The sound of hurried footsteps came from far and near, and six eunuchs, large and small, walked quickly with lit candlesticks in their hands, and separated the four corners and sides according to Wang Chengen's instructions.

Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun, who was happy, each came to the left side of the emperor with a candlestick, looked at the emperor and Zhu Daolin who were squatting together and whispering, and finally quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

After Emperor Chongzhen and Zhu Daolin finished a few words, they reached out and pinched the edge of the map: "This thing is so thick and tenacious, the craftsmen of the Tianshu Pavilion are really ingenious!" ”

The texture of the huge map was made of a special blend of silk, linen and high-stretch long-staple cotton, and the pattern on it was laserjet printed, and Zhu Daolin didn't know how to explain it to the young emperor, so he simply pretended to be confused and kept his mouth shut.

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly stood up, looking down at the huge map in front of him that was exquisite in the bright light, and couldn't help but sigh, and after a while, he quickly took off his cotton shoes, carefully stepped on the map, and came to the south of Taiwan Island on the map and squatted.

Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun hurriedly bypassed Zhu Daolin, took the first step to the right side of the map, squatted down, and carefully held up the candlestick to illuminate the island of Taiwan in front of the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen carefully examined the graphics of the entire island of Taiwan, turned his head and instructed Zhu Daolin to take off his shoes and come to his side.

Zhu Daolin did as he was told, took off the black high official boots he had specially put on, walked onto the map and squatted beside the emperor.

"Aiqing, this place marked Taipei and a few towns on the side are the Taipei Plain you said, right?"

Emperor Chongzhen was so clever that he was able to infer mountains and plains from different colors and lines without looking at the legend in the lower left corner of the map.

"Exactly."

Because the map was too big and he couldn't touch the emperor, Zhu Daolin simply knelt down and raised his hand to the red circle marked Taipei:

"There are currently 800 families living in this area, and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land have been reclaimed around it, and 15 miles of irrigation canals have been built. It is estimated that 1,000 households will need to move in to reclaim the 20-mile-long and 10-mile-wide plain in the north by the end of the year, and obtain about 100,000 acres of paddy fields and irrigated land. ”

"Among them, 80,000 acres of paddy fields will be planted with high-yielding rice seeds imported from Tianshu Pavilion, and the remaining 2,500 acres of higher land will be planted with sugarcane and potatoes imported from Luzon, sweet potatoes, peanuts, rape and soybeans imported from Tianshu Pavilion."

"If there are no major natural disasters. During the summer harvest, 450,000 stone of grain and 50,000 stone of cane sugar can be obtained, which is enough for 100,000 people to eat for more than half a year. ”

Emperor Chongzhen was surprised: "Is the production capacity of the newly opened land per mu so high?" According to your calculations, the yield per mu is almost 4 stones, which is almost as much as the output of all parts of the Yangtze River! ”

Zhu Daolin nodded: "The Taipei Plain is an alluvial plain that has been uncultivated for thousands of years, the land is very fertile, and large and small streams are all over it. ”

The minister said that 450,000 stone of grain is still a conservative estimate, and that after the autumn harvest and the immigrants are familiar with their land and the rice they grow. The yield is also higher than the summer harvest. The minister has repeatedly estimated that from June next year, even if the number of Taiwanese immigrants reaches 200,000, there is no need to worry about food! ”

Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback: "200,000 immigrants? How many ships does this take? Not to mention anything else, such a long distance, coupled with the inability to produce in the first half of the year, each immigrant needs at least 8 taels of silver just to eat and dress, and 200,000 people are 1.6 million taels of silver! Can Aiqing eat it? ”

"Actually, it doesn't cost that much to eat."

Zhu Daolin replied truthfully: "Your Majesty, look." This freshwater river from the reckless mountains in the east and winding to the west is full of fish, and the minister has seen immigrants catch a sea bass weighing more than 40 catties. There are countless one or two feet long, and there are more than 20 miles of freshwater estuaries to the west, this sea area is full of fish and shrimp, and the granary of talent! ”

"A month ago, the minister had sent people to Luzon Island in the south to buy back five large and small fishing boats, and selected 300 young people who were familiar with the nature of the water to form a fishing team. Once you go to sea, you can get more than 100,000 catties of all kinds of delicious sea fish. ”

"Some time ago, immigrants were tired of eating fish every day, so the minister had ordered people to buy chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and sheep from Nanzhili and Luzon and send them to the immigrants for raising."

"The Franco-Rang merchants on the southern island of Luzon have been transporting cattle to Tamsui Harbor, and the price of adult cattle is as high as 22 taels of silver per head and 10 taels of silver for calves, which is far from enough. It is estimated that by the end of the year, the standard of one ploughing cow for every five households will not be met. ”

Emperor Chongzhen and the eunuchs were stunned, and they all looked at Zhu Daolin, who was full of regret.

Zhu Daolin, who was still carefully looking at the island of Taiwan, found that the situation was wrong, raised his head and found that everyone's eyes were a little strange, and asked puzzledly: "Is there something wrong?" ”

The young emperor sighed but did not speak, and Cao Huachun explained in a low voice: "In the entire Beizhili ground, a place where 5 households have 1 cow can be considered rich, and Jiangnan that has been stable for a hundred years is probably like this." ”

Zhu Daolin smiled dumbly: "This is also called wealth? I'm not afraid that you will say that my heart is higher than the sky, in my plan, Taiwanese immigrants have one ploughing cow or one horse per family to meet the standard. ”

"For this reason, I specially left 200,000 taels of silver for several immigrants in Tamsui Port to buy ploughing cattle and pack horses, and now not only Luzon merchants bring cattle and horses to sell, but also Francophone merchants will transport cattle and horses from Annam, and half a year later, at least 5,000 ploughing cattle and 3,000 calves will be sent to Tamsui Port!"

