Lao Zhu's news came to Mingzhou again, first of all, the handling of the assassination case.

Involved in two behind-the-scenes planners, the Taicang Chen family, the Haiyan Zhang family, and the Yi family. The direct executor, Haikou Xiang Er, Ling Chi was executed. At the same time, a reward of 10,000 taels of silver was awarded to hunt down the fugitive Chen Ning, whether he was alive or dead.

The people around Zhu Yuan also failed to run away.

The navy governor Huagao, except for Dr. Ronglu, and recovered all the 17 acres of 60 acres of land under his name.

Gong Wei commanded the division of thousands of households Zhao Xu to reduce to one hundred, plus twenty spines.

The naval governor's office, the naval envoy and the civil and military officials of Mingzhou should be fined for one month, and the five hundred guards who stayed by Zhu Yuan's side commanded the envoy and the army for one month.

There is no mention of the left phase.

Li Shanchang was framed by Chen Ning, which is very clear.

What's more, at present, the government and the opposition need to be in harmony and not cause internal chaos.

Wen Zao, who was in charge of sending messages back and forth, privately told Zhu Yuan about the death of a person close to him, which could be regarded as an explanation to His Majesty the Emperor and even Mingzhou.

In addition, Zhu Yuan also found that Lao Zhu didn't know when he had promoted the original Gong Guard Division to the Gong Guard Command Department at the third grade, thinking that his ancestors were paying more and more attention to internal and external monitoring.

Maybe I can give my comments next time.

Gong Wei commanded the envoys, but in the end, it didn't sound domineering as Jinyi Wei.

Well......

The second thing is that Lao Zhu no longer asked Zhu Yuan to return to Jinling immediately, but approved the relevant plan of the 'Mingzhou Marine Development Group' submitted by him, and once again told his baby 23rd grandson to act cheaply and not report everything.

And then there's a third thing.

Xingwei was changed to Zhenhaiwei, Mingzhou Wei was changed to Yinghaiwei, and Haiwei was newly set up.

Wu Zhen, the deputy governor of the navy, who was also the commander of Tianxingwei, was asked to re-expand the renamed Zhenhaiwei to 10,000.

Zhu Yuan, who was also the commander of the Mingzhou Guard, was asked to select the Mingzhou region to be light and strong, and also expanded the battalion to 10,000 people.

The newly established Haiwei is concurrently commanded by the Navy Governor Hua Gao, based on the 3,000 elite state and township soldiers under the commander of Senate Zhang Cundao, and the elite is drawn from various coastal guard posts, which is still expanded to 10,000 people.

Behind the establishment of the new 'Zhenhai', 'Yinghai', and 'Dinghai' three guards, there is a more critical old Zhu secret order.

Lao Zhu demanded that the integration of the three Davids army must be completed within three months.

It is expected that in June and July, Sanwei will be required to select at least 15,000 elites to secretly go north to participate in the Battle of Dadu.

The amount of information in the relevant edict is actually very large.

Zhu Yuan first noticed one, the current Dinghai County, and later seemed to be renamed Zhenhai County, so, Zhenhaiwei and Dinghaiwei, Zhu Yuan understood that similar to Yinghaiwei, they were all set up by Lao Zhu to consider operating the ocean, overlapping with the place name, and it just happened to have a good name here, but he still thought it was very interesting.

Moreover, when he planned to send troops to the capital, Lao Zhu's attitude was obviously based on Zhenhaiwei and Dinghaiwei, so the two sides mainly recruited elite soldiers from other guards with military experience and former local separatists. On Zhu Yuan's side, the expectations are not high, so Yinghaiwei can choose the light and strong people who gather in Dinghai.

However, Lao Zhu didn't make things clear.

It is impossible for Zhu Yuan to go to the battlefield, but if there are other generals and sergeants in the battalion Haiwei who want to make meritorious contributions, Lao Zhu cannot block this road. Therefore, the three guards are required to select a total of 15,000 elites, which is equivalent to at least 5,000 places for each of the three guards. If this number can be increased and reported to Lao Zhu in advance, Jinling will obviously not refuse.

Zhu Yuan also saw the most important thing from this.

