The remnants of the Song Dynasty lost their country and ended up in exile on overseas islands, and in order to remember that they were descendants of China, the Song Dynasty people living on overseas islands called the local area Luzon.

There were not many natives on Luzon Island, and some of the chieftains were recognized by the Ming Dynasty and were named vassal states of Luzon, foreign vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and more land was the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, the Yongle Dynasty went south to the Western Ocean, and named the local Chinese Xu Chai Lao as the local governor, and now the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty are all over the South Seas, and there is no need to completely rely on the local Chinese power, so the Ming Dynasty sent officials to manage it locally.

The archipelago in the south of Luzon is the southernmost part of the original Sulu Three Kingdoms, and the western overseas island of the Sulu Three Kingdoms is the Boni Kingdom, which now belongs to the territory of Boni Tusi and the Ming Dynasty.

The people of the mainland of the Ming Dynasty have three meals a day, the iron pot is popular, and the spices of Boni have become the spice bottles on the dining table of ordinary people, and the rise and scale of restaurants are inseparable from all kinds of spices.

There was a huge demand, and there were countless ships to and from Bonidu every year, and because of the business practices of the Ming merchants, they undoubtedly monopolized the local industry, and all the spice trade was controlled by the Ming merchants.

Spices are not only sold in Daming, including all parts of the original Nanyang, because the sales of spices in Daming are hot, resulting in the price of spices becoming more and more expensive, and Daming merchants have made a fortune.

Moreover, with the spread of the seven western provinces, spices were even traded to the Mediterranean trade circle, and the price of spices grown in Bonitus was equivalent to gold in Western countries, and only kings and nobles could afford to hold banquets.

Every year, merchant ships bring a large amount of grain and commodities, grain supplies to the guards, commodities are sold to soldiers, and then spices are purchased from the manor of the Daming Commercial Bank.

Whether it is Luzon or Bonitos, although the geographical conditions are not as rich as some of the riches in the interior, they still surpass most places, attracting many army soldiers.

Many of the soldiers who served in other places came from Fujian, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places, and even from Guizhou.

Many people have a lot of mountains in their hometowns, but in Boni and Luzon, as long as the soldiers who are willing to stay after retirement, they can divide the estates of a few hundred acres and recruit local natives as their own servants.

Compared to Bonitos, Luzon's years of war and the affluence of the Ming people absorbed a large number of indigenous people, and these indigenous people were the best labor force.

Unlike the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, the military households in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty have popularized agricultural machinery and fertilizers, while the overseas military households still mainly use the mercenary and military landlord model.

The guard and the army are two different systems.

The superior departments of the guard are the Xingdu Division, the Capital Division, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the army is directly managed by the imperial court.

"Crackling."

Dragon boat festival.

The population of Luzon Island is mainly from Fujian, Guangdong and other places, and on this day, every household sets off firecrackers.

The city is very lively.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, especially since the Yongle Dynasty, the Chinese people on Luzon Island have become more and more frequent in their contacts with China, which not only restored traditional exchanges, but also deepened the ties between the people of the two places.

And unlike other places, these remnants of the former Song Dynasty can obtain Ming nationality and belong to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Unless you don't go to the government to apply, it is not troublesome to apply, as long as you can get the certificate of genealogy or the surrounding Chinese people, you can get Daming nationality, which is the easiest way to naturalize overseas in Daming, which envies many people.

The governance problems on Luzon Island are not big, one is that the local indigenous forces are very backward, and the other is that after years of development of the former Song Dynasty immigrants, the Chinese have long mastered the local civilization.

Before the arrival of the Western powers in Nanyang, the Chinese were part of the ruling class of the Nanyang countries.

This is determined by the degree of civilization they mastered, just like the Ryukyu Kingdom took the initiative to request in the early Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to give it to some boat households, and a hundred years later, the children of those boat households took control of the Ryukyu Kingdom, such as the Zheng brothers.

Zheng Zhen is a descendant of Zheng Zhaozuo, an immigrant from Changle, Fujian, that is, a descendant of the shipwrights of the Hongwu Dynasty. At the age of fifty-seven, Zheng was appointed as the third official of the Ryukyus, similar to the prime minister.

In the same way, the current ruling power of the Ming Dynasty in Luzon is precisely because of the support and help of this large number of Chinese, which provides conditions for the Ming Dynasty's rule in the local area and has been smoothly implemented.

Not to mention the dragon boats and rice dumplings in the city, the manors and farms that have sprung up in the countryside have also generously given their helpers rich food.

