677. Zheng Anxi

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“?????? Abbot 6 was first discovered by the Dutch, but Dutch merchants dedicated to the spice trade saw the lack of people and trade goods as not a colonizer's paradise, so they ignored it. It wasn't until the Zheng Huaxia Empire defeated the Dutch United East India Company, which ruled the entire East Indies at the time, that the colonization abbot Da 6 became an extremely hot topic. Zheng Kezang, the Taizu of China, personally divided the children of the clan including many princes into the abbot 6, the purpose of which was to stimulate the domestic economy and slow down the impact of rapid population growth on the society, but it must be said that this greatly stimulated the colonization of the abbot 6, making it another important economic circle and settlement in China in just one hundred years. Of course, from the point of view of the original colonizers, the journey from the Savage Land to Paradise on Earth was so blue??????" ――

"The history of the colonization of Huaxia in the abbot 6? Introduction: Institute of Chinese History, University of Cambridge, UK? A.D. 1959

“?????? The colonization of the Chinese abbot 6 was an unprecedented national colonization, which basically ran through the entire eighteenth century, and its scale and cost could be described as the largest in the world?????? Studying the early colonization of Fangzhang Da 6 in China, we cannot fail to note the choice of migration routes in China. Generally speaking, the routes of the abbot Da 6 who immigrated from the native of China were divided into the eastern and western routes. The eastern route is from the mouth of the Yangtze River, Zhejiang, and Minjiang River, passing through Dongning, Luzon, Spice Islands, and Yizhou, and finally arriving at the east of Abbot 6; The western route runs from the mouth of the Pearl River and Shantou, passes through Qiongzhou Island, Cam Ranh, Lingyamen or Pontianak to Coconut City or Cirebon or Surabaya or Mazen, and finally crosses the strait between the Nusa Tenggara archipelago to reach the western part of Abbot 6 and various seaports in the north, south and even east. Comparing the distances of these two routes on the map, we can clearly see that the distance between the eastern route is shorter, but in the process of early Chinese migration, the western route is dominant. This was due to the fact that the Western Front had more supply ports and could provide sufficient supplies for large groups of migrant ships, including slaves, while the Eastern Front was only used as a supplement to the Western Front because it had to cross the Sulu Sea and the waters off Mindanao, where Southeast Asian pirates gathered??????" ――

"On the Specific Route Selection and Its Advantages and Disadvantages" of the Abbot of the Early Chinese Immigrants (excerpted from "A Collection of Graduation Defenses of Doctoral Students of the Department of History of the University of Paris, France?") Book III)

"Where are we now?" Unlike Zheng Anyang and other princes who left the homeland and suffered from gains and losses, Zheng Anxi, the ninth son of the emperor, was more happy than sad about going to the abbot to establish his own country, but unlike the mood of joy, he was a little seasick since he left Huangpu Port in Guangzhou. "Looks like it's stopped?"

"If you go back to Your Highness, I heard that you have arrived at Vung Tau Port." The black eunuch who served reported the truth. "I'm in the army right now."

On the one hand, the use of blacks or Caucasians as court servants is because Zheng Kezhang is unwilling to castrate the countrymen, and on the other hand, it also reminds the emperor and the clan that "the inner prison is not my race, its heart must be different, and it must not be credulous", so Zheng Anxi, who understood the true meaning of the inside, did not express any closeness to the eunuchs who worked hard to serve him before and after the saddle, but just nodded slowly.

Seeing that Zheng Anxi was still in low spirits, the black eunuch who had been taught how to serve the nobles since he was a child stepped aside lightly, but he didn't think that a voice came from outside the cabin: "Father-in-law Huo, has the duke of Haiyang County ever woken up?" ”

The black eunuch reported softly to Zheng Anxi: "It's Imperial Doctor Huang." ”

Zheng Anxi signaled, and the black eunuch went over to open the hatch, and while leading Imperial Physician Huang in, he introduced to him: "Your Highness has just woken up, and your spirit is not very good. ”

Imperial Physician Huang walked up to Zheng Anxi, saluted him, and then reached out to hold Zheng Anxi's wrist, and after a long time, he announced: "Your Highness's foundation is very good, I didn't adapt to it at first, so I was seasick, and now I have almost raised it, the reason why my spirit is still low is caused by lying down for a long time, and then I have to move more to continue to cross the ocean." ”

Zheng Anxi replied suspiciously: "Really? It's okay, I'm a little tired of sleeping, and help me up. ”

Imperial Doctor Huang withdrew, and the little yellow doors outside the cabin rushed up, quickly changing Zheng Anxi's clothes for travel, and then helped Zheng Anwen slowly walk out of the cabin and came to the deck of the ship.

Hearing that Zheng Anxi came out to walk around, several officials from the county government came to pay their respects, and the deck was crowded with people for a while.

"Okay, I've seen it, Lone is not sick, let's be busy with everything that should be busy, there is no need to surround Lone." Although it felt good to be surrounded by everyone, Zheng Anxi, who had just recovered from a long illness, felt a little out of breath, so he had to busily disperse everyone, leaving only a few important ministers of the government. "Lord Xiong, Lord Wei, you two please stay."

