Today, the Lion City is a highly prosperous industrial and commercial city.

The total population of the city has exceeded 2 million, which is twice as large as Singapore during World War II.

Because the Lion City's position in the Ming system far exceeded its position in the British colonial system.

It is located at the southernmost point of the Shenou continent and is the extreme end of the radiation range of the native land power of the Ming Dynasty.

It is the throat of the traffic between the Great Ming Ocean and the Little Western Ocean, and it is the most important fulcrum for the Ming Dynasty to control these two oceans.

It is an important intersection of the southernmost land and sea lines of communication in the Ming mainland, and the southernmost naval base that can be directly connected to the mainland core on land.

It was the ruling center and economic center of the Ming Dynasty in the Nanyang region.

When Zhu Jingyuan's fleet was still far away from the Lion City Harbor, he could see all kinds of ships coming and going around.

When you reach the waters off the Lion City Harbor, you can see the world's largest fleet of ships coming and going.

At present, the largest ship in the world is an 80,000-ton super passenger ship, and there are only three in the world, and there is one in the Lion City port now.

The Lion City is also a very pure oriental city.

When the boat approached the wharf, Zhu Jingyuan looked at it with his eyes, and the scene he could see directly was no different from the ports and cities in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.

In the process of great development and expansion of industry and commerce, the traces left by the Tessy people have long since disappeared completely.

Traces of the more ancient Johoreans have also been diluted to the point where they are completely invisible.

The passenger ferry that Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang took did not enter the busy civilian wharf, but directly docked at the military wharf.

Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang took their families ashore, briefly greeted officials from all walks of life in Nanyang who came to greet them, and then went to rest under the guidance of the service staff.

The location of the Lion City is special enough, the royal consortium has a lot of properties here, and the royal family also has their own garden here, and Zhu Jingyuan can live directly in it.

Zhu Jingyuan settled his family, first sent Zhu Zhongliang back to his homeland, and then began his own work.

The principal officials from all over Nanyang also made an appointment to come over and formally meet the governor.

After accepting the officials' worship, Zhu Jingyuan asked straight to the point:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if there are any more complicated problems in the Nanyang region now, if there are any more difficult things that are difficult to deal with in our local area, you can report them to me to find a way."

Zhu Jingyuan was so direct that the officials on the scene were a little stunned.

Finally, the political envoy of Malacca, Siu Jinan, stood up and said:

"I would like to inform Your Highness that at present, the situation in our Nanyang region is stable, the market is prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no difficulty."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and waved his hand and said:

"You don't just need to tell me nice things, I'm here to solve problems for everyone, not to ask about the guilt.

"Whether there is a problem or a difficulty, don't hide it, just say it.

"If there is anything to do, what is decided, it is inconvenient for you ordinary officials to come forward, and it is inconvenient for you ordinary officials to make decisions, leave them to me."

Xiao Jinan continued helplessly:

"We don't really have any difficulties here right now.

"A few years ago, we did have a lot of troubles here, but they have all been solved by you.

"The opening up of the six major industries has once again activated the market, and the abolition of the feudal domain and the establishment of provinces has realized the long-cherished wish of all officials and the people.

"The minimum wage, the maximum working hours, the military and the social welfare system allow the people of Nanyang to live and work in peace and contentment.

"The natives issue also has a guide plan you have given.

"Now both the officials and the common people are deeply grateful to Your Highness."

Zhu Jingyuan's expression was a little strange.

I came to Nanyang from Yinzhou and came to a place close to the Ming Dynasty.

It is also close to the place where the impact of the reform is most direct.

Malacca was one of the first feudal states to withdraw from the feudal domain.

The current Malacca political envoy Xiao Jinan is the original Malacca country left long history.

At the beginning, he was transferred from the governor of the vassal state to Malacca to participate in politics, and after the three-year term expired, he passed the assessment and was directly promoted to become a political envoy.

After all, there is a shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty now, and these officials from the feudal kingdom are basically not discriminated against.

As long as the ability is qualified, it is also directly promoted when it expires.

And the starting point of all this is the reforms that Zhu Jingyuan first proposed and promoted.

Therefore, the officials of the local and vassal kingdoms, compared with the treasurers of the New Heavenly Mansion, had a deeper impression of Zhu Jingyuan.

At the same time, under the influence of these reform measures, all parts of Daming have also entered a stage of great development.

When the tide goes out, you can see who is swimming naked.

On the other hand, when the tide rises, it is difficult to see what is underwater.

The current Daming is the rising tide stage, even if there are some small problems, they will be covered by the dividends of development.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to ask helplessly:

"Didn't you really find any problems? Is there really anything I need help with?