The reason why it is not called a tenant is because even the tenant is protected by the law of the Ming Dynasty, and the mercenaries are different, the mercenaries in Luzon are the locals recruited by the Ming people themselves, and the henchmen of three or five households and the coolies of more than a dozen households provide labor for the owners of the manor in exchange for food, and the degree of dependence of the two is very high.

It turned out that the degree of similarity of the remnants of the former Song Dynasty was not deep enough, but after more than ten years of catalysis, especially after the establishment of the local army and guards, there has been a qualitative change, and there have been several generations of loyal servants.

"You want my servant."

There were a few guests from the main house, who were retired soldiers from the army, and they chose to stay in the local area, not only supported by the guard, but also supported by the local Chinese, hoping that more Ming people would stay.

The power of the natives is declining, but their position is becoming more and more secure.

"The natives don't know how to educate, and if all the natives are recruited, I'm afraid that my Zhuangzi won't be harvested in a few years, so I hope that Zhang Gong will sell me one or two old servants to help manage my Zhuangzi."

The person who spoke was none other than Li Jian.

Li Jian retired from the position of general, Li Jian, who was nearly forty years old, was already disappointed, his age was destined to be unable to break through the middle military attaché, after thinking about it, he was ready to leave a fortune for himself.

In addition to the wealth he had accumulated, he also had generous policies and treatments, and the interest-free loan from the Grain Stamp Bank allowed him to obtain a full 2,000 acres of land in the local area.

There were several subordinates who retired with him, they chose a piece of land, so that they could support each other, and they also had a companion, and several of them became several military households in Katai, and Li Jian also served as a guard after retiring.

Such a person's request, the master will naturally not refuse, and happily agrees.

Several generations of servants came to Li Jian's hands and provided a vital role for Li Jian's management of the manor, and soon built the management system in the manor, and promoted several families from the obedient natives to live in the manor.

The families were overjoyed, and after moving into the manor, they had a place to eat for generations.

Li Jian settled in Luzon with his family and lived a new life.

Every month, he would go hunting with a few of his old men, and sometimes he would visit the surrounding acquaintances, where the chiefs of the tribe would entertain them warmly and beat the tambourine they had bought from the Ming people around a campfire.

The young girls of the tribe looked at their children with hot eyes, and several teenagers bowed their heads in embarrassment under the enthusiastic gaze.

Everyone wants to marry these children.

The Ming Dynasty implements monogamy, and the main wives of the children will only be the daughters of each family, but the overseas manor owners, many of them have taken a lot of concubines, the status of the concubines is very low, and the children born have no inheritance rights, but the rich life of the Ming people has attracted too many young girls.

They want to live in a big manor, wear beautiful clothes, wear exquisite jewelry, paint expensive white powder rouge, and they can also bring their families into the manor, become the heart of the manor, and have no worries about eating and drinking for generations.

On his fortieth birthday, Li Jian suddenly received a letter from Bonidusi, who turned out to be his old subordinate.

This is a suicide note.

Thinking of Wu Zhenmeng, who was one year younger than himself, Li Jian's hand holding the letter trembled.

Back then, he was still a sentry officer, and Wu Zhenmeng was his own soldier, and they followed the emperor to fight in Samarkand, defeated the invading enemy for the Ming Dynasty, and finally laid the victory of the Ming Dynasty.

"This guy is unlucky."

Li Jian couldn't help but sigh.

Since he was a child, he lost his father, his mother was abducted and sold to the land of fireworks, and he grew up eating a hundred meals in the guard.

finally made military achievements in Samarkand, but when he learned of his mother's news, he returned to his hometown to draw a knife and kill people, lost his future in the army, and was displaced in the overseas army for many years.

Finally settled down in Bonidus and had his own family, but who would have thought that a man who had been in the army for more than ten years would fall into a cripple and die in the end.

Li Jian's manor has a stable harvest, Li Jian, who is not short of supplies, has colleagues in the guard to help take care of it, and the nearest army is only a few dozen miles away from here.

It takes about 15 days to reach Luzon from the coast of Fujian, and it only takes half a day to reach Bonidus by boat from Luzon, and there are many islands along the way, so you can sail along the coastline and minimize the risk.

This is the benefit of the Ming Dynasty's recovery of Luzon and Bonidus.

It only takes half a decade for Luzon to take a boat to Cochin, so it plays a good role in the local economic development and population flow of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, it is very difficult to obtain supplies directly from Fujian to Bonidusi, because the distance is long, and it does not belong to the Ming Dynasty along the way, and it is also necessary to consider the changes in local forces, resulting in the traditional voyage can only go back and forth once a year.

