Chapter 191: Dongyong's Fundamental Strategy

As long as you understand Zhu Houhuang's political intentions, you will understand that Zhu Houhuang is operating Dongyong as a fundamental place. It's not hard to see that. It's just how to run Dongyong and make it a fundamental place. Zhu Houhuang himself did not have many ideas. His main advocacy was emigration, mining. There are enough immigrants. There will be enough agricultural production. If there are enough minerals, there will be industrial output to live in.

This is Zhu Houhuang's policy of running Dongyong, which is simple and crude enough. But not without reason. Because Zhu Houhuang found that no matter how elaborate the plan was, he couldn't carry it out. Only in a simple and crude way can he play around.

At this moment, when Lu Wan said it, Zhu Houhuang was engrossed in listening to Lu Wan's strategy for grinding jade. said: "Sir, please speak, the boy listens." “

It's not that Lu Wan is conceited, but compared to Yang Shen and Tang Yin, Lu Wan's resume can blow them up. Tang Yin has never done practice for half his life, and he has no problem being a talented and beautiful woman, but as an affairs officer, his ability is obviously not enough. Yang Shen was born in the Hanlin Academy, and he has enough knowledge, but his experience is inevitably insufficient.

Lu Wan is different, in the officialdom, he has been through ups and downs for half his life, and he has even done marching and fighting. What kind of thing has not been dealt with. can rise all the way, the official of the ministry. In terms of ability, he is absolutely better than Yang Shen.

Lu Wan said solemnly: "Dongyongyi Island, the west is flat, and the east is mountains. The eastern mountains are abandoned land, and the only ones that can be developed are the western plains. However, the plains on the west side of Dongyong are full of wilderness. The rivers run from the eastern mountains and flow into the western straits. As a result, these rivers swelled during the rainy season, flooding many of the banks of the rivers into swamps. It is not easy to develop Dongyong, there are two ways. The waterway is just like what His Highness is doing now. Coastal development, with the port as the center, open up the territory. But there is something wrong with this. ”

"What's wrong?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

Lu Wan said: "The territory opened up by His Highness seems to be a string of beads. It's all connected by a single thread. Integrating a silk thread is sea freight. And His Royal Highness's strength on the sea is the only way to have the previous Penghu appointment. Tie the lifeblood of Yongguo to the sea. It's not the right approach. ”

Zhu Houhuang was silent, it was not appropriate to hang the lifeblood of a country on the sea, but it was not appropriate to hang the fortune of the country on the sea before the strength of the Yongguo Naval Division was not strong. In Lu Wan's thoughts, there was a slight tendency to despise the ocean. Zhu Houhuang was not ready to correct it, and asked, "What does Mr. think?" ”

Lu Wan said: "Your Highness, please ask Your Majesty to exile the prisoners of the world to Dongyong, and immigrate the displaced people from all over the world to Dongyong. His Royal Highness monopolized the sea and accumulated wealth, and now the money and food are sufficient, but His Royal Highness is not interested in running a place, and the ministers will do it for His Highness. ”

Lu Wan said, opened a map and spread it on the table, Zhu Houhuang looked down, he was very familiar with this map, and he presided over the drawing.

It is a map of Dongyong.

A lot of the places are blank.

Lu Wan said: "His Royal Highness treats the people too much, consumes too much money, and the people will be lazy." ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little puzzled and asked, "Isn't this how it should be?" ”

Hearing Zhu Houhuang's words, Lu Wan's heart was very complicated. Confucianism talks about benevolence, but many times it can't be done. Although Zhu Houhuang has been in this world for decades, he still doesn't understand what the people at the bottom live like. The life arranged for Xiaomin with his vision has been their lifelong pursuit.

So Lu Wan said that the people here are living so well that they have no other pursuits. If you don't have any other pursuits, when you want to requisition, it's not easy to do this job. This is the reason why he said that the people will be lazy.

At this moment, I didn't know how to explain it to Zhu Houhuang for a while, Lu Wan pondered for a while, and said: "At the beginning of Dongyong, a large number of projects are needed to do, and large-scale projects are not something that the people can do by themselves, and they must be presided over by the government. His Royal Highness exempted the common people from conscription, leaving only military service. so that the magistrates could not make the people. Otherwise, compared to silver taels, the official family has its own shortcomings. This makes it impossible to carry out large projects. It will also affect immigrants. ”

The development of fertile land requires a lot of labor. Some natural conditions can divide plots of land for the people and let them open up the wasteland by themselves, but in many places, a lot of labor must be invested and a large number of water conservancy projects are needed to turn the wasteland into fertile land.

