March 3rd, Jeju Island.

Yue Zheng, the governor of Shandong, and Lu Yu, the political envoy of Zuobu in Shandong, have recently been busy distributing acres of land and relocating refugees on the island.

There is so much arable land on Jeju Island, but Yue Zheng and Lu Yu are very happy, it is better to expand the territory. If you can reclaim one or two thousand hectares of wasteland, even if you have outstanding achievements.

But now that it only occupies Jeju Island, there are more than 40,000 or 50,000 hectares of fertile land.

In addition, bold reforms can be carried out in the newly occupied territories, except for a small part of the land used for vassal kings and tunwei, and the rest are all designated as official fields and rented from the common people.

The government takes 40% of the grain grown, and the people take 60%.

In this way, 30,000 hectares of official land is more than the 100,000 hectares of farmland in Shandong.

Yue Zheng and Lu Yu were inspecting the official fields while happily imagining the prospects for reform.

Lu Yu asked with a smile: "Ji Fang, this year, more than 100,000 Shandong people have been resettled on the island and allocated to Guantian, do you estimate how much grain you can harvest by the end of the year?" ”

Yue Zheng asked, "One hundred thousand stones?" ”

Lu Yu nodded: "Almost, after all, we can't just grow crops, but also set aside some land for pasture." ”

Yue Zheng said with a smile: "When all the cultivated land on the island is allocated, the government can earn at least six or seven hundred thousand stone grain a year, which is already very powerful."

In the last years of orthodoxy, our annual income in the Ming Dynasty was less than 20 million stone rice and wheat. ”

Lu Yu corrected: "It's the last year of Yuanjiao, and there is no orthodox year name." ”

Yue Zheng said with a smile: "Yes, the first one to seal the wolf Juxu is indeed appropriate to be called Yuan Hunt." We also have an advantage in Jeju Island, that is, we don't need to transship grain into Beijing, and through trading at the port, we can exchange it for silver money, and we will hand it over and keep what we should keep.

In this way, the cost of transportation transit is eliminated, and a lot is saved. ”

Lu Yu nodded and praised: "The national policy of abolishing treasure money and using silver and copper as the currency is really good.

With silver coins and copper coins, it is much more convenient to do anything, especially good for port trade.

In the past year, we have been waiting in place with silver coins and copper coins, and the maritime merchants of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian have continuously transported grain to our Chengshan Port.

Then pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand, and the children are not deceived and are happy.

After receiving the grain, we loaded it onto the grain ship of the Sailor Division and sent it to the front in batches.

In this way, although the floods in Shandong continue, we can still ensure the supply of military food.

If there are no silver coins, copper coins, and treasure money, those maritime merchants will take care of us? People are full of food, floating more than a thousand miles on the sea, just to exchange for a pile of waste paper. ”

Yue Zheng also hurriedly echoed: "What Brother Tingyu said is very true, if the idea of the Holy Lord harvesting five million taels of silver from Japan every year is realized, the increase in national strength is immeasurable.

At that time, the circulation of money and goods will be fully lived, and the real prosperity will begin.

With the special location of Jeju Island, wouldn't we make a lot of money by doing transit trade between Korea and Japan, at least hundreds of thousands of taels per year. ”

The more the two of them thought about it, the more beautiful they became, and at this moment, Zhang Ying, the commander of the Baoding Central Guard, ran over in a panic, interrupting the daydream of the two.

Yue Zheng took the military report, read it once, and then handed it to Lu Yu: "Elder Jiang Ge said that the Holy Lord predicted that the Muromachi Shogunate would send the main force of the Muromachi Shogunate to attack Busan and asked us to support. ”

Lu Yu frowned: "How to support, we have a hundred warships in our hands, of which only fifty are new-style warships, and the other fifty are old-fashioned warships that are not very useful."

The rest are all grain ships and troop carriers. We had to keep transporting grain and grass to Sakai Port, and we had to have dozens of warships to escort the ships. ”

Yue Zheng shook his head and sighed: "There are even fewer soldiers who can fight, we have 20,000 reserve soldiers transferred from all over the coast of Shandong, and the original intention was to let them come to the island to take care of the garrison.

It's okay for them to garrison the barrier, but it's a little embarrassing to go out to fight.

Previously, in order to prevent the Shandong civil uprising, Shengshang sent a lot of additional troops. I was cheeky and said that I asked for the Baoding Zhongwei and transferred it to the island for backup.

These 5,000 men are well-equipped and well-trained, and they can fight a dozen.

This is what I used to prevent the Japanese sailors from raiding Jeju Island, and I went to support Busan, in case the Japanese sailors waved a shot and came to raid our Jeju Island, then the joke would be bigger. ”

When Lu Yu heard this, he sighed with a smile: "Then you can't help but rescue, Busan has more materials hoarded than we have on Jeju Island." Once these materials were obtained by the Japanese army and arrived in Kyoto, it would be over, and the enemy would not be able to run out of food after besieging Kyoto for ten years.

When the time comes, we will not be able to live under the wrath of the saints. ”

Yue Zheng instructed Zhang Ying: "Commander Zhang, you go back first, and order all the soldiers of Baoding Zhongwei to prepare for war urgently and be on standby at any time." ”

Zhang Ying took the order and left, Yue Zheng waved back left and right, and said to Lu Yu: "Let's fight, leave 10,000 reserve Japanese soldiers to guard Chengshan Port, and rely on Baoding Zhongwei and 10,000 reserve Japanese soldiers to support Busan."

Don't look at the reputation of Baoding Zhongwei, but Baoding is the location of the original Daning Division. Yingzhou Wei is the descendant of the Holy Army, and the main force is in the Jingshi Gongwei Qi Palace.

And Baoding Wei is the reserve force of Yingzhou Wei, among which the outstanding ones will be selected and recruited to Yingzhou Wei.

Therefore, the saint also attaches great importance to Baodingwei, which is well-equipped and well-trained, and is not comparable to ordinary local guards. ”

Lu Yu nodded: "Okay, then give it a go, how to act?" ”

Yue Zheng said with a smile: "This is going to use the tricks left for us by the Holy Lord, let's go, go back to the camp to discuss matters." ”

Lu Yu was confused, how did he make it mysterious, and the saint even left a clever plan. Lu Yu didn't believe that the emperor could strategize and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away.

Beijing is more than 2,000 miles from Jeju Island, and even farther from Busan and Japan. The emperor likes to soak in the pile of women and linger in the gentle country, which is indeed well known, and it must be regarded as a strategist.

But whether it can win thousands of miles away, it's hard to say.

Lu Yu followed back to the big tent of the Chinese army in disbelief, and Yue Zheng immediately ordered his own soldiers to invite Liu Hong, the eunuch of the prison army, and his nephew Liu Gong.

Jin Xing, the official supervisor of Shandong, followed An Guogong to Sakai Port, this Liu Hong was the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and the emperor sent the new eunuch.

Liu Gong was originally a pirate who traveled between Japan and Korea, and was recruited and assigned by the emperor to be a commander in the Guangdong Navy. Recently, he was in charge of transporting grain and grass between Jeju Island and Sakai Port with the Guangdong Naval Division.

Liu Gong is familiar with Japan's customs, geography and landforms, and he himself is a clever plan that Zhu Qiyu specially left to Yue Zheng. Many things that Yue Zheng and the others didn't know were in Liu Gong's head.

Although Liu Hong and Liu Gong, the two uncles and nephews, are very low-key on weekdays, Yue Zheng understands that since they are people personally appointed by the emperor, how can they be idle people.

Thanks to the evil Taoist for the reward of 1,500 coins

(End of chapter)