After Li Jian arrived at Bonidusi, according to the address of the letter, according to the post road system established by the Ming Dynasty in the local area, he quickly inquired all the way to the guard where Wu Zhenmeng was located, and finally found Wu Zhenmeng's manor.

Wu Zhenmeng has been buried for many days, and after his family learned of Li Jian's identity, they entertained Li Jian very warmly.

Li Jian looked at Wu Zhenmeng's sixteen-year-old son, who was very burly, and said with a smile: "Taller than your Lao Tzu, your Lao Tzu has never eaten enough, like a bamboo pole, but he can eat ruthlessly, when we open a gang, you Lao Tzu can eat the most." ”

Wu Zhenmeng's son is called Wu Zhongming, and he is no longer the teenager who only knows how to play at the beginning, he has become the pillar of the family, and he is also the official of the military household, and he participates in military drills every year.

"My father often mentioned Uncle Shi before his death, and I missed the time when I worked under Uncle Shi." Wu Zhongming said calmly.

"Your father is a good seedling, if it weren't for that accident, maybe your father would have surpassed me a long time ago, and I had no hope of retiring from the army." Wu Zhenmeng can fight, his mind is flexible, and more importantly, he has the courage to go out, Li Jian has always felt that it is a pity, if Wu Zhenmeng stayed in the army back then, maybe his achievements would be higher than his own.

Among the same generation he knows, only Zhao Hong has the highest position at present, I heard that this guy stayed in Jiaozhi, and the last time they met, the two were on vacation at the same time, and they met unexpectedly on the day of the first event in Beiping.

Wu Zhongming heard the recognition of his father in this person's words, and he had a very good impression of this uncle in his heart, and secretly thought that it was no wonder that his father still remembered this old Shangguan.

Wu Zhongming always thought that his father was very powerful, but he just lacked luck.

The accidental death of his father made Wu Zhongming very sad.

However, Wu Zhongming has decided to join the army, and when the second brother is sixteen years old, he will sign up for the army, and he decided to inherit his father's will and become a general.

Hearing Wu Zhongming's ambition, Li Jian happily patted the other party's shoulder and praised loudly: "Yes, how can a good man not go to the army to earn a future, you can give up a comfortable life, it is really Wu Zhenmeng's species." ”

Li Jian knew that the army was fiercely competitive now, and said seriously: "The army is a good place, even if you don't become a general in the end, there are many benefits after retirement, and you won't regret it." ”

Seeing Uncle Shi's approval, Wu Zhongming's ambition became more and more firm, and he would be able to go to the army in two years.

Li Jian finally stayed in Bonidusi for half a month, told Wu Zhongming a lot of principles for dealing with people in the army, and taught him some experience in leading troops, and when he left, Wu Zhongming was sent to the dock.

"Iron needs to be hard, no matter how much truth, we have to start from the bottom, the ability is the foundation of life, the greater the ability, the more stable you will stand, and then you can seek ambition."

"Since you have big ambitions, you can't relax your demands from now on."

Li Jian likes Wu Zhenmeng's son more and more.

It would be nice if he had his own son, but he has a daughter, Li Jian is already ready to marry this son, and he will write a letter to Zhao Hong after he goes back to see if there is a chance to be a soldier in his hands.

Zhao Hong is the viscount of the Ming Dynasty and a guerrilla general in Jiaozhi, and with his care, Wu Zhongming can go more smoothly.

It is difficult to go to the top without a little relationship in this world, and it is because there is no one above that he gave up staying in the army, as for Zhao Hong, I heard that his family has known His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for a long time and has received the favor of His Royal Highness the Prince, such an opportunity, how can others compare.

Go round and round.

Zhao Hong finally received Li Jian's letter, hurriedly replied to the letter, and he set off with the army.

Ping An is a ruthless man.

It's just that as soon as he died, the Burmese Propaganda Department was in chaos. The 800 Burmese side invaded the Burmese Propaganda Division again, and after years of high pressure in Ping'an, the Burmese Propaganda Division has greatly declined in power, and it is a big fat meat in the eyes of many surrounding forces.

The progress of the project in the later period of the Nanyang Railway encountered obstacles, and the imperial court thought about it and thought of Zhao Hong in Jiaozhi.

Zhao Hong, who was ordered to be in danger, led the Jiaozhi army to the Burma Xuanwei Division, first stabilized the local situation, and waited for the imperial court to appoint a new general. (End of chapter)