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Chapter nine hundred and sixty seventh earth-shaking

Zhu Yicheng attached great importance to overseas leaders from the beginning, and naturally had plans. For Xinming Land, with the crazy expansion in the early stage to the temporary stability, the goal of the first phase has been achieved in Zhu Yicheng's view, and the next step is to start the process of business and development.

North America is rich and vast, with its territory no less than its local area, and it has rich resources and a unique geographical location. In later generations, Americans often praised their country as "the heaven is chosen from the earth" given by God, which shows the advantages of North America.

From the beginning, while appointing Pan Mengyuan as the governor of Xinming and being responsible for the development of Xinming, Zhu Yicheng also sent a public office to control it to prevent local governments from becoming popular.

In Chinese history, there are many precedents about the problems of vassal states. The Anshi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty was the rebellion of vassal states, which pushed the prosperous Tang Dynasty into the abyss of decline. Later, when the central government could not control the powerful vassal states, resulting in local rebellions from time to time, the recent one was probably the Three Feudal states in Kangxi's reign.

He Xianzu reminded Zhu Yicheng to change the policy of Xinming, whose purpose was to avoid the formation of vassal states. In his opinion, Xinming is now vast with tens of millions of military and civilians, but because he is far away from the local area, the court cannot directly control the government orders, and it is far from enough to set up a Governor's Office.

Furthermore, Pan Mengyuan's status in the military is not very high. It doesn't need to be compared with Dong Dashan, Wang Dong and others. Even Ma Gongcheng and Zhuang Yan and others cannot compare with each other. In terms of military rank and ranking, Pan Mengyuan is ranked behind Lin Jianzhang, Yang Xu and Yue Zhongqi, and is roughly comparable to Zhu Yigui.

The reason why Pan Mengyuan chose to serve as the governor of Xinming back then was that Pan Mengyuan was once the commander of the naval squadron and had experience stationed overseas in Ryukyu. Therefore, Pan Mengyuan took this opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step and eventually became the governor of Xinming back.

At that time, many people in the army were not envious of Pan Mengyuan's appointment as governor of Xinming and going overseas, because in the eyes of many people, Pan Mengyuan's appointment and removal was almost a life-and-death life. Even if they arrived safely, they would just endure hardships in a place outside.

But no one expected that Xinming had developed so rapidly in just a few years, and now Xinming has become the largest territory of the Ming Dynasty overseas. Pan Mengyuan, the governor who originally didn't care about, has become the border with the widest jurisdiction and the greatest power.

He Xianzu reminded Zhu Yicheng in this way, one was for his own sake, and the other was naturally expressing his loyalty to Zhu Yicheng. In addition, he had a small plan in his mind, which was to use this to sell a portion to Pan Mengyuan.

In fact, his advice was not to offend Pan Mengyuan, but to consider Pan Mengyuan. After all, He Xianzu had no power in the army, and after entering the military plane, he probably wouldn't be as powerful as Liao Huanzhi and others. In addition, his background has never been ashamed of court officials, so he himself understood this.

If things can be accomplished, they can gain control of power in the new yamen responsible for overseas places, and they can also win over Pan Mengyuan. After all, He Xianzu and Pan Mengyuan had some friendship when they were in Ryukyu. In addition, he himself knew that Zhu Yicheng's control over the Ming Dynasty, Xin Ming would not be able to leave the Ming Dynasty no matter what.

As for the future, there is no need to consider the long-term. Since this method is used to solve the problem in advance, it is not a bad thing for the Ming Dynasty, Pan Mengyuan, or himself, He Xianzu can still calculate this account clearly.

Zhu Yicheng also understood this in his heart, but He Xianzu's words were not wrong. Although Zhu Yicheng could control it, can his descendants control overseas territory as much as him? With the changes in Xinming over the years, the Ming Dynasty did want to change its management methods and planning for overseas territory.

Zhu Yicheng didn't want to wait a hundred years later. Xinming would eventually become independent like the United States in history, thus splitting this territory from the Ming Dynasty.