Lao Zhu plans to solve the problem to the Northern Yuan Court in one go, instead of dragging it out for decades as before.

This is also a result that Zhu Yuan hopes to see.

Finally, the fourth thing is to verbally commend the Navy Governor's Office, the Yinghai Division, and the officials of Mingzhou for their concerted efforts to promote the transportation of grain by sea, considering that the Northern Expedition is still continuing, and the credit will be remembered for the time being, and the merit will be reunified and renewed after the Northern Expedition is over.

There's nothing to say about it, and rightfully so.

Minnesotens.

After receiving Lao Zhu's reply, in just a few days, Zhu Yuan preliminarily set up the framework of Mingzhou Marine Development Group. In fact, what needs to be done, whether it is too much, and how little it is not too much, the key is to see how much Zhu Yuan has to do.

First of all, it was registered within the Yinghai Division that 'Mingzhou Marine Development Group' and a subsidiary, and this time, Zhu Yuan personally served as the group's 'legal person'.

This is followed by the allocation of manpower.

The key is the Minnesota Fishery Production Company.

The flood has already begun, and the company will be engaged in fishing work in the short term, so it must be prepared urgently.

According to the original request of the Yinghai Division, the coastal states and counties, of course, are only the coastal states and counties within the territory of the Ming Dynasty for the time being, and all the lists of fishermen have been reported last month, from Shandong in the north to Fujian in the south, with a total of 13,654 households and a total of 61,019 people.

Among them, there is also Zhu Yuan's special request, the population over 8 years old, a total of 53,167 people.

As for men over the age of 16, it was 16,343.

Frankly speaking, seeing these data, Zhu Yuan once again understood why Lao Zhu was able to ban the sea without pressure. Even if you understand that there must be a large number of runaways, there are still too few.

The place that is too far away cannot be scrupulous for the time being, and Zhu Yuan's eyes are mainly on Mingzhou.

There are only 13,000 fishermen in the major coastal provinces, but there are 4,937 in Mingzhou alone, accounting for nearly 40%.

Therefore, it can be seen that the fishery in Mingzhou is thriving.

Of course, it may also be that the magistrates in other regions actually didn't bother to do what Zhu Yuan asked.

Although Zhu Yuan brought an old Zhu Pei knife down, and also named a southeast envoy who was also very deterrent, but, in fact, during this time, he has never exercised the corresponding power.

This is related to Zhu Yuan's code of conduct.

Unless something is obviously hindered, otherwise, some officials in some places react negatively to the orders of the Ying Hai Division, and Zhu Yuan is too lazy to take the time to pay attention to it, and it is better to do a few more things if he has that kind of effort.

It's like racing against people.

If someone quietly makes a small move on the runway, pulls you, and kicks a pebble at your feet, if you stop and reason with the opponent, it will only delay your own time, so it is better to speed up the pace and throw the opponent far away.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yuan knew very well that the key to his ability to act so smoothly during this period of time was that what he did did did not have much conflict with the existing interest class for the time being, and Ying Haisi just fixed his eyes on the ocean that generations of people in this land have not paid much attention to for thousands of years.

Since it's something like chicken ribs, Zhu Yuan wants it, then whatever.

In later business terms, this is called the 'blue ocean market', and there are fewer people involved, and the competition will not be so fierce.

Let's talk about the group.

Of the 4,937 fishermen in Mingzhou, Zhu Yuan immediately put all of them into Mingzhou Marine Development Group, focusing on Mingzhou Fishery and Fishing Company.

To use the words of later generations, these people will all eat public meals in the future.

In order to reassure the fishermen, Zhu Yuan also made an exception to provide each household with a month's ration, and repeatedly promised to join the Mingzhou Marine Development Group, so that he would no longer need to worry about any problems such as taxes and servitude from the imperial court in the future, and in turn would be completely supported by the imperial court.

Of course, there is no tax servitude, only temporarily.

In the future, when the time is ripe, such as 'personal income tax', it will still have to be paid, but that will be at least a few decades later.

In the short term, unrealistic.

Just like in the short term, Zhu Yuan will definitely not put forward any concepts such as pensions, which is also unrealistic.