"Secondly, each family of immigrants has two acres of self-reserved land, so that the old and weak women and children who cannot bear the heavy labor can grow vegetables, weave cloth, raise chickens and ducks at home, and it is estimated that after half a year, Taiwanese immigrants can eat eggs at two ends in three days, and they can kill a chicken and duck in ten days and a half months to change their taste......

"Your Majesty, please see, the mountain behind Taipei and Tamsui is called Moon Mountain, the mountain is covered with forests, lush, and there are many hot springs below the mountainside, so the grass is fertile and the water is beautiful all year round, and you can see herds of elk frolicking on the mountainside when you stand under the mountain."

"The minister is going to buy 5,000 goats from Zhejiang and Nanzhili and send them to the immigrants in a few small villages under the mountain, and only need to return the 10,000 goats to the minister after two years, and the rest will belong to their own private property."

Emperor Chongzhen and a group of eunuchs were completely shocked.

If Zhu Daolin's policies to benefit the people can be realized, the victims who moved to Taiwan will immediately become the richest farmers in the future, but with such a huge upfront investment, it will be unbearable for the imperial court to do it!

Zhu Daolin didn't know what these people were thinking, so he took the opportunity to suggest to the emperor: "Your Majesty, Taiwan Island is about the size of my three high-class counties in the Ming Dynasty combined, with mountains and forests and surrounding fish farms and salt farms, as well as the natural sulfur mines in the sea behind Moon Mountain, which are enough to mine for more than 500 years. ”

"This ......"

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to get this place again, but he was worried about being opposed by the ministers.

Zhu Daolin explained: "The reason for being a royal territory is very simple, Taiwan Island is a newly developed territory, during which it did not cost the imperial court and the local government a penny, but the land obtained under the wise leadership of the emperor. ”

"Secondly, the island of Taiwan seems to be far overseas, with many mountains and few wild areas, but in fact, the land is fertile and abundant, and the hundreds of indigenous tribes on the island add up to 50,000 people, and there is no problem in feeding millions of subjects."

"The annual sale of timber alone can bring at least 100,000 taels of silver in taxes to the inner treasury, and if you count the mountains of sulfur mines, there is no problem in paying 200,000 taels of silver to the royal family every year."

"Half a year later, the Tamsui port will be completed, and the merchant ships of the Franc Machinery countries, the merchant ships of the Japanese Kingdom, and the merchant ships of Jiangnan and Shandong will have a safe place for transit and supply.

"Two years later, we will set up a city and a city, and collect commercial tax at the rate of 20 taxes and 1, and tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, which is much better than relying on the two cities of Guangdong and Ningbo, and we don't have to endure the constraints and coveting of those civil servants and local tycoons."

Emperor Chongzhen endured the strong possessiveness in his heart, and in addition to his face being redder, he was still calm and elegant, Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun were already staring at each other and breathing shortly, and they couldn't wait to agree for the emperor immediately.

Zhu Daolin saw that the fire was almost over, and seized the opportunity to add more fire: "The minister implores the emperor to give the island of Taiwan and several newly opened up territories an official title, it is always inaccurate to call Taiwan or Dongyi or something, and it is not appropriate." ”

The ambition to expand the territory suddenly filled the chest and abdomen of the young emperor, he slowly got up and paced with his back hands, slowly turned around under the nervous gaze of Zhu Daolin and the historians, eunuchs and eunuchs, let go of the hand that had already clenched his fist, and pointed like a halberd, pointing to the island of Taiwan on the map, taking a deep breath and saying:

"I received your report before, I specially checked the historical materials, in the Spring and Autumn Period, this place was called Yidao, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty named Yingzhou, and the Yuan Dynasty from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty overthrown by my Ming Taizu called it Ryukyu, and it has not been incorporated into my Chinese territory for two thousand years."

"Now that this island has been included in the territory of my Ming Dynasty, it is the territory of my Ming Dynasty, and tens of thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty have moved to it to work hard, and it is time to set an official name, just take the name of the first emperor as the quasi, called Yingzhou!"

"The names of the towns in Tamsui, Luzhou, Keelung and the three sulfur mining areas marked above do not need to be changed, but they need to set up a state capital to control and educate, and Taipei, which has the largest number of immigrants, and this fertile plain called Taoyuan in the south are divided into Taipei and Taoyuan counties, and the specific structure will be discussed later."

"Congratulations to the emperor!"

"Congratulations to the Emperor!"

All the eunuchs, including the historians, knelt on the ground and shouted excitedly, Zhu Daolin looked left and right, and had to follow everyone to kneel in front of the ambitious emperor who scolded Fang Xuan.

Zhu Daolin's congratulatory message was different, but it made the young Emperor Chongzhen smile:

"I implore the emperor to make this great achievement of opening up the territory to the public as soon as possible, which will surely inspire the hearts of the army and the people, and boost the morale of the people.

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