At this moment, Pan Mengyuan, in Pingyi City, in Xinming, was listening to reports from his subordinates. Their place is now the location of the Governor's Office of Xinming.

Originally, the Governor's Office was located in Wanghai City at the beginning, but with the continuous expansion of Xinming and the need for local control, Pan Mengyuan began to relocate the Governor's Office from Wanghai City to Pingyi City, thus setting up a new Governor's Office here.

Today's Pingyi City is very different from before. With the continuous expansion and increase in population, this city has now become a veritable city.

The entire city already has a population of nearly 300,000, and with the 20,000 elite troops stationed in military camps outside the city, this scale is only a handful of people in North America.

This does not include some villages and manors around Pingyi City. Because Xinming is vast and sparsely populated, and the rapid expansion of the Ming Dynasty made Xinming adopt different agricultural methods. For example, in the local area, a household with 23 acres of land can be considered a wealthy family, while ordinary farmers generally only have a few acres of land. As for other farming land, most of them are land of land owners or wealthy businessmen, and they need to pay rent.

But it is different in Xinming. The original Indians in Xinming were nomadic people and rarely had a foregone farming situation. Moreover, in order to encourage people to immigrate to Xinming, the Ming Dynasty naturally had more advantages in terms of land. According to Xinming's regulations, as long as the Ming people who immigrated to Xinming got off the boat, each person could get fifty acres of land. If it was a mountainous land that was difficult to cultivate, it could reach nearly a hundred acres. This amount was not only calculated based on men, women, age, and only based on the head.

After obtaining these land, if the immigrants still have the spare energy to farm, the Xinming government can give the immigrants the right to open up wilderness according to their needs. As for the amount, it depends on your ability to explore and cultivate. Of course, in order to avoid some people wanton land enclosure, Xinming also strictly stipulates land transactions and controls the utilization rate of farmland and forests held by the immigrants. Once the agreed amount is not met, the Xinming government will directly accept the land.

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Therefore, after obtaining land, immigrants will naturally put into production and farming. As long as people are not lazy and willing to work, they will definitely live a very good life with the climate here. In addition, Xinming's tax revenue is extremely low, and some early immigrants almost got rid of their previous poverty and lived a good life they had never thought of before.

There were also some people with agility, who even set up manors under the encouragement of the Xinming government, solicited or used money to buy some Indians and even Western refugees and black slaves to carry out agricultural production, and they had already vaguely seen the atmosphere of later plantations.

For the Indians, Xinming adopted the method of giving equal gentleness and force, especially after Xinming defeated the Indian coalition with his powerful strength. Now Xinming's few large-scale Indian tribes in this land have been provoked. In addition to the so-called Yin and Ming ancestral measures that Xinming has been promoting, and the similar appearance of the Ming and Indians, there are more and more naturalized Indians. Apart from some tribes that are slightly far away or are still sticking to the traditional ones, there have been more than one million Indians who have actually naturalized or semi-naturalized over the years.

Many of these people have gradually abandoned their previous identities, taken the Han surname, used the Han name, wore Hanfu, and spoke Chinese language. Among them is Yin Xiong, who was brave in fighting back then and was promoted from a soldier to an officer.

Over the past few years, Yin Xiong has made many military achievements and has been promoted to the Captain of Confidence and directly led the first battalion. This level is not low among intermediate officers in the army. Pan Mengyuan even said privately that Yin Xiong was born as a military agent. With his growth, he would eventually become a general one day.

Yin Xiong now looks like an Indian boy back then, and he is not at all different from the Han people in terms of dress and behavior. Last year, Yin Xiong got married with a Han girl and formed a new family. His child was just born and was named Siming by Yin Xiong, which means missing the homeland of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, standing in front of Pan Mengyuan, Yin Xiong was talking, Pan Mengyuan was sitting in the main seat and listening carefully. In other positions were generals at all levels in the Xinming Army, including several local officials.
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