Then, when it comes to fishermen, there is another episode.

Yinghai Division recruited people before, and originally planned that 10,000 of them would come from fishermen, but as a result, just looking at the number of fishermen in the current Jiangyu newspaper in the entire Ming Dynasty, it is obviously unrealistic to raise 10,000 people, but, in fact, only in Mingzhou and surrounding states and counties, the quota of 10,000 people was successfully completed.

This is because a large part of them belong to ordinary households who have taken the initiative to sign up for maritime transportation in order to seek tax reductions and exemptions.

Of course, Zhu Yuan won't want everyone.

Landlubbers who don't know how to operate boats at all will only be a burden when sent to sea.

Therefore, there are also limitations.

The restriction is that it must be a boat owner among the households.

It may seem complicated, but it's not.

Fishermen were a type of household registration legally prescribed by the Yuan Court, similar to private households, artisan households, medical households, etc., while boat households were not. Boat households only refer to the type of households that have boats.

This is also linked again to the large yellow croaker flood that has already begun.

Coastal fishing tax and market revenue were the two major sources of revenue that Lao Zhu originally allocated to Zhu Yuan's Yinghai Division, which were used to supply the development of the sea.

The market has already done it.

After all, the southeastern states and counties were only collected by the Ming Dynasty last year and even at the beginning of this year, and the inland generally set up river berths that specifically levy fish taxes, and there are no coastal areas for the time being, and the relevant taxes are collected by the local government before the relevant taxes.

Even if Zhu Yuan actually looks down on this part of the tax, he also needs to be careful.

It's just that fishermen in Mingzhou are placed in Mingzhou Marine Development Group, and as an experiment, boat fishermen in other areas, as well as local 'boat households' in Mingzhou, still need to be taxed.

The rules were also quickly finalized.

Because there are references.

Fishermen are levied on a household-by-household basis, and each household is discounted with one stone per year. Boat owners are levied by boat, and one stone per 100 materials is levied every year, that is, for example, a fishing boat with 300 materials will pay 3 stone per year, and so on.

Taxes are not a direct catch.

Naturally, the unit is not the 'dan' that Zhu Yuan has just replanned, but collects rice grain, which is also to simplify.

Also, the catch is very difficult to preserve.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yuan deliberately set up Mingzhou Seafood Processing Company under Mingzhou Marine Development Group. In these days, it is very important to preserve and process the fish for a long time.

At the moment the main means are two, pickled and dried.

Zhu Yuan's plan is to focus on baking.

Baking shipbuilding timber is not cost-effective, but building a kiln to quickly dry the freshly cured fish not only shortens the processing time, but also allows the catch to last longer.

So, this brings us to another issue, fuel.

The Yinghai Envoy's Mansion is already the third day of April in a blink of an eye.

Mingyuan Hall.

Zhu Yuan had been discussing with the subordinates of the Yinghai Division this afternoon the source of fuel needed for fish processing.

In the short term, cutting wood for processing is not a big problem.

Because the production is still very small for the time being.

However, if the time is extended, the entire Mingzhou, including many islands in the open sea, will be exposed everywhere because of the baking.

As a practical environmentalist who will do what he can, Zhu Yuan doesn't like to see this happen.

After brainstorming, things quickly came to an eyebrow.

Shandong!

When the grain ship arrives in Shandong, if the empty ship comes back, it is actually very dangerous.

That being the case, it is better to ship something back by the way.

Everyone also drew inferences, not only coal, but also iron ore in large demand in Mingzhou, and even, considering that Shandong was barren because of the war, ramie can also be widely planted.

Hemp material is also urgently needed in Mingzhou.

Very urgent.

In the Jiangnan region, even after seeing Zhu Yuan's plan, Lao Zhu only agreed to increase the planting of jute, ramie and other crops on the limited barren slope embankment.

Shandong is different.

The displacement of the people has led to the desoravity of the land, and if you want to reclaim it, you will not be able to do it in a few years, not to mention that land reclamation requires a lot of investment.

In comparison, hemp crops are almost like wild grasses, sprinkled and can be harvested without much care.

