Three days after Zhu Youxiao returned to the capital, he held a court meeting for the first time.

"What is the progress of the household department's efforts to comfort the victims of the explosion at the Wang Gong factory?" Zhu Youxiao asked directly.

"Your Majesty, the aftermath of the explosion at Wang Gongchang has been completed, and the dead and injured and their families have been compensated and rescued by the imperial court."

Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, reported back in the column, "After being appeased, the families of the victims are emotionally stable, and the injured are also grateful to the imperial court." ”

"That's very good." Zhu Youxiao nodded in affirmation. The victims must be appeased, and now that the explosion has passed, the matter of appeasement will also be over, and then Zhu Youxiao ordered Wang Gongchang to be lifted.

"Your Majesty, the Governor of the Navy, Zhang Yan, has quickly played a game, has conquered Jawwa, and expelled the Dutch Hongyi from the South Seas. At the same time, the Portuguese Hongyi also agreed to cede Malacca to His Majesty. Sun Chuanting came out to present the recital, and now all the military recitals are directly handed to the Supreme Command.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be shocked, he didn't expect the navy to drive the Dutch out of Java so quickly, and also get his hands on Malacca, which was occupied by the Portuguese. After the piece was presented, I couldn't wait to open it and read it, and I couldn't help but laugh after reading it.

After reading it, I realized that both the Dutch and the Portuguese were frightened.

This is not surprising, as the era of mass colonization of Asia by the West had not yet arrived, and the European seafaring technology had developed, but the industrial revolution had not yet begun. It will take another 300 years for Europeans to colonize Asia with impunity.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty began to develop its navy, and in just a few years, it overwhelmed the Spanish and Dutch colonists who came to colonize Asia in terms of naval strength. This in itself is also expected, after all, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty is huge. Where is a country as big as the Netherlands that can be compared. As for the country of the Spaniards, although a little larger. But he was beaten by the Dutch and compared to animals, and it was obviously not very good.

The Spaniards are now too dependent on precious metals plundered from the Americas, and their own productivity is not high. It's not that robbery is bad, but if you follow the law of the jungle, it can be justified to oppress the weak and small peoples. But if one has enjoyed too much for nothing. It would hurt the good fortune, and that is the case in Spain.

As for the future maritime hegemon Britain, at this time there was no industrial revolution, and its strength was relatively weak, and it was still in a state of being suppressed by the Dutch.

The Ming Dynasty has now achieved the supremacy of Asia's oceans, and the results are naturally gratifying. But the bigger test is yet to come, how many years can such a position be maintained?

Zhu Youxiao understands that the Ming Dynasty's maritime hegemony in Asia cannot be shaken in the next 100 years, and it depends on whether the administrative line can be continued in the future.

But even this hundred years is enough.

"Now that Java and Malacca have been down. Then the provinces of Java and Malacca, all parts of the South Seas trade can be opened to private merchant ships. Zhu Youxiao ordered. The cabinet has again introduced the Nanyang Development Act and the Immigration Act, striving to develop the Nanyang as soon as possible and supply grain to our Ming Dynasty. ”

"Obey." Shen Yu came out of the queue and responded.

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On the occasion of the summer harvest of the sixth year of the weather, the imperial court once again announced the opening of the provinces of Java, Borneo and Malacca, and the establishment of the Special Administrative Province of Java, as well as the Special Administrative Province of Malacca and the Special Administrative Province of Borneo.

So far, the entire Nanyang has been largely ruled by the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there are a number of islands that are not under the rule, such as Sumatra, which has not been occupied by the Dutch before.

Sumatra, as it is called the Golden State in Chinese literature, is also a land of abundance.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty established the province of Java, and did not intend to include Sumatra, but included some islands east of Java, and about half of these thousands of islands were included in the Special Administrative Province of Borneo.

Sumatra will establish a separate province of Golden State, but it has not been implemented for the time being.

The Malacca Special Administrative Province is not large, only the extension of the Indochina Peninsula in the city of Malaysia, and the part of Borneo is under the administration of the Special Administrative Province of Borneo.

Indonesia will be divided into three provinces: Borneo, Java, and Golden State, and if it expands to Sulawesi and Papua in the future, a province may be established here, and the Indonesian territory will be dismembered into four provinces.

At the same time, the imperial court promulgated the Nanyang Immigration Act and the Development Act, that is, those who immigrated to Nanyang could be exempted from road tolls, and at the same time, the imperial court gave a reclamation subsidy, giving a subsidy of 0.5 yuan for each mu of plantations cultivated.

The Development Act stipulates that plantations that cultivate grain, cotton, and sugar cane are exempt from tax for three years within a range of 200 acres, and the excess amount is subject to normal taxes, and banks can provide loans to plantation owners.

The bill also stipulates that a thing called 'rubber' is tax-free for ten years as long as rubber is grown. It's confusing, and no one knows what a rubber tree is. Rubber, Zhu Youxiao thought of it when he was developing the steam engine.

Although it is not necessary to use rubber to make steam engines, it will definitely need rubber for industrial development in the future, so Zhang Yan has been instructed to find rubber tree seeds.

Through the connections of the Portuguese, Zhang Yan has obtained a batch of rubber tree seeds from the Americas. These rubber seeds have been planted in Luzon, and now the Ming is buying more rubber seeds from the Portuguese.