In addition to the named governor Shi Xiong Guikang and the chief accountant Wei Qian - although the prince and the clan can set up their own government system after the establishment of the principality and the princely state, they can set up their own government system like ordinary princely states and capital governors, but they have not yet arrived at the abbot at this time, and the so-called principality has no shadow, so Zheng Anxi's side is still using the official system of the Huaxia Dynasty for the time being-The officials who came to greet him retreated one after another, and then Zheng Anxi asked: "How many days have we arrived, and how many days are we going to stop at Vukto?" ”

As an assistant to Zheng Anxi assigned by the Huaxia Imperial Court, Xiong Guikang is currently in charge of the government affairs of the Haiyang County Mansion, so Zheng Anxi's question is naturally answered by him: "If you go back to Your Highness, we have been in Vung Tau for two days, and the Shence Army currently assigned to the Principality has all been on board, and we will set sail after the newly accepted immigrants and supplies are completed on the ship." ”

Despite the operation of the Abbot Colonization Company, there were only more than 2,000 immigrants and more than 1,000 slaves who were specifically assigned to Zheng Anxi, so when he heard that there were newly admitted immigrants, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked busily: "How many immigrants are there?" ”

Wei Qian's report said: "There are 16 households and 81 families of immigrants from Annam, 207 families from 40 households with Vietnamese immigrants, 4 households with 20 people from Zhenla immigrants, 15 households with 80 people from Champa immigrants, and 160 male and female slaves from Laos. ”

"It's a lot." There are more than 500 people before and after, which is naturally a lot, but Zheng Anxi is obviously not satisfied with this, and even a little disappointed. "But why are there no Han people in Jinlan?"

Xiong Guikang smiled bitterly: "Jinlan is a new province, and I still lack immigrants, how can I allow an outflow." ”

Immediately, Xiong Guikang said with relief: "Your Highness doesn't need to be anxious, next, we will cross Xibo Ni, and there should be someone with us." ”

Wei Qian also said: "You can buy local slaves in Pontianak and the next Surabaya, and there are five or six hundred in total. ”

"That's four thousand." Zheng Anxi shook his head anxiously. "It's not enough for a township to populate, it's not enough to build a city and build a house to open up wasteland, how can you not be in a hurry." Having said that, he was in a hurry, and Zheng Anxi, who was helpless, could only ask another question. "How's the purchase of supplies?"

"I have already bought 20,000 (summer) stones of rice in Cam Ranh, "Guangdong is a province short of grain, and it is expensive to buy grain in Guangdong, and the quantity is also limited, so it can only be purchased in Cam Ranh, Bo Ni, Java and other places. "Next, I will buy another 50,000 stone in Pontianak and Surabaya, so that I can basically last until next year."

"The land of the abbot is reversed from winter and summer in China, coupled with the recent reclamation, I am afraid that I will have to buy grain again next year." Zheng Anxi said. "So you have to pay more attention to the ship." Now Zheng Anxi is on a free military ship, but after arriving at the abbot's 6th year, in addition to regular flights, if you want to go to sea, you have to prepare your own ships, whether it is to buy them to be controlled by the people of the principality, or to hire other people's ships, in the case of competition between the forty-seven principalities and the marquis, you naturally have to take precautions. "In addition to food, what happened to the other supplies?"

Zheng Kezhang allocated 1 million guan of internal funds to each of his sons and provided a guarantee in the name of the inner court, so that each clan could borrow 1 million to 2 million yuan of start-up funds from the domestic bank, so there was no shortage of money for the prince and the clan, and the only thing lacking was the time to quickly turn these working funds into fixed assets.

"When he came out of Guangdong, he had already purchased 30,000 catties of Guangdong iron and 1,000 sets of tools such as iron plows and iron rakes." The Guangdong Iron in Wei Qian's mouth is naturally not the first-class controlled manganese steel produced by the Dongguan Iron Yard of the Ministry of War, but the ordinary pig iron produced by the Dongguan Iron Yard at the same time. "In addition, I bought 40 Dian horses in Guangzhou, and after arriving in Vulton the day before yesterday, I bought another 100 cattle." Cattle and horses will definitely be lost on the long sea journey, and they will definitely continue to buy them in the future. "By the way, there is also a boatload of wood, bricks and tiles for construction."

Speaking of cattle and horses, Zheng Anxi suddenly thought of something: "Can the eagle and snake explained by the saint be brought on the boat?" ”

Eagles, owls, cauliflower snakes, etc. were all brought to Abbot Da 6 by Zheng Kezang, for no other reason, but he was afraid that the rats brought by the ships would breed in large numbers without natural predators. Of course, the problem of the abbot is not only the possibility of explosive breeding of mice, but also the fact that lost dogs and cats will become the overlords of new food chains such as wild dogs and night cats, and the rabbits brought with them will become a big problem in the pasture. However, the latter problem is still easy to solve, after all, the Chinese eat everything, and wild dogs, night cats, and rabbits will not be flooded as lightly as Australia in another time and space.

"If you go back to Your Highness, each boat has already brought thirty snakes, and the eagle owl has also prepared five pairs." In fact, Zheng Anxi should know this problem, but he has forgotten about it since he got seasick, and the two important ministers of the government will not deliberately remind him to embarrass him. "When he arrived at the abbot, he ordered him to be released into the wild."

"That's very good." Zheng Anxi was about to ask again, but he heard the sound of an argument in the distance, he looked up, and saw a military attache wearing the robe of a doctor from the fifth grade who was confronting the guards of the public mansion, obviously this strange military attache wanted to come over and greet him but did not want to be stopped by the loyal guards of the public mansion at the far end, so Zheng Anxi asked the two in front of him. "Lord Xiong, Lord Wei, that Lord is ??????"