In fact, for Xujiazhuang's large-scale overseas colonization action.

The public opinion of the Ming Dynasty is generally praised and supported, and there are very few people who sing about the decline and pour cold water.

Because the population of Daming is too much, the resources in all aspects are relatively limited.

And the climate has been too abnormal in recent years, there have been countless natural disasters, and the so-called Xiaoice period has not ended, but has become more and more intense.

Coupled with man-made disasters such as corruption, rampant expropriation, and land annexation, the people in many areas of the Ming Dynasty are indeed extremely poor, struggling on the edge of the death line, putting themselves in their shoes, and it seems that only rebellion is their only way to survive - "Oriental Times" wrote a special article for deduction, took out a lot of data, and watched countless literati doctors with cold necks and nightmares overnight, and had to come to the conclusion that 'the cyclical law of the rise and fall of the dynasty has reached a critical point, and the change of dynasty and the decline of the population is very likely to occur'.

Xujiazhuang's large-scale colonization and immigration of a large number of people are actually alleviating this crisis and transferring contradictions to the outside world.

And the South Seas and other tropical areas, not only not affected by the Xiaoice climate at all, but entered a golden period of development, the birth of a lot of strong kingdoms, never appeared the problem of food is expensive, so the local natives are generally lazy, the development of productivity is slow, the comprehensive strength is not very strong, and most of them are small countries, except for the Western colonial forces have a certain threat, the others are all fish belly, it is expected to be easy to take the South Seas.

The biggest enemies may be tropical storms, disease, and unadaptation.

Fortunately, Xujiazhuang has made extremely adequate preparations, which should greatly reduce the number of casualties and smoothly realize the colonization.

Even so.

The Jinluan Hall is above the early dynasty.

When Emperor Zhu Youzhen and the ministers and hundreds of officials discussed the big move of Xujiazhuang this time, they said that they were still not optimistic.

Some civil officials even smiled and ridiculed:

Qian Shisheng, a cabinet scholar, said: "Your Majesty, this is a great thing, Xu Jiazhuang has invested hundreds of millions of silver dollars and millions of hungry people this time, but I am afraid that half of Thailand will be lost and will suffer heavy losses." ”

Li Kangxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said as if he had a few treasures: "In the eighteenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the general of Fubo, Ma Yuan, led an army of 30,000 to the south to conquer Jiaozhi, and it only took a few months to suppress the rebellion and destroy the withering and decaying, but the army only stayed for less than a year, and there were many people who were sick and diseased, and Jiaozhi rebelled again six years later...... In the fifth year of Yongle in this dynasty, Chengzu sent the British Gong Zhang Fu, the left deputy general Mu Cheng, the left general Li Bin, the right general Chen Xu and other troops to lead 100,000 troops to Annan, just one month to destroy the Hu Dynasty, the establishment of Jiaozhi Cheng Xuan Zheng Division, but the local rebellion is endless, the epidemic is frequent, the return to the Ming Dynasty less than 20 years, then separated again, I Ming has suffered countless losses, but has never been able to stand firm, what magic does Xu Jiazhuang have, can avoid repeating the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty? ”

Shoufu Wen Tiren also said: "Half a year, maybe only half a year, Xujiazhuang will withdraw from Nanyang in ashes, we just need to sit and watch Xujiazhuang fail." ”

Yushi Zhang Yandeng said: "Xujiazhuang's determination is commendable, courage is also commendable, to open up more living space for my Chinese nation, which is also worthy of praise, but the people of the Ming Dynasty, cold and heat-resistant, when the Chibi War, Cao Cao's army could not even adapt to the water and soil in the south, and the land of Liangguang and Yunnan took thousands of years to slowly digest, Xujiazhuang was impatient, to take the hotter Nanyang, it was just a futile and wasteful move, and millions of people would be killed in vain. ”

Another official said: "Although it is hard to survive in Daming, when you go outside, you lose your life in a moment." ”

Of course, an official asked: "Xujiazhuang's medical technology is superb, maybe it can solve the problem of epidemic disease and water and soil adaptation?" ”

"The Point Guard Is Here"

But he was immediately ridiculed: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!" "The problem that the ancestors can't solve for thousands of years, can Xu Jiazhuang do it?" "Xu Jiazhuang is not a god!" …… After some discussion, the emperor Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was not very optimistic about Xujiazhuang's overseas colonization operations, and was worried about more than one million Ming immigrants, and wondered how many of them would survive, one percent, or two percent?

But even so.

Few civil officials proposed to persuade Xujiazhuang to give up overseas colonization activities, on the one hand, it was impossible to persuade them; Secondly, so many refugees and hungry people, such a huge contradiction, if they don't want to transfer out, will they all stay in Daming, and eventually lead to implosion?

Out of class interests, even if they are extremely unoptimistic about Xu Jiazhuang's actions, they are completely supportive of the attitude in their hearts.

Including Emperor Zhu Youzhen's mind, it was also this kind of selfish thought that made him feel ashamed.

……

November 7, morning.

Taiwan Island, West Coast, Central Plains region.

At the mouth of a river,

A suitable beach was found and a temporary port was built.

The immigrant fleet of Xujiazhuang has officially landed on this island!

Batches of immigrants were removed, batches of supplies were moved, and the camp was quickly built and a solid stronghold was established.

Warm.

As a member of the Innocence Army, Yang Dayan, who was assigned to the vigilance patrol mission, had his first sense of warmth in this strange place.

At least a temperature of more than 10 degrees, neither cold nor hot, which can be described as just the right comfort for the human body.