"It's just a small talk today, don't care about big or small things, you can talk to me.

"I've just come here, and I also need to have an entry point to understand the situation on our side."

A group of officials glanced at each other again, and finally Xiao Jinan said uncertainly:

"If there is a problem, it is really a problem.

"There are still not enough officials, so things are always moving slowly, from top to bottom.

"We know that this kind of thing is urgent, and now that schools are expanding, it should be good to survive the past few years.

"If Your Highness can help, you can ask more college students for us in Nanyang."

Zhu Jingyuan listened and nodded slightly:

"It's a problem, but it's not Nanyang's problem.

"If I want more students for Nanyang, won't there be fewer other places?

"Didn't Xiao Buzheng say just now, this kind of thing can't be rushed, just get through the past few years.

"Let's take on more burdens in the past few years.

"There are not enough officials, and isn't everyone's promotion faster?

"So now you don't have to work more for nothing......"

When Zhu Jingyuan said this, a relatively restrained laughter suddenly sounded at the scene.

Zhu Jingyuan waited for everyone to finish laughing before continuing to say to himself:

"It seems that people really don't want to ask me questions, so I'll have to find them myself.

"After I find the problem, everyone can't continue to hold on."

The officials immediately smiled very restrainedly.

The atmosphere of today's meeting was quite harmonious.

Zhu Jingyuan chatted briefly with the officials for a while, and then let them go to work.

And then I really started looking for problems on my own.

In the following days, Zhu Jingyuan was active in various yamen in the Lion City.

Flip through archives and dossiers to find out a variety of data from recent years.

Statistically, the Nanyang region can really be said to be in a thriving situation at present.

Factories, merchants, goods, taxes, the number of newlyweds, newborns, and so on are all soaring.

At the same time, the local crime rate has shown a downward trend.

Ordinary people can make money more easily, so the most common small-scale crimes will naturally be reduced.

The Malacca region, which has the best location conditions, is of course developing very rapidly.

But even in the interior of Siam and Burma, the locals have a better way out.

It really looks like a prosperous scene of cooking oil on fire.

And it is a prosperous and prosperous era of more and more affluence, not just a prosperous era of more hungry people.

Of course, the problem is real.

First, there is the issue of ethnicity.

For example, the total population of Malacca is more than 7 million, of which more than 3 million are pure Ming people, and more than 2 million pure indigenous people remain, with 4 million mixed-race children in between.

The situation is similar in other places such as South Vietnam, Siam, Burma, Borneo, Java, Old Port, and Luzon.

Indigenous and mestizo people are not the problem, the problem is indigenous perception.

The indigenous people of Yinzhou and the Pacific Islands are infinitely close to primitive societies in their own social culture.

Although the civilization level of Yinzhou is slightly higher, it has been exterminated by the Taixi people once and has basically lost its self-awareness.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Jingyuan regarded them as former mountain cross-country people, and their policies were mainly based on assimilation and absorption.

However, most of the indigenous people on the Nanyang Peninsula and some islands have the most basic civilization system.

There have even been dynasties that have been passed down for hundreds of years, and there are many Tianfang Sects that have accepted the Great Food Region.

Although these dynasties no longer exist, the country has been replaced by the vassal kings of the Ming dynasty.

However, the situation in the time of Emperor Sejo was very complicated, except for the most special situation in Japan, the other vassal states in the surrounding areas were not all wiped out by force.

It was also because of the technological level at that time, it was difficult to carry out a complete military conquest of a tropical region such as the South Seas.

Emperor Shizu basically used both soft and hard, and gradually abolished the original monarch and became the king of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, many descendants of the original monarch of the state and vassals loyal to the original monarch have not been completely extinct.

To this day, there are still quite a few indigenous people of the feudal kingdom who still retain this part of their memory.

They did not resist joining the Ming Dynasty, because their original countries were basically vassal states and tributary states of the Ming Dynasty.

But they still expect their original national names and ethnic heritage to continue to exist.

There are still many indigenous people who continue to worship the Celestial Religion.

At present, they only maintain this expectation, and they do not have the ability and action to rebel.

After the Ming Dynasty had de facto annexed these vassal states, it was difficult for the Ming court to continue to make the decision to exterminate them.

But Zhu Jingyuan found it hard to believe that once the situation in the Ming court collapsed, they would continue to stay honestly.

Therefore, in the periphery of the Ming Dynasty, in the face of the Nanyang natives whose culture was close to the Ming Dynasty, the policy of the Ming court was not all assimilation.

At present, the plan proposed by Zhu Jingyuan to vacate cages for birds and reserve areas is being implemented.

