The coconut groves are swaying, and the waves are crashing on the shore......

At the tail of the wax moon, when the people of Daming were already preparing to welcome the New Year, a coastal town somewhere in Nanyang was also like them, preparing all kinds of things they could collect to celebrate the New Year.

A Chinese-style town stands on the land in the northeastern part of the bay, and although there are no walls, the hundreds of huge warships in the bay are like a great wall on the sea, which is impassable.

On the shore, women and children are preparing paper-cuts to welcome the new year, while men are shirtless, each holding tools, and is in full swing to repair the town's roads, docks, canals and other facilities for the benefit of the people.

Walking on a hill not far from the town, Zheng He looked out at the town that had been given the name Luzon by the imperial court, followed by an obese man in his forties.

"Although the population of Luzon is large, your development is still too shallow."

Zheng He spoke slowly, and the man behind him also said embarrassedly: "The envoy is right, the main thing is that everyone just regards this place as a place to do business, thinking that they will go home when they make money in the future, so they don't bother to cultivate the land, and most of the grain in the city is purchased from Liangguang, Siam, and Champong." ”

"But now it's different, since the imperial court wants to open up here, then the lower officials are willing to be pawns of the imperial court, and they will definitely govern this place well."

The only person who dares to say that he personally governs Luzon is Xu Chailao, a wealthy man in Luzon who was appointed by Zhu Gaoxu.

Xu Chai Lao is a native of Jinjing, Jinjiang, Fujian, who went to the sea to operate in Luzon in his early years, and later gradually became rich, so he was called the Luzon Rich, and was also elected as the leader of the local Chinese by the local overseas Chinese.

Zheng He's prestige in the West has long been heard from all directions, and the capture of Chen Zuyi, the One Piece of the South Seas, shocked the South Seas.

Knowing that Zheng He was going north, Xu Chai Lao also prepared a rich gift with the overseas Chinese in Luzon early, but he did not expect that this gift would get him an official position as a Luzon propaganda envoy.

You must know that he is just a businessman, and he never thought that one day he would be promoted to a scholar.

Even though he had followed Zheng He to govern Luzon City for two and a half months, he was still a little incredulous in his heart.

"There has been news from the national pavilions in various places, and I will probably lead the fleet to leave Luzon after the Lantern Festival."

"But don't worry, Jiang Gui of Nanhaiwei will be stationed there and build a military camp."

"In addition, I will leave 600 craftsmen to help you build cement yards, iron smelting yards, timber yards and other workshops, and plan the situation of the town."

"What you have to do is to hire natives to reclaim the wasteland, and make Luzon self-sufficient as soon as possible."

Zheng He said the arrangements after he left, and at the same time said to Xu Chailao: "Luzon is waiting to be lifted, so I can't take you north to the capital to report on your work this year." ”

"When I go to the West next time, if Luzon can be self-sufficient, I will personally pick you up and take you to the capital to meet His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"Xia Guan is grateful!" When Xu Chai Lao heard that he could actually see the emperor and the crown prince, his mood was indescribable, and he hurriedly made a gesture to Zheng He, and he wanted to govern Luzon as soon as possible.

Seeing his loyal appearance, Zheng He was also relieved, and at the same time comforted: "When I return to Nanjing, I will ask the imperial court to send 1,000 officials and 2,000 craftsmen to the south, and you can also write to your relatives and friends to ask them to migrate to Luzon." ”

"After migrating, there is no need to worry about food, the imperial court will give them 20 stone of grain for each person, enough for them to open up the wasteland for three years."

"In terms of the army, you don't have to worry, Jiang Gui will help with training, although three thousand people are not much, but it is enough to help you sweep through the main island of Luzon and advance southward step by step."

"Now Luzon doesn't have to worry about money, food, soldiers and horses, the only thing that is lacking is the population."

Zheng He was secretly reminding, and Xu Chai Lao also knew it, so he said: "Rest assured, the lower officials have mobilized the people of the whole city of Luzon and asked them to write to their relatives and friends in their hometown to go south to Luzon." ”

"That's fine." Zheng He bowed his head, and then chatted with Xu Chai Lao about some local things, such as how to build, how to open up wasteland, how to build a city and advance to the north and south, and so on.

Under his teaching, Xu Chai Lao also roughly figured out what the imperial court meant.

Especially when Zheng He said that the imperial court would ship 100,000 stone of grain by sea in a few days to help Luzon build earlier, Xu Chai Lao understood how much the imperial court cared about Luzon, and he also thought about how to firmly seize this opportunity.

