Chapter 173: Xu Song returns

Things should be done one by one, and you can't be greedy.

Zhu Houhuang dealt with the matter of the gold mine and left, and Li Shigui, who was in Beigang, was about to lose his hair during this time.

Beigang is essentially just a small town, but the gold rush that came in advance originally brought too many people to Beigang, so that Li Shigui couldn't really manage Beigang at all, but this situation was in Zhu Houhuang's sweep away of all the dynamic civil society groups in Beigang, and the authority of the government was great. Then there was endless work, dividing wasteland for these people, forming villages, and distributing food.

These processes have already been sorted out by Yang Shen, how much land each immigrant distributes, how much food subsidies are issued, and how to form a village, so that the village can neither be too cohesive, too cohesive, and gather together to fight against the government, nor can the cohesion be too bad, otherwise they can't even protect themselves at all. These villages can not be separated from the management of the county government, nor can they occupy too many officials, the establishment of a county is numerous, and if you want to expand it, you must determine the Changshi Mansion of King Yong.

Anyway, Yang Shen used his wisdom to establish a system for Yongguo, and the remaining officials only had to do it step by step.

This is one of the reasons why Zhu Houhuang values Yang Shen.

But even so, dealing with 20,000 or 30,000 immigrants at once will cost Li Shigui's life.

After Zhu Houhuang came back, Li Shigui's face was haggard, and he didn't know how many days he hadn't slept well. As soon as Li Shigui saw Zhu Houhuang, he immediately complained and said, "Your Highness, there is no way for the minister. ”

Zhu Houhuang looked at him with a bitter face, and said, "Master Li said slowly, slowly. ”

Li Shigui said: "Your Highness, the Chenxian Ya has too few people and too many things, so I can't support it." ”

Of course, Zhu Houhuang knew, not counting the people in the mining area, there were about 10,000 new people in Beigang. Not to mention the people in the mining area, so many people are all arranged on the land, which requires too much manpower and material resources. If the timing is not good, these people have other problems. Anyway, it's very troublesome.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Okay, Lone will ask you for someone immediately." ”

Li Shigui said: "There is also law and order in the county, but it is not good, and the county lieutenant is not enough. ”

Of course, Zhu Houhuang knew that Yu Dayou didn't have many subordinates, and he used the manpower of his own soldiers. And these manpower, Yu Dayou didn't dare to call them casually.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Okay, let Lord Wu and Master Li help Yu Dayou." ”

In this way, Zhu Houhuang could not return to Beigang for the time being, and Beigang and the county were in such a hurry that the county soldiers in Beigang could not be organized at all, and all of them were engaged in the action of dividing and dividing land. can only rely on King Yong's own soldiers to maintain law and order.

Zhu Houhuang sighed in his heart and said secretly: "My personal soldiers must be expanded." "Increasingly, he felt that he had fewer soldiers under his command. However, he followed the policy of elite soldiers, every soldier, silver, armor, and blade. Field. Although the cost of training is much cheaper than that of the Navy, it also costs a lot of money. The most important thing is faithfulness.

Zhu Houhuang determined that one of the requirements for the conscription of Yongguo is to have a good family to join the army, in addition to the soldiers recruited by Zhu Houhuang in Beijing, there must be a family, someone to guarantee, and the family has a land, and the hometown is in Yongguo in order to become a soldier of King Yong, and with the current population of Yongguo, Zhu Houhuang does not dare to draw too many soldiers, which affects production too much.

He thought to himself, "When Beigang settles down, we can levy a group of soldiers in Beigang." ”

In the midst of the hustle and bustle of Heyang, Yang Shen's recovery was very fast, and Yang Shen immediately sent Wu Xingzhi over, not only Wu Xingzhi, but also dozens of small officials under Wu Xingzhi. It has reduced Li Shigui's great burden. All the resources that Yang Shenneng sent over. There is no shortage of food at all.

20,000 people, who have worked hard for more than ten days in a hurry to settle down, are not so busy. Li Shigui summoned the county soldiers again.

As mentioned before, Zhu Houhuang was exempted from almost all labor service, only military service was not exempted, and with Beigang's current household registration, he easily gathered more than 2,000 people.

After such a military guarantee, although the number of people who came from the gold mine was reduced----- Zhu Houhuang's actions in the mine also spread. But there are still a lot of people who go to Beigang. ------ Li Shigui can also ensure the normal operation of Beigang, but he needs Yang Shen's food support.

