Chapter 333: Marching into the Southern Hemisphere

New Zealand is a good place, and the reason why it was given to Zhu Youzhen is mainly to make a good start and set an example.

At this time, Concubine Liang also gave birth to a boy for Zhu Youxiao. The second prince was born, and after Zhu Youxiao flipped through the dictionary, he found the word 'Xuan', so he named him Zhu Cixuan.

The second prince will definitely be a vassal in the future, Zhu Youxiao naturally doesn't want to see his son being locked up in a city and depressed, and he has no way to do anything if he wants to do business, so he can only eat and wait for death every day. Therefore, when Zhu Cixuan grows up, it is the best choice to send him overseas to become a vassal country of his own.

In this way, you can also do something business.

People are born to do things, and the most cruel thing is not to deprive them of their glory and wealth, but to deprive them of their own efforts and the direction of struggle.

Eating and waiting to die all day long is a very terrible thing for people, and what happens when a person's good fortune is exhausted?

So those vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are actually quite pitiful, although the glory and wealth seem to be inexhaustible, but how can there be endless glory and wealth, people pass by in the blink of an eye in this life, what else can be left when they close their eyes?

Many vassal kings were born knowing their fate, so many of them were forced to be a little mentally abnormal. Especially those vassal kings who live in small cities, there is also a feeling of being imprisoned for life, which will be very depressing.

At this time, the vassal system also had the feeling of killing a boatload of people with a rod.

As long as Zhu Youzhen sets a good example overseas, and the second prince grows up more than ten years later and sees the example, the system of sealing the vassal king overseas can become a common practice at that time.

After the news of the announcement of the sub-letter Wang Zhu Youzhen to the overseas 'Taoyuan Island' to become a vassal state. It immediately caused a sensation among the royal family.

How can a vassal king form a country of his own overseas?

This is unprecedented!

But many vassal kings were envious to death. Every day, there are big fish and meat, and there is no need to worry about food and clothing. Those vassal kings feel like that, they are used to it, and they don't think there is anything good.

Life has come to this point, and people always have something else to pursue! One by one, they all want to be an emperor in their hearts, but some vassal kings are self-aware, and they only think about it occasionally in their heads, and some vassal kings think about it **** and think about it night and night.

If you go overseas to get a vassal country, it seems to be pretty good!

Of course. It's good to think about it. But letting those pampered vassal kings go overseas is obviously a little unbearable.

In contrast, although Zhu Youzhen is a little older than he is, he is extremely outstanding in terms of diligence and thrift, and there is obviously no problem in going overseas to suffer a little.

The six ministers had no opinion on the emperor's decision to divide the king of Shin overseas. The division of feuds overseas did not pose a threat to the local imperial power, and it did not conflict with the original intention of the current vassal system, and it could still maintain the stability of the state power and reduce the threat to the power from the vassal kings.

Therefore, the six ministers are basically supportive. With the support of the ministers, the matter of dividing the seal was quickly carried out.

There are a lot of things. It's not just about throwing people to Taoyuan Island.

The country name has to be set first, this is also simple, since it is called Taoyuan Island, the country name is set as 'Taoyuan Country', and the regulations for use have also been formulated. As a feudal king of the Zhu family, his status is naturally one level higher than that of the vassal kings of Joseon and Ryukyu, so the cost of clothing and luan driving is also one level higher than that of ordinary foreign vassal kings, but it is lower than that of the emperor.

The bank loan also came down, and the first batch of loans of 5 million yuan was issued to King Xin for the establishment of a feudal state, with a monthly interest rate of 3%, which is definitely a conscience interest rate.

At this time, the central bank of Daming charged a monthly interest of nearly 5% for loans to North Korea, and the actual amount received was only 80%.

Immigrants are also recruiting, and all provinces in the north and south of the river have issued examples to recruit people to immigrate to Taoyuan country.

The list is very beautifully written, what 'overseas Australia has two islands adjacent to each other, the north and south are fertile for thousands of miles, and the vegetation is luxuriant; There is no scorching heat in summer, no severe cold in winter, and it is like a fairyland. Now the imperial court has sealed the king as the king of Taoyuan country, and recruited the people to go to grazing and reclamation, and the road expenses are all covered, and the monthly salary is 5 yuan ......'.