"Crackling—"

Time passed little by little, and soon the sound of firecrackers sounded in the north and south.

The overwhelming sound of firecrackers seemed to announce the arrival of the fifth year of Yongle in the world.

"Sing"

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live......"

When the voice of the mountain shouting long live sounded in the Fengtian Palace, the hundred officials were still wearing court clothes as in previous years, and Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di were wearing crown clothes.

Another year has passed, in the past year, the Ming Dynasty mainly set up two Xuanwei Divisions in Luzon and Jiugang, as well as 22 subordinate pavilions in Nanyang, and appeased 32 city-states as Ming Tusi, and strengthened its control over the Xifan region.

Although in the eyes of the ministers, most of these places are places without output, in Zhu Gaoxu's view, this is undoubtedly a further manifestation of the Ming Dynasty's national strength.

At present, the Ming Dynasty can really be regarded as taking the South China Sea and the South China Sea region as its own back garden, and the east of the Strait of Malacca is controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

As long as the customs are done and a Western private trade zone is formed, then Daming can sit in the Strait of Malacca and slowly collect money.

Now that the south has settled down, it's just a matter of waiting for the north and the interior to follow suit.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on Guo Zi, the head of the household department.

Not only him, it can be mentioned that most of the eyes of the imperial court are on Guo Zi.

"Guo Zi, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, there is something to play!"

"Quasi-play!"

As in previous years, this year's festival will still be led by the household.

"Last year, there are households in the world ......"

Guo Zi began to report on the statistical work of the household department last year, of which the population reached more than 71.2 million, and the cultivated land reached more than 520 million mu.

Compared with last year, the population has increased by more than 800,000, and the cultivated land is more than 16 million mu.

It's just that 200,000 of the population growth came from the appeasement of the two Propaganda Divisions of Bohai and Nanyang, and the natural new population was only 600,000.

This seems to be no problem, but as long as you look carefully at the Yellow Book, you can know that the new population is mainly concentrated in Shandong and Guanwai, and the new population in Shandong and Guanwai alone has reached 220,000, accounting for more than 30% of the world.

However, the population of Guanwai and Shandong is only more than 7 million, and the population of other provinces is more than 60 million.

According to this ratio, it stands to reason that the natural increase in the number of people in the world should be about 2 million, and no matter how low it is, it will not be less than 1.5 million.

"The longer it drags on, the more people will be hidden......"

Sitting on the golden platform, Zhu Di judged the situation while looking at the "Yellow Book" in his hand, and glanced at Zhu Gaoxu from time to time.

After he finished reading, Guo Zi almost finished talking about the population and arable land, and at the same time began to report on the tax situation.

"It is a year of free summer grain, so the world pays more than 340,000 stone of tax grain, 67,200 horses of cloth, more than 325,000 catties of silk, and 40,720 catties of cotton velvet."

"Thirteen thousand two hundred taels of gold, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand three hundred taels of silver, and one hundred and eighty-two thousand taels of copper."

"Miscellaneous, commercial taxes, mining classes, salt, and tea are more than 2.4 million times in color, and there are more than 1.26 million times in iron, lead, silk, silk, satin, cloth, cotton, and other colors."

"According to the calculations of the Ministry of Households, more than 30,000 and 400,000 stones of grain were collected last year, and more than 7.16 million yuan were earned by other types of folded colors."

"Last year, more than 3,260,000 stones, 7.25 million yuan, more than 2.2 million stones, and 90,000 yuan."

Guo Zi mentioned taking the old treasury, and the old treasury was the money and grain left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Among them, the grain is replaced with new grain every year, and the imperial court uses the old grain and takes the old warehouse, which means that the overall financial expenditure of the imperial court last year was negative.

This is not surprising, after all, even if the annual finances are normal during the Yongle period, the balance is only two or three million, not to mention that Zhu Di exempted the world's summer grain last year.

As soon as the summer grain was exempted, the imperial court lost nearly five million stone in income, and it was strange not to take the old treasury.

The ministers were silent, and Zhang Yu of the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies took the initiative to stand up and report the situation of the Governor's Mansion of the Six Armies on the seed grain.

Although Zhang Yu is currently teaching at the National Defense University, he still needs to attend such important meetings as the Great Courts.

In his report, last year, Juntun also spent 600,000 stone on seed grain.

With the end of his report, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty is clear at a glance, but even people like Xie Jin do not dare to criticize last year's finances after hearing it, after all, last year was a real exemption for summer grain.

