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A northern Luzon county could no longer meet the needs of the wealthy imperial merchants, and the plantation class, which had gradually formed a new power, had repeatedly called out through its spokesmen at the meetings of the Civic Council and the Senate that the empire should further loosen the land of the central and southern counties and Burmese counties, not only should the infrastructure construction of the central and southern counties be accelerated, so that the two counties with blocked transportation could be more convenient for exporting agricultural products because of the improved transportation, but also more measures should be introduced to encourage the development of cash crop cultivation in these areas, such as reducing the tax rate of the slave trade and encouraging slave owners to sell slaves to these areasThis, of course, was resolutely resisted by the anti-slaves, but it shows the desire of the plantation owners in these areas. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And now that an area several times larger than that of Northern Luzon, South-Central and Burmese combined, and that the natural conditions there may be even better than those of these places, and that all other conditions are in place except for a little farther away from the empire itself, how can such an opportunity not be well grasped? The only obstacle is the damned "Provisional Regulations on the Administration of Imperial Lands", and as long as this shackle can be untied, the rich New World will open its gold-laden bosom to all.

"Wu Feng, I heard that you intend to open up the land in the interior of the New World of the Empire?" When the wheezing voice gradually calmed down, the jade man's soft little hand lightly touched Wu Feng** Stroking in front of his chest, Wufeng's eyes flickered in the dark, he didn't expect that even Situ Yutang would come to ask this question, he had already noticed that he seemed to be a little impulsive on this issue during his lunch break at Shi's Sanshu, and now Situ Yutang's inquiry proves this problem, when he was enjoying Yao Lian's piano skills in the afternoon, Situ Yuzhen also asked himself on the side, it seems that this is an extremely thousand waves, and the new world really affects the hearts of many people.

"Yutang, the land of the New World has always been open to the people of the Empire, the Empire has long issued policies to encourage immigration to the New World, and the Empire has even given huge subsidies to the passenger companies that open the New World route to encourage the smooth flow of this route, is there anything wrong with this?" Wu Feng didn't want to pretend to be crazy and stupid, so he sighed and said: "If you are asking what I meant at the State Council meeting this morning, I can also answer you clearly, yes, I intend to change the current land policy in the New World." ”

At this time, Situ Yutang couldn't care that she was a little too explicit, the family forces behind her and their allies were already about to get angry about this question, she needed an accurate answer to this kind of question, "Are you planning to adopt a policy in Northern Luzon and Central South County?"

"Well, with this idea, I intend to do so in the sphere of influence that the empire currently controls, if the civil forces can continue to the lands outside the empire's sphere of influence with their own strength, I intend to give them a better policy, and the empire will also promise to protect the security of their lands beyond the empire's control sphere, of course, those lands will also belong to the empire's territory, but there must be a boundary, and the land that has been classified as a sphere of influence by other countries needs to be confirmed by the empire's diplomatic department. Wu Feng's fingers played with Situ Yutang's smooth body, it was still so delicate as water, as it was back then, there was almost no change, although there was a lot less passion, but the warmth of the veins precipitated by marriage seemed to have taken root.

"Oh, don't you think this policy is too radical?" Situ Yutang asked softly after a long silence.

A little surprised, Wu Feng didn't expect Situ Yutang to ask such a question, is it worried that the imperial policy adjustment will be too large and will be adjusted back later, or is it true? After a long time, Wu Feng was convinced of the true meaning of the other party's words, and the eyes flowing in the dark night made Wu Feng seem to feel a trace of warmth, he was used to thinking about problems alone, and this time the other party gave him a surprise.

"No, the situation is pressing, I think maybe the monarchs of the Western Continent countries may give their domestic adventurers and merchants better policies, we can't lag behind, although we now occupy a certain advantage, but to turn these advantages into victory, then we can't relax at all, even if some of the empire's benefits are obtained by the merchants, after all, it is always in the empire, it is better than being taken by those Western Continent people, right? I just hope to be able to use a sufficiently generous policy to attract the power of the people to enter, this is my starting point. Wu Feng stroked Situ Yutang's smooth hair, the palace bun was a little loose after a lot of clouds and rain, and the hair net from the Western Continent played a good role in protection.

