"Your Majesty, I think you should insist on it any longer, maybe in a few years, the situation will be much better? Now that the Ming Dynasty is developing so fast in all aspects, the cost of the royal family ruling the empire is actually declining, just like in the past, in order to transmit information, personnel and fast horses were used, and now the telegraph station in Xujiazhuang is used, and the price of sending telegrams is also declining, and this aspect alone has saved a lot of costs. ”

"In terms of the army, one hundred thousand elites is enough, there is no need to engage in a million army, it is impossible to raise so much, it is better to save some money and do something more cost-effective, and now the Ning Army Group in the north, the Tang Army and the Qin Army in the west, and more than a dozen elite armies in the mainland, which are completely sufficient, and any more than any chaos in the Ming Dynasty will be quickly wiped out, and it will not cause much of a threat, and it is completely possible to keep the expenditure unchanged in the military spending, or slightly reduce the investment."

"The key aspect is to find that we should continue to find ways to cooperate with Xujiazhuang to develop, establish more royal factories, continue to expand the scale, sell more goods, and find ways to make more money. The emperor's manor', the money is saved, and a lot of things are saved, and in the case of exemption from agricultural taxes, it can still be loved by the people, but the states and counties are left alone, and if they are allowed to develop freely, the burden is small, but at that time, what the royal family said, I am afraid that not many people are willing to listen, and those who can be firmly controlled are not as much as now, and if they want to do some major things, they will be even more unable to do it. ”

"Persistence, what we can do now is to persist for a few more years, and then find some good development opportunities, improve the authority and control of the royal family, and take the initiative to cultivate a group of qualified talents to serve and serve the royal family, solve the problem of lack of talents, cultivate the most trustworthy people, eliminate those traditional Confucian scholars, solve the problem of people, and the things that will be done will be much easier...... In short, as long as you don't give up, there will definitely be a chance. ”

Empress Zhou persuaded so.

"Hey, I roasted myself on the fire, I didn't expect to even give up, I really regretted it, the original life was much better."

Zhu Youzhen sighed again and again, regretting, he really regretted it a little, why couldn't he think about it suddenly, obviously he didn't have to worry and work so hard, but he still made a mess of his work, although he was also for himself, for the interests of the royal family, he was willing to burn himself, give up entertainment and personal pleasures, just to achieve a very lofty goal, and become a prince through the ages, leaving an excellent reputation, and this is his ideal.

But feel your own body that is getting more and more tired.

Gave up so much personal enjoyment and entertainment.

Even the family and children can't spend a little longer, always facing this endless government affairs from all over the world, dealing with all kinds of things, big and small, although this is what a Ming Jun should do, but the Ming Dynasty is so big, the population is so large, if he has to make decisions and deal with big and small things, I am afraid that he will never be busy, and sooner or later he will be busy to the day of physical problems.

Ay~

I only hope that the development of Daming can be accelerated, and the development of science and technology will be faster, and the cost of ruling and managing such a huge empire can be reduced a lot, then perhaps, many things can become less difficult, thus bringing about the so-called information revolution, plus there are railways, airplanes and other means of transportation to improve efficiency, and then the turnaround is really possible.

……

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the time entered May.

In many parts of the South, the temperature has risen significantly, and people are starting to feel a little hotter and have appropriately reduced the number of clothes they wear.

But on May 25, the southern hemisphere, the Australian continent, has just entered the winter, the temperature is slightly cold, the day is fine, but at night, it will be a little uncomfortable, you must add two more clothes, which is also related to Australia's semi-desert climate, characterized by a large temperature difference between day and night.

Southwest Australia, Seafood City, Seafood Port.

This is a port city that was officially established only last year, and currently has a population of 200,000, all of whom are immigrants from the Ming Dynasty with different purposes.

Some people want to come to pan for gold, mine, and become a gold digger, eager to use their own hands to obtain a large amount of precious gold, and it is best to achieve overnight riches.

Some are farmers who want to come over to enclose land for farming, or herdsmen who want to contract pastures, because there are still more arable land and grasslands in Australia, at least 300 million mu can be developed, at least 10 million people can meet the needs of 30 mu of land, each person has 30 acres of land, whether it is growing grain and vegetables, or pigs, cattle, sheep and horses, as long as you make efforts, you will definitely be able to harvest.

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There are also businessmen, seeing the business opportunities here, they want to come to try their luck, buy and sell, and make some price difference and profits, and because Australia is too far away, the industry is not perfect enough, and the material gap is very large, as long as there are businessmen coming, even if they bring some cheap and common goods, they can make at least twice as much profit.

There are also adventurers, fishermen, factory owners, etc., all of whom have seen the huge potential of this land almost as big as the Ming Dynasty, so they are willing to gamble and decide to take this risk and come here for development, the purpose is to fight for a bright future, even if they can't do it, they have to lay a good foundation for future generations.

But this morning.

A steam cruise ship, after arriving at the seafood port, another group of about 1,000 immigrants streamed out of the cabin and lined up to walk off the deck, all holding more or less luggage in their hands.

And there was a rather strange group of people, also carrying boxes and bags, men, women and children, they looked at the port in front of them with curious eyes, and then followed the crowd, walked down the gangway, got off the boat, and stood on the concrete pavement of the wharf.

Among them, there are more than a dozen middle-aged men, all of whom have fierce faces, deep eyes, few expressions, and even a trace of dissatisfaction and regret.

After all, Australia is tens of thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, once you come here, it is like exile, and it may be very difficult to go back, and you may have to settle here for a long time in the future and become the owner of this land.

Daming's life is quite good, so he can only give up.

