According to Zhu Jun's order, the good news spread quickly throughout the nine provinces along the galloping road extending in all directions, and the maritime merchants also sent the news to Java, and now more than a dozen ports in Java are being renovated, and tens of thousands of husbands have been conquered, and the local natives were originally slightly dissatisfied, but after hearing about this, they immediately suppressed their anger, the Dutch ruled them for half a century, and they did not dare to rebel, because the Dutch ships were strong and artillery, and now the Ming army has come here to defeat the Dutch, and there was some luck at the beginning, using the means of sneak attack to occupy Argoda, And later the annihilation of the Dutch fleet was not so simple, and the natives lost their temper after they figured it out. Immediately after that, a group of Dutch laborers arrived in Java under the supervision of Spanish thugs, and these ragged Dutchmen participated in the repair of the port under the supervision of Spanish thugs, and the local natives gloated at once. \\

These high-flying red-haired dogs, who had been bullying them with whips a few months ago, are now slaves, flogged without food, clothing, and work hard. Compared with the treatment of the natives, it is really like being in heaven, although the wages are not much, but there is no problem with barely filling the stomach, although it is also forced labor, but at least it will not be whipped, bitter or not, think about the red-haired hard labor and feel happy, the natives work very hard.

Java has been renamed Dinghai Province, Dinghai Province is surnamed Liu, the name Chuande, Liu Chuande is Chongzhen's nine years of Jinshi, and then for the Qiantang County Order, followed Yongli to flee south after the Hanlin Yuan servant, and then was the Ministry of Gong Kao Ke stroke, became the town guard of the political envoy, now Dinghai Province is in ruins, many things need to be rebuilt, not to mention that here to guard the Strait of Malacca, is an important military port and commercial port, the maritime merchants of the sea capital began to establish a branch here, originally there are more than 200 Arabia, Europa, The Han people and other maritime merchants, these people were originally a little afraid of the Ming army looting. \\ After a period of time, he saw that the Ming army did not move, so he was relieved to boldly continue to do his business. As a result, hundreds of merchant ships flocked to Argoda every day, and according to the emperor's decree, Argoda had to build a large port to use as a horn with the port of Haidu, and the two ports were separated by only one day's waterway. It is not only convenient for sailors to patrol back and forth, but also makes the commerce and trade between the two ports complementary. And control the Strait of Malacca, in addition to the other side of the strait of Malacca harbor to be built, which was originally attacked by the sailors, burned to rubble, now the Dutch army is completely annihilated, this natural stronghold has become a pearl of the Strait of Malacca, both ports need to be built, and the treasury has also allocated 1.5 million taels of silver. \\Such a huge project, but manpower has become a problem.

The resplendent interior of the former Java Governor's Palace. This place has been replaced with a plaque of the Chief Minister. On the original complicated Western-style decoration, a few tables with oriental characteristics, calligraphy and paintings were added, but they looked nondescript. Liu Dechuan, Yang Wenlong, the Dinghai Provincial Supervision Envoy, and Liu Er and Wang Qiu, the commanders of the Second Army and Sea Battalions, sat in the reception room. Liu Dechuan solemnly introduced the current situation to his colleagues: "Now all ports need to be repaired, and the two ports of Argoda and Malacca need to be built. The population of the province is less than 100,000, of which only 30,000 are able-bodied laborers. Now that the ports have been requisitioned to repair the ports, and the two ports of Agoda and Malacca were built by the Ministry of Industry with the approval of the Ministry of Industry overdue, if the construction period is delayed, how can you explain to the emperor? But it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and it takes at least 20,000 craftsmen and coolies to build two large ports, and the official can't change so many people. ”

Yang Wenlong was originally an official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and now he has been transferred to Dinghai Province and has been promoted several levels, and he has long had the idea of making a career that will be famous for the ages, but he did not expect to encounter such a problem just after taking office, and he is also very embarrassed, and now ten provinces are building projects, the original nine provinces have just finished building the Chi Road, and the emperor has ordered to open up the area, who knows that the opening area is getting bigger and bigger, and it was originally intended to accommodate only two or three hundred workshops, but more and more businessmen can sign up to choose a site to build factories, and it has reached more than three hundred in the second batch. In the third batch, there were more than 500 businessmen who signed up, and some small rich families were also very red-eyed, and they actually borrowed money everywhere to set up workshops to engage in industry, so that the labor in the nine northern provinces was originally very scarce, and it was impossible to draw them out to support Dinghai Province, and now the emperor has issued a strict order to build a huge seaport at the two wharves of Agoda and Malacca within three months, and it is also stipulated that at least 1,000 large merchant ships should be berthed, so that the officials of Dingnan Province will be unlucky, and the Dutch have collected more than 5 million taels of silver here. The emperor is so tossed, what is the use of this seaport even if it can be built? It is better to rest with the people. \\\\" Yang Wenlong sighed.

