"Things are done well, and Hong Chengchou is ordered to recuperate and quickly go south to recover the rest of the territory of Jiaozhi."

On October 19 of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, when the news from the south came back to the north, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen had already returned to the capital, and the current Zhu Youxiao was playing chess with Zhu Youzhen in the Yangxin Palace.

When playing chess, he suddenly received good news from Hong Chengchou, which naturally made Zhu Youxiao very happy.

After all, the strongest force in Annam is Zheng Jie, and now that Zheng Jie has killed himself and the entire territory of the Zheng family has been recovered, it is only a matter of time before the rest of the forces such as the Ruan clan and the Cham family are pacified.

"My brother will also take a look at this good news."

After Zhu Youxiao was happy, he also handed the good news to Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen, who was playing chess, took the good news and took a good look at the battle process in the good news.

Less than half a month after Zheng Jie's suicide, all the four prefectures and thirteen counties in the south were recovered by Mu Qiyuan and Wu Bikui with troops, but the result was a little brutal.

More than 200,000 strong men who were "implicated" with the Zheng family, as well as more than 300,000 male tenants under the Zheng family, were convicted and sent to the old Hong Kong labor camp.

Although the Red River Delta lost a large number of laborers, the political significance of Zhu Youzhen's needs was achieved.

It was nearly four months before and after the dispatch of troops, and it was expected that the northern part of Cochin would be taken, and the next Nguyen and Cham would also be completely taken before next spring.

From this point of view, there is no need to care about Annan's affairs, and what Zhu Youzhen needs to care about is the problem of Nanzhang and the problem of immigration.

"How's the matter of the relocation of the disaster victims?"

Zhu Youzhen used Jiaozhi to call Annan inside and outside the words, and Zhu Youxiao also understood his younger brother's thoughts when he saw this, and immediately said:

"Abolish the Annam Metropolitan Division, re-establish the Jiaozhi Chengxuan Political Envoy Division, establish the Jiaozhi Province, and Thang Long Province was renamed Jiaozhou Prefecture as the Jiaozhi Prefecture."

"Mu Qiyuan inherited the title of Duke of Qianguo, and from now on he will guard Jiaozhou, Wu Bikui will serve as the commander-in-chief of Jiaozhi, Hong Chengchou will temporarily lead Jiaozhi Bu political envoy, and Jiaozhi will be under the control of the Southern Military Governor's Office,"

Zhu Youxiao made many appointments in one go, and Wei Zhongxian in the Heart Cultivation Hall immediately responded when he saw this.

As for the matter of immigration, Lu Wenzhao, who was standing on the side, also replied:

"There are 630,000 people who have migrated from Shaanxi to the south, and the first batch of 130,000 people has arrived in Qinghua County, the capital of Jiaozhou."

"In addition, the millions of victims in the southern part of Fujian Province were divided into two, 600,000 migrated to Jiaozhi, and 400,000 migrated to Palembang and Nanhai and Jiugang in the old port."

"The 600,000 people who have migrated to Cochin will be relocated in batches of 50,000 people in 12 batches, and it is expected that all of them will be able to migrate to Cochin within half a year."

"For the people who relocated to Jiaozhi, Hong Jingluo has already distributed acres of land in accordance with the will of the imperial court and according to the relocation standard of 20 acres of land per person."

Lu Wenzhao's reply made Zhu Youxiao frown, he looked at his younger brother and asked:

"Isn't the number of people who have migrated to Cochin 1,230,000? If it is 20 acres for one person, can Jiaozhi have so much arable land? ”

1.23 million people, 20 mu per person, 24.6 million mu of cultivated land that needs to be issued.

With so much arable land, it was hard for Zhu Youxiao to believe that there would be so much arable land in Jiaozhi.

However, in this regard, Zhu Youzhen said: "Yes, even if there is not, Hong Chengchou will let the local area have it." ”

These words were a little twisty, but Zhu Youxiao relented after hearing it.

As for Zhu Youzhen, he had already figured out how to clean up the local area.

Not enough arable land? Then it would be good to follow the example of Jianyu, who used more than 300,000 Han people to reclaim hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land, and the Ming Dynasty could also use millions of Annan people to reclaim millions of acres of cultivated land.

