In late June, Fanning led the fleet back to Quanzhou City, he walked a full fifty days, in fact, Quanzhou is much closer to Luzon than Japan and Kunzhou, two thousand miles apart, if the wind and water are smooth, and it is a paddle boat sailing, then it can be reached in five days, this time it is mainly the first time that the Song army went south to the South Seas, so the speed is relatively slow, and it took ten days each way.

After a little reunion with his family in the morning, in the afternoon, Fanning came to the overseas Jinglu Mansion, unexpectedly, the Jinglu Mansion was very deserted, most of the officials were gone, even his staff Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance were nowhere to be seen, only a few officials were in charge.

Fan Ning was full of doubts, he came to his official room, he had just sat down in his seat, and saw his staff member Chen Wei, who was hurrying in with a thick stack of texts.

"Ahh Bring you back. ”

Chen Yu was surprised and delighted: "I heard that a fleet came back in the morning, I thought it was a merchant fleet going to Japan!" I didn't expect it to be the return of the envoy's fleet. ”

"Trade with Japan has already begun?"

Chen Yu nodded, "Twenty days ago, it officially began, led by Yu Xiaonian, the deputy envoy who had just taken office, and led a hundred official ships to Heianjing. ”

Yu Hsiao-nian was transferred to the Jingluo Prefecture at Fanning's request to be one of the three deputy envoys, in charge of official trade and labor exports to Japan and Goryeo.

Fanning happened to need to import 50,000 laborers and 5,000 Japanese girls from Japan, so he hurriedly asked, "Have you established a connection with the pigeon letter of Heiankyo?" ”

"It has been established, Heiankyo has our trade office, and the pigeon letter can be delivered directly there, through Ruri Island and Tanegashima transit, and it can be delivered to Heiankyo in two days."

Fan Ning immediately wrote a short message, stamped it with the official seal of his pigeon letter, and handed it to Chen Wei, "Send this letter early tomorrow morning, it is best for Yu Xiaonian to receive it." ”

This is the first official trade between the Great Song Dynasty and Japan, and it should not come back so soon, and if you calculate the time, you should be able to catch up.

Chen Wei took the pigeon letter and said, "Do you have any other orders?" ”

"Also, why don't there be any people in Jingluo Mansion, even Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance, where have they gone?"

"It turns out that the envoy doesn't know yet!"

Chen Yu hurriedly said: "They all went north to Yangzhou to pick up people, almost all the officials of Jingluo Mansion were dispatched, Deputy Envoy Li and Judge Luo went, and even Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance also went together. ”

"Are you going to pick up immigrants?"

"Yes! The first batch of 5,000 households had arrived in Yangzhou, and when we heard that the officials in the north were in a mood and did not want to go south, the imperial court asked us to send someone to pick them up, and everyone went. ”

"And who's in charge of the overall coordination?"

"It's Han Xianggong, it seems that he is in charge of immigration."

Fan Ning then remembered that he almost forgot that the Zhizheng Hall had made it clear that Han Jiang was responsible for coordinating immigration matters at that time, but only 5,000 people came in the first batch, so what should be done on Luzon Island? This matter made Fanning a little difficult to do.

"How long have they been there?" Fanning asked again.

"It's been almost half a month, and it's time to come back."

Fanning nodded and asked, "What's the situation in the Ryukyu Mansion?" Is there any new news of worker deaths? ”

"There are still labor deaths, but they are very few, so that Jun is not in this period, there is only one accident report, there is an accident in the mine, three people are buried, and there are no more poisonous snake bite deaths."

Chen Yu took another report and handed it to Fan Ning, "This is the report sent by Zhang Zhixian a few days ago, and the road from the seaport to the county seat that Jun is most concerned about has been completed. ”

Fanning glanced at the report and asked, "What about the fifteen officials?" Where are you now? ”

"They are currently in Ryukyu Prefecture and assist Jang Chi Prefecture in managing Japanese labor."

"I see, you go and deal with the pigeon letter, I'll take a good look at this report."

Chen Yu took out a thick stack of papers, and then retreated.

Fan Ning flipped through the report written by Zhang Ying, the report was sandwiched with Chen Yu's comments, Chen Yu helped Fan Ning sort out the key points in advance, this is the role of the confidential secretary, he is not only sorting out the documents and arranging the itinerary so simple, he also has pre-approval of some important documents, and seduces the key points, which greatly reduces Fanning's pressure.

An envoy like him has to attack everywhere and control everything, so with so much time and energy, a good confidential secretary will be effective.

Fan Ning is still very satisfied with Chen Yu, otherwise he would not have kept him at the beginning, although there is a Hedong lion in the family, his own talent is still quite good.