Seeing that no one criticized the finances, the other five ministries began to go up one after another, and the ministers listened quietly.

After the six ministries and six mansions finished reporting the important matters, Zhu Di spoke: "What was the situation last year, you should know better than me. ”

"In the past few years, the situation in various provinces has changed, and you should be very clear."

When Zhu Di said this, the ministers sighed in their hearts.

"Among them, the people of Shandong are not only comfortable, but also pay more and more taxes to the imperial court, even if they were exempted from summer grain last year, they still handed over nearly four million stones, nearly half of the taxes paid by the imperial court."

"It is self-evident how effective Shandong's new policy is."

"Therefore, I am ready to promote the New Deal to the south, and choose the place where the New Deal is ......"

Zhu Di paused deliberately, making the ministers nervously grasp the wat board in their hands.

"Sichuan!"

When the place where the new policy was implemented was selected, the officials in Jiangnan and Huguang breathed a sigh of relief, but Xie Jin, who was a scholar of the palace, glanced at Yang Shiqi and others vaguely.

Sichuan, isn't that the place where the prince delegated righteousness?

"I have already transferred 30,000 officials and teachers to Sichuan, and Sichuan will implement the new policy from June this year."

He finished talking about the arrangements for the new deal in Sichuan, but Xie Jin and others were tired of hearing it.

They did not make a noise, but followed the ministers and shouted long live.

Seeing that the ministers did not react, Zhu Di was not interested.

Seeing this, Guo Zi immediately stepped forward and discussed the matter of this year's quota.

"Your Majesty, is this year's quota the same as last year, or is it reformulated?"

"The quota is levied according to last year, and it will not be changed for the time being." Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Gaoxu, and saw that he didn't have any opinions, so he stood up.

"Retreat from the ......"

"Your Majesty is blessed with peace ......"

Honglu Siqing's eyes were quick, and when he saw Zhu Di get up, he immediately announced his retreat from the court, and the ministers sang one after another, and Zhu Di took Zhu Gaoxu to the Qianqing Palace for a family banquet.

However, after they left, several scholars from the palace gathered together, and Xie Jin made everyone frown as soon as he spoke.

"That Jian Yizhi (table character) has already voted for the East Palace, otherwise His Majesty will not appoint a new political envoy this time."

Xie Jin's words made everyone frown, after all, when Shandong implemented the new policy, Zhu Di dismissed the political envoy of Shandong and let Sun Cheng, the political envoy of Liaodong, serve as the envoy.

Now that Sichuan wants to implement the new policy, even if Sun Cheng is not transferred, it should also send a civil official with more senior Bohai qualifications, how can it be possible to let Jian Yi continue to stay.

In this way, it can only be said that Jian Yi returned to the East Palace early.

"According to what His Majesty said just now, the number of officials and teachers will be transferred, and the speed of Sichuan's new policy will probably be very fast."

"Once the Sichuan New Deal is successful, where will Your Majesty and His Royal Highness choose to be the place where the New Deal will be implemented?"

Hu Guang asked a question, but Yang Shiqi on the side said when he heard it: "Liangguang, Yunnan, or the north and Huguang." ”

"Yes!" Xie Jin agreed, and explained: "It is too difficult to implement the new policy for the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and Fujian is not profitable, only Shanxi and Huguang, but I prefer Huguang." ”

"In the north, except for Shanxi and Shandong, the other provinces are dominated by Juntun, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the implementation of the new policy is not fast enough, but Shandong has already implemented it, so it is better to do it to Shanxi and Huguang."

"So, we don't have to worry too much." Hearing Hu Yan's analysis, Yang Shiqi said: "The hometown is acre, solve it as soon as possible, and avoid extraneous branches in the future." ”

When his words fell, everyone bowed their heads, and then followed the flow and withdrew from the Fengtian Temple.

After a while, the entire Fengtian Hall became deserted.

Compared with the desertion here, the Qianqing Palace is very lively.

The four-year-old Zhu Zhanyan sat in Zhu Di's arms, Zhu Di fed Zhu Zhanyan with a spoon, and Queen Xu next to her was still holding a little boy who was less than a month old.

The couple is enjoying the joy of being grandparents, and the little boy they are holding in their arms is Zhu Zhanqi, born to Zhu Gaoxu and Zhang Fengyi of the East Palace.

Although the second son of the predecessor, Zhu Zhanqi, is a rebel, Zhu Gaoxu does not have so many taboos.