The second is barrenness, although some areas have been reclaimed and many villages have been established, but more than 70% of the plain land is still barren and uncultivated, covered with weeds and shrubs taller than people.

Yang Dayan pulled out the dogleg knife tied to his leg, cut off some weeds in front of him, and dug up the soil under the root system, which was actually black black soil.

"The land here is very fertile, it is good land, and it is a good land with oil!"

He was quite excited to say to Gao Degong next to him.

"I can see it."

Gao Degong tiptoed, looked around in the distance, and said: "There is no problem at all to build thirty or fifty manors, but it is a pity to use it to grow sugarcane, it is best to use it to grow grain, and sugarcane cannot be eaten." ”

"That's right, it's better to arrange it for half of it, half for food, and a few more vegetable plots for planting." Yang nodded with big eyes.

"You don't know how high the price of sugar is, and how profitable it will be to grow sugar cane?"

Wu Xiaochun, a native of Shanxi, rolled his eyes and said to them: "The grain of Xujiazhuang is about five wen a catty, and the most expensive high-grade rice is ten wen a catty, but what about white sugar, the raw sugar is more than 500 wen a catty, and the fine sugar costs more than 800 wen or even one silver dollar per catty, and the price difference is dozens of times and hundreds of times, and now we want to build a sugarcane manor and plant the kind of white-skinned sugarcane that can grow four or five zhang high, as long as it is planted well, one mu can produce two or three hundred catties of white sugar every year, and bring at least 100 silver dollars, even if the sugar price falls in the future, there must be thirty or fifty silver dollars. You say that if you grow food, how much can you earn in a year? ”

"I can't."

Yang Dayan calculated the account in his heart, shook his head and said: "If you grow grain, even if it is a bumper harvest, you will earn a maximum of three or five silver dollars, which is ten times worse than this, but sugar can't be eaten as food?" Only grain can fill the stomach, if we only grow sugar cane, then who will grow the grain? Where do we get our food? ”

"Bought from the grain estate, of course."

Wu Xiaochun said: "Xujiazhuang also has to go to Hainan Island, go to Nanyang, establish a lot of grain estates, only responsible for planting rice, harvest three times a year, at least two or three thousand catties of grain per mu a year, if you don't like to plant sugarcane, like to grow grain, you can apply to work in the grain manor, to ensure that there is more food to see tired, just a little far away from Daming, it is difficult to go back to your hometown to visit in the future, there is no convenient transportation here." ”

"That's better to grow sugarcane, I'm going to plant sugarcane, and I don't think about going to any grain estate."

Yang Dayan waved his hand again and again, he is not a fool, he has to go to the grain manor with the benefit of at least thirty or fifty silver dollars per mu, not to mention the lower benefit, three harvests a year, wouldn't he have to work for three seasons, don't you want to stop and rest?

And it is also very troublesome to go back to my hometown, and it takes several days to take a boat.

Forget it, it's better to grow sugar cane.

Dangdang~

Suddenly!

In a Han village not far to the north, the sound of a gong suddenly sounded.

Then there was the sound of shouting and killing, screaming.

"Huhuhu~" The immigrant camp in Xujiazhuang also blew the whistle of the assembly of the innocent army.

"Urgent gathering, something may be wrong!"

Gao Degong's face changed greatly, and he immediately canceled the patrol, and returned to the camp with Yang Dayan and Wu Xiaochun to gather.

……

Afternoon.

Sun Chuanting, the commander of the innocent army, personally led the innocent army of 5,000 people to Wangjia Village, a medium-sized Han village with more than 300 households.

More than an hour ago, it was this Wangjia village that was attacked by the indigenous army.

Fortunately, the defense facilities of Wangjia Village were perfect, and there were precautions for a long time, and the innocent army arrived in time, so the indigenous army had to retreat.

Even so.

More than 30 young people also died in Wangjia Village, which is about one-tenth of the young people in the whole village, and it can still be described as heavy casualties.

"Lord Sun, this is the third time that the Potbelly Kingdom has attacked our village this year, they call this 'headhunting sacrifice', not only to kill our Han people, but also to cut off our heads, eat our meat, treat us as the highest prey, every year to come to hunt, if there is a village is weaker, it will continue to come and attack, until all the Han people are killed, if you don't arrive in time today, even if you can block this time, but it is difficult to stop the next time, further north of Li Village, Lin Village, That's how it was destroyed. ”

The old patriarch of Wangjia Village said, and let the innocent army go up and down to see the headless corpses on the ground.

"The Potbelly Kingdom is so ferocious, why don't you villages unite and deal with it together, but instead they are broken by these natives?"

Sun Chuanting frowned and asked, In fact, as long as these Han villages are united, the indigenous savages will definitely not be difficult to deal with, because whether it is in terms of productivity, weapon level, organizational ability or even numbers, it is the Han people who have immigrated here that have the advantage.

How can you be so passive?

"Can't do it, the big belly kingdom lives by hunting, we Han people make a living by farming, they can attack all day long, but we can't help but work in the field, and they attack Zhang Village today, Li Village tomorrow, their whereabouts are uncertain, unpredictable, we organized thousands of young people, took the initiative to attack them in the mountains, and many times they got nothing, we have nothing to do with these savage natives!"

The old patriarch said helplessly, they have exhausted all methods, and they have also killed a lot of natives, but it is difficult to cut down the grass and eradicate it, but it will provoke even more crazy revenge.

"Don't worry, old patriarch, since the innocent army is here, this pot-bellied kingdom should become history, and I will make them completely obedient."

Sun Chuanting slapped the table, his face full of murderous aura.