The entire Dongyong, if you want to change from a desert island to the fundamental place in Zhu Houhuang's heart, you must build a lot of construction. And you have to plan well from the beginning, and you can't think of where you are like Zhu Houhuang.

Lu Wan told Zhu Houhuang carefully. Zhu Houhuang had to admit that the benefits he issued seriously affected the progress of Dongyong's development.

For example, the area around Dayuan, that is, the area of the Tainan Plain, is a place that can be easily cultivated into farmland. After these places were carved out. Many places north of Dayuan, many places, because of the flooding of the river, are swamps, and many places are hilly.

In these places, it takes manpower and material resources to open up fertile land. If Zhu Houhuang had to pay his wages in silver, it would be an astronomical amount that Zhu Houhuang could not afford.

Even in the Ming Dynasty, the cost of river work is an astronomical amount. These large-scale projects all cost money, and even if Zhu Houhuang defeated the Francophile and monopolized the power of trade, I am afraid he could only barely afford it.

However, in this way, Zhu Houhuang's idea of overhauling the ship and competing for hegemony on the sea could only be put down.

After Zhu Houhuang understood this, he sighed in his heart, knowing that he was still taking it for granted.

The island of Taiwan, even if it was developed later, was only after 300 years of operation in the Qing Dynasty before it became a major agricultural province in later generations.

If Zhu Houhuang doesn't want to forcibly conscript the people, even if he spends his whole life in Dongyong, and his son in Dongyong all his life, in his grandson's generation, Dongyong will probably be able to support the saying that the fundamental land.

But Zhu Houhuang couldn't wait.

Zhu Houhuang said: "The kid is ignorant, and he almost broke a big thing, so please ask Mr. for advice." ”

In any era, there is a way of life in any era, and there are reasons for the existence of many harsh policies, and they cannot be eliminated with a stroke of a pen. In the words of the textbook, it is the matching between the relations of production and the productive forces.

Lu Wan could hear that although Zhu Houhuang said this, there was still a trace of awkwardness in his heart, and he was unwilling to go back on his word. said that he was exempted from forced labor, and he didn't want to break his promise to the people.

"Well, in any case, a king with a heart is much better than a king without a heart." Lu Wan said secretly in his heart. He pondered for a while and said, "Your Highness, only military service is levied on the people. It is possible to put the county soldiers into the project. Moreover, when His Royal Highness dealt with the three guards of Fuzhou, he did not make a mistake, and he would later emigrate, first the soldiers and then the people. The people who were exiled to Dongyong are all unruly and unruly, and if they are suddenly put into the people, it will hurt the customs of our people, so it is better to enter the army for three years and then release them to the people. ”

Zhu Houhuang knew that no matter how flexible Lu Wan was, he would break his promise to the people. It's just that he really doesn't want to spend his whole life on Dongyong Island, so he can only do this.

Zhu Houhuang suddenly remembered the problem of troops, and asked: "Sir, there are only more than 1,000 personal soldiers, and most of them rely on county soldiers to maintain law and order in various places. ”

Lu Wan said: "The minister has one thing to do. Immediately, Lu Wan reported his treatment of Du Yelang to Zhu Houhuang. This was meant to be said first. It's just that as soon as Zhu Houhuang saw Lu Wan, he asked about politics, and this matter was put down.

After Lu Wan finished speaking, he explained: "This is a policy of razing and governing with Yi. The barbarians must not be forcibly suppressed and exterminated. When the raze is on Huawei. The minister thought that the barbarians were often in the mountains and forests, and they were braver than the Han people, but they did not have the art of war. He does not practice farming, and instead of giving him land, he should use it as a soldier. For a long time, the barbarians are also the people of His Highness. ”

Zhu Houhuang heard Lu Wan's euphemistic advice.

Zhu Houhuang rewarded officials at all levels with many barbarian slaves to farm for officials at all levels. In Lu Wan's view, this is not a behavior worth advocating.

However, Zhu Houhuang has no choice. Without him, Dongyong's manpower gap is too great.