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Lin Xiangzu sarcastically said: "Your Yan family weaves silk and dyes cloth in Huzhou. If there are no merchants who sell it overseas, how much money can you make? This is not for the benefit of your family, but also for the people in Huzhou to live on. An extra load of silk , dye one more piece of cloth,

The common people have one more living. "

Yan Wosi said: "I am in harmony with China. The land is vast and the resources are abundant. Spinning and dyeing cloth is bought by the Chinese people. Why do we need to rely on the people of the foreign country?"

Lin Xiangzu laughed angrily: "I don't bother to explain this, go home and ask your father!"

"Just discussing the matter, how can you compare with your parents? This is not the way of a gentleman!" Yan Wosi was also angry.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Wang Zhiliang raised his hand to tell them to stop, and said to him, "Who has a high opinion?

Zhang Guangzu raised his hand and said: "Teacher, I have something to say about my life. I was born in the countryside of Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province. There are many mountains and narrow land, and the people live by cultivating corn and sweet potatoes. When I was young, there were only good fields in the mountains and valleys. They were all occupied by those gentry and landowners. As for the small people in the mountains, there are many who have no land to cultivate. There are eight brothers and sisters in the family. die. Why is that?"

Zhang Guangzu glanced at everyone, his eyes were a little rosy, and continued: "Because there are many people and little land, the land is barren, and it is not easy to cultivate. In times of famine, there will be no food to fill the stomach, and there is no need to buy medicine to treat diseases. Today, the Holy Son of Heaven is raising troops. Chenzhou Prefecture Datong will be achieved. The evil gentry in the mountains will be punished, the poor peasants will be given land, and there will be corn and sweet potatoes to be planted. And the people who have no land will also migrate to the north, and the mountain people will live and work in peace and contentment. If you are born in a poor family, if there is no saint The Son of Heaven implements a benevolent government, so don’t be able to study at Jinling University, I’m afraid it will be difficult to survive.”

Some poor children in the class nodded their heads when they heard this.

Zhang Guangzu also said: ""Datong Monthly", every issue must be read. Now China's population is nearly [-] trillion.

At this time, it may be possible to emigrate to the north, but what about after one Jiazi?By then, not only will the south be overcrowded, but the north will also be overcrowded and land will be scarce.Huaxia China, although it has a vast land and rich resources, can it feed hundreds of millions of people?This situation and reasoning have already been discussed in newspapers by the Holy Son of Heaven, and also discussed in "Datong Ji".There is only one way to do it, and that is to expand the territory.

I heard that the land in Luzon is fertile, this is the Holy Son of Heaven, the land opened up for the people of China.Another example is that Annan, this is the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, and it can also be harvested and ordered to be cultivated by the people! "

Yan Wosi said: "It is good to be able to expand the territory for the descendants of the Chinese people. But soldiers are unpredictable, who can guarantee victory in every battle? If you fail to use troops abroad, you will spend too much money, and you will be stuck in a quagmire from which you cannot extricate yourself. How did the previous dynasty lose Jiaozhi? Foreign lands and peoples refused to obey the king. It cost countless money and food to seize Jiaozhi, and the long-term garrison cost countless. The more territories and lands were opened, the flames of war were everywhere. This was the case in the previous Ming Dynasty. a country's finances,

It can only support the northern army, and if Jiaozhi revolts, all previous achievements of the Ming court will be wasted. "

Yan Wosi is militaristic, which is also what many scholars worry about.

The north is using troops everywhere, and at this time it is going to the Ryukyu. It seems that the emperor will fight many battles in the future.An agricultural country cannot support wars on all sides, and rebellions will peak if you don't pay attention.

Yan Wosi glanced at Lin Xiangzu and Zhang Guangzu, and said sharply: "You yearn for the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, but you don't know that with the wisdom of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, you can also sin against yourself!" He pointed at Zhang Guangzu again, "You yourself came from a poor family. However, if the imperial court resorts to military action, the poorest people in the world will suffer the most!

Zhang Guangzu hesitated to speak, not knowing how to refute.

Zhao Shilin stood up suddenly, and smiled: "You are sophistry, to expand the territory, is it bound to be militaristic?

Where to fight, where not to fight, when to fight, and how to fight are all based on the camera.Just like water control, who would be so stupid as to build embankments when a flood that never happens in a century hits?Self-guided.The same is true in war, the enemy has a strong country and Mingjun, why should I fight him?Enough support? "

Zhao Shilin is from Chengjiang, Yunnan, in the area of ​​Yuxi.