Zhu Jingyuan initially offered three candidates: Mindanao, Sulawesi, and the Solomon Islands.

In the end, the Ming court chose the most remote Solomon Islands.

Officials across the Nanyang region are selectively sending some of the indigenous people to the reservation.

The problem arises with this "choice".

What kind of people should be sent away and what kind of people can stay are judged differently in the minds of different officials.

In addition to sending away the real old and young, the vast majority of officials are accustomed to sending away the real savages.

There will be people who have a basic level of education and will be able to work under the management of Ming officials to stay.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, this kind of operation is not appropriate.

A reservation is meant to set aside an area for people who are not easy to manage, so that they can live independently in their own way.

At the same time, it does not continue to affect the population of other regions.

Therefore, after Zhu Jingyuan learned about the implementation of the plan to vacate cages for birds and reserve areas, he directly issued a new order in the name of the governor to uniformly adjust and standardize the existing rules for vacating and replacing birds.

All the Celestial Cultists were transferred to the reserve, but all of them were concentrated on two or three islands.

All the remnants of the original countries have also been transferred to the reserve, but they are all concentrated on two or three islands.

All kinds of lawbreakers and criminals who have repeatedly failed to change their ways, and criminals who are of a heinous nature but whose crimes do not lead to death, have also been sent to the reserved areas, and they are also concentrated on two or three islands.

The three types of people are completely isolated and managed, and the priority of the three identities is decreasing in turn.

If a person has multiple identities, then choose the higher priority status arrangement in order.

For example, if you are both an old and a young man, and a vicious criminal, then you should deal with it according to the identity of the old and the young.

Real savages, on the contrary, do not have to be sent to the reservation.

They have been forcibly taken out of the mountains, so it is better to continue to work hard and transform them into peasants.

Establish a fleet of coastal patrol ships in the reserved area, completely isolating all communication inside and outside the reserved area, and isolating communication between the reserved areas.

No person inside the reserve is allowed to leave the reserve, and no official is allowed to set foot on the reserved islands.

It is not necessary to proactively build any infrastructure on the reservation.

There is no need to send any managers to the reservation and there is no need to interfere with the social order in the reservation.

All matters on the reservation are at the discretion of the residents of the reservation.

After Zhu Jingyuan's order was issued, the officials in the Nanyang region were extremely stunned.

Xiao Jin'an, the political envoy who was stationed in the Lion City, simply came to visit Zhu Jingyuan in person.

After the two sides met and said hello, Xiao Jinan explained his intention:

"Your Highness...... I see your latest order that all officials must not set foot on the reserved islands.

"If the government does not interfere in the affairs of the island at all, the place where the Celestial Sect and those old and young are located may establish their own order.

"But if all the vicious criminals are put together, it will make it completely a place of lawlessness, right?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded:

"This is not necessarily, as the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

"We don't take the initiative to establish order, and the locals will establish local order themselves.

"The original intention of the reservation area was to give people who could not integrate into the Ming Dynasty a space to live according to their own habits.

"Therefore, it is the most appropriate choice to let them be completely free and never interfere in any way.

"At the same time, we allow it to be absolutely free, and we must not allow it to interfere with the other people of the Ming Dynasty.

"Therefore, it is necessary to completely isolate the inside and outside, and prohibit people from outside from going to the island, and also completely forbidding people from the island to come down.

"As for the land outside the law, it is not necessarily a bad thing to have such a place.

"Some people are really born evil, and indoctrination may be just a joke to them.

"Leaving them to fend for themselves is the best option for everyone."

Xiao Jinan understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant, but still had other worries:

"But Your Highness, the original decree issued by the Imperial Court said that it was to establish a state in the region and send officials to educate it.

"If we let them live on the island on their own, will we eventually form pirates and criminal gangs, or even independent states that will confront the government?"

Zhu Jingyuan shook his head directly and said:

"Of course, the will of the imperial court should be high-sounding, but the actual operation cannot be so rigid.

"Although the imperial court's will says that it is so, it does not give detailed regulations, and there is no official in charge, right?

"Now that there are not enough normal officials, how can it be possible to arrange additional bureaucrats to educate savages in the reserved districts?

"If you look at the reservations we have chosen, they are all places where the environment is definitely not good, and the products are not rich.

"The people who are put on the island are actually very problematic even to survive.

"The point is, there is no technology, no infrastructure, no tools and machinery, and no factories.

"The people of an island, even if they can really hold each other firmly, cannot build cannons and warships out of thin air.

"Our patrol fleet doesn't need to be too big, as long as we have speedboats and machine guns, and some improvised aircraft.

"It should be relatively easy to deal with people trying to escape."

(End of chapter)