"Show the immigration card! Take care of your family and children, and each person should not carry more than 200 catties. ”

"Don't crowd, line up according to the red line on the soles of your feet!"

"Beep-"

At the Longjiang Port in Nanjing, when the whistle of the officials and the soldiers and horses sounded, the wharf of the Longjiang Port at this moment was crowded with people preparing to emigrate.

Some people want to move to Sichuan, some people want to go to Qi State, and some people want to go to Nanyang.

Here, ships are constantly coming in and sailing out, and at the same time, there are many pleasure boats cruising on the Yangtze River.

"Dad, the water level of the Yangtze River has dropped a lot this year."

On a pleasure boat, footsteps were heard from inside the boat when a teenager in a white round-necked robe spoke to the people on board.

The door was opened, and it was Zheng Zhilong, who was slightly fat, who came out, and behind him, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy who came out was Zheng Zongming, the second son of Zheng Zhilong.

As for the one who spoke to the two of them, it was Zheng Zhilong's eldest son, Zheng Fusong (Zheng Chenggong).

Zheng Fusong and Zheng Zongming studied in Nanjing, while Zheng Zhilong mainly returned to Daming this time to report on his work, and was ready to speculate and be loyal to Zhu Youxiao in Nanjing.

As a famous speculator in history, Zheng Zhilong has almost no mistakes in his speculation.

Whether it is to surrender to the Ming Dynasty or surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong's choice is right in terms of the general trend.

The only thing Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that the Qing Dynasty would confiscate his family property and execute him thirteen years after he had been in the Qing Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong's character in history is like this, and it will naturally not change now.

After sensing that it was impossible for King Qi to be added to the yellow robe, he decisively chose to be loyal to Zhu Youxiao in opportunistic allegiance.

Therefore, this time he returned to Beijing to report on his work, not the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Beijing, but the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing.

Early this morning, he went to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies under the guidance of Zheng Fusong and the others, and then let people spread the news that he wanted to worship the emperor.

However, the emperor did not receive him, but only said some words of encouragement.

The implication is nothing more than that the emperor thinks he can, but at the moment he can't squeeze into the core position of the royalist party.

Zheng Zhilong also knew that he was just a general soldier, and after the reform of King Qi, the general army only had three battalions of soldiers and horses, and if he wanted to move, he had to obtain the approval of the Governor's Office.

Therefore, his weight in the court is not large, and naturally he has no value worthy of being received by the emperor.

However, the matter is finally done, and what I have to do now is to wait slowly for the Qi Wang Party to withdraw from the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong was a little high-spirited, and Zheng Zongming next to him also spoke at a critical moment:

"It's really lowered a lot, it should be a zhang, right?"

Zheng Zhilong was pulled back to reality by Zheng Zongming's exclamation, and saw that the piers of the Yangtze River Bridge in the distance were much higher, and the piers covered with dry moss could also see how serious the drought in Daming was this year.

It's still March, and spring hasn't passed yet, but the water level of the Yangtze River has dropped by a foot, and if it is summer, I am afraid that some places in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River will dry up.

"That's a lot of immigrants......"

Zheng Zhilong set his eyes on the migrant team at the wharf, and the place was full of people, probably no less than tens of thousands.

"Well, there is a big drought this year, and many people have heard that King Qi is leaving, so there are a lot of immigrants."

"Fortunately, the imperial court has relaxed the restrictions on government immigration to the end of the year, otherwise many people will not have money if they want to move."

Zheng Fusong sighed and said, as if he felt sorry for what happened to the people.

However, in this regard, Zheng Zhilong, who is familiar with the doors of the court, does not care.

The so-called immigration restrictions are actually just a means for the imperial court to promote immigration.

Unless there really aren't too many immigrants left, the imperial court will only keep postponing it, and it is impossible to directly interrupt the immigration.

"You haven't been to Nanyang for a long time, and now the old port and Nanzhou are a lot more prosperous."

"Has anything changed?"