Fan Ning suddenly thought of something, and asked in a loud voice: "Did the Luzon report I sent someone send a few days ago to the imperial court?" ”

Chen Yu said at the door: "It was sent to the imperial court ten days ago." ”

Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief, he quickly reviewed Zhang Ying's report and returned it to Chen Yu, "Send a pigeon letter to Zhang Ying, the matter of building a new county town can be put aside, and the matter of distributing land must be done immediately, and it is not allowed to be delayed any longer." ”

"But 5,000 families are about to arrive." Chen Yu reminded Fan Ning in a low voice.

Fanning nodded, "I know that these immigrants can send a thousand households to Liuli Island, establish Liuli County first, and I plan to send the remaining four thousand households to Luzon." ”

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The day after Fan Ning returned to Quanzhou, a fleet of 5,000 families and more than 20,000 immigrants also arrived in Quanzhou, and Zhizhou Su Liang had already led county officials to set up camp in a vacant lot outside Quanzhou.

Students from Quanzhou's state and county schools mobilized to help the migrants move into the camp temporarily.

Bands of soldiers patrol the camp and maintain law and order in the camp.

Fan Ning accompanied Han Jiang to inspect the immigration camp, Han Jiang was the first time to accompany the immigrants to Quanzhou, and his other task was to represent the Zhizheng Tang to touch the details of Fanning, the Zhizheng Tang was ready to reduce the township soldiers and 200,000 Xiang troops in various states, and needed a large amount of resettlement money, but the Zhizheng Tang couldn't take it out, so he could only fight Fan Ning's idea.

"These immigrants are from Yan'an Mansion and Zhending Mansion, and the imperial court also adheres to the will of the Empress Dowager to minimize the number of people in the border states to prevent the loss from being great once the war breaks out."

"Back then, the rich minister seemed to be implementing this strategy, and he was criticized by the imperial court, saying that he had wasted money and abandoned a lot of land, why is he going back now?" Fanning asked with a smile.

"It's just a moment and a moment! Nearly 20 years have passed, and there are still hidden dangers, whether there will be peasant gatherings in the Daimyo Mansion, that is, thousands of Zhending Mansion immigrants asked the government to return the land, and now they can be resettled overseas, and the plan to reduce the people in the border prefecture has become feasible again. ”

Speaking of this, the smile on Han Jiang's face became a little unnatural, "The matter of reducing the township soldiers and some of the Xiang troops that Fan Yuanjun has been advocating has begun to be officially promoted by the Zhizheng Hall. ”

Fan Ning was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "How many people will there be?" ”

"At present, the number of township soldiers in each state is 160,000, and the Xiang army mainly reduces the strength of the Central Plains and Jiangnan states, involving about 200,000 people, a total of 360,000 people."

"If these old and weak troops are reduced, the military burden of the imperial court will be reduced by nearly 20 million yuan per year, a good thing!"

"Of course, a good thing is a good thing, but disarmament requires the imperial court to come up with a large amount of money and grain to compensate, and there is food, but the money is still four million yuan, and the court can't take it!"

Fanning suddenly understood, and he smiled: "Isn't the land good? Or encourage them to bring immigration overseas, why do they have to use money? ”

"The land is to be given, ten acres per person, as for immigrants to go overseas, we will also strive for them to voluntarily, but the resettlement money must be given, it is not much, ten yuan per person, but it can't resist the number of people! Nearly 400,000, in fact, there are not so many, there are many empty eaters in it, and the court also recognized it and did not want to pursue it anymore. ”

"So you're going to knock on my bamboo pole?"

Han Jiang also smiled cheekily: "Everyone knows that the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion is rich now, and you are recognized as the number one gold-making master by the imperial court, who is not looking for you?" ”

"It seems that Lao Han didn't see the report I just sent to the imperial court!"

Han Jiang's spirits perked up, "Good news again?" ”

Fanning nodded, "It's not ordinary good news, I have taken Luzon Island and relocated the whole country of Luzon to Sulu Island in the south, because of the outbreak of war, we confiscated the treasury of Luzon and got 1.6 million taels of gold." ”

"How much?" Han Jiang was stunned.

"One million six thousand taels! Among them, 100,000 taels were used to reward soldiers, and the remaining 1.5 million taels of gold I plan to hand over all the gold to the imperial court, and the gold is now in Quanzhou. ”

Han Jiang was so excited that his face turned red, one and a half million taels of gold! With this money, the imperial court can do a lot of things, and the rich minister said that Fanning is a fortune boy, which is too right.

"But I have conditions!"

"You say, I think as long as it's not too much, the Zhizheng Hall will definitely agree!" Han Jiang said without hesitation.

Fan Ning said lightly: "I have to add another 20,000 immigrants this year to Luzon, and the court has to arrange this for me." ”

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