Immigrants obviously won't be given land directly, because New Zealand is a place where the pastures are of good quality and state capital needs to be fully accessed.

Therefore, workers are needed, and all kinds of construction need workers, as well as some businessmen who do small business, and some service industry workers.

Most of the pastures on the north and south islands will be encircled by state-owned capital.

What are those Zhu Youzhen doing?

After that, he collected taxes as usual! State-owned capital paid taxes to him as usual, and Zhu Youzhen himself was able to enclose some pastures and woodlands.

At the same time, it is necessary to build a city, to build a central city. In the future, it will be the capital of Taoyuan Country, and the place where Zhu Youzhen manages the administration and military.

Militarily, Colonel Zhu You gave Zhu You a quota of 2,000 troops, and at the same time, the imperial court would also send a marine corps to be stationed in Taoyuan Country to cooperate with its military operations.

The main force in the development of pastures, forests and minerals is the state-owned capital consortium, and the workers are directly drawn from the country.

The workers don't have much of a problem with moving overseas, because the wages are higher when they move overseas. And it's not that you can't go back, you can naturally apply for transfer back to your home country after working for a certain number of years, and it's no problem if you want to settle down overseas.

The taxation system and administrative system of Taoyuan Country were basically established in accordance with the model of the New Deal, and at the same time, Taoyuan Country also set up six ministers, as well as state and county officials.

These officials were all transferred from the imperial court, because they were the foreign vassals of the Zhu family, and if these officials of Taoyuan Country did a good job, they could also be promoted to the mainland.

Zhu Youzhen actually has some power, but it can't change the fundamental system of Taoyuan Country, which is equivalent to Zhu Youxiao drawing a circle for him, in this circle, Zhu Youzhen can play as much as he wants, but once the bottom line is touched, his behavior will be stopped.

The finances of Taoyuan Country are self-responsible, and there is no money to apply for a loan from the Central Bank of Daming. And the currency circulating in its territory is also the Apocalypse Treasure Banknote and Copper Coins.

In fact, after the establishment of Taoyuan Country, as long as some of the resources on the island are developed, the finances can be replenished. After all, this place is really rich in resources, and there are few natural disasters, and the climate is mild, so it is indeed a good place.

Although Zhu Youzhen was a vassal king, on the surface, he ruled by splitting the land with the Ming Dynasty, but in fact he was similar to the colonial governor sent overseas by the Ming Dynasty, except that he could control the tax revenue. However, most of the tax revenue was used in a place that was still intervened by the imperial court, and only the surplus was at Zhu Youzhen's discretion. If there is no surplus in the finances, Zhu Youzhen can also get a part of it for expenses, but there is a fixed amount.

Such a system already existed in the imperial family, and the emperor himself had his own small treasury, and the emperor wanted to take money from the treasury to use it, and the courtiers would come forward to advise and hinder it. Previously, Emperor Wanli could only get a hundred thousand taels of silver from the treasury every year for intentional expenses, but a lot of the money from the three major levies of Wanli came from the inside.

Although this account is a bit messy, the emperor's inability to move the treasury's money at will has become a rule, although it is not so mandatory, but the reason is there.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao didn't use the money from the state treasury, and he didn't even receive his salary. Zhu Youzhen, the vassal king, can still get some salary, and he can't be poor as a vassal king at present, of course, Zhu Youzhen can run his own ranch or something. As a vassal king, he can naturally get a large area of pastures and woodlands on Taoyuan Island, and then operate some mines and the like, so that he can live a comfortable life.

As for Zhu Youzhen being too young or something, this is not a problem. The courtiers sent out by Zhu Youxiao will naturally help Zhu Youzhen manage Taoyuan Country well.

The Marines were the first to land on Taoyuan Island, followed by a state-owned capital consortium to exploit its resources. At the same time, the military was used as the vanguard to carry out carpet sweeping and arrest of the Mao people on the island, so as to obtain a large number of indigenous labor force and devote it to the construction of development activities.

Everything unfolded in an orderly manner, and Zhu Youzhen would also rush to Taoyuan Island in the late summer of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. In addition, various materials will continue to arrive.

The state-owned capital consortium is not only developing New Zealand in the southeast of Australia, but also in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and a shipload of state-owned enterprise employees has been sent to Australia to carry out large-scale development of the southeast coast of Australia. (To be continued.) )