Zheng Zhilong and his two sons talked about the old port and Nanyang, and Zheng Fusong also asked about his father curiously.

Seeing this, Zheng Zhilong also talked specifically about the changes in the old port and Nanyang with his two sons.

The drought in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River is not actually Qi State, but the three provinces of Jiugang, Jiaozhi and Nanzhou, followed by Qi, Sichuan, Luchuan, and finally the Guanwai provinces in the north.

Since the sixteenth year of the Apocalypse, Nanzhili was the first to encounter drought, and the drought in Jiangnan has lasted for five years.

In the past six years, there have been many immigrants.

From 590,000 at the beginning, to more than 800,000, 1 million, and then to more than 2 million last year, Jiangnan has migrated at least 5 million people in a short period of time.

Of these people, less than 700,000 flock to Qi, that is, nearly ninety percent of the Han immigrants in Qi are Han people from the three provinces south of the Yangtze River.

In addition to the 700,000 in Qi, the remaining more than 4 million people basically chose to migrate to Jiaozhi first, followed by Nanzhou, and finally Jiugang.

In the past six years, these three provinces have received more than 2.9 million immigrants, of which Jiugang and Nanzhou are the top three provinces of Ming immigrants with 860,000 and 800,000 respectively.

Ten years ago, the number of Han Chinese in Nanzhou was less than 300,000, and the number of Han people in Old Port was less than 3 million.

But by the time Zheng Zhilong went north, the Han population in Nanzhou had exceeded 1.5 million, the number of Han people in Jiugang had exceeded 4 million, and the number of Jiaozhi had reached 5 million.

This is only the Han people, if you count the local natives, then the population of the old port and Cochin has exceeded 10 million.

In a province with a population of 10 million, even in the Central Plains, there are only three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, so after the population increases, the local economy naturally develops rapidly.

Among them, the most rapid development is Nanhai Mansion.

Nanhai Province is located on the island of Java, and the terrain is not flat, but the volcanoes scattered in it give the island hope of life.

During the eruption process, volcanoes melt the ore underground, bringing the trace elements contained in them to the surface and depositing them to form minerals that are nutritious to plants.

As a result, the tiny island of Java has reclaimed more than 40 million acres of arable land in the past 15 years.

Therefore, Nanhai Mansion is also the newly wealthy place of the Ming Dynasty and the first choice for the gentry to immigrate.

Speaking of this, Zheng Zhilong also said to the two brothers: "I bought a mansion in Nanhai City in Nanhai Mansion, and when I am old in the future, I will go here to retire." ”

"Hmm......" Zheng Fusong responded, and then looked at the people on the shore, puzzled: "Why didn't my father go to Qi Country?" ”

"Qi Guo?" Zheng Zhilong was stunned, he didn't expect his son to ask such a question.

Faced with this question, he did not answer directly, but paused before saying:

"The laws of Qi are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty, and I am afraid that you and I will not be used to living for a long time."

Zheng Zhilong's answer was obviously covering up the facts, and for sixteen-year-old Zheng Fusong, he knew in his heart why he couldn't go to Qi State.

His father finally made the Zheng family gain a foothold in Fujian by becoming a pirate and an official.

Now that he was suddenly asked to go to the Qi Kingdom, he was naturally 10,000 unwilling in his heart.

Not only that, perhaps in the eyes of his father, although Qi is good, he is always a step worse than Da Ming, although he has not been to Qi State.

"But there are many students in the school who say that they want to go to Qi after graduation."

"Huh?"

Zheng Zongming, who suddenly spoke, made Zheng Fusong and Zheng Zhilong turn around subconsciously, Zheng Fusong didn't think it was strange, but Zheng Zhilong felt that King Qi's status in the hearts of the students was too high.

However, he also felt that it was normal for King Qi to have a high status in the hearts of the students, after all, the textbooks that the students studied were all compiled by him.

It can be said that as long as every student takes out a book every day, what he sees is the four words "Zhu Youzhen".

