"Master, your charm is boundless, and all the beauties have come to talk in groups."

"What a beauty, a businessman, opening your mouth is a business, don't talk about this disappointment, you can rest for half a day, let's go Ying'er, take you to the front garden to play."

"No, I want to play badminton and swim."

"Come on, my favorite swimmer or something."

"Giggles! No, as soon as you swim and swim, you will change your taste, I want to swim with my eldest sister, you look for Juan'er, hehe! ——" Saying that, Yuan Guifei came running.

"Shout, where is that little goblin running in front of the head! Look at the old man who has come to submit you. ”

"Here you go! ——”

The next day, Gao Yiming returned to the palace early in the morning, and received the latest battle report from Zheng Zhilong and others, building a base in Ceylon, and cleaning up the pirates at the mouth of the West Red Sea, and the construction of the base to the north was also under construction. Because it is relatively close to Daming, it is very convenient for boats to come and go, so there are a lot of people who go, more fishermen, and now Luoyang can see live seafood on the market, and the price is not ridiculously high, most people can consume it, which is the benefit brought by the Ming Navy voyage.

Now the Ming merchants, along the sea routes opened up by the navy, many have gone to Ceylon, and even to Africa, but the Ming navy has occasionally sailed to arrive, there are many pirates, and they have also been attacked, but because the base has not been built to this place, it has not been completely cleared, but I have seen the powerful pirates of the Ming Navy's ironclad ships, and they are generally more restrained from the Ming merchant ships.

Soon, in a lot of twists and turns, he saw Zhao Dongliang's twists and turns, saying that he had found a land that was not much smaller than Daming, with the sea on all sides, kangaroos on it, and the most of them were wild horses, so he couldn't figure out if it was Gao Yiming looking for it.

Obviously, this is the Australian continent, a continent full of rich resources, which must be immigrated, quickly drawn into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and start to do it when you think of it.

"Someone! - "One of the guards walked in.

"Go and call the university scholar Shi Kefa, Hou Sui and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Ma Qi to come here."

"Yes!"

After waiting for half an hour, Shi Kefa and the others came quickly and entered the imperial study to make a big salute.

"Get up—the southbound fleet has heard from them, they have found the Australian continent, which is still in a primitive state, so I have called you here to discuss development and immigration."

"Your Majesty, is it really as you said, it's similar to my Daming, a thousand miles of fertile fields?"

"That's nature, and there are minerals everywhere, we need iron ore, coal mines are buried very shallow, very suitable for large-scale mining, with the resources there, we don't have to worry about resources in the next few hundred years, there are still many primeval forests, large areas of plains, this time the immigrants go to give a hundred acres of land, wait for more people, and then slowly adjust, this matter must be done well, don't worry, use ten or twenty years to take it slowly, so as to be safe."

"Okay, the minister will go back and make a plan, is the age still under forty? Please also ask the emperor to make it clear. ”

"There is no restriction this time, anyone who can work can do it, and this time the immigration will cost tens of millions, so there is no need to restrict, as long as you want to go."

"Yes, I understand."

"Master Shi, this time we have added such a large continent, and we want to send a governor over, do you have a good candidate?"

"Your Majesty, there is a way that does not bother the two masters, and the minister thinks that General Shi can or Zheng Zhilong."

"The two people you mentioned are okay, anyway, the matter of immigration is not a matter of a while, wait for Zheng Zhilong to come back, talk to the two of them, and see who is the most suitable."

"Yes! The emperor recently received a letter from Yao Qisheng, saying that he was old and frail and overwhelmed by his responsibilities, and asked to return to his hometown. ”

"Well, it's okay to say goodbye to the old, just return to your hometown, I will make him the Marquis of West Lake, and then give him a house, let him retire in Hangzhou, a paradise on earth, and work hard for the country all his life, I can't let such a minister have no place to live."

After a pause, Gao Yiming asked, "How is Old General Qin doing these days?" ”

Gao Yiming is also very concerned about the old general Qin Liangyu, who has also worked hard for the country all his life, and asks almost every two days, and personally visits the house every half month.

"The situation is not too good, after all, I fought on the battlefield before, leaving a lot of dark injuries that have not healed, as I get older, new diseases and old injuries attack together, and being able to persist until now is also the result of the amazing willpower of General Qin."

After listening to Shi Kefa's words, Gao Yiming pondered for a while before he slowly spoke: "Take someone to the Qin Mansion and ask the Qin family and the old general Qin where they want to choose in a hundred years, if she agrees, I will allow her to choose a piece of land in the imperial tomb." ”

"This is the honor of the courtiers, so that the old general Qin is comparable to Wei Qing of the Han Dynasty and Huo Quai, and he can be famous for the ages, and the minister will thank the emperor for the old general Qin."

"Don't be busy thanking you first, I don't know what Old General Qin means, this matter must fully respect Old General Qin's wishes."

"Yes, the minister obeys."

"Master Ma, can the Ministry of Industry send a patrol team of twenty or thirty people?"

"There is no problem, the emperor, the development of mineral resources has been relatively rapid in recent years, so the relevant personnel reserves are relatively sufficient."

"That's good, so that some people will be recruited from Daming Academy and the people to form a team of 100 people, and the navy will send each other to the Australian mainland to prospect for the country."

"Yes! Emperor. ”

"How long will it take you to be ready?"

"How's the rest of the month?"

"Okay, then let's go after a month and get the Navy ready for the ships."

"Yes! ——”

"In addition, Master Shi, let the Ministry of War send 10,000 soldiers and horses to the Australian mainland in batches, build a military base around the ocean there, and let people talk about the Australian continent and include it in the Ming Dynasty."

"Obey."

"The household department should also do more publicity, so that private capital can also participate in the development of Australia, so that the construction speed will be faster."

"Yes."