Zhu Houhuang instructed Yu Dayou to train hard. He was also ready to start his action.

He came to North Harbor for more than just to quell the chaos in Northport. Rather, it is for the coal and iron resources of Beigang. In order to defeat the Franc Man, Zhu Houhuang had to cast a cannon, but if he bought iron from the outside. It's too sensitive, after all, because King Ning is acting secretly, the price of iron is already very high. Moreover, the cannons that Zhu Houhuang wanted to cast were not one or two, but dozens, hundreds, and thousands, how could they rely on external iron.

Just after Zhu Houhuang sent batches of feng shui gentlemen out to select ore seedlings. He sat in the North Harbor, waiting for news. He didn't wait for the news of the discovery of the ore seedlings, but waited for another news, Xu Song returned.

Zhu Houhuang was overjoyed.

"Minister Shaofu Cheng Xu Song, meet Your Highness." As soon as Xu Song saw Zhu Houhuang, he saluted Zhu Houhuang with a glance.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Brother Xu is exempt. How about going to Japan? ”

Xu Song said: "The minister will go to Ryukyu first. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Oh, how is Ryukyu? ”

Xu Song said: "The Ryukyu King Shang is a Ming courtier, and he is very good to the minister, and he also asked the minister to come with a gift to congratulate His Royal Highness on the title of Dongyong. As Xu Song spoke, he turned the gift list, handed it to Zhu Houhuang and said, "This is the gift list." ”

Zhu Houhuang opened it and took a look, and found that there were a lot of good things on it, such as a pair of jade, a hundred night pearls, and ten thousand taels of gold.

Zhu Houhuang asked, "Does the King of Ryukyu have any requirements?" ”

Xu Song said: "King of the Ryukyus, there is a daughter who is in her prime and is willing to warm up the table for His Royal Highness. ”

Zhu Houhuang was not surprised by who came from this sentence, but the person in front of him was the eldest brother of his wife, and he actually said such a thing, Zhu Houhuang was a little unconvinced for a while, and said: "Brother, I think Lone should accept this girl." ”

Xu Song said: "Although Ryukyu is small, it is a national slujin and cannot be underestimated. The King of the Ryukyus is willing to marry His Highness, and His Highness should accept it. ”

"Big brother, haven't you thought about Lan'er?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

"Ministers dare not harm justice because of their personal feelings." Xu Song said.

How could Xu Song not think about it, he thought about it on the road I don't know how many times, but in the end he chose to give Zhu Houhuang the information about this matter, and tried his best to promote it. Without him, he felt that this matter was beneficial to Yongguo.

Although the Ryukyus Kingdom can't help Yongguo much, but Yongguo is newly established, and it is the time to establish good relations with various countries, and it is not a big problem for Zhu Houhuang to have an extra daughter by his side. And the relationship between Yongguo and Ryukyu is not good.

Zhu Houhuang understands why the king of Ryukyu wants to give away his daughter, if a small country like Ryukyu wants to survive, he has to hold his thighs to death. Moreover, although Ryukyu is said to be overseas, the 36 surnames of Ryukyu are all from Fujian across the sea, and it can be said that they are all Han Chinese. Naturally, he had to hug Daming's thighs tightly, and it was not the king of Yongguo who wanted to kiss the king of Yongguo, but the king of Yong.

Zhu Houhuang can also understand Xu Song's thoughts, Hui merchants have always had the tradition of Confucian merchants, although Xu Song suddenly occupied a high position because of his sister's relationship, he became less and less confident in his heart, and used the style of ancient scholars to demand himself. Therefore, every time he sees Zhu Houhuang, he does not smile, and is cautious in his words and deeds. He has always taken the interests of Yongguo and King Yong as the greatest interests, and has never dared or had any selfish thoughts.

Zhu Houhuang can figure out their thoughts, but this consequence. But it made Zhu Houhuang feel very weird, the eldest brother pimped for his brother-in-law, and came to pull the righteousness and strictness, so that he didn't know how to say it, so he had to put this topic aside and asked: "Brother, how do you feel about going to Japan?" ”

Xu Song said: "The situation in Japan is not optimistic, Japan is now rampant with pirates, and there has been a war in Korea. ”