The Forbidden City, the Palace of Diligent Government.

Liu Xiangke repeated the process of this dispatch in detail, and said: "Your Majesty, the eight northeastern islands of Ryukyu should be separated from Ryukyu County and set up as a separate county. ”

"What about the land, the specialties, the population?" Zhao Han asked.

Liu Xiangke said: "The eight northeastern islands of Ryukyu are not smaller than the main island of Ryukyu in terms of geographical area. The largest of the eight islands, the Ryukyuan people call it Ufushi Ma Island, and the Japanese call it Amami Oshima. The middle of the island is mountainous, and there are hundreds of years of giant trees, many of which are hardwoods, which can be used to make sea boats and other utensils. Although there are many aquatic forests (mangroves) along the coast of the island, there is also a wide range of arable land.

The crops are mainly rice and sugarcane, and the islanders are good at making brown sugar. The brown sugar of this island was once the most stable financial income of the Satsuma Domain in Japan. “

Brown sugar, a type of brown sugar, is boiled for longer than ordinary brown sugar and is rich in iron.

In ancient times, when the sugar making process was not developed, all commodities that were related to sugar could make huge profits by participating in maritime trade. Amami Oshima alone has a special brown sugar, which is enough to attract Zhao Han's attention, not to mention that there are many giant trees on the island that are hundreds of years old.

This time I sent troops, and I made sure that I would not lose money.

The war reparations of the Satsuma and Hirado feudatories were more than enough to recover the military expenses. Brown sugar and wood will be profitable every year in the future. As long as there are no heavy taxes on agriculture, the island's own rice production will be self-sufficient.

If it were replaced by Western colonizers, they would inevitably force the islanders to give up rice cultivation and switch to more profitable sugar cane

— One This is called the colonial plantation economy.

This is true for Spain in Luzon and the Netherlands for Java.

In order to facilitate the control of spices, the Netherlands forcibly cut down the spice trees scattered throughout Java. Then select some islands, where there are spices themselves, and artificially transplant a large number of spice tree species.

and cut down the trees on the island that do not produce spices.

There are three benefits to doing so.

First, large-scale planting and processing of cash crops to maximize profits.

Second, we can effectively control the largest number of cash crops with the least number of troops.

Thirdly, the indigenous people in the relevant areas are no longer able to grow food, or they rarely grow food. The colonists, on the other hand, could buy grain from other places and transport it, and the natives who controlled the area with grain did not dare to rebel.

This approach is very short-sighted and effective, but it seriously undermines the natural ecological balance and seriously damages the social and ecological structure. If something goes wrong, such as a late arrival of a grain fleet, the region is immediately plunged into famine.

Zhao Han naturally would not do this, because the Ryukyus and Amami Oshima, he built according to the local area, and he had to achieve as much self-sufficiency as possible in food.

"Li Qing, how's it going?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

Li Banghua arched his hand: "I didn't expect that the overseas islands are also so rich in products, and they are still Your Majesty's Shengming." “

It seems that there is still some resistance to this.

Zhao Han said to Li Xiangjun: "It is proposed to separate the eight islands in the northeast of the Ryukyus and set up a separate county." It's called..."

Seeing that Zhao Han was still thinking about the name, Li Xiangjun smiled and said, "It's better to call it Abbot County." “

"Good!" Zhao Han clapped his hands in approval.

Penglai, Yingzhou, Abbot, the three immortal mountains on the sea.

Zhao Han again: "The main island of Abbot County will be renamed Abbot Island in the future, and it can no longer be called Wufu Shima Island or Amami Island." Once selected, you can recruit workers and immigrants to go to Hojo Island to cut down the mountains and forests. Only 15 merchants were recruited, and each family was given 350 acres of mountains and forests. After the forest is cleared, the trees must be replanted. Each family is allowed to set aside 100 acres of land, which will be reclaimed as arable land after felling. “

Hojo Island is rich in forests, and hundreds of years later, there are more than 400 logging sites on the island in Japan.

Zhao Han thought for a while and continued: "Give Xu Ying 200 acres of mountainous land and let his brother recruit people to go to the island to harvest." The immigration costs of recruiting workers are paid in advance by the royal family. “

The noble elders, in addition to giving land, more or less have franchise licenses.

Of course, in order to prevent unfair competition, the business scope of these franchise licenses is not large. For example, you can mine a certain mine, such as the right to operate a salt shop in a certain county (there are several salt shops in a county, and Xungui only occupies one of them).

This is also to make the nobles psychologically balanced, otherwise they will not go over no matter what.

Only Xu Ying has never accepted the monopoly reward of industry and commerce.

Maybe his identity is too sensitive, similar to the commander of the Jinyi Wei in the Ming Dynasty, he is afraid of getting too many things and it is rare to have a good end This time Zhao Han is forcibly rewarded, 200 acres of overseas mountains and forests is not much, but it is enough to bring stable profits. Moreover, the 200 acres of mountains and forests given to Xu Ying include land ownership. The fifteen merchants recruited only have the right to develop and use the mountain forest, and the government can take it back when the contract expires, or it can choose to renew the contract according to the situation.

Hojo Island has a subtropical climate, and it is not difficult to harvest mountain forests.

In Luzon, the logging of mountain forests is enough, and there are so many tropical rainforests that they are like distribution.

After retiring from everyone, Xu Ying was summoned to see her.

