In Zhu Youzhen's thinking, health is a very important premise.

Especially after this time after being closed from the ghost gate, Zhu Youzhen completely realized that only the health of the people is the real foundation of the Ming Empire.

A large number of civilian casualties were caused by previous wars.

In fact, tracing back to the source, in the final analysis, it is the negligence of the Ming Empire.

The omissions of the entire court are the omissions of him, the emperor.

It's just that all this is going to change from the beginning of him.

Zhu Youzhen not only set up the Royal Daming Medical College in Beijing, but more importantly, also set up medical schools of different levels in various state capitals.

The 200 million people of the Ming Dynasty were to build a medical foundation in such a short period of time through ordinary ordinary means.

So Zhu Youzhen.

On the one hand, we should focus on the emergence of new medical education, and on the other hand, we should accelerate the cultivation of people's awareness of hygiene.

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On the other hand, Zhu Youzhen also began to make a simple layout for the Ming Royal Shandong Water Division.

It's just that the first thing to do with this layout is to recover Annan.

On this matter, Zhu Youzhen had a brief exchange with Lai Zongdao and Huo Weihua before.

First of all, Daming needs a stable Annan, and it is best that this Annan is directly a territory of Daming.

It was not a vassal country or something like that, and Zhu Youzhen thought about this matter again and again, and finally decided to use tough means to recover Annan as a whole.

Why do you want to focus so much on Annan?

The most important thing for Zhu Youzhen is that the control of the South Seas is really one of the most important problems of the Ming Empire, if the complete control of the South China Sea cannot be realized, then the Ming Dynasty will be completely lost in the Strait of Malacca under his nose.

As long as he can control the Strait of Malacca, Zhu Youzhen can proudly announce that he can control the foreign trade of all the countries around the Ming Dynasty, not just Houjin or Japan.

What's the other problem?

Mainly because what the Ming Dynasty lacks now is the industrial revolution, and one of the most important factors is rubber.

If there is no rubber.

The development of the industrial revolution is bound to be hindered to a certain extent.

After all, before the birth of real industrial rubber, natural rubber still has an absolute hegemony.

Because natural rubber can also be put into industrial production, for example, if the Ming Dynasty wants to really rise and develop more industry, then natural rubber is needed in terms of tires, cloth, medical supplies, etc.

Therefore, the strategic position of Qiongzhou is very high, and now Daming wants to obtain rubber trees, what do you actually need, it is necessary to send people to South America to find this magical tree, but Zhu Youzhen thought about it with the current strength of Daming Water Division.

It is obviously not practical to spend so much energy going to South America to find this rubber tree.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen found a helper who seemed to be quite reliable.

That was the Dutch East India Company.

It's just that now in the Dutch East India Company, it is not understood why the Ming Empire has such a strong demand for this rubber tree.

After receiving the will of Zhu Youzhen's summons, Count Plitt of the Dutch East India Company. Although I didn't understand it, I still didn't hesitate at all, after all, anyone can refuse to make money?

It was just a search for some rubber trees from South America, and now the whole of Europe has begun to gradually understand the Americas, and the products of the Americas have begun to be somewhat clear. It is not difficult to find such a tree, not to mention that Zhu Youzhen directly indicated the place of origin.

However, due to the fact that Zhu Youzhen has gradually become defensive against the Dutch East India Company, he is ready to divide this matter into two aspects, on the one hand, according to the Dutch East India Company, and on the other hand, it is still preparing to form a force of the Ming Dynasty, of course, this force is not ready to go directly to South America now, but to make some preparations for sorting, that is, to use Zheng Zhilong's power.

So the Ming Jingshi issued an edict to Zheng Zhilong, summoning him to the Jingshi to come to the audience.

Present-day South America had been colonized by the Spaniards and Portuguese, and the Dutch did not pay much attention to this little use.

So the knowledge of rubber is only in the hands of the Spaniards and the Portuguese.

But the Spaniards, because they had been in the process of war for a long time, and the two countries were constantly declining, so they did not have much interest in this miraculous tears falling from the trees.

What's more, they don't know what these things are for.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen came through, he understood how much natural rubber has helped the development of industry, and in today's Nanyang, the Dutch have tried their best to replace the role of the Spaniards and the Portuguese in the trade with the Ming Dynasty, so in the final analysis, the relationship between the Ming and the Portuguese and the Spaniards is not good, of course, the Netherlands is the same.

They were at a simmer with the Portuguese and Spaniards.

But what is Daming's attitude now? As long as you are willing to come, as long as you abide by the rules of the people, you can come here to engage in commercial trade, then under this powerful temptation, the Dutch cannot fully control the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty.

So from time to time, some Spaniards and Portuguese still came to Daming to trade, but only one point understood that it was full of triangular trade between the Spaniards and the Portuguese and the Dutch.

This is full of a lot of benefit transfer and equity exchange.

And why did Zhu Youzhen want to send Zheng Zhilong to accomplish such a thing?

It can be said that Zheng Zhilong is now the most suitable person to go to South America to find rubber trees.

Why is it because the Zheng family's position in the Ming Dynasty is actually a little embarrassing, in fact, Zheng Zhilong is just a pirate who temporarily guards the southeast coast for the Ming Dynasty, even if the court allocates more silver to Zheng Zhilong, it is meaningless.

What's more, Zheng Zhilong also secretly colluded with the Dutch to jointly build a set of protection fee mechanism at sea.

If the merchant ships wanted to trade with the Ming Dynasty, they had to pay more than just taxes to the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, they also have to pay a lot of protection money in exchange for the protection armor that goes to Daming to trade.

If it weren't for the fact that trading with the Ming was often very profitable.

As a matter of fact, Zhu Youzhen's so-called open commercial trade overseas is actually very easy to become empty talk.