After the Battle of Arataki Mountain Castle, the main force of the Japanese army was almost wiped out, and although Rokujo Yuma himself was not captured as a prisoner of war, his body was found next to a small spring by the Xia army.

Rokujo Yuma had a rib in his abdomen, and his head was also cut off and placed next to his corpse, and Xia Jun, who found his corpse, only found it incomprehensible and could not understand why the Japanese committed suicide in such a painful way.

In this battle, the Xia army killed nearly 10,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 1,000 people and captured more than 20,000 people, including several feudal lords and daimyos, and the Japanese army of Nagato Province was destroyed.

After the great victory of the Xia army, he wanted to continue to pursue by victory, but the huge number of prisoners of war turned into a drag, and Hao Shaoqi had to temporarily withdraw his troops and lead the army back to the coastal area of the Guanmen Strait.

The more than 20,000 captives happened to become free labor, and the construction of new cities in various parts of Chikushi Province was still going on vigorously, and it was not good to use Japanese civilians to death, and those prisoners of war had no worries, as long as they did not die, they would be used to death!

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At the same time, thousands of miles away in Jiangning City, an urgent report from Nanyang entered the palace and was placed in front of the emperor's imperial case.

Shi Lang discovers a new continent!

After Su Yan opened the emergency report and checked it, the whole person was suddenly enveloped in ecstasy, he raised the emergency report above his head, let out a laugh, and after laughing a few times, he applauded again, and praised with a smile: "Finally found it, Shi Lang really didn't disappoint me, and I found it!"

Afterwards, Su Yan shouted to the attendants who were standing outside and waiting, "The Xuan Cabinet, the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials, and the Five Shangshu have entered the palace to meet them."

The attendants hurriedly responded and announced the emperor's will, and it was not long before the ministers hurried into the palace, and for so many years they had long been accustomed to the emperor holding cabinet meetings from time to time.

At the cabinet meeting, Su Yan released the news of Shi Lang's discovery of the New World, and the news was like a bombshell, which blew up the ministers and relieved them for a long time.

Subsequently, the first assistant of the cabinet took the lead in congratulating Su Yan, and he proposed: "Your Majesty, the Admiral of the Nanyang Navy Division should be rewarded for his meritorious work in discovering the Absolute Island, and the Absolute Island should also be included in the territory of the imperial court.

"Good!" Su Yan smiled and agreed, and he said, "Shi Lang's move is in the future, I want to make him the new Marquis of Lin, what do you think?"

The ministers naturally had no opinion, and the matter was settled, and Su Yan then began to discuss how to govern the Absolute Island.

The land of Jedi Island is vast and sparsely populated, and the local natives have almost zero civilization, so if they are the main residents of the Jedi Island Propaganda Division, I am afraid that even if they are given hundreds of years of development time, they will not be able to become a climate.

Therefore, Su Yan planned to move part of the population from the mainland to the island as the first batch of pioneers, following the example of the British in history, first developing the coastal areas, and then slowly plotting the interior.

Of course, Su Yan was not going to use Jedi Island as a place to exile prisoners, and the exiled prisoners already had the excellent choice of Xianbeilia, so there was no need to go to Ho Ho Island.

After some discussion, the cabinet finally decided to requisition 50,000 people from China to move to the island as the first batch of residents of the island's propaganda department, and the chief of the propaganda department was Liu Wenmin, the political envoy of Shaanxi. ….

Liu Wenmin, as the first batch of systematic figures to follow Su Yan, he passed the plan as early as a few years ago, and was promoted from the prefect of Hanzhong to the political envoy of Shaanxi, his ability is naturally reliable, and he is also extremely loyal to Su Yan, so Su Yan gave him the position of the envoy of the Jedi Island.

As for giving Liu Wenmin and not Shi Lang, it was also considered by Su Yan, although several ministers proposed to appoint Shi Lang as the first ambassador, but Su Yan still did not agree considering Shi Lang's character.

He couldn't trust Shi Lang.

To be precise, let Shi Lang go to sea to explore him very much, but let Shi Lang be the governor of a colony far away from the mainland, Su Yan will not agree, in case Shi Lang lives longer than himself, when he dies one day, Shi Lang has no system constraints, what if he violates the yang and yin of the court?

The Imperial Court was originally going to include the Oshima Island (New Guinea Island) under the administrative area of the Jedo Seoki Division, but

Su Yan considered that Jedao Island was an independent continent, and its area was very vast, and it was a bit reluctant to use it as a separate provincial-level administrative system, and he was afraid that the big island would be even more difficult.

Therefore, under Su Yan's strong opinion, Oshima was not included in the administrative area of the Jedo Propaganda Division, but as a separate area, it was called the Papua Propaganda Division after the indigenous people of the island.

Of course, the Papuan Xuanwei Division was actually opened by the map, Su Yan was not ready to develop it in a hurry, and the current development focus of the imperial court was still on the Jedi Island, after all, the Jedi Island was an independent continent, and the island was also rich in materials, so it could not be given to others.

Although the Jedo Propaganda Division and the Papua Propaganda Division were established, it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to develop and colonize them, and it was obviously too far to travel from Luzon Islands to these two places, and the imperial court needed to open up several transit stations in the middle of the shipping route to replenish the ship's supplies and fresh water, and repair the ship, which could also serve as a safe haven if necessary.

So, after the cabinet meeting, Su Yan ordered someone to get a map of the South Seas, because of the frequent trade exchanges, the map drawn was already more detailed, Su Yan looked at it for a while, and then set his eyes on the southernmost part of the Luzon Islands.

Su Yan looked at the place, which was later known as Sarangani Bay, and was a suitable place to be opened up as a port, and then continued to look south, staring at a K-shaped island, which was later Sulawesi, ruled by the indigenous Sultanate of Gowa.

The southern tip of Makassar was once a bustling trading port, but in the Battle of Makassar a few years earlier, the Dutch captured the port and expelled the Portuguese who lived there, leaving the once prosperous port of Makassar in ruins.

Su Yan thought for a while, picked up his pen and drew a circle at the location of Makassar, and then drew a large circle outside the entire island of Sulawesi, encompassing the entire island.

Well, he decided to send troops to the Sultanate of Gowa and include the whole of Sulawesi in his territory, so as to avoid the local natives attacking his port in the future.

It is not far from Sulawesi to the Jew Island, and it is only necessary to cross the Banda Sea and the Timor Sea to reach Darwin in the northeast of the Jeor, which of course has no name at this time, waiting for the successor to name it.

However, Su Yan still decided to add another transit point, and he encircled the island of Timor, which was under the control of the Dutch and Portuguese at this time, and if he wanted to occupy the island, he would have to go to war with the Dutch again.

He did not take Portugal to heart, Portugal's military power in the Far East was no stronger than that of the Netherlands, and it just so happened that he could also take the opportunity of this war to take back Macao.

Although Macau was not ceded to the Portuguese, who had to pay "rent" every year, Su Yan decided to take it back.

Tears.