Chapter 646: Inspecting Luzon

"The minister King Jiuchuan pays a visit to His Highness."

As soon as Zhu Houhuang arrived in Luzon, officials headed by Wang Jiuchuan also came to greet him.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Flat." "He doesn't have time to spend here.

"How's the lonely sugar cane growing?"

Wang Jiuchuan said: "Your Highness, please come with the ministers." ”

Wang Jiuchuan didn't talk nonsense, and directly took Zhu Houhuang outside the city.

First see the large rice fields, just near Luzon City.

Although Luzon City is a new city, the vicinity of Luzon City is a familiar land. This is the so-called Luzon State opened up the land, but the Luzon city is a city rebuilt after Luzon was incorporated into the territory of Dongyong, and there is no change in style with the inland county town of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Are the barbarians on Luzon easy to deal with? “

Wang Jiuchuan said: "Your Highness, most of the barbarians on Luzon Island are raised by Ju clans, with hundreds of people at most and dozens of people at least, and they have no strength to resist the army at all. Therefore, the entire Luzon Island, except for the south, has been completely the land of Yongguo. ”

Zhu Houhuang heard that southern Luzon had not been taken down, and asked, "What's going on in southern Luzon?" ”

Wang Jiuchuan said: "There is a Muslim country in southern Luzon. The founding of the country was not long, and it was founded here by a Hui merchant, which had some contradictions with the country of Sulu, which was mainly located in the east of Sulu and on the island of Mindanao. Its state is theocratic and theocracy, with a solid foundation, and it is easy and unshakable. ”

"Islam." Zhu Houhuang chewed silently.

In fact, Zhu Houhuang does not necessarily include all Nanyang in the territory of Dongyong. Zhu Houhuang thought about it before, but he found through the conquest of Annan that if he wanted to do this, he could only go around in the South Seas for the rest of his life, and not conquer India. But there is one thing he must be sure of, that is, to bring the whole of Nanyang into the Chinese cultural circle. From this point of view, the enemy of Islam is more difficult to deal with than the Francophiles.

From the perspective of later generations, hundreds of years later, the colonial wave declined, and Western countries such as Francois retreated to Europe, but Islam still stubbornly exists. This existence hindered the return of Nanyang to the Chinese territory.

But this matter is not something he can solve now.

Zhu Houhuang said: "What is the current county of Luzon? ”

Wang Jiuchuan said: "The minister set up four county towns in Luzon, one of which is Luzon. The second is Linyi, which is just north of Luzon, facing Dongyong, which is a good port, and there is no mountain barrier between it and Luzon. The minister is willing to follow Lu Shangshu's example, from Luzon and Linyi to expand the land to the island, and finally reclaim this large area of flat land into fertile land, and the sugarcane that His Royal Highness wants, mainly planted in these two places, the third is Cebu, which is one of the anchorages under the command of the Luzon sailor Wei, because of the invasion of Xiyi, the tribes of Cebu Island withered, and the minister also sent some people to take care of the sailor's station, but the sailor's family and the people, there are more than 1,000 people, plus the dependent indigenous people, there are as many as 10,000 people, and the minister set up a county to manage. Fourth, it is hundreds of miles southeast of Luzon, and it is also near the sea, but the land is not very good, but it is a checkpoint on Luzon Island, separating Luzon South Island from Luzon North Island. ”

Zhu Houhuang listened, and he could hear that he didn't pay much attention to Cebu, but he attached importance to the large plains between Luzon and Linyi. He wanted to emulate Lu Shangshu, Lu Wan was not in Dongyong for a long time, but the big project he built was carved with his name in Dongyong, and there were countless places called Lu Gong Canal and Lu Gong Dike in Dongyong.

The Chinese people are the most grateful.

Last winter, Lu Wan died of illness. The Ming side didn't even have a posthumous gift. But the news reached Dongyong, and in an instant, countless Lu Gong Ancestral Halls were built. I have to say that Zhu Houhuang has been tax-free for three years, and the people of Dongyong still have financial resources.

So, in Dongyong, the sea sacrifices to Mazu, and the land sacrifices to Lu Gong, which has become a trend.

How can such a situation not make many people jealous.

