Zhu Youjian shouted, "What does it look like when you cheer up? Your Majesty said at the beginning that we go overseas to start a career, to expand territory for the Ming Dynasty, and to seek blessings for future generations. What's the matter with crying now?"

Zhu Zhuohong curled his lips and said, "Uncle Wang, your eyes are red, and he said we are the two of you."

Zhu Youjian was angry and after a while, he said, "Not to mention this matter, let's talk about the charcoal now.

When spring comes, we have to prepare to dig coal by hand, right?"

Zhu Zhuohong said: "You can't dig the three of us, right?"

Zhu Youjian said angrily: "What's wrong with you today? Did you take the wrong medicine?"

Zhu Zhuohong smiled awkwardly and said, "No, Uncle Wang calms down. My nephew is just a joke, just a joke. Don't take it seriously."

Zhu Cunji also smoothed out and said, "Uncle Wang, don't worry about him. I guess this guy is unhappy and takes the opportunity to make trouble."

Zhu Youjian snorted: "I don't care whether you feel unhappy or not, but now I'm talking about serious things. Put away your hippie smiley look."

Zhu Zhuohong smiled and said, "Yes, my nephew was wrong."

Zhu Youjian then continued: "The most important thing now is that we still don't have enough manpower."

Zhu Cunji said: "We have more than 100,000 people on Xinming Island now, why isn't it enough?"

Zhu Youjian said: "These 100,000 people, more than 80,000 soldiers, and more than 20,000 craftsmen. I hope these people will go to mining. Who will pacify the island for us?

After all, there is not much time left in winter now, and it is almost over. It is time to prepare to deal with the savages."

Zhu Zhuohong interrupted: "Uncle Wang is considering that there is another problem. Have you ever thought about it?"

Zhu Youjian was stunned and asked, "What's the question?"

Zhu Zhuohong said: "It's still a matter of humanity. It's right for these 80,000 soldiers to pacify the barbarians, but after pacifying, there are not many people to guard this big island, right?

They are all people of our Ming Dynasty, so the main thing is to use the navy here, and the demand for garrisons is actually not great.

After all, this place doesn’t look like the Ming Dynasty. There are Mongolia and Jiannu in the north, and you can see the enemy everywhere. Who else can be cleaned up on this island except our Ming people? Sooner or later?”

Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Zhuohong like a fool, and smiled and said, "Where is the human heart? Have you ever considered the human heart?

Now we are struggling to make a career, and there are barbarians on the island, so the people of the Ming Dynasty must join forces, but what if there is no barbarian?

Even the Ming Dynasty rebels, let alone this island?

If people’s hearts are not enough, they can easily cause disaster.”

Zhu Zhuohong sucked the teeth and said, "That's right, these 80,000 soldiers are really unable to move easily.

But in this way, where can we get so many people to mine? Otherwise, we should go with His Majesty?”

Before Zhu Youjian could speak, Zhu Cunji said, "There are hundreds of thousands of people on this island, it doesn't matter. If there are millions, if you are His Majesty, can you rest assured?"

Zhu Youjian said directly: "Your Majesty said he was relieved, so even though he wanted to you, there are some things to do."

Zhu Cunji said: "Uncle Wang must have some plans in his heart, so why not say it and listen?"

Zhu Youjian laughed and said, "If you want the common people to come over, do you want to die and use them?"

But it’s different for those who have committed a crime. Even if you use it, you won’t have to worry about it anyway. You don’t have to pay any wages. We can save a lot of money.”

Zhu Zhuohong and Zhu Cunji gave a thumbs up together and said, "Uncle Wang is brilliant!"

However, Zhu Youjian's greatness was useless. When his memorial returned to the Ming Dynasty with Zheng Zhilong and a ship full of coal, it was denied by Emperor Chongzhen.

There are not many people doing this in history. At least the group of people on the American continent that I have been thinking about day and night are not good things.

Basically, the prisoners who were exiled were all the prisoners that Britain wanted. No matter how beautiful they were, they could not actually change the fact that these guys were exiled prisoners.