Moreover, compared with Jianyu, the Ming Dynasty has a huge population market, and when the Jianyu opened up the wasteland, the wood could only be used to build houses and smelt iron, but the Ming Dynasty could be used to build ships and concoct wood to be transported north to make building materials.

Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hexi, Monan, Jiangnan......

The forest area in these places was far less than that of later generations, and it was possible to make money and not lose money by transporting the wood of Cochin to the north.

The reason is simple, because there is no need to pay wages......

"How many old and weak women and children are involved in the Zheng family?" Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao responded when he heard this:

"About a million ......"

A funny scene happened, with a population of more than 2 million, there were nearly 1.5 million anti-thieves.

No one believed this, but Zhu Youzhen didn't need others to believe it.

"Tell Cheng'en to establish two shipyards in Jiaozhi, two major textile yards, cement yards, and iron yards in the north and south."

"The elderly, weak, women and children need to be reformed through labor for three years, and after three years, they will be paid ten cents a day."

"Your Highness is benevolent and kind...... Wei Zhongxian saw that there was a sycophant to shoot, and immediately patted Zhu Youzhen.

"How's the drought going?" Zhu Youzhen ignored Wei Zhongxian's sycophants and asked Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"Wells have been drilled in various parts of Shaanxi and Shanxi, and although the fields are dry, the people's drinking water is not a problem."

"The Ministry of Industry has recruited 1.2 million people from Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other countries."

"Among them, there are 800,000 people who comb the Yellow River, and 400,000 people who widen post roads and official roads."

"The price of the minfu is ten wen a day, and now the daily expenditure is about 20,000 taels of silver, including the materials."

"Twenty thousand taels?" Hearing this number, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youzhen:

"If it goes on like this, will the household department be able to hold on?"

"If you can't hold on, you have to hold on." Zhu Youzhen said to Zhu Youxiao:

"Behind these 1.2 million people are 6 million mouths and 6 million people."

"Ten literary wages a day, calculated at the local grain price, can still buy three catties of rice."

"Three catties of rice can't feed six people, but at least it's a source of income."

"This is already the best cash-for-work method that the imperial court can make this year, and if you want to raise your salary, you can only see how much tax can be collected by the liquor department."

Zhu Youzhen doesn't want to pay the victims high wages? Of course he wanted to, but he had to consider whether anyone would get involved in it, and whether the treasury could be functional.

During the Tianxi period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was no more than 50 million, and these 50 million people created 10.4 million yuan of liquor tax.

The price of wine in the Ming Dynasty is far inferior to that of the Northern Song Dynasty, for example, after the establishment of the Wine Division, the sweet potato roast was only sold in Bawen, which was only a quarter of the price of wine in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The population of the Ming Dynasty should be about 150 million, and this Zhu Youzhen has a bit of a foundation, that is, when the price of wine is a quarter of that of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population is three times that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty could collect 10 million yuan in wine tax, and the Ming Dynasty could at least earn about 7.5 million taels.

As long as the 7.5 million taels of silver can be collected, it will be much easier to give money to hundreds of officials, and it will be easier to raise the price of the workers of the disaster victims.

If the liquor tax is not enough, then put the same taxes as the deed tax, the mining tax, and the commercial tax.

In any case, as long as the miscellaneous items are abolished, it will be a bitter gentry, not a bitter common people.

If the gentry came up with other means to pass on taxes to the people, then Zhu Youzhen could also use other means to deal with them.

Of course, the most important thing is to control public opinion in order to better deal with the gentry.

Controlling public opinion is not something that can be solved simply by a newspaper.

To put it bluntly, the ultimate control of public opinion is the issue of education.

When did the civil servants control public opinion? Didn't it just start after the popularity of social studies and private studies?

Why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di see civil officials controlling the world's speech? The promotion of government schools and the knowledge that students are exposed to are the most important means of consolidating rule and disseminating public opinion.

Reading a thousand newspapers, it is better to put people in the official school to study for ten days.

Zhu Youzhen has been preparing for the change of government and school since the second year of the Apocalypse, but this speed is not fast.