On the other hand, whether it is coal and iron ore, or planting hemp crops, it can be regarded as a livelihood for the people of Shandong. The envoys of the camp will not ask for these in vain, they can exchange them through a steady stream of grain that is transported to the north, and they can even use real money to buy them.

The plan was finalized, and Zhu Yuan submitted one copy to Jinling as usual, and one copy was sent to Shandong by fast horse, and it was handed over to Kang Maocai, the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Office.

As Xu Da and his generals moved westward, Kang Maocai became the highest official in Shandong.

Moreover, compared with other military attachés, it just so happens that Kang Maocai, who was once appointed by Lao Zhu as the 'camp envoy', is also the person who is best at running a place, as long as the other side gets Lao Zhu's approval, Zhu Yuan believes that Kang Mao will handle this matter well.

After dealing with the day's affairs, it was already evening.

Walking out of Mingyuan Hall, seeing Zhao Xu, who was dressed in military uniform, reappeared after a few days, Zhu Yuan smiled and said: "You don't want to let Ling lead the troops out, now it's okay, there is no credit at all, but you got twenty spine canes." ”

At the beginning, it was decided to divide troops to guard the lighthouse ports along the coast, and Zhu Yuan hoped that Zhao Xu would also lead the troops like Zuo Qi.

Both were initially reluctant.

In the end, it was Zhu Yuan who insisted that he sent Zuo Qi away, leaving only Zhao Xu.

Because Zuo Qi went to Haizhou, he was not punished this time.

Zhao Xu just smiled, didn't mention this stubble, and said: "Little official, Huada invited you to drink at night, and someone just came to ask, do you want to go?" ”

Hua Gao's invitation to wine, of course, was not to 'celebrate' the loss of his first grade from Dr. Ronglu or more than 1,000 acres of professional land was recovered, but to take a concubine.

When the good news came that the first batch of grain convoys had arrived in Shandong, the Navy Governor, who had been working hard for a while, relieved himself of the burden in his heart, and began to think about his 'lifelong event' - giving birth to a son.

Zhao Xu mentioned it, and Zhu Yuan also remembered another thing that he was so busy that he almost forgot before.

At first, I thought that the microscope magnification was low, and I might not be able to see it, after all, I had seen some pictures in my previous life, a small comet hitting a small sun, and the difference in size was really like a small comet and a small sun.

Well......

During this time, the team of the Instrument Bureau of Tai Hospital, which has always stayed in Mingzhou, has been making a new microscope, and perhaps, Dai Sanchun can help Huagao take a look.

You might even be able to see it.

Thinking so, Zhu Yuan smiled at the corner of his mouth, nodded and said, "I'll go have a few drinks later." ”

After speaking, sit down next to the shoulder that has been prepared and return to the west courtyard.

The two families are separated by a courtyard wall, there is no need to go too early, and even if he goes, Zhu Yuan really can only drink a few drinks before returning, after all, he is there, and he can't eat and drink, but will block everyone's enjoyment.

Back to the inner house of the west courtyard, a few freehand greeted him together as usual.

I remembered again that since I went to congratulate, I should also prepare a congratulatory gift, and I told a few words to let Freehand prepare it, and I came to the study on the west side of the main house.

These days, women are busy with another thing.

According to Zhu Yuan's guidance, a set of primary textbooks was compiled and compiled.

The original idea was that Zhu Yuan planned to use it to prepare for a junior primary school in Mingzhou.

I talked to Lao Zhu about this matter in correspondence, and was pressed by my ancestors, after all, textbooks can be described as a major event of the country and the foundation of education, and we cannot be sloppy. Therefore, the attitude over there is to let him try to compile it first, and after it is completed, it must be sent to Jinling, and Lao Zhu feels that it is okay after reading it, so that it can be further promoted.

As for Mingzhou, it is okay to run schools, and Lao Zhu has always encouraged the implementation of education, but for the time being, he still teaches according to traditional methods, and at most adds a "Mathematical Foundation".

Zhu Yuan could only agree.

However, Zhu Yuan felt that the main reason why Lao Zhu disagreed was someone's cautious eye, probably because he was worried that the textbooks compiled by Zhu Yuan were too 'out of the outline' and handed over to someone what should not be taught.

(End of chapter)