He has studied with the monk Awakening since he was a child. He is talented and intelligent, and he has a photographic memory.Awakened monks are not serious monks either,

He abandoned Confucianism and followed Buddhism because he couldn't get used to the corrupt world. He was a talented scholar before he became a monk.

Not long after Yunnan was recovered, Zhao Shilin was admitted to Jinling University even though the first class of students had not yet graduated.

The main reason is that Awakening monk is very powerful. During the reign of Mu Tianbo in Yunnan, he asked his friends to get the teaching materials from Zhao Han's land, and then passed on the knowledge to students.

Yan Wosi thought for a moment, and said: "Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, foreign conquests are naturally invincible. But what about after several generations? If too much land is expanded in a short period of time, once the national power falls into decline, all newly attached lands will be reversed." .”

Zhao Shilin laughed and said, "If you're afraid of the Hetao, you won't take back the Hetao? If you're afraid of the Western Regions, don't you take back the Western Region? If you're afraid of being tripped over by a stone while walking, why don't you go out from now on."

"The ancient nonsense is so annoying!" Yan Wosi didn't want to argue with this person any more.

Zhao Shilin said sternly: "Your Majesty's expansion of territory is just a national policy. It's like the elders of the family set the family precepts and let the descendants study and become officials. What's wrong with it? You insist, this family's wealth is not rich ,

If the children and grandchildren go to school, the whole family will not have enough to eat, and finally the whole family will starve to death.Four words for you: give up eating because of choking! "

"Well done, Uncle Lin is a great talent!" Zhang Guangzu clapped his hands in praise.

Yan Wosi blushed with anxiety, and suddenly didn't know how to refute.

Zhao Shilin took out old newspapers and pointed to the world map: "The Netherlands, a small country in Quer, has even invaded Southeast Asia. Spain, whose homeland is not much larger than the Netherlands, occupies a vast land in America. The Zhou Dynasty divides the world, The feudal lords opened up the frontiers and expanded the land, and China began to have Kyushu. The world today is like the pre-Qin period. There are foreign countries and barbarians everywhere, and overseas fertile soil everywhere. Why can't we, the descendants of China, follow the example of the ancients and lay down a bigger Kyushu?"

Zhao Shilin became more and more excited: "At that time, "All overseas are my people of China, and the world is all my land of China.

When they arrived in Luzon, they spoke Chinese.When I arrived in Ryukyu, I spoke Chinese.Even Annan and Tianzhu are also dressed in my Chinese clothes.If so, wouldn't it be great? "

Yan Wosi didn't want to argue anymore, he just said in disgust: "Madman! Madman! You will be a warlike person in the future!"

Zhao Shilin rolled up the old newspaper and held it like a sharp sword in his hand. His expression was really crazy: "Under the whole world, is it the land of the king? On the shore of the land, is it the king's minister? Use my sword of China to open up the future of future generations. Good land!"

After saying this, nearly half of the students in the class shouted: "Use my China's sharp sword to open up the fertile fields for our descendants!"

The Datong army was always victorious and undefeated, regaining lost ground one after another, which made many scholars become iron-blooded.Zhao Han also published historical territory maps and world maps in the newspaper, which immediately made these iron-blooded people even more fanatical.

Zhao Shilin grew up in Yunnan, surrounded by ethnic minorities, and his thinking is even more radical and open.

Yan Wosi only felt that there were lunatics all around him, and if the government was controlled by these people, it would surely lead the country into the abyss beyond redemption.

There are many iron-blooded fanatics, and there are also many like Yan Wosi. One-third of the students in the class feel that they should not be aggressive.

This is just a microcosm of a scholar. When Zhao Han's newspapers were published, scholars from all provinces were busy holding debates.By the lake, in the river, in the teahouse, in the restaurant, or even in the brothel, there will always be quarrels because of this topic.

Chapter 641 [Traitor and Buyer]

The Forbidden City, Qinzheng Palace.

Liu Xiangke recounted the process of sending troops this time in detail, and said, "Your Majesty, the eight northeastern islands of Ryukyu should be separated from Ryukyu County and set up as a separate county."

"What about the land, specialty products, and population there?" Zhao Han asked.

Liu Xiangke said: "The eight islands in the northeast of Ryukyu are not smaller than the main island of Ryukyu in terms of geographical area. The largest island among the eight islands is called Ufu Shima Island by the Ryukyu people, and Amami Oshima by the Japanese. This island There are many mountains in the middle, and there are hundreds of years of giant trees on the mountains, many of which are hardwoods, which can be used to build ships and other utensils. Although there are many aquatic forests (mangroves) around the coast of the island, there is also a lot of arable land.