Zhao Han talked about rewarding overseas mountains and forests, and without waiting for Xu Ying to refuse: "Don't say more, you have been shabby, and others will treat me poorly." “

Xu Ying had no choice but to give up: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward." “

Zhao Han asked, "What's the latest news from Annan?" “

Xu Ying said: "The Ruan clan is about to move, and it seems that they are planning to send troops to occupy the city. The Zheng clan was also ready to move, as if planning to send troops to the Ruan clan. Nguyen and Truong, there will be a battle after the rice harvest this year! In addition, the garrison sent to the Champa country reported that the rice in the southern part of the country could be harvested three times a year. “

"It's good to have three crops." Zhao Han smiled and said, this alone has to eat the Champa State.

Xu Ying added: "The border between Champa and Jimei (the transliteration of Jinnah and Phnom Penh, that is, Cambodia) has been cultivated by the people of Annam, and all of them can be harvested three times a year. “

Xu Ying was referring to the Kowloon River Plain in the Mekong Delta, which at this time belonged to Cambodia. That fertile land, much of which is still mangrove forest, and where farmers make their living from fishing, will not be the most important breadbasket in Vietnam in a few hundred years.

What's even more nonsense is that it obviously belongs to Cambodian territory, but most of the people who developed the Jiulong River Plain are Vietnamese people.

Vietnam and Cambodia don't share a border at all. It was the Nguyen regime of Vietnam that coerced the Cambodian king by force, and the Vietnamese people were allowed to emigrate to the Kowloon River Plain. Moreover, the Vietnamese are farming in Cambodia,

But he did not pay taxes to the Cambodian government, only to the Nguyen regime in Vietnam.

In addition to the threat of force, the main reason why the Cambodian king agreed was that the Kowloon River Plain was "unsuitable" for farming.

Who would have guessed that a few hundred years later, it would become the most fertile and productive region in Southeast Asia!

Zhao Han asked again: "King Zhancheng, how is he doing in Nanjing?" ”

"I can't miss it," Xu Ying said, "I invited a celebrity chef to go home, and I visited the Washer every once in a while, and recently I liked to visit the Qinglou." “

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Go and ask him, 500,000 taels of silver, make him the Duke of Zhanguo, and give him another 50 acres of land, and the right to operate a salt shop in Nanjing for ten years, to see if he is willing to sacrifice the Zhancheng State." “

The king of Champa and his son were reluctant to leave when they arrived in Nanjing, and they shirked each other before convincing one of their sons to return to China to govern (the specific content is in Chapter 614 of the lifting of the ban).

A small country with a palm-sized land area of about one-third of Hainan Island. 500,000 taels of silver, 50 acres of land, ten years of salt shop management rights, and a duke title, Zhao Han felt that this was a fair deal.

Xu Ying personally went to find the king of Champa Po Lai, but the goods lingered in the Qinglou and did not return.

The Qinglou women in Nanjing, even if they are not famous prostitutes, are generally of higher quality than the concubines of the Champa state. What's more,

All of them can play lyrics and sing songs, and Po Lai feels that today's life is much more comfortable than being a king in Champa.

It wasn't until the third day that Xu Ying received the news that the king had finally returned home.

After meeting, Xu Ying asked, "Why hasn't the prince returned to China?" ”

Po Lai: "My third son has returned to Zhancheng to inherit the throne. I stayed in Nanjing, and it's good here. If Your Excellency wants to talk about state affairs, just look for my son, and don't come to trouble me. “

"Alright, farewell." Xu Ying left immediately.

The state of Zhancheng has 500 garrisons of Datong, and the military rations are supplied by the state of Zhancheng.

More than two months later, the battalion commander Xiao Chongguo found the new king and asked, "Your Highness seems to be a little worried?" ”

The king's wife smiled reluctantly: "It's okay." “

But it was this goods who returned to China from Nanjing to succeed to the throne, and found that the government was controlled by the powerful minister Hetu, and his orders could not leave Bintong Longcheng at all.

Xiao Chongguo: "Perhaps, I can relieve Your Majesty's worries." “

Po Nan is only sixteen years old, and he doesn't know how to govern the country at all, he just looks at the power of the ministers and is unhappy.

If you really want to use the hands of the Datong army to trap and kill the ministers, and you have to clean it afterwards, it is a little difficult to make up your mind.

"Alas, if only I, like my father, also stayed in Nanjing to enjoy happiness." Po Nan couldn't help but sigh.

After eating good things in Nanjing for half a month, I returned to Zhancheng to taste the same as chewing wax, and the food in the palace was not as good as the small restaurants in Nanjing.

Xiao Chongguo said with a smile: "Your Highness can sell the Champa Kingdom to the Datong Imperial Court." “

"Traitor?" Po Nan felt very fresh.

Xiao Chongguo: "500,000 taels of silver, 50 acres of land, a ten-year operation right of a salt shop in Nanjing, and then His Royal Highness will be crowned as the Duke of Datong Zhanguo." How is it? “

500,000 taels of silver!

Po Nan gasped.

Although Wangcheng is a commercial port, it really doesn't collect much commercial tax, because a lot of entry tax is taken away by officials.

Even the guards in the palace could only afford to raise a few dozen, and they had to temporarily conscript peasants into the army to fight the Trung clan in Vietnam. If you want to repair the palace, you are also levied for conscription, and the king has never seen hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Po asked: "After I betray the country, can I not live in Nanjing?" Don't reward the salt shop in Nanjing. ”

His father and two elder brothers were in Nanjing, and he wanted to monopolize the interests of the country, and he didn't want his father and brother to come to him to share the money.

"Yes." Xiao Chongguo said with a smile.

"That's good," asked Po Nan again, "what other cities in China are the best besides Nanjing?" “

Xiao Chongguo said: "There is heaven above, there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below, Suzhou and Hangzhou are very suitable for enjoyment." “

Po Nan said happily: "Then I'll go to Suzhou!" “

A third of the land on Hainan Island was bought in this way. **

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