to cooperate with the war against the Tsuyoto, and at the same time, the First Fleet had rarely been out of activities recently, and the Dutch had started trading with the Zoben.

Just as the First Fleet was departing, the fleet sent by Zhao Yan to Sakhalin also returned to Longkou, bringing tribute from the natives of Sakhalin.

The Qing troops on Sakhalin Island were very small, only more than 200 people, and they were quickly annihilated, and the fleet reinstated the 'Nurgandusi' on Sakhalin Island, and the natives who had newly attached to the Ming Dynasty sent a batch of mink as tribute.

Sakhalin Island does not have much development value at present, but the island is rich in natural gas and oil, and the potential for future development is very large.

The ships exploring Hokkaido also returned to Longkou shortly after, and they brought the news that Hokkaido is currently controlled by the Ezo people, but it is said that the original has landed in Hokkaido, although there are not many people, but there is a certain scale.

The Ezo people are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, and their civilization is very backward, so they can basically be excluded from the threat, and after the establishment of a colony in Hokkaido, it is just right to capture the Ezo people as slaves.

Although Hokkaido's agriculture and animal husbandry are relatively well developed, they are duplicated with those in the Northeast, so they are not so important, but the Hokkaido fishing ground is the largest in the world, and Zhao Yan must occupy it.

…… In California, California, Governor Liu Yuanzheng wrote a report overnight before the fleet returned to Qingdao, which was a report on Indian civilization.

Liu Yuan did not finish the report that night, so he postponed the departure of the returning fleet by two days, at least he thought the report of the Indian civilization was quite important.

As the governor of California, he needed to have long-term contact with the Indians, and Liu Yuan also learned the Indian language. However, to Liu Yuan's surprise, the language of the Indians was so similar to ancient Chinese.

If it is just a few words that are similar, it can be explained by coincidence, but a large number of words are the same as those of ancient Chinese, and the Indians also believe in the legendary creature of the 'dragon', which has to make Liu Yuan pay more attention.

In the report, Liu Yuan deduced that the Indians were most likely a branch of Chinese civilization, but the origin of this branch was very mysterious and slightly different from the skin color of the Han people, which needs to be further studied.

At the same time, he suggested to Zhao Yan that the Indians could be properly treated preferentially, or even completely accepted by them. As long as they are accepted, the Indian nation will be able to accept the Chinese nation with the degree of similarity between the civilizations of the two nations. At the same time it was a very quiet people, they sat together and could not speak for hours, and did not pose any threat to the colony.

The fleet departed at the end of the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, and this fleet consisted of fifteen merchant ships, all of which were plundered by Cao Li in the Caribbean during this time.

During the second half of Chongzhen's ninth year, Cao Li was not deceived by the Spaniards into attacking St. John's, St. John's is a very dangerous port, and Cao Li felt that he should try to be as stable as possible at present.

There was no point in attacking St. John's at the same time, because even if they did, they would not have enough manpower to occupy it for a long time, just grab some fishing boats and capture some white slaves.

Why do you have to run so far to catch white slaves? And to attack such a dangerous port? If you have the energy, you might as well go to the Caribbean to raid merchant ships.

After several months of plundering, the American Fleet captured more than 20 merchant ships in the Caribbean, and the name of the Far Eastern pirates gradually spread in Western countries.

The Spaniards, however, were instigating to reveal the stronghold of the American Fleet to the Dutch, the British, and the French, and revealed to these countries that this was not an ordinary pirate, but the navy of the Far Eastern Empire of Light, not a pirate with a privateer license.

The rules of privateering permits are based on the intertwining interests of both parties, and if either side violates the rules, the other side will be attacked, resulting in a thankless result for both sides, at least if either side is not ready for war, and will not send a navy to break the rules.

However, it doesn't matter to the American Fleet whether they have a privateer license or not, because even if they are pirate ships with privateer licenses, the Dutch, British and French still want to retaliate, and it makes no sense to know that they are the Ming Navy, because Western countries have no second way to retaliate, after all, Zhao Yan has nothing to do with these countries in terms of maritime trade.

Cao Li's group of Far Eastern pirates is indeed not popular, because they attack any merchant ships and strongholds except Spain and Portugal, and even their Caribbean pirate peers do not let go.

However, with the increase in the number of Caribbean pirate ships that Cao Li plundered, Cao Li would generally send pirate ships of the same tonnage as the pirate ships to pursue them.

In addition, Cao Li began to send people everywhere to explore the waters and terrain of the Caribbean Sea, but it was very easy to deal with the Caribbean pirates.

For those Caribbean pirates, Cao Li generally used the strategy of appeasement to delay the arrival of the shortage of manpower, but since receiving reinforcements from 2,000 sailors, the sailors of the American Fleet are very sufficient.

The white pirates, who generally worked as handymen on ships, used as cannon fodder for gang jumping when plundering ships, a strategy that greatly reduced the casualties of sailors.

Not all white pirates were willing to join, but the only end was to be caught as a slave on the farm, and they would generally give in obediently.

After getting on the ship, they only do some handymen that do not interfere with the navigation, such as cleaning and so on, and at the same time they are strictly guarded, and only give weapons when they jump into the gang.

There were also some whites who were very cooperative, and with the cooperation of these whites, the American Fleet became more familiar with the Caribbean, and in a short time, even more familiar with the Caribbean waters than the pirates who had been in the Caribbean for several years.

Britain, France, and the Netherlands, which were the Protestant countries of the West, were communicating with each other after being instigated by the Spaniards, and the West already knew that this group of Far Eastern pirates had a kind of high-speed sailing ship and a very powerful artillery, making it an extremely difficult force to deal with.

The Dutch suffered several heavy losses, not only in the Far East, but also once in Brazil, and the losses of warships were very serious.

However, fortunately, the Dutch have a relatively rich family background and a very developed shipbuilding industry, and it will not take long to recover. However, the Dutch had to take this formidable opponent seriously.

The Netherlands proposed to Britain and France a plan to form a combined fleet, and Spain also released a message at this time that it was willing to open the Strait of Magellan to the passage of the combined fleet.

If you are going from the east coast to the west coast, the safe route is still the Strait of Magellan, and the Strait of Death (Drake Passage) below the Strait of Magellan is a place with high winds and waves, which is very prone to danger, and usually some pirate ships are willing to run over to attack the Spanish ports on the west coast.

Just after the fleet returned to Qingdao from Jinshan, Liu Yuan sent two more merchant ships to Panama City for trade, and during this trade, the Spaniards revealed to the merchant ships that the Netherlands, Britain, and France were preparing to form a combined fleet to attack Jinshan on the west coast.

The Spaniards instigated the Protestant countries to take revenge on the American Fleet, obviously wanting to see the result of losing both, but they did not want the American Fleet to be completely destroyed, after all, the existence of the American Fleet gave the Spanish treasure ship a great security.

The result that the Spaniards most hoped for was the annihilation of the combined fleets of the Protestant countries and the heavy losses of the American fleet, which halted the rapid expansion of the American fleet.

The speed of expansion of the American fleet did make the Spaniards feel a kind of fear, for this growing neighbor was like hanging a sharp sword on the head, once they turned their face and did not recognize people, the sword would fall and see their heads......

(To be continued)