The result was also obvious. These guys established the beautiful United States of the Lord of Oil and Growth. When they turned around, they turned their father into grandsons. The British tricked them and called them dad.

For this reason, the famous War of Independence in the history of the United States broke out.

Although until Emperor Chongzhen returned from time to time, the history of that country was only more than 200 years old.

However, in the principle of being careful and not having any major mistakes, Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked Zhu Youjian to bring all the dead prisoners of the Ming Dynasty to Xinming Island.

There is no problem with transporting one ship a year, but getting it all over is not possible.

The main body of Xinming Island must be guaranteed to be the Ming people with a strong roots, and they must also be remembered by Emperor Chongzhen's good deeds.

Otherwise, Xinming Island will become independent, who will be the one who will be the one who will do this?

Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen didn’t want to take the blame, which was so painful.

However, the coal from Xinming Island still has to be brought back, and even Xinming Island has become an inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty "since ancient times".

The Ming Dynasty’s land is the foundation of all overseas territories, and this cannot be shaken. In other words, these resources must be transported to the Ming Dynasty’s land.

Just in case.

With the arrival of Zhu Youjian's memorial, the first batch of coal came, including three ships of coal.

How much coal is there?

Taking the load capacity of the lucky ship as an example, under full load, it is about 800 to 900 tons, so the coal of the three ships is already as high as 2,400 tons.

Although such a small amount can almost be considered a drop in the bucket compared to the coal consumed by the Ming Dynasty every year, it is an indisputable fact that the output and transportation volume will definitely increase significantly in the future.

Emperor Chongzhen's hope of slowly shutting down the local coal mines in Daming was temporarily lost, but sooner or later, after the coal transported from Xinming Island could meet the demand, Daming's own coal mines could be shut down early.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen, who was passionate, was even more looking forward to when the dead eunuchs in the Ocean Bureau could get up on their airs and work.

However, no matter how much you look forward to it, there is no use for birds. After all, Rome was not built in one day, and the Forbidden City was not built in one year or two.

Although it is much easier to build a Ocean Bureau than to build a city, it is actually not something that can be done in a day or two.

Time flies, and winter passes. By the end of the year, Xinming Island is almost entering summer.

When worshiping the sky in the New Year, Emperor Chongzhen reported to God for his work and governance of the people with great excitement, and also to his ancestors about the handling of Jiannu and the grassland.

I have never forgotten to mention the existence of Xinming Island.

In short, during the third year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, although there were treacherous officials who caused the earth dragon to turn over in Songpanwei, Sichuan, the overall situation was still very good.

And it's not small, it's big. Especially the area of ​​Xinming Island is as large as that of the Ming Dynasty, which means that I am still very favored by God and very qualified.

In view of this, Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed and issued another imperial edict to exempt the agricultural taxes for four years of the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, that's right, it's agricultural tax, not farmers' taxes.

The penny that should be given to Emperor Chongzhen should not be less, and never adding taxes means never raising taxes.

The tax was given to the national treasury, so Emperor Chongzhen generously exempted the agricultural tax.

Trade tax is not exempt.

The agricultural tax was exempted for one year because Emperor Chongzhen wanted to see if the commercial tax could support the Ming Dynasty's treasury.

Anyway, there is still some surplus in the commercial tax collected in Chongzhen in the third year, and no rats have run away in the treasury. If there is no major accident, it will be enough to support the collection of the spring tax.

And even if something unexpected happened, there was still money in his own treasury, and it would take several years to support the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that it only supported the spring tax that lasted for the fourth year of Chongzhen.

Every time he thinks of the money in his own treasury, Emperor Chongzhen can't help but sigh that Lin Danhan and Huang Taiji are really good people.

In fact, there is no need to say much about Emperor Chongzhen, even Huang Taiji himself thinks he is a good person.

Otherwise, how could he recruit so many talented people after he opened his encore?

Although these people are not as capable and considerate as Fan Wencheng, there are always one or two outstanding people who choose big ones among the shorts.

Fan Wencheng's clan brother Fan Wenjian is one of them.

Fan Wenjