My Daming New Empire

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There are [-] more guards, and their families and relatives, if you want to arrange it, it will be a lot of expenses.

Moreover, the King of Han had a big heart and offered many preferential conditions, promising many benefits to the common people.He is very clear that the more people he brings with him, the more powerful he is, the better he will develop in the future.

Talent is the greatest resource in this era.

However, this also increased their burden. Now there are 5 guards, plus their family members, there are [-] people.The king of Han recruited nearly [-] people to accompany him, which is [-] people.

Although no matter how many people there are, the navy will be responsible for transportation, but the food, drink, and supplies of so many people for several months have already emptied the entire family property of King Han's Mansion.

This is also thanks to the re-canonization of Zhu Di by the King of Han Mansion, which has seven more county kings, which can obtain a large number of resources.

Otherwise, Hanwang Mansion would not be able to support these tens of thousands of people alone, let alone take care of their lives for at least half a year after going to Xizhou, as well as the preparation of various tools.

Last fall, Zhu Zhanhe, the eldest son of the Han Dynasty, died of illness. He had only two daughters and no son.Now the sons of the king of Han are all staring at the position of the son, trying to do everything possible to satisfy their father.

There is no need to worry about food. Now that the price of food is low, it will be cheaper for the fleet to go through Nanyang and buy food directly there.

But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there is no money in hand, and all kinds of supplies are still a lot short, so it's hard for a few of them to do it!

Just as the two brothers were racking their brains for raising various supplies, the guards rushed into the house on the pier. "You two young princes, the prince has sent a letter from the capital."

Zhu Zhanqi quickly took the letter from the messenger, read it for a while, and couldn't help laughing. "Third, get rid of all your troubles!"

"what happened?"

Zhu Zhanqi said with a smile: "I never thought that my father would borrow 20 silver coins from the Development Bank with the income of Xizhou in the next three years. This is really a big deal!"

Zhu Zhan was stunned, and sighed in surprise: "Still doing this? The emperor is so shrewd that he can even agree to such a loan!"

Zhu Zhanqi sent a messenger to leave, and then he said: "Look, it's not because of us, our family, one prince, and seven county kings, that he is still so embarrassed. His younger brothers are just a prince. How much money can you have.

Therefore, he borrowed money from his younger brothers to help them tide over the difficulties. Once the opening was opened, it was difficult to close it again.

Don't worry about the widows, only the average. Now that the big palaces and nobles are all borrowing from the imperial court, he has to borrow too. "

"Isn't he afraid of not paying back in the future?" Zhu Zhantan still felt a little unbelievable. If he didn't pay back in the future, or couldn't afford it, what would he do!

Although Zhu Zhanqi is a bit sour behind his back, he never really dares to say goodbye to Zhu Zhanji face to face. He is the god of killing who killed 43 people on the battlefield. Even the emperor's grandfather wants to let him have some limelight. offended him.

He shook his head and said: "Don't forget, the navy is in his hands, and the future trade is in his hands. Without his nod, even if we dig 100 million taels of gold on our own territory, we can't get a piece of cloth. Do you think that in the future, the sky is really high and the emperor is far away, and I can't control you anymore!"

Zhu Zhantan understood, shook his head and sighed: "No wonder the imperial court is willing to send in the navy for help, but not willing to sell the ship. Now the only offshore merchant ships willing to sell are less than [-] shi."

"So, no matter how far we fly, we are nothing more than grandson monkeys in Daojun's hands, and cannot fly out of his palm. Let's accept our fate honestly!"

Some people are dissatisfied, but some people are so satisfied that they cannot be more satisfied, such as King Zhu of Zhou.

Prince Zhou's Mansion is the most stable prince's mansion in Ming Dynasty, because he has the same father and mother as Zhu Di, and Zhu Di also takes good care of this younger brother.

His fief is in Kaifeng. In this era, except for the occasional flood, the surrounding area of ​​Kaifeng is a good place.

It has been 14 years since Zhu Sui came to Kaifeng in the 41th year of Hongwu, and he is deeply rooted in the local area.

Moreover, he studied medical skills all the year round, organized and compiled works such as "Relief of Famine Materia Medica", "Baosheng Yulu", "Pocket Prescriptions" and "Puji Prescriptions", and has a very good reputation among the people.

Other princes, such as the King of Han, wanted to attract the people to go with him, so they could only lure them.

But he just posted an announcement in the Kaifeng area, saying that he would move to Nanzhou, and many people voluntarily followed him.

And his luck was also very good. When drawing lots, he got Turtle Island.

Although Turtle Island is an island, it is the second largest island in the world. The island is densely covered with forests, rich in resources, and a large gold mine has been discovered.

In the Nanzhou area, because of its large size and rich resources, this island was originally planned to be a fiefdom of two princes.

Zhu Zhanji is very clear that in addition to the discovered Grasberg gold mine, the largest gold mine in the world, there is also a Lihir gold mine, whose gold reserves rank eighth in the world.

However, because of the inconvenient transportation on the island, the rampant cannibals, miasma, and giant pythons, it was not easy to develop, so Zhu Zhanji finally decided to only distribute it to one family.

Of course, such a precious land cannot be taken away casually. Zhu Zhanji will feel distressed if it is taken away by King Ning who is not in harmony with the royal family.

Although the minerals in various places are still controlled by the imperial court, the imperial court cannot develop it by itself, and must distribute [-]% to those in power.Let King Ning get these gold, Zhu Zhanji will not be relieved.

So when the lottery was drawn, he also made some arrangements secretly, and gave the Turtle Island to the Zhou Palace.

Although Turtle Island is big, the Zhou Palace has been developed for more than 40 years. There is a prince and more than a dozen county kings.

If it is distributed to Zhu Zhanyong, his own brother, he has no son and is not strong, and it will be easy to form a situation where the stem is weak and the branches are strong, which is difficult to control.

King Ning, on the other hand, was drawn to the area near Darwin in later generations. Although there are some minerals in this area, they are not world-class.There is a world-class uranium mine, and within a few hundred years, it will not have much use value.

Moreover, the land here is not fertile, and all kinds of poisons are rampant. It will be extremely difficult to develop within at least a few decades.

Consuming the power of King Ning's Mansion in this way will only make them weaker and weaker, and they will rely more and more on Daming.

Zhou Wangfu got Turtle Island, and Guangping Hou Yuanzhen, who had told Zhu Zhanji many times that he wanted to be assigned to Turtle Island, was also allocated [-] square meters in the south of the Grasberg Gold Mine as he wished. kilometers of land, and at the same time own the right to develop this gold mine.

In addition to the Guangping Marquis Mansion, there are four other Marquis Mansions that are divided into different areas of Turtle Island, but they are mainly flat areas that are easy to develop.

Yuan Zhen is also Zhu Zhanji's cousin, and he is reliable in doing things. If he is given some benefits and asked him to help guard the checkpoint between Turtle Island and Nanzhou, Zhu Zhanji is also relieved.

He is the most active towards immigration, because his territory not only has a large gold mine, but also a relay point for Daming to go to Nanzhou. If it is well developed, it will never decline in the future.

Because of that gold mine, in order to attract miners, he offered the most favorable conditions.And according to what Zhu Zhanji knew, he and Ji Gang also colluded together, planning to transport a large number of poor people from Japan to work there as miners.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't want to talk about this, as long as it doesn't hinder the global expansion of the Chinese, Zhu Zhanji supports any action.

Although it is a "fair" lottery, there are still many people who are dissatisfied. You draw a good place, but I draw a bad place. This kind of dissatisfaction will naturally arise.

They didn't dare to show it, at most they said some acid words later.If they offend Zhu Zhanji and directly cut their titles, they can only be idlers in Daming.

Among Zhu Zhanji’s younger brothers, except for Zhu Zhanyi who smoked in a good place, that is, the Perth area in later generations, the others, Zhu Zhanyin, were assigned to the Melbourne area, which is considered the best position.

Because the common people in this era value the land that can be farmed the most. Minerals will be dug out one day, but the land can be planted forever.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanyin was drawn to Melbourne, which has the most fertile land in South Africa, but he suffered a lot of envy.

However, the Perth area is actually no worse than Melbourne. Although there is a little less arable land there, there are two world-class gold mines.Zhu Zhanji's uncle Zhang Chang and the others were entrusted there.

And Zhu Zhanji's third brother, also his own brother Zhu Zhanyong, was assigned to the wilderness area in the northern part of Western Australia, which was the worst of all.

Although there is a large area of ​​iron ore there, no one knows it now.When Zhu Zhanyong was assigned there, he also blocked the mouths of many people.

But in fact, Zhu Zhanyong is not annoyed, because he is not ready to join the feudal clan.The reason why he didn't join the feudal clan was because he was in poor health. He took medicine for at least half of the year and went to Nanzhou. Without these imperial doctors, he might not live for long.

Because of his poor health, he doesn't have any ambitions. He is already very satisfied to be a happy prince under Zhu Zhanji's protection.

The vigorous immigration has already begun at the end of Yongle's 20th year.Due to the limited capacity of ships and the navy, this immigration operation took a total of one and a half years before all the people were transported to their destinations.