If he really had so many taboos, he would have solved the eldest nephew in advance.

How the son is, it mainly depends on how the father teaches by word and deed.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said to Zhu Di: "Dad, don't spoil your child. ”

"Huh?" Zhu Di looked up in surprise, and immediately lectured after reacting: "How can this be called doting?" That's how I took you when I was a kid. ”

"Grandpa, I still want to eat." Zhu Zhanyu's inopportune opening, one by one, made Zhu Gaoxu speechless and wanted to pat his head.

"Gully, you claim to use me and Lone, don't learn from your grandfather."

Queen Xu taught Zhu Zhanyan with a smile, but Zhu Zhanyan looked at Zhu Di aggrievedly, and Zhu Di immediately said happily: "It's good to use me, my father used me back then." ”

"But then grandpa changed his name." Zhu Gaoxu was powerless to explain, but Zhu Di glared at him and said, "Wait until you become the emperor, anyway, the gully is here, how to call it." ”

"Okay, you say." Zhu Gaoxu was helpless, so he could only chat with Guo Yan and Queen Xu without a word.

Not long after, when Zhu Yuying and her sisters arrived, Zhu Gaoxu also greeted them separately, and then continued to eat.

Zhu Di wanted to say that Zhu Gaochu only knew how to eat, but when he thought that Zhu Gaoxu's figure was more proportional than his own, he was embarrassed to say it at the moment.

He continued to coax Zhu Zhanyu to play, one "good grandson" at a time, and Zhu Gaoxu's ears were calloused, and his eyelids were sour.

Fortunately, the family banquet ended quickly, and it didn't take long for the performance of the court music class.

Just like last year, a few tunes and dances are performed, but this year there is less of the good big brother who sits next to Zhu Gaoxu, who is salivating over the dancer.

Although Zhu Gaoxu always wanted him to go, after he really left, he was still a little empty in his heart.

"Your Highness is in a bad mood?"

Guo Yan saw that Zhu Gaoxu was in a bad mood, and after asking carefully, he didn't forget to report a happy event to him: "I didn't have time to tell His Highness today that Wang Fengyi and Liu Fengyi were happy." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that there would be two more concubines in his harem, which means that he will become the father of four children in a few months.

"The concubine only found out about this matter at the time of Chen, and His Royal Highness should be happy."

Guo Yan smiled, as if he had stepped out of the shadow of Guo Ying's death.

Seeing that she was happy, Zhu Gaoxu was also happy, but for the harem concubines who were happy, he still said to Guo Yan: "You try to take care of the affairs of the harem, and I will occasionally take time to visit them." ”

"In the past, when my grandfather and I were in charge of the Wuying Palace, we saw my grandfather's attitude towards Tang Wang and other younger sons, maybe there were too many sons, and later the family affection became weak, but I only cared about my father and the other four uncles."

"I thought about it, but it's just because he often goes to Kunning Palace, and my father and the five of them all live in Kunning Palace, so they see more and have more feelings."

"I have a deep affection for them at the moment, just because I only have these two children, if I have more than a dozen children, then I am afraid it will be difficult to have too much family affection."

"You are not jealous of the harem concubines, and you often take care of them, saving me most of my energy."

Zhu Gaoxu said these words, and Guo Yan listened quietly.

After he finished speaking, Guo Yan spoke: "Don't say that His Royal Highness and Emperor Gao, even the concubines and grandfathers are the same, after all, it is normal that there are too many children and grandchildren to take care of them." ”

Guo Yan was considerate of Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu also stretched out his hand and pinched her when he saw this, which made her blush, looked around nervously, and was relieved to find that no one was paying attention.

She turned her head to look at Zhu Gaoxu, but saw Zhu Gaoxu looking at the music class performance in front of her seriously, and wanted to complain that she didn't give her a chance.

The two couples flirted for a while, and with the arrival of lunch at noon, after the family had another meal, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Di took the lead in leaving, leaving Guo Yan and Zhu Yuying to accompany Queen Xu.

After returning to the Chunhe Palace, Zhu Gaoxu first glanced at the changed color of the "General Map of the Four Yi Binfu in the World".

The Old Port and Luzon are two places that are very conspicuous, and the Northeast is undoubtedly more conspicuous.

Yishaha brought a cup of hot tea, Zhu Gao took it and took a sip, and then motioned for him to look at the northeast region: "How many Jurchens have Meng Zhang appeased, have they all moved into Liaodong?" ”

"There are no less than 400,000 mouths, and it is becoming more and more difficult to appease, and it is estimated that the number of Jurchen mouths will not exceed 500,000."