The third and fourth schools in Yanshan are the beginning of the division, but now after three years, the number of students does not exceed 5,000.

5,000 people, according to the minimum five subjects of official learning, at most can benefit 1,000 official schools, and one official school is only a few hundred people.

It is good enough to let hundreds of thousands of people receive a loyal and patriotic education, but compared with the sociology and ethnology that Zhu Youzhen wants to confront, it will affect many fewer people.

Fortunately, at the current speed, the third and fourth schools in Yanshan should be able to break through the upper limit of 100,000 in a few years, and once Zhu Youzhen releases people, the students who can be affected will be millions.

"At present, in addition to the third and fourth schools, how many students are there in the remaining six basic education institutions in Yanshan Academy?"

Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tribute tea, and Zhu Youxiao also looked at Lu Wenzhao curiously, while Wei Zhongxian listened with his ears pricked up although he didn't look at it.

The affairs of Yanshan Academy have long been no secret in the Ming Dynasty, and everyone knows that Zhu Youzhen's powerful means are not the army, but this group of people.

"About 570,000 ......" As soon as Lu Wenzhao spoke, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but look at Zhu Youzhen.

He wanted to know how his younger brother supported so many students, after all, Zhu Youzhen told him that the investment of each Yanshan student was six taels of silver per year.

570,000 students means that Yanshan University needs to invest more than 3 million taels of silver every year.

Zhu Youzhen basically didn't ask Zhu Youxiao for this silver, and the money on the books of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was also very secretive, and there was no trace of accounting at all.

It is not surprising that Zhu Youxiao can't see it, because since the third year of the Apocalypse, Yanshan Academy has been placed under the jurisdiction of Huangdian's officialdom.

In other words, Yanshan Academy is actually the imperial store spending, and a large number of imperial stores want to do the accounts, and the accounts are made so that people can't see where there is a problem, which is very simple.

Even in the information age, it takes a long time to look up a large company, let alone the 17th century.

"At present, the number of students enrolled every year is around 100,000......" Lu Wenzhao's words made Zhu Youxiao even more unable to sit still.

100,000 people, it can be said that the number of Guozijian in the northern and southern capitals is like this.

This means that Zhu Youzhen is producing 100,000 scribes every year, and at this rate, it only takes ten years to change the officials and officials, and there is no need to worry about corruption at all.

Whoever is corrupt will be replaced, and it is not too simple to select hundreds or thousands of people from 100,000 people to replace a group of officials.

"With such a large number of students, if there is no faction in ten years, how will my younger brother solve the problem of their tenure?"

Zhu Youxiao asked about this without any scruples, because this was also a point that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di failed to solve.

The country's long-term peace and stability has led to the involution of the students of the Guozijian who can be promoted, and hundreds of officials are arrested every year, and the students of the Guozijian are unwilling to become officials.

Later, when the civil officials began to tempt them, they could not resist this temptation and chose to take the bait, and finally the emperor lost his talent reserve.

"The Ming Dynasty is constantly expanding its territory, not to mention anything else, just like now, after the recovery of Jiaozhi, at least 10,000 officials need to be sent to manage."

"The little Western Supervision Envoy also needs to send 3,000 officials."

"In addition, Yanshan currently has three schools to prepare, such as the ninth, tenth, and eleventh."

"The three universities need as many as 10,000 teachers, and these need people to run them."

"Another ......" Zhu Youzhen glanced at Wei Zhongxian, and then said blatantly:

"The official schools should also be replaced, there should be more than 4,000 official schools under my Daming, and according to the calculation of 100 people in each school, it also takes a full 400,000 teachers."

"What's more, the official school should not stop at the county seat, but should go down to the township, and each county also needs to reach four official schools."

"In this way, I will have at least one million people in Daming to become teachers, and these millions of people will need the number of students in Yanshan Academy for ten years."

Zhu Youzhen was deliberately letting go, Zhu Youxiao probably heard it, and he wanted to tell the officials in the court through Wei Zhongxian's mouth and give them some sense of urgency.

In other words, it is also necessary to give the gentry below some sense of urgency through the mouths of the officials.

It doesn't matter if they know about Zhu Youzhen's plan, because they can't do anything.