Compared with the emperor who is high up and has only one portrait in the academy, these four words that can be seen from childhood to adulthood are difficult not to be close to.

What's more, compared with the universal values of the Ming Dynasty, which were poisoned by Cheng Zhu's science, the universal values in Zhu Youzhen's book are closer to the views of Confucianism and Mohism in the pre-Qin period.

In the textbooks compiled by Zhu Youzhen, whether it is the Chinese language or the dialogues when doing math and physics problems, the dialogues are all teaching a kind of value that all people are born equal, and there is no distinction between high and low.

In contrast, since the Song and Ming dynasties, it is difficult not to be impeached by students who are in the rebellious period.

This is the reason why the old school has not been able to cultivate its own people, because the promotion of official learning has caused the values of "monarchs, ministers, fathers, fathers, sons" to begin to collapse.

Instead, the "national" values popularized by Zhu Youzhen.

Loving the country does not necessarily mean loving the court, and loving the family does not have to be rigid in abiding by the rules.

The change is the change, never rest on your laurels, only by making continuous progress, Daming can continue to improve.

Under this kind of education, students who have graduated in the first five years of school may not feel that there is anything because they are too young.

But for students who have graduated from high school for five years, the society of Daming and the education they have received are almost completely different.

There are only a few people who can stay and change the Ming Dynasty, and more people would rather go to Qi Guo who makes them feel comfortable.

Moreover, according to the replies of some seniors, the graduating students can be said to be like a fish in water after they go to Qi State.

There are three no's in the officialdom of Qi State, namely, "no idle talk", "different banquets", and "no procrastination".

The reason for not gossiping is that officials basically do not talk about things other than official business, and even very good people often chat after returning home from work.

Different banquets are not eaten in places other than the big kitchen, and officials are not allowed to initiate banquets among themselves, except for weddings, funerals and other major events, and can only eat together in the big kitchen of the yamen on weekdays.

If there is no delay, everything must be dealt with before the curfew, and the officials will not be able to go home and rest until the curfew begins and the people cannot go out.

These "three noes" do not mention the Ming officialdom, but they are all Ming officialdom.

This is only the first point that the officialdom of Qi State is different from the officialdom of Daming, and the more important point of the officialdom of Qi State is that it is younger, more creative, meritocracy, regardless of age.

This article is in the heart of the young and rebellious students who are eager to realize their personal values.

Zheng Fusong has seen all these things, and it is because of this that Zheng Fusong will ask his father.

It's just a pity that my father's answer disappointed me......

"You also want to go to Qi Country?"

Zheng Zhilong was not sluggish, and when he saw that his two sons couldn't leave Qi Guo, he immediately felt a chill in his heart.

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"Child......

"Woo-"

Zheng Fusong was about to speak, but was interrupted by the whistle of the ship next to him.

When the ship passed, even if Zheng Fusong didn't say anything, Zheng Zhilong understood his thoughts.

He didn't ask Zheng Fusong again, and Zheng Fusong looked at his somewhat unsightly face, and didn't continue.

The father and son took a pleasure boat and gradually moved away from the crowded port.

Only as they left, there were people like them on a tall tower near the harbor.

Longjiang Tower, as the tallest tower in Nanjing designed by Zhu Youxiao, is 33 zhang high, and you can almost see half of Nanjing City.

The whole tower covers an area of one acre, and there is a forest garden covering an area of five acres around it, the construction time is only half a year, and it costs 60,000 taels of silver, it is Zhu Youxiao's internal silver to build, and free of charge to the people of Nanjing to play the place.

Since it was repaired half a year ago, it has become the favorite place of Jiangnan literati.

However, they climbed to the twenty-ninth floor at most, and the highest thirty floors have never been opened to the public.

The reason why it is not open is also very simple, because this floor is specially reserved for Emperor Zhu Youxiao to enjoy the scenery......

"Among them...... How many are going to Qi country? ”

Standing behind the fence of the 30-story tower, Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of the height of more than 30 zhang, but looked at the group of people on the port with a calm face.