Yizha said, the matter of appeasement, and at the same time pointed to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River with a command rod.

"A few days ago, Meng Zhang appeased Nu'er Gancheng, there are more than 3,000 Jurchens here, but now they have all been relocated, the number of Jurchens in the entire Bohai Sea is less than 200,000, and there are 400,000 in Hankou."

"This slave is in the city, Meng Zhang wants to exile the prisoners here, because it is too cold, and the migrating population may not necessarily come."

After saying that, Zhu Gaoxu took another sip of tea: "It's to appease the people further north to come here." ”

Zhu Gaoxu remembered clearly that there were many Jurchen tribes in Eastern Siberia, after all, if Allah was a collective term, many ethnic groups could be counted among them.

Speaking of this, Zhu Gaoxu wanted to talk about Sakhalin Island, but at this time, a voice came from the palace gate: "Your Highness, Gu Tong, the governor of the right army, has Yunnan border affairs to ask for a meeting. ”

"Xuan!" Hearing the Yunnan border affairs, Zhu Gaoxu responded without thinking.

During this period of Mongol infighting, Yunnan was undoubtedly the place where the most wars took place in the Ming Dynasty.

Although Luchuan has been defeated, the Southwest Zhuyi is still active, not to mention the inner Tusi.

Soon, Gu Cheng, the eldest son of Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and Gu Tong, the governor of the Right Army, walked into the hall and sang to Zhu Gaoxu.

"What's wrong with Yunnan?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned and asked, and Gu Tong said when he heard this;

"The Yunnan Metropolitan Division was ordered to go to Sanxuan and Liufu to appease him, but when he went to Dagu Thorn (Yangon) to canonize the local local officials, he was blocked by 800 Dadian."

"The prince of Qianguo asked if he wanted to send troops to destroy the thieves."

After Gu Tong finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu was still stunned, he didn't expect Mu Chundu to be appeased to Dagura, and then got up and glanced at the map of Central and South behind him, from which he found the eight hundred Dadian located in the northern region of Thailand in the later generations.

[Eight hundred Dadian (eight hundred daughters-in-law)]

"What do you mean by these eight hundred daughters-in-law?"

Looking at the name above, Zhu Gaoxu asked Gu Tong, Gu Tong had followed his father to fight in the southwest for many years, so he naturally knew the intention of the eight hundred daughters-in-law, so he explained:

"There was a kingdom of eight hundred towns and villages of various sizes, each headed by a woman."

"Therefore, the former Yuan called it the country of eight hundred daughters-in-law, and our dynasty called it eight hundred Dadian."

"This place was originally a vassal of our dynasty, but in the second year of Yongle, its king Dao Ban Mian died, and the thirteen-year-old prince Dao Zhaosan ascended to the throne with the support of his uncle, but this Dao Zhaosan is not the eldest son, so his elder brother Dao Zhaoyou are very dissatisfied with this result, and the two brothers have a dispute."

"At that time, the 800 Dadian asked the imperial court to mediate, and the imperial court divided the 800 Dadian into 800 Dadian (Chiang Mai) and 800 Zhinai (Chiang Rai)."

"The Eight Hundred is the Xuan Wei Division's dissatisfaction with the mediation of the imperial court, so it attacked the Eight Hundred Dadian last year, but was defeated in the end."

After Gu Tong finished speaking, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned: "Why did the eight hundred Dadian block the court officials?" ”

"Because Eight Hundred Dadian is also dissatisfied with the practices of the imperial court......" Gu Tong said, and Zhu Gaoxu was speechless.

The mediation he asked for, but after the mediation, he was dissatisfied and didn't say anything, but he waited a year before he said it, and he also sent troops to intercept the team of the imperial court.

"Dissatisfaction can be appealed to the imperial court, but it is not a reason to intercept the imperial court's ranks."

"Let the 800 Dadian consolation envoy go to Kunming to complain, if he doesn't go, let Wang Xuan control the three Xuanxuan and six consolation soldiers and horses to conquer 800 Dadian."

The affairs of the state cannot be retreated, and it can be said that the eight hundred Dadian are dissatisfied with mediation, but it is another matter to directly send troops to intercept the imperial court.

If the three Xuanxuan and six consolations and other Xuanfu divisions follow suit, then the authority of the Ming Dynasty in the Indochina Peninsula will be swept away.

These 800 Dadian can be regarded as hitting the muzzle of the gun......

(End of chapter)