No one can escape the word fame and fortune, even if it is a righteous man and a gentleman. Lu finished his life's work and pacified the rebellion of Liu Liu and Liu Qi in the position of the secretary of the military department, but what really made him remember was the river that was repaired and the embankment that was built in Dongyong District for a year or two. How not to let the juniors remember. Lu Wan's encounter, among the hundreds of officials in Dongyong, set off a lot of waves.

So much so that the construction of water conservancy by Dongyong officials has become a common practice.

Wang Jiuchuan is also one of them.

Zhu Houhuang also deliberately contributed to this. Anyway, under Zhu Houhuang's rule, the standard for evaluating officials was never an unjust case or anything, it was the responsibility of the county commander, nor was it the number of soldiers and laborers produced in a county, and the problem of public security in the county, which was the problem of the county lieutenant, and a county order was mainly about the number of people, the amount of cultivated land, and the amount of taxes. How many students. And so on, there are numerical requirements.

However, Zhu Houhuang does not pay attention to Wang Jiuchuan's plan now. Just look at how the sugarcane is grown.

After a while, in Zhu Houhuang's eyes, the paddy fields quickly retreated, and large sugarcane fields covered the horizon. It's like a large green gauze tent. Zhu Houhuang stood on the horse, looked from a distance, crossed the sugarcane field and saw the trees faintly emerging in the distance, only to know that the scale of this large sugarcane field was far from imagining, but dozens of hectares.

Although this sugarcane field looks relatively large, it is far from enough to fill the trade gap that is lacking in the Ming Dynasty.

It didn't take long to come to a camp. Or rather, farmsteads.

Immediately, hundreds of people, large and small, all knelt down, and in the mud on both sides, these people almost buried their legs in the mud, and they didn't notice it at all, but stuffed their heads into the mud to feel at ease.

These people are not Han Chinese. This was Zhu Houhuang's first thought. They are short in stature, dark-skinned, and although they are dressed in style, they seem to be Han clothes, but there is a saying that they do not look like princes in dragon robes, although they wear Han clothes, they do not look like Han people at all.

"Your Highness, this is the minister according to His Highness's order to collect the barbarians in the mountains and go down the mountain as slaves." Wang Jiuchuan saw that Zhu Houhuang noticed these people, and hurriedly explained to Zhu Houhuang: "This is the property of Shaofu, and these people are all barbarians in the mountains. It is also the good governance of His Highness, so that he is a slave to His Highness. These people are all cheap, hungry and full in the forest, starving to death every year, and now they have entered the Zhuangzi of His Royal Highness, as long as they listen to life, they can live in peace. It can also be regarded as the result of His Highness's benevolence. ”

Caused by benevolence?

Zhu Houhuang was in a trance. It was nothing like he had imagined.

What Zhu Houhuang thinks about should be countless Han overseers, picking up this leather whip and urging these barbarian slaves to work. Every now and then someone dies, and that's right. Instead of this, this barbarian is obviously convinced, and in the entire Zhuangzi, Zhu Houhuang looks at it, there are only more than ten Han people. More than a dozen people control hundreds of barbarians, working here, without the slightest fear of them escaping.

Zhu Houhuang was a little puzzled.

Is it because I think wrong, is northern Luzon so easy to conquer? Or did the Han people treat slaves like that?

You must know that when Zhu Houhuang had this idea just now, he never thought of any benevolence?

"Jiuchuan, don't they have the heart to rebel?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

"Why not." Wang Jiuchuan said: "At the beginning, there were also two or three Zhuangzi who were destroyed, but if they were ruthless, they didn't dare. ”

Sure enough, all this is an illusion in front of me. Barbarians are afraid of power, not virtuous. Only by killing ruthlessly, killing scared, and then giving a few sweet dates, will they obey.

It's not just that.

The huge social gap between Dongyong and these people is also one of them, Dongyong was first built, politically clear, and the policies set by the above did not dare to deviate from the below. Although he was a slave, the treatment that Wang Jiuchuan set for him was not too bad, at least it was much better than their life in the forest, where did he have clothes to wear.

Seeing this, Zhu Houhuang was also relieved.

In any case, the savages of northern Luzon were so easily conquered enough to provide Luzon with enough manpower to clear enough sugar cane fields.

As long as there are enough people, many things can be solved, and it is not an empty phrase that there are many people.

"If there is enough sugar in Luzon, it's time to consider Shaofu building a sugar mill in Luzon.