Gather a crowd to spread Zhu Youzhen's black spots? It doesn't matter, Zhu Youzhen doesn't care.

That gathered a crowd to smash the county office? Just kidding, the soldiers of the Terracotta Division and the local criminal department are not vegetarians.

Even if the soldiers and horses and the officials can't solve them, the local Gongwei battalion can solve them.

Zhu Youzhen does not kill people, he will only choose to be exiled.

However, thinking of exile, Zhu Youzhen remembered Huang Long's recital, and then said to Zhu Youxiao:

"By the way, when my brother and Huang Long were exploring south, they found a new continent south of the old port, there is a small continent directly south of this continent, and there are two continents, one large and one small, thousands of miles to the southeast."

"In these places, I hope my brother can set up a new mansion and relocate the people."

After that, Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also nodded and walked out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and then came to the hall with two brocade guards, and replaced the old-fashioned "Da Ming Kun Yu General Map" in front of Zhu Youxiao.

When the brand-new "Daming Kunyu General Map" was replaced, it can be seen that the territory of the Ming Dynasty basically included Australia, New Zealand and other places in later generations.

After these places were marked and dyed with the red pigment of the Ming Dynasty, people only felt that they were particularly vast, and Zhu Youxiao's first reaction was to point to Australia and say:

"This place looks big enough to make it all your own domain."

"This ......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen laughed, and Zhu Youxiao looked at him puzzled, as if he was thinking about something funny.

For his incomprehension, Zhu Youzhen could only get up and point at Australia with his pear flower stick and said:

"The situation of this new continent is the eastern mountains, the central plains, the western plateau, and about seventy percent of the land is arid or semi-arid land, and although it is very large, one-fifth of it is about desert."

"Therefore, the land that can be used for livestock husbandry and cultivation is actually less than one-half of the land......

"Most of this half can only be used for grazing, and there are about 300 million acres of land that can be used for farming."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen returned to his position with his hands behind his back and said to Zhu Youxiao:

"This place is still reserved for Ci Yan and Ci Jiong......

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to go to Australia, after all, Australia's geopolitics were too bad, and if he wanted to develop, he could only take the old port in the north.

With his power, if the territory of Qi was too close to the Ming Dynasty, it would not be a good thing.

"If my brother goes to Levia to become a vassal, then I won't let my brother leave Daming in my lifetime."

It is rare for Zhu Youxiao to use my self-proclaimed name for Zhu Youzhen, and it is obvious that he is really reluctant to let Zhu Youzhen leave.

Whether politically, militarily, or emotionally, he is inseparable from Zhu Youzhen.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen also smiled bitterly: "Brother, don't worry, if the younger brother goes to Leviya, it will be a few decades later." ”

"My parents are not far away, and if my parents are not there, my eldest brother is my father, and my brother is still here, how can I travel far away with confidence?"

It was rare for him to say some affectionate words, and Zhu Youxiao also showed some smiles when he heard it, but after Wei Zhongxian heard it, although he was smiling on his face, he wanted to die uncomfortably.

It's just that these words are just words, and the most important reason is that the current conditions of Da Ming do not meet the conditions for Zhu Youzhen to leave.

He had to leave Daming with a well-connected transportation, a semi-industrialized society, and a relatively complete system of government and education.

Only with these can he leave Daming with confidence.

Besides, if Da Ming reached this level, then it would be much easier for him to go to the domain.

He could have started the affairs of Qi Guo with the birth of his own heir during his reign.

Even if only a few tens of thousands of people are migrated every year, thirty years is enough time to move millions of people to the Qi country.

The country of Qi, which has millions of Ming people, has not developed much slower.

However, as far as the matter of the domain is concerned, Zhu Youzhen still has a headache.

His idea was very simple, if within a few years of the arrival of the heir, the Armaments Institute could make a steam engine ship and a steam locomotive and a steam locomotive, then the territory of Qi would be the Americas.

If not, then the domain will be Levia, or directly squat in the Nile Valley, dig the Suyinshi Canal, and let the Qi State sit and collect taxes.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen also remembered Xu Xiake, and turned to Lu Wenzhao and said:

"Does Xu Xiake have any news back?"