"Lord Yang." Wang Qiu's face sank: "The emperor said that Java and Malacca are both maritime fortresses, important sea passages between the South Sea and the Indian Ocean and the Western Ocean, all maritime merchants must anchor in these two major ports if they want to do business, and one day, the daily tax of merchant ships can reach tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is a matter of benefiting the country and the people, you are so disrespectful, is it any dissatisfaction with the emperor?" ”

Liu Er was also angry, the officers were different from the courtiers, the courtiers would more or less refute the emperor's point of view, hoping to find out the mistakes in governance from the emperor, but the officers were all diehards of the new emperor, what the emperor said was what he said, if anyone dared to go against the emperor, Qiu Ba was the first to refuse. \\But Liu Er is different from Wang Qiu, Wang Qiu is reckless, Liu Er is introverted, even if he is angry, he will not be too excited, just glaring at Yang Wenlong.

"Ahem......" Liu Dechuan coughed embarrassedly, as the nominal chief executive of a province, he had to come forward to mediate: "General Wang doesn't have to be angry, Lord Yang is just unscrupulous, he is also fiercely loyal to the emperor, but he can't understand the emperor's original intentions, let alone have the emperor's lofty knowledge, that's why it's like this, everyone is an official in the same province, together for the emperor to do errands, for my Ming Dynasty, what you want is harmony." Ahem...... Well, well, the top priority is for everyone to come up with a way to build the seaport that the emperor has handed down. \\”

Liu Dechuan reconciled the mud, although the atmosphere eased a little, but still a little embarrassed, so he had to continue: "This official estimated a rough number, to build two ports within this three months, at least 20,000 laborers and 500 craftsmen are needed, the craftsmen are good to get together, the imperial court has allocated a group of Dutch craftsmen and laborers, but there are still 15,000 laborers in this gap, and now the strong people who can be recruited in Java have gone to repair the wharf, Java alone, there are twenty-seven wharves alone, hey, Lord Yang, two generals, What can you do? ”

Wang Qiu and Liu Er glanced at each other, and said that this government affairs is really not their strength, and it is really difficult for them to come up with a way. \\ Yang Wenlong seemed to have some eyebrows, he held the tea cup and stared still, and after a long time, he said: "It's not that there is no way, it's just that it's not easy to explain to the military department, and it needs the cooperation of the two generals." ”

"Oh? Lord Yang, please speak. Liu Dechuan pricked up his ears.

"The nine northern provinces can no longer draw laborers, and Java can't recruit them, but the marine divisions and sailors stationed in Java are 15,000 young men, Lord Liu, two generals, we can submit a copy of the excerpt and ask the emperor for instructions, if the emperor agrees, how about my Ming army also join in the construction of the harbor?" Yang Wenlong said.

"No! Soldiers are not hard laborers, how can they be allowed to carry the burden of digging rocks? Wang Qiu hurriedly vetoed, and the Ming army stationed in Java was divided into two parts, one was a mixed battalion of land warfare under Wang Qiu, with a total of 5,000 people, and the other was a Nanyang naval battalion, commanded by Liu Er, with a total of more than 10,000 sailors. \\

Yang Wenlong argued with reason: "General Wang, this official will also take the time to watch you practice on weekdays, which is nothing more than standing posture, long-distance running and combat training, these are all training soldiers' physical strength, right?" That being the case, let the soldiers go to build a seaport, why not keep exercising their physical strength? Besides, this is only a matter of three months, and after three months, the soldiers will still be soldiers, and no one will interfere with you, and the soldiers will not only receive their salaries, but also the envoys will allocate their wages after work, and the soldiers will be paid double a day, isn't it a good thing? Now the emperor has strictly ordered the construction of the harbor, and it is within our duty to share the worries of the king, if not, on weekdays, when the soldiers are physically trained, let them go to the harbor to do things, and when the actual combat training is held, you can recall the various departments to train on their own, so that the emperor's port has been built, and the training of the soldiers has not been delayed, and there can be an extra salary, which is a happy thing, why is General Wang opposed? ”

Liu Dechuan also nodded again and again, feeling that this method was good, and all aspects were taken care of, he glanced at Wang Qiu, and saw that his face was also hesitant, and seemed to be a little unwilling to admit defeat, so he hurriedly said: "Lord Yang's method can be considered, but this matter is very important, everyone here can't be the master, tonight the official will write an excerpt, let people send it to Beijing overnight, by the emperor's imperial review." ”

Wang Qiu nodded, since Liu Dechuan moved out of the emperor, he naturally had no reason to object: "Then this matter depends on Lord Liu, if the emperor Zhu agrees, the end will never object." ”

Liu Er also nodded, after discussing the matter of the harbor, there was no common topic between the two cultures and the two martial arts, after a few words, Wang Qiu and Liu Er left first, Yang Wenlong thought that there was still official business to do, and he also got up and said goodbye.

Liu Dechuan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked the soap li to take the pen and ink folding book, wrote down the things discussed today one by one, and after drying it, he called a soap li to send it out.

"Hey, two great harbors." Liu Dechuan finished everything and sighed.