He stood on a high ground and could see more.

Compared with the tens of thousands of people in the port, the hundreds of thousands of crowded people outside the port were like a resounding slap in the face.

"This year, the officials of Nanzhili estimate that it is probably ...... There are about 270,000 people who want to emigrate to Qi country. ”

Wang Tiqian stood behind Zhu Youxiao and cautiously answered his question, but Zhu Youxiao still asked calmly when he heard this: "What about other places?" ”

"Other ......" Wang Tiqian paused, hesitated to speak, and finally lowered his head and replied, "About 600,000 or so." ”

As if he was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy after finishing speaking, Wang Tiqian hurriedly said:

"In fact, the people don't really want to go to Qi country, but because of the drought in various places, they just go out to make a living."

Although his words sounded like an explanation, for Zhu Youxiao, it was not a kind of irony for him.

The so-called apocalypse prosperity is the millions of people fleeing every year.

In such a situation, how can it dare to be called prosperous......

"How have the officials of the Qi Palace's moved recently?"

Zhu Youxiao turned around and walked back to the tower, and there were many precious furniture placed on the thirty floors of the tower, which were obviously from Zhu Youxiao's hand.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qi is persuading the officials to move one by one, and some officials have heard the news and have taken the initiative to ask the household department to transfer to the Qi country."

Wang Tiqian first responded, and then explained:

"In June of last year, the "Da Ming Law" was changed again by His Royal Highness the King of Qi, and the "Vassal King Chapter" was established."

"The whole article mainly tells that the Ming officials can propose their ideas to the vassal states according to their wishes."

"If the feudal state agrees, then the official can go to the feudal state to govern, but it needs to be approved by the cabinet, the six ministries, and the celebrant supervisor."

"In addition, a few days ago, a new vassal king can be knighted in his vassal country, but only for counts."

"The rest is that the graduates of the official school of the feudal kingdom need a unified examination, and if the students who have passed the exam want to participate in Enke as an official, they need to come to the two capitals of Daming to participate in Enke."

"The officials after Enke Zhongju can choose to return to the vassal state to take office, or they can choose to take office in the Ming Dynasty."

"In addition, there are ......"

Wang Tiqian said a lot about Zhu Youzhen's lawmaking and reform that began last year, some of which were beneficial to the vassal state and some to the Ming Dynasty.

In short, the entire law is mainly set up around the system of the Ming Dynasty as the sect and the countries as vassals.

Such a system also shows that Zhu Youzhen himself still prefers to maintain the system of the Great Ming Dynasty and does not want to divide the territory.

This is a good thing for Daming and Zhu Youxiao, but Zhu Youxiao is not happy.

The more Zhu Youzhen perfected the system of the Great Ming Sect, the more he thought about leaving.

On the matter of him leaving the domain, Zhu Youxiao always wavered.

He didn't want Zhu Youzhen to go, but he knew that Zhu Youzhen couldn't leave if he didn't go.

He doesn't go, and his position is unstable.

He left, and he was a little dazed, not knowing what to do next.

Zhu Youxiao, who is accustomed to his younger brother being the master, always has some thoughts of wanting to escape when facing a future that needs to be his own master in the future.

But if Zhu Youzhen didn't want to leave, Zhu Youxiao was always uneasy, for fear that when his younger brother would be added to the yellow robe by the person below, his own head would be separated.

He sat on a pear blossom wooden chair in the tower, looking at the blue sky and river scenery in the distance, and didn't know what to think.

"How's the crown princess?"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't think of a reason, so he could only throw the matter about Zhu Youzhen out of his mind and mention his daughter-in-law.

"Well, there are still five months to give birth......"

Wang Tiqian's response in a regular manner, Zhu Youxiao didn't say anything more when he heard this, but got up and prepared to go down the tower, and at the same time said to Wang Tiqian:

"The matter of the relocation of the Qi State is decided by the prince, and the batch will be approved."

"Slave maid takes the order...... Wang Tiqian's heart tightened, knowing that the emperor still couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly nodded in response.