The main crops are rice and sugar cane, and the islanders are good at making brown sugar.The brown sugar on this island was once the most stable fiscal revenue of the Satsuma clan in Japan. "

Brown sugar, a type of brown sugar, is boiled longer than ordinary brown sugar and is rich in iron.

In the ancient times when the sugar making process was underdeveloped, any commodity that was related to sugar could get huge profits by participating in sea trade.Amami Oshima's specialty brown sugar alone is enough to attract Zhao Han's attention, not to mention that there are many hundreds of years old giant trees on the island.

This time the troops are dispatched, and the profit is not lost.

The war indemnities of Satsuma and Hirado are more than enough to recover military expenses.And brown sugar and wood will have income every year in the future.As long as heavy taxes are not imposed on agriculture, the island's self-produced rice can be self-sufficient.

If it is replaced by Western colonists, the islanders will inevitably be forced to give up growing rice and switch to sugarcane, which is more profitable.

- This is called colonial plantation economy.

What Spain does in Luzon, the Netherlands does in Java.

Even, in order to facilitate the control of spices, the Netherlands used force to cut down the spice trees scattered all over Java.Then choose some islands, where there are spices, and a large number of spice trees are artificially transplanted,

And cut down the trees on the island that cannot produce spices.

This approach has three advantages.

First, large-scale planting and processing of cash crops to maximize profits.

Second, it can effectively control the most economic crops with the least amount of troops.

Third, the indigenous people in the relevant areas can no longer grow food, or rarely grow food.The colonists, on the other hand, could buy grain from other places and use it to control the natives in the area from rebelling.

This kind of practice is very short-sighted and effective, but it seriously damages the natural ecological balance and the social ecological structure.Once something goes wrong, such as the late arrival of the food fleet, the region will immediately fall into famine.

Naturally, Zhao Han would not do this, because he built Ryukyu and Amami Oshima according to the local conditions, and he had to achieve food self-sufficiency as much as possible.

"Li Qing, how are you?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

Li Banghua cupped his hands: "I didn't expect the overseas islands to be so rich in products. Your majesty is still wise."

It seems that there is still a conflict in his heart.

Zhao Han said to Li Xiangjun: "The proposed decree is to separate the eight islands in the northeast of Ryukyu and set up a separate county. The name is..."

Seeing that Zhao Han was still thinking of a name, Li Xiangjun smiled and said, "It's better to call it Fangzhang County."

"Good!" Zhao Han clapped his hands in approval.

Penglai, Yingzhou, Fangzhang, and Sanxian Mountain on the sea.

Zhao Han also said: "The main island of Abbot County will be renamed Abbot Island in the future. It can no longer be called Wufu Shima Island or Amami Oshima. To attract business from the people, once selected, you can recruit workers and immigrate to Abbot Island to cut down forests. Only Fifteen merchants are recruited, and each family is given 350 mu of forest. After the forest is felled, trees must be replanted. Each family is allowed to keep [-] mu of land, which can be reclaimed as arable land after felling. "

Abbot Island is rich in forest resources. Hundreds of years later, Japan had more than 400 logging camps on the island.

Zhao Han thought for a while and continued: "Give Xu Ying [-] acres of mountain land, and let his elder brother recruit people to go to the island for logging. The royal family will pay for the immigration expenses for recruiting workers."

In addition to granting the land, the honorable veterans more or less have franchise licenses.

Of course, in order to prevent Xungui from unfair competition, the business scope of these exclusive licenses is not large.For example, you can mine a certain mine, such as the right to operate a salt shop in a certain county (a county has several salt shops, and Xungui only occupies one of them).

This is also to make the nobles feel psychologically balanced. Otherwise, seeing merchants with a lot of money, but only a few tens of acres of land when they are born and dying, they will not go there anyway.

Only Xu Ying has never accepted the exclusive rewards from industry and commerce.

Perhaps his identity was too sensitive, similar to the commander of Jinyiwei in the Ming Dynasty, who was afraid that he would get a good death because of too many things.Moreover, the [-] mu of mountain forest given to Xu Ying includes land ownership.The fifteen merchants recruited only have the right to develop and use the forest. The government can take back the contract when it expires, or choose to renew the contract according to the situation.

Fangzhang Island has a subtropical climate, and it is not difficult to harvest forests.

Logging forests in Luzon Island is really hard, there are so many tropical rainforests, it's almost a haircut.

Screening everyone away, Xu Ying was invited to see her.

Zhao Han talked about rewarding overseas mountains and forests, and before Xu Ying refused, he said, "Don't talk too much, you have been poor, and others will treat me poorly."

Xu Ying had no choice but to cup her hands: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the reward."

Zhao Han asked, "What's the latest news about Annan?"