The year 703 was undoubtedly a year full of passion for the empire, the whole empire was like a huge construction site in a crazy toss, the start of the two canals digested the prisoners of war from the Wadi and Maqi Khan cleanly, so that after the dredging project to remediate the Fanjiang River began, there was no surplus free labor, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources had to recruit migrant workers from all over the country to carry out this project, which made the Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources Zhan Huacai extremely depressed.

But all this is far from worth mentioning compared to the power of the empire in the New World. In August 703, the Latin Ocean Fleet was officially established in the New World Sabana Port, which became the main port of the Imperial Latin Ocean Fleet, and Mangadishu and Absa also became the other two ports of the fleet.

On December 27, 703, this is a memorable day, the Navy's large exploration and mapping ship "Red Castle" bypassed the southern tip of the New World Solomon Cape and Cape Hope into the Southern Storm Ocean, marking that the Imperial Navy finally completed the survey of the southernmost part of the New World, on January 18, 704, the "Red Castle" arrived at Hutema Harbor under the leadership of Captain Dressy to receive supplies, which is the southernmost colony of the Leeds Kingdom in the New World, which also marks that traveling around the New World is no longer a legend. On March 29, 704, the Red Castle arrived at the port of Qalyub and completed its legendary circumnavigation of the New World, which will be recorded in history forever.

The voyage of the "Red Castle" touched the hearts of almost all the high-level leaders of the empire, perhaps sensing the aggressive offensive of the Tang Empire in the New World, the three maritime powers of the Leeds Kingdom, the Famini Empire, and the Baroz Kingdom abandoned their previous suspicions and joined forces to start exerting their strength in the New World, and the Leeds Kingdom went all out to explore the south along the west coast of the New World, while the Baroz Kingdom tried its best to search for the middle of the storm ocean while advancing to the mainland, and the Madeira Islands and the Galapagos Islands became the bags of the Baroz Kingdom. The Famini Empire was concentrating on exploring the hinterland of the continent and constantly approaching the Great Lakes region.

Although the empire has been doing its best to expand to the New World, the New World is too far away from the empire after all, and the time is too short, although the new policies of the empire have set off a frenzy of land purchase and immigration in the empire, but in the face of the infiltration of the Western continent powers, everyone understands that that day will come sooner or later.

Everyone admired the decision made by His Majesty the Emperor a year ago, it was His Majesty the Emperor who forced the land policy of the New World against public opinion, and the extremely generous policy almost within a month caused the land ownership certificates jointly issued by the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Commerce of the Empire to be snatched away, and these blank ownership certificates were directly issued to merchants who were willing to expand in the New World, and they could directly fill in all the land outside the established sphere of influence of the Empire and within thirty miles of the coastline, the EmperorThe team will protect their property rights, provided that they have enough people to assert their control, and each person can control a maximum of 80 hectares of land.

So the poor and landless peasants and slaves of the empire became the most sought-after prey, and as long as you get a few dozen people to go to sea to the New World, you can immediately become a large landowner with thousands of hectares of land, and it is fertile soil for growing a variety of cash crops. Peasants with a modicum of assets preferred to seek a living in land already under the control of the Empire, where there was little risk, and for a small registration fee, each person could get more than fifty acres of land, and the land outside the Empire's sphere of influence was the best place for wealthy families and adventurers to explore and fight.

The port of Sikkim immediately became the most lively port, and even Western Samoa also flourished, thousands of immigrants who wanted to immigrate to the New World crowded to these two places, waiting for the shipping space to board the ship to the New World, and the shipping companies that opened from the port of Sikkim and Western Samoa to Mangadishu and Assab quickly changed from two to thirteen, but still could not meet the needs, in the heyday, the daily influx of immigrants into Sikkim City amounted to tens of thousands, and countless ships took them from East Samoa, Moro and Yuhang, Quanzhou sent it here to put it down, and then it returned non-stop to send the next batch of hopefuls.

Discovered by the USS Chibake before its previous voyage, Viscount Dresser was convinced that it was the southernmost point of the New World, so he named it Cape Solomon, meaning the southernmost point of the local vernacular, and it quickly became an important colony of the Empire, and the discovery of gold deposits around it brought unprecedented development.

(To be continued)