"Jingle ......"

"Slaves, slaves of the South!"

"Hurry up!"

In June, when the trade winds from the Little West continued to blow into the Arabian Peninsula, an Arabic-style wharf was bustling with Middle Eastern merchants.

They walked along the gravel quay streets, and the wharf next to them was lined with many West Asian merchant ships.

Here, low-slung bungalows made of sand and stone are the most common buildings.

Most of the people on the gravel streets wore only linen trousers, and even women, at most they had some linen cloth to tie their breasts.

Only a few nobles were allowed to wear robes made of cloth.

The black and white robe was the main clothing of the nobles here, and the silk and satin that the people of the Ming Dynasty could wear at will was a luxury item that only kings and crown princes could wear here.

The aristocrats enjoyed the palanquins carried by the slaves and looked left and right at what was new on both sides of the street.

Most of the goods on the docks were some drought-tolerant fruits, slaves from Kunlun to the west, and abundant fish from the sea.

However, even with the backdrop of the Little Western Ocean, the primitive fishing techniques of the local area are difficult to catch enough fish for all the population, and the fish caught has to be sold to local officials who pay a heavy tax.

As a result, most of the people who set up stalls on both sides of the street were skinny, and many even had their skinny flesh sunk into their ribs.

Compared with them, the nobles who eat very fat are particularly eye-catching......

"Jingle Bell ......"

The wind chimes of the sentry were blown, and the sleepy soldier was dressed simply, not so much as a soldier, but an ordinary man in sackcloth and armed with a cold weapon.

People like him were the most common soldiers of the Jabrid dynasty.

The soldiers who can wear armor are basically the existence of closely following and guarding the nobles.

Such a lax defense gives the willing a chance, and when the black spots appear at the end of the sea in the distance, the Jabride dynasty will also usher in its own end......

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Fixed-shot loading, four quarters of the direction, pre-firing a round, ready to ......"

On the sea, more than a dozen steaming ironclad ships appeared, and the footsteps of sailors continued to sound back and forth on the deck.

With the golden cannonballs being stuffed into the barrels, the naval governor Huang Fei also raised his clairvoyant mirror.

He put the clairvoyant mirror in front of his eyes, and said softly while seeing the port clearly: "Put ......"

"Bang bang bang!"

On the ninth day of June in the 40th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to the "East Kunlun Peninsula (Arabia)", and the naval governor Huang Fei sent 30,000 troops to land in Sohar.

On the first day of the seventh month, in just 21 days, the Jabrid dynasty and the Mavar kingdom were destroyed one after another.

When the news reached the capital, it was already August 15.

On the good day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Emperor Zhu Youxiao issued a decree to canonize Yongguo at the southern end of the Dashi Peninsula, and rewarded Yongguo with the two places of Jibrid and Mava.

Yongwang Zhu Ciyan became a vassal on the first day of February of the following year, and the vassal led the establishment of ten battalions of soldiers and horses, and the internal treasury alone took out one million taels to reward Yongguo.

The million taels will be used to buy flintlock pistols, Yanshan five-pound cannons, and a large amount of supplies.

At the same time, the internal treasury also undertook the migration of Yongguo immigrants in the next ten years.

When the time came to the fortieth year of the Apocalypse, with the continuous increase of the income of the Ming Dynasty, the income of the internal capital was also advancing with the times.

More than 300 million taels of banknotes bearing the emperor's face have been issued, and 20 million taels are issued every year.

Every two banknotes issued will bring the royal family ten dollars.

In other words, the annual issuance of banknotes alone can bring the royal family 200,000 taels of income.

In addition to these, there are many sources of income for the treasury, so the amount of savings in the treasury has become the object of curiosity for many officials.

However, they can only be curious, after all, since the separation of national funds is a good thing for the country.

Otherwise, with Zhu Youxiao's character, even if the treasury income of the Ming Dynasty doubled, I am afraid he would not be able to squander it.

Compared with the Great Ming Dynasty and the Princes, the internal affairs of the Qi Domain can be said to be extremely shabby.

After the restructuring and determination of the 30th year of the Apocalypse, there was only one source of national income for the Qi Domain, that is, the subsidies of the Qi Imperial Court.

The subsidy is increased every ten years, and the initial amount of the subsidy is 100,000 taels.

When Yongguo was canonized, the hundred officials of Qi also discussed the subsidy for the second time and decided to raise it to 300,000 taels, but it was vetoed by Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi.

On the ninth day of October, Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, issued an order to increase the subsidy to 150,000 taels, an increase of only 50 percent......

The reason why it has only increased by so much is because Zhu Youzhen is still holding Yulu on the side of Daming.

Although he resigned from many official positions, at the same time, Zhu Youxiao also retained many official positions for him, such as the position of the governor of the five armies.

This position alone paid three thousand taels of silver a year, and there were seven or eight more such positions.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen himself is definitely enough.

Qi has a lot of waste to do, and their respective policies need to spend money, and Zhu Youzhen only needs to meet the expenses of the county kings and county lords.

If it weren't for Xia Yunyi and others who felt that 100,000 taels was too little, he might not have thought of raising the subsidy at all.

After all, for him, who had enjoyed so much modern technology in his previous life, there was really nothing that could make him addicted in this era.

The only addiction may be that he has given birth to seven sons and six daughters in the past 17 years.

Compared with Ding Xingwang, a person from the Qi Domain, although Zhu Youxiao, who is far away in the Ming Dynasty, also likes to stay in the harem, he has not collapsed a few farts in the past seventeen years, and it is no wonder that Zhu Youxiao is so generous to King Yong and King Ding.

However, although the three Zhu Ciran brothers are in their thirties, they do not have more than five children, and the children born to the father and son are not as many as Zhu Youzhen's life.

In the letters to and fro, Zhu Youxiao asked Zhu Youzhen about his recipes more than once.

After eating the recipe to no avail, he even felt that his younger brother must have hidden something, otherwise how could he be so good.

For this reason, Zhu Youxiao was also angry with Zhu Youzhen, and the two did not exchange letters for three months.

It's just that whenever this kind of thing happens, it is Zhu Youxiao who can't help it in the end.

He has expressed more than once that he wants to go to Qi State, but Zhu Youzhen means that the Ming Dynasty is busy with state affairs, so let him help Zhu Ciran more and don't make Zhu Ciran tired.

Although Zhu Youxiao answered every time, he turned his head and hid in the Qianqing Palace and continued to play with his wood.

One of the few times he left the palace was either to build his large carpentry building, or to the north to escape the summer and the south to escape the winter.

If it weren't for Zhu Cihong's son being born early, and Zhu Heyin helping to deal with the government, then I'm afraid Zhu Ciran would have followed in Zhu Youzhen's footsteps.

In any case, although Yongguo has not yet begun to immigrate and develop, the feudal lords are keenly aware of one thing.

Zhu Ciran had already begun to plot against the Ottomans, but judging from the canonization of Yongguo, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty still did not reach a level that could go further on the basis of the current territory.

"This prisoner really wants to behave far beyond his father......"

In the winter moon, an old man who was nearly sixty years old and had a somewhat old face couldn't help but say such a sentence with the latest news of the canonization of Yongguo in his hand.

At this moment, he was sitting in a large four-wheeled carriage, and under him sat a middle-aged man in his early thirties.

Although the two of them were dressed in ordinary satin round-necked robes, the regulation of the carriage, the momentum of the two, and the thick recital on the table all showed that their status was not ordinary.

"What is insurmountable in front of this prison country is not long live, but the king of Qi, right, father......"

As soon as the middle-aged man spoke, the old man glanced at him, and at the same time remembered Zhu Youzhen's figure in his heart.

Because when he left the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen could not stand for a long time, so in his memory, Zhu Youzhen gave people a quite strong sense of oppression regardless of his appearance or momentum.

Zhu Youzhen is old, but in the hearts of many people, he is still the same as he was back then.

"It is difficult to produce a few people like that throughout the ages, who dares to say that they can surpass ......"

The old man muttered unconsciously, and the middle-aged man also bowed his head slightly in approval after hearing this, and at the same time he also picked up the music on his desk and said:

"The Qi country promised to send five million stone rice to my Tang country this year, and it is really hard for Erchen to imagine that the grain of the Qi country is so rich......

The middle-aged man's words revealed his identity, and also exposed the identity of the old man in the top position.

The old man who was nearly sixty years old was the current lord of the Tang Kingdom, Tang King Zhu Yujian.

As for the middle-aged man, it is Zhu Linyuan, the current son of the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, the two of them were on their way to the Tang royal capital, the outer city of Luodu.

Zhu Yujian lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out through the transparent glass.

Outside the car, the cement paved road is particularly conspicuous, and on both sides of the cement road, there are buildings in the south style of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen's brothers, uncles and nephews have always wanted to weaken Jiangnan's influence, but Jiangnan's population actually determines that no matter how Zhu Youzhen and they want to weaken Jiangnan, Jiangnan can rise rapidly.

At present, most of the immigrants from overseas vassals are mainly Jiangnan people, and there is no way to do it.

Zhu Yujian looked at the passing carriages and the people of the Tang Kingdom on the streets of the outer city, and in his eyes, he could hardly see any colored people.

The slight presence of some people of color also existed as slaves, helping their masters carry things.

However, the Tang State has high requirements for Kunlun slaves, and there are only more than 100,000 Kunlun slaves legally registered in the entire Tang Kingdom.

Most of them suffered palace punishment, which was a rule handed down from the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Central Plains.

In addition to the Kunlun Nu, there were also some whites in the Tang Kingdom, but they were only allowed to live temporarily in the port towns, and all could not live for more than two months.

This rule was learned and applied by Zhu Yujian from Qi Guo.

It can be said that in the system of the Great Ming Dynasty, if there is any country that learns Qi Guoxue the most thoroughly, it may not be the Ming Dynasty of Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Ciran, but the Tang Kingdom of Zhu Yujian.

In Zhu Yujian's heart, he didn't think that Daming had anything worth learning at all.

He has long felt that Daming can change because of Zhu Youzhen, so the object he wants to learn from is the country where Zhu Youzhen is located.

It is precisely because of his persistence that the Tang Kingdom has become the first country in Kunlun Continent.

At present, the Tang State has a population of 1.72 million and more than 24 million acres of cultivated land.

The only pain point of the Tang Kingdom is the hot melt effect of the rainy season caused by the fact that most of the land belongs to the rainforest climate.

The nutrients of the cultivated land are washed deeper into the ground by heavy rains, so if a piece of farmland is rotated all the time, it will only take a few years for the land to grow at all.

Therefore, Zhu Yujian has been listening to Zhu Youzhen's words and ploughing the cultivated land of the Tang Kingdom.

Facts have proved that his choice is not wrong, compared with Ji and Huai, who were disobedient and suffered at the beginning, the development of Tang has been rapid.

"How many people will be able to migrate this year?"

Zhu Yujian lowered the curtains, and Zhu Linyuan, who was at the head of the house, also responded: "It can probably reach about 67,000 people a year." ”

"This is already a lot, many of the Kunlun Continent's feudal domains are around 50,000 this year."

"We can get so many immigrants, it should be agreed by the dynasty in the case of the first domain of Kunlun in my Tang Kingdom."

Zhu Linyuan recounted a reality of the immigrants from the Levian domains.

Although Daming has a population of more than 8 million new students every year, Zhu Ciran has been tightening up on the issue of immigration.

There are eight vassal states in Kunlun Continent, and the annual influx of immigrants is controlled within 500,000, which makes the eight vassal states very aggrieved.

Originally, what they needed to face was the number of Kunlun slaves as high as tens of millions, but now that immigration is still restricted, anyone feels aggrieved.

"This population has been restricted since the 35th year of the Apocalypse, and now we are adding such a small number of people every year, and if we want to advance inland, we can't move faster."

"If you don't build cities and towns in the interior and reclaim cultivated land, it will be difficult for the army to go deep into the encirclement and suppression of Kunlunnu."

"Dad, the prison country has too many restrictions on us......

Zhu Linyuan vented his dissatisfaction, but after listening to his words, Zhu Yujian was very calm.

"We are restricted, so what about India......

"It's the same!" Zhu Linyuan frowned and said what he knew about the Indian vassals:

"There are more than 200 feudal states in India, large and small, and since the local immigrant population exceeded 8 million in the 35th year of the Apocalypse, the dynasty has also restricted them."

"According to our information, the number of people who have migrated from India's vassal domains this year should not exceed 800,000."

"800,000 ......" Hearing this number, Zhu Yujian chuckled:

"There are more than 200 vassal states, with 800,000 immigrants, and this prison country is really ......"

He didn't finish his words, but it was not difficult to see from his expression that he was very contemptuous of Zhu Ciran's methods.

As a future emperor, Zhu Ciran was understandably afraid that the feudal domains would be too strong, but even if he didn't limit it, the feudal domains would not be able to move much of their population every year.

In terms of more than 8 million births per year in Daming, and it is still improving with time.

Even if the feudal domains had to relocate four million people a year, the Ming Dynasty's losses would be limited, since the Ming Dynasty's production capacity growth rate could not keep up with the population growth.

The migration of the feudal domains was not only the young and middle-aged, but the entire household, some of whom were old and some of whom were weak.

It can be said that even if four million people are relocated, at least one million of them are elderly, which is a burden for Daming.

However, Zhu Ciran didn't think so.

"With the addition of the Qi Kingdom, it is estimated that there are no two million immigrants from so many of our feudal countries every year, right?"

"Probably not."

Zhu Yujian wanted to know Zhu Youzhen's thoughts at this time, and he couldn't help but wonder if Zhu Youzhen regretted not being the emperor back then.

As he thought of this, the moving carriage also stopped, which meant that they had arrived at their destination.

Zhu Linyuan consciously got up and opened the car door for Zhu Yujian, and the guards at the door of the car opened the shrinking steps at the door of the carriage.

Zhu Linyuan helped Zhu Yujian get out of the carriage, and what appeared in front of them was a tall cement city wall.

This is the outer city wall of Luodu, and this is also one of the places where Zhu Yujian looked at the situation of the people.

He doesn't have Zhu Youzhen's skills and self-confidence, the older people get, the more they cherish their lives, standing at the head of the city and looking at the lives of the people from a distance is already one of Zhu Yujian's ways to keep pace with the times.

Zhu Yujian walked up to the top of the outer city three feet high, and placed an extended version of the telescope at the city gate.

He stood in front of the telescope, and then used him to look at the people of the city.

In his eyes, this swamp, which once had only one dilapidated town, has now become a capital city with a circumference of more than ten miles.

The hard cement roads and civil engineering buildings give this place a bit of Central Plains flavor, and there are not many people dressed in various open-face Hanfu on the street, each doing their own work.

Because of the lack of population, only nearly one-third of the outer city of Nado has buildings, and the remaining two-thirds is farmland.

Zhu Yujian could use the telescope in his hand to see the farmland not far away, and watched the people hunched over and pulling weeds in the farmland.

While he was looking at these, Zhu Linyuan next to him also spoke:

"After the grain from Qi is delivered, the domestic grain should be able to maintain the price of four wen per catty in the next two years."

"In addition, the King of Qi also said in the letter that the Qi State will soon be able to export livestock, so we don't have to worry."

"But father, at present, more than forty percent of the grain, fertilizer, cloth, and sugar in the territory of my Tangjihuai Three Kingdoms come from the Qi Kingdom."

"If the Qi State suddenly interrupts trade at any time, then we are afraid that we will become the Song ...... in the Spring and Autumn Period."

Zhu Linyuan wanted to express his worries, but Zhu Yujian interrupted:

"King Qi's life is still long, don't worry about this."

"I'm more worried about the country than that."

"Compared with King Qi, the Guo Dynasty is a little stingy after all, not only the machinery is not exported, but even the export of ordnance is refused."

Zhu Yujian has used rifles in the army, so he naturally knows the gap between flintlock pistols and rifles.

Although he intended to manufacture it, the iron-smelting technology of the Tang Kingdom was not at the level of producing rifles at all, so he had no clue after more than ten years of research.

"Machinery and ordnance, this is the existence of the feudal clans who dare to cast rats."

Zhu Yujian looked away, and seemed to be very satisfied with the lives of the people in the city.

He turned his head to look at Zhu Linyuan, seemingly absent-minded, but Zhu Linyuan felt his father's seriousness.

"Think of a way to get all the textbooks of the university from Qi and Guochao."

"Tang Guo...... You have to have your own armament yard......"

After Zhu Yujian finished speaking, before Zhu Linyuan could speak, there was a sound of hurried footsteps in the distance.

An official with a yellow notebook in his hand hurried over, bowed down when he walked in front of Zhu Yujian, and handed over the notebook at the same time, with a somewhat anxious tone:

"Your Highness, news has come from the east that Qin Minping, the governor of the Western Army's Governor's Mansion, has died on the tenth day of October......"

"......" Hearing this, Zhu Linyuan and the generals around him felt nervous.

As the king of Tang, Zhu Yujian unconsciously twitched the corners of his eyes, and after a while, he turned to look at the people in the city, and after thinking about something, he muttered:

"Let the people of the east keep an eye on ......"

"Yes!"

(End of chapter)