Xu Ying said: "The Ruan family is ready to move, it seems that they plan to send troops to occupy the city. The Zheng family is also ready to move, it seems that they plan to send troops to the Ruan family. Ruan and Zheng will have a battle after the rice harvest this year! In addition, the garrison and secret workers sent to the Champa According to the report, the rice in the southern part of the country can be cropped three times a year."

"Three ripes are good." Zhao Han said with a smile, because of this alone, Champa would be eaten up.

Xu Ying also said: "The area at the border between the Champa Kingdom and the Jimi Kingdom (the transliteration of Jinnah and Phnom Penh, which is Cambodia) has already been cultivated by the people of Annan, and all of them can be cultivated three times a year."

What Xu Ying refers to is the Mekong River Plain in the Mekong Delta, which belongs to Cambodia at this time.Most of that fertile land still belongs to mangroves, and farmers rely on fishing for a living. It is not the most important granary in Vietnam hundreds of years later.

What's even more nonsense is that it clearly belongs to Cambodian territory, but most of the people who developed the Jiulongjiang Plain were Vietnamese people.

Vietnam and Cambodia do not border at all in that area.It was the Nguyen regime in Vietnam who coerced the King of Cambodia by force, and the Vietnamese people were allowed to immigrate to the Jiulongjiang Plain.Moreover, the Vietnamese are farming on the land of Cambodia,

However, they do not pay taxes to the Cambodian government, but only pay taxes to the Vietnamese Nguyen regime.

In addition to being threatened by force, the main reason why the King of Cambodia agreed was that the Jiulongjiang Plain was "unsuitable" for farming.

Who would have guessed that after hundreds of years, after reclamation and transformation, it would become the most fertile and productive area in Southeast Asia!

Zhao Han asked again: "King Champa, how are you doing in Nanjing?"

"I don't want to miss Sichuan," Xu Ying said, "I invited a famous chef to go home, and I went to the cottage every now and then, and recently I fell in love with brothels."

Zhao Han laughed and said, "Ask him, 50 taels of silver, grant him the title of Duke of Zhan, give him [-] acres of land, and the right to operate a salt shop in Nanjing for ten years. See if he is willing to donate the kingdom of Cham."

The king of Champa and his son were unwilling to leave when they arrived in Nanjing, and they shirked each other before one son was allowed to return to the country to take charge of the government (for details, see Chapter 614 of the lifting of the ban).

A small country the size of a palm, its land area is about one-third of Hainan Island. 50 taels of silver, [-] acres of land, ten years of salt shop management rights, and a duke of Zhanguo, Zhao Han thinks this is a fair deal.

Xu Ying went to find Po Lai, the king of Champa, in person, but the guy lingered in the brothel and never returned.

The brothel women in Nanjing, even if they are not famous prostitutes, are generally of higher quality than the concubines in Champa.not to mention,

Everyone can play lyrics and sing songs, Po Lai feels that today's life is much more comfortable than being a king in Champa.

It was not until the third day that Xu Ying received the news that the king had finally returned home.

After meeting, Xu Ying asked, "Why hasn't the prince returned to China?"

Po Lai: "My third son has already returned to Champa to inherit the throne. I stay in Nanjing, and it is very good here. If you want to talk about state affairs, you can just find my son and don't bother me."

"Okay, take my leave." Xu Ying left immediately.

Champa has [-] Datong garrisons, and the military rations are supplied by Champa.

More than two months later, Battalion Commander Xiao Chongguo found the new king and asked, "Your Highness seems a little worried?"

The king's wife forced a smile: "It's okay."

But this guy came back from Nanjing to take over the throne, and found that the government was controlled by the powerful minister Hetu, and his orders couldn't get out of Bintong Dragon City at all.

Xiao Chongguo: "Perhaps, I can relieve His Majesty's worries."

Po Nan is only 16 years old and doesn't know how to govern the country at all. He just sees the power ministers unhappy.

It is really hard to make up your mind if you really want to use the hands of the Datong Army to trap and kill powerful officials, and then clean them up afterward.

"Oh, if only I could stay in Nanjing to enjoy the blessings like my father." Po could not help but sigh.

After eating good food in Nanjing for half a month, returning to Champa was like nothing. The food in the palace was not as good as the small restaurants in Nanjing.

Xiao Chongguo said with a smile: "Your Highness, you can sell Champa, w to my Datong court."

"Sell out the country?" Po Nan thought it was very strange.

Xiao Chongguo: "50 taels of silver, [-] acres of land, ten-year management rights of a salt shop in Nanjing, and then confer the title of Datong Zhanguo Duke. How?"

One million taels of silver!