There are also accustomed cement brick houses, habitual flush toilets, and all kinds of advanced appliances, sorry, this place should not be there yet, the conditions here can only be described as 'simple' and 'primitive'.

"Big brother, if we can find out the informant who betrayed us, how can we run to this place where birds don't?"

"Yes, in the past few years, we have not been very good, and we still owe millions of loans from Tianxia Tong Bank, but the income is not low, the family can live a decent life, the children have school, if the loan is repaid, it can be paid off slowly after ten years, and then it is two clear, you can live a particularly down-to-earth life, but I didn't expect that we would be betrayed, or a more important employee, did not hesitate to report us, exposed our past."

"We have long since stopped doing this business, we are all good citizens, and the government will not hold us accountable, but we' The continuous development and growth of Tiancheng logistics caravan has affected the interests of some big people in the county, so it has come to us to turn over the old accounts, grandma's, that group of dignitaries and nobles are really not a thing, the logistics industry, it is not good, the profit margin is not high, they are still insatiable, want to swallow this benefit, and begin to do something to us, if it is not for the attention of public opinion, Xujiazhuang's "Oriental Times" helped us say a few good words, with a certain degree of public opinion, we are a line, He has long been turned into a ghost under the knife, and it is impossible to get out of prison alive. ”

"Bastard, I should have known that those dignitaries and nobles were not a good thing, when we rebelled and killed them, we still killed too little, they really deserved to die, we should carry out the rebellion to the end, instead of thinking about living a peaceful and obedient life, big brother, our path is really wrong, as long as there are those big people, we don't want to have a good life, rebellion is really the only way out."

"Yes, even if it was death, even if it was very dangerous, the rebellion should be carried out to the end, those high-ranking officials and nobles are bastards, and they are enemies who cut off people and money, as long as they live, there is no fairness in this world, and we will never be able to turn over!"

"The assets of our caravan have been auctioned, the houses and villas have been taken away by the bank, and the accumulation of years of struggle has basically been taken away, leaving only a small amount of luggage and entanglement, which supports us to come to this place, which is almost equivalent to having nothing and starting all over again."

Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu, Liu Rukui and others have expressed their views and formed a consensus: they were right to rebel back then, and although they can live as a law-abiding people, it is impossible to turn over, and it will only become more and more unfair and darker.

If you want to shuffle the cards, you should completely shuffle the cards, instead of having any illusions, otherwise the fruits they get by hard work will be easily plundered, even if they have never been rogues and are real good citizens, they are just being plundered later, and the greed of those high-ranking officials and nobles will never be satisfied.

Regret.

Everyone felt very sorry for why they didn't insist on rebelling to the end.

The second is a bit of a complaint.

There are quite complaints about the leading brother Li Zicheng, because after listening to the words of the eldest brother, Liu Zongmin and others today have many wives and concubines, many children, and the remaining thirteen old brothers have now swelled to more than 100 people, but they have lost their former sharpness and courage, and now they just want to survive and survive, after all, they have a family and a room to worry about, and they are the pillars of the family, and they are middle-aged and facing crises, who dares to do such a high-risk thing.

Hear the complaints of these old brothers.

Walking in front, Li Zicheng, who was silent with a black face and always remained silent, was still silent and couldn't say anything to refute, because everything was pale and powerless.

Pit.

It was he who pitted the old brothers, and he could only carry this pot.

He also realized that the essence of this world, after all, is cruel and unreasonable, it is useless to be an honest person, and it is useless to be a law-abiding citizen, as long as it involves interests, even if it is only about 5% of the interests of the logistics industry, there are also powerful people, want to occupy and plunder, and then make a game of blows, let them fall into a huge passivity, almost all the heads to the ground, if it weren't for Xu Jiazhuang to intervene, their gang, really none of them can survive, and then the wife and concubine, reduced to the playthings of others, The sons and daughters became beggars on the streets, and their fate was extremely miserable.

Cruel, cold, and ruthless.

As long as you fail to grasp the power and money, no matter how rich and capable you are, you are just a fat sheep in the eyes of others, as long as you are fat enough, you will be eaten at any time, and you will not even spit out the bones.

The rebellion of the year was a rogue, and now it seems that it is the only and correct way, otherwise it will not be able to fight those powerful people at all, and they will always be controlled and controlled, once they are targeted, there will be no good end, raise the knife, and then summon enough people and horses to kill all those powerful people, in order to avoid a bad ending, which is also natural.

That's right, although there are laws in this world, but in essence, it is still a world of the jungle, justice or something, only people with knives in their hands and strong power deserve to have it, otherwise it all depends on the mood of those big people and the degree of attractive interests, or they will die and die together.

"Hey, I was wrong, I just led the brothers to lay down a piece of land, and then asked the court to recruit peace, or directly to Xujiazhuang, these are the right choices, but the road I took is actually wrong, several years, it was in vain, and now I am older, and there are so many burdens, it is impossible to get a knife again, there is no chance, hey, I am indeed a little stupid."

Li Zicheng said secretly, feeling quite remorseful.

However, the eyes sweep the surrounding environment.

I also think of Australia, mainly immigrants, not controlled by the Ming court, although Xujiazhuang controls this territory, but the extensive free-range management method adopted, there are not many soldiers and horses stationed, and the control is relatively weak.

There are not many powerful people who stand on top of the immigrants.

Opportunity.

Like a blank slate, there are plenty of opportunities here.

A relatively bold plan was born and formed in Li Zicheng's heart, and he secretly vowed that this time, he must go the right way, learn a lesson, and even if he risked his life, he would create a real paradise of freedom.