After answering, he also led someone to serve Zhu Youxiao down the tower and embarked on the way home to the Nanjing Imperial Palace.

When they set out on their way home, the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy, which had profited from the drought in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, also ushered in a small period of prosperity.

"Let's Jean! Let's Jean! Watch out for the car! ”

"Immigrated here, don't stand on the road!"

"Show your immigration iron plates, and watch your luggage and children."

At the port of Kunlun County, when three migrant boats arrived, the local officials in charge of reception began to resettle the migrants in full swing.

On the sea, the harbor is full of tourists moored with countless cruise ships, one after another leaving the port, carrying goods to enjoy the scenery on the way back.

On the port, there is a bustling of vehicles, a sea of people, and a boatload of livestock from Europe......

These scenes are all stimulating the new immigrants, making them a little disbelieving about the prosperity of Kunlun County.

In fact, Kunlun County is not prosperous, but because the people who have migrated here are too poor, they will feel that this place is prosperous.

As the westernmost major city in the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, Kunlun County has developed in recent years, although it is not as good as cities like Xi'an, Luoyang, Hanyang and Changsha, but it can be compared with ordinary government governance.

However, there is not much Han population behind such prosperity, which is also a problem that Wu Aheng, Yan Yingyuan, and Yan Yinshao are worried about.

"This is the ninth batch of immigrants at the end of this year, and there should be more than 400,000 immigrants in South Kunlun, right?"

In a tea shed surrounded by soldiers and horses on the dock, when Wu Aheng opened his mouth to speak, Yan Yingyuan, who was sitting opposite him, couldn't help but nodded:

"Back to the envoy, it is true, there are more than 432,600 people in the two prefectures of South Kunlun at the moment."

"Among them, there are already 190,000 Han immigrants, and it should exceed 250,000 by the end of the year."

Yan Yingyuan's words expressed the helplessness of the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy.

There are 430,000 immigrants, but only 190,000 Han immigrants, and the rest are male immigrants from Yingzhou and female immigrants from India.

For the Southern Kunlun Supervision Mission, which covers an area of more than 3 million square kilometers and has more than 3 million labor reformers, there are only 190,000 Han people under its jurisdiction, which undoubtedly makes it the most miserable "provincial" administrative unit in the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is a small Western Supervision Envoy with only one prefecture, its Han immigrants have reached one million, and the Southern Kunlun Supervision Envoy is only one-fifth of it.

"There are so few immigrants that I've heard that the provinces accept immigrants in the hundreds of thousands."

Wu Aheng sighed a little, and Yan Yingyuan was also very helpless: "We have already opened an immigration policy of 100 acres of mature land and five ploughing cattle per person, but the immigration situation is still not optimistic." ”

"It looks like I have to write a letter to His Royal Highness......" Wu Aheng could only shake his head and sigh when he heard this.

Each person has 100 acres of land and 5 ploughing oxen, which means that a family can get at least 500 mu of land and 25 ploughing cattle as long as they move here.

But even then, they don't attract too many people.

This can't be blamed on them, after all, the vassal kings of Levia are all offering the same price, and everyone has joined the war to grab people.

Compared with the natural attraction of Qi, the local feudal states can only be attracted by policies, and at the same time, they also need to face the malicious price hikes of their "peers".

For example, the current policy of "100 acres per person and five cultivated oxen" of the Levian feudal domains was due to the policy of "50 acres of cooked land and two cultivated oxen per person" of the small Western feudal domains.

Except for the Qi State, the other feudal domains were taking advantage of the disaster in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River to "rob" the population.

The more Han Chinese, the more stable their rule in the local area became, which was the reason for the vassal kings to rob people.

But the more people they robbed, the fewer people they robbed.

Therefore, Wu Aheng, who could not accept the malicious price increase, could only move out of the King of Qi to sanction the vassals.

An hour after he sighed, more than a dozen carrier pigeons were released from Kunlun County and flew towards Daming in the east......