In order to expand the development of rubber trees, private capital has no role for the time being, after all, the role of rubber has not been developed, and private capital will definitely not do things without interests. So it's mainly state-owned enterprises that do such things.

After the introduction of this development law, it is equivalent to encouraging private capital to go to Nanyang to cultivate plantations. Especially if the plantation owner can get a loan, they may go crazy to cultivate the plantation.

For example, a plantation is reclaimed, and then a bank loan is mortgaged to develop the next plantation. Of course, there is a development ceiling for this model, in order to avoid a high concentration of plantations. So once the size of the plantation exceeds 300 acres. Taxes will be less normal. The larger the plantation, the higher the tax.

There are also differences in the taxes on the crops planted, if rice and other grains and cotton are grown, then the tax is the lowest, and sugarcane is secondary, which will be higher than rice and cotton.

The purpose is to encourage grain production and cotton production, which are the most needed by the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, there are so many resources in Nanyang that can be exploited. As long as these resources are exploited, the problem of food shortage can be solved. Rice in the Nanyang region can be harvested three times a year, and it is relatively easy to handle. In areas like Guangdong, although it is theoretically possible to achieve three crops a year, because the time is too tight, the farmers will not have enough transportation capacity to drop it, and it will be difficult to plant the seedlings in time.

But the Nanyang region is different, because the time is not so rushed, and rice cultivation can really achieve three crops a year. As long as the agricultural resources of Nanyang are developed, a large amount of grain can be imported to the Ming Dynasty every year.

What Daming lacks now is food. At the same time, with the rapid development of the commodity economy, Daming also lacked cotton. In particular, the expansion of maritime trade activities. The demand for commercial cotton is getting bigger and bigger, and the demand for cotton is further expanding.

After the development of Nanyang, it can bring not only grain and cotton to the Ming Dynasty, but also the supply of commercial sugar, and the price of commercial sugar will be further reduced, and the commercial sugar in Guangdong will lose its competitiveness, thus increasing the planting area of some grain crops.

There will be a shortage of food in the Ming Dynasty, mainly because of the development of the commodity economy, which has led to too many cash crops planted in the coastal provinces.

At the same time, the timber resources of Nanyang are absolutely abundant, and together with the output of other raw materials, it is very beneficial to the industrial development of Daming.

Therefore, in addition to the Northeast, Nanyang has also become a key area for development.

After the development of these two commercial grain bases in the south and the north, coupled with the increasing grain output of the Indochina Peninsula, the problem of food shortage in Daming will basically be solved.

Of course, the main force in the development of Nanyang is still the state-owned enterprises, as well as the red-top businessmen with the state-owned consortium, who immediately mobilized funds to go to the Nanyang reclamation plantations after the policy was introduced.

In addition, there will be a gradual expansion of state-owned enterprises in Nanyang, such as shipyards, and the shipyards left behind by the Dutch and Spaniards will be taken over by state-owned shipbuilding enterprises.

In terms of immigration, Zhu Youxiao's policies are still very attractive. The imperial court paid for the journey to Nanyang, and at the same time granted them loans to cultivate the plantation, and if they did not know how to cultivate and operate the plantation, it did not matter, they could be arranged to work in the plantation first.

Those plantations still need some Han Chinese, and the treatment is much higher than that of the natives. Those who immigrated to Nanyang went to the plantation for a few years to study, and then they could go to cultivate the plantation on their own. Or if you see some business that you can do, you can do some business or technical work by yourself.

Anyway, when they arrived in Nanyang, the Han people did not have to worry about going hungry, and after the opening of Nanyang Province, these provinces belonged to the New Deal area, and the distribution of social wealth was more fair.

This time I immigrated to Nanyang, and the main areas of migration were in the southern provinces. Because the people of the southern provinces are more adapted to the environment of the South Seas, the people of the north are not so adapted to the environment of the South Seas.

As soon as the migration began, many people from the southern provinces enthusiastically participated. Because the gap between the rich and the poor in the southern provinces is too great, many poor people have no place to stand, and there are also many agricultural populations, many of whom are tenant farmers.

These tenant farmers, as well as the workers in the cities, began to become the main force of immigration. Among those provinces, Fujian and Guangdong have the most immigrants, especially in Fujian, because of the lack of arable land, they cannot support so many people, and many people can only go overseas to make a living.

Immigrants to the South Seas need ships, and now the ocean-going merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty have been built a lot after the crazy construction in the past few years. Those traditional ship types are still more suitable for transporting people, while the European ship type has relatively poor living conditions.

Nowadays, there are large hard-sail merchant ships in the Ming Dynasty, as well as soft-sail merchant ships of the Europeans.

Those hard sailing ships became the main force for transporting immigrants, and those privately-funded merchant ships wanted to transport people to the South Seas, and they could get a freight from the government, because there was money to be made, and those merchant ships were also happy to transport those immigrants to the South Seas. In addition, state-owned merchant ships are the main force for transporting immigrants, and the size of the state-owned merchant fleet has far exceeded the total number of privately-owned merchant ships.

Under the operation of the imperial court's policies and resources, a wave of Nanyang development was soon formed. (To be continued.) )