"This ......" Lu Wenzhao was stopped by Zhu Youzhen's question, and he hesitated and said:

"The flying pigeon biography is limited, and the Ming Dynasty is far away from Levi-Asia, so the last news came back on August 27."

"At that time, Mr. Xu and his fleet had already arrived at the southern tip of Levia, which the Europa people called the Cape of Good Hope."

"In the letter, Mr. Xu said that it was difficult to get from the southern tip of Leviia to the western part of Leviia, so the transmission of information would be a little slow......"

The induction of carrier pigeons is about 3,000 kilometers, and the distance between the Cape of Good Hope and the capital, although Zhu Youzhen is not very clear, can also estimate that the straight-line distance is about seven or eight thousand kilometers.

Therefore, Xu Xiake's carrier pigeons need to fly to the Quicksand Qianhu (Maldives) first, then to the old port, and then fly back to the capital.

Due to the limited information carried by the carrier pigeon, Zhu Youzhen could only know the approximate location of Xu Xiake.

If they managed to make it to the west of Leviia, it would take at least two months for the pigeons to fly back.

"I don't know if Levia will be able to rule ......"

Zhu Youzhen frowned, he naturally knew the harsh environment of Levia, and he also knew that it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to reclaim tens of millions of acres of cultivated land in the local area.

But......

He didn't care about the life or death of Kunlunnu, besides, as long as the Suyinshi Canal was opened, coupled with the gold mines on Leviya, the Qi State could live a very prosperous life, and he had no need to rely on agriculture to make a fortune.

He only needed to cultivate enough food along the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Senegal rivers to cultivate enough food for the people of Qi to eat, and these places were also proven to be reclaimed in later generations, and the cost was not high.

These projects are more difficult to carry out, so they have to suffer the locals.

As for the local malaria and various diseases, Zhu Youjian was not very worried about how to treat malaria, and Daming had a systematic way to deal with it.

How did those rare viruses come about? Zhu Youzhen also knows this point, it is nothing more than the proximity of local natives and wild animals.

The people of Daming are not as perverted as the local natives, as long as they tell about the harm, some viruses will naturally disappear slowly.

Each continent has its own way of rule, and copying it will only shoot itself in the foot.

The vast African rainforests have given birth to many viruses, but as long as Zhu Youzhen establishes the Qi state in the Nile River and other river basins, it is really difficult to say how many years these rainforests will last according to the architectural style of the Han people.

After all, more than 4,000 years ago, Henan was still a tropical rainforest, but in less than 500 years, it was turned into a plain by the Shang Dynasty.

How many people were there in the Shang Dynasty...... As long as Zhu Youzhen has enough people to move and the process of industrialization, it is only a matter of time before he wants to reduce the area of the rainforest.

However, if he could get a steam engine, Zhu Youzhen would rather go to Central America and directly snatch Central America, which the Spaniards had already developed.

How can there be incense to rob in reclamation......

is like this, he has been robbing the Europas, and Zhu Youzhen's conscience is a little uneasy.

Fortunately, after he took a sip of the tribute tea, this kind of reluctance disappeared.

"By the way, your marriage seems to be a bit of a mess......"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly mentioned the marriage again, and Zhu Youzhen put down the teacup and looked at him curiously.

Regarding Zhu Youzhen's curious gaze, Zhu Youxiao laughed and said:

"Korea, Siam, Gan Pozhi, Boni, Sulu, and Turpan in the west are all mentioned during the pilgrimage, and I hope that your marriage will not be simply selected from within the Ming Dynasty, but placed in the clan."

"They have a lot of care...... Zhu Youzhen was a little uncomfortable, and Zhu Youxiao said:

"The king of North Korea, Li Liang, has been selecting show girls for training, and I heard that five hundred show girls have been selected, even if you don't choose at that time, it will be good to stay in the palace as a slave."

"We'll see, it's too early to talk about that." Regarding Li Liang's actions, Zhu Youzhen had already heard about it from the handwritten letter sent by Yang Hao.

He didn't expect this guy to spend so much energy in order to pat himself on the back, but at the moment, Zhu Youzhen didn't have the heart to think about these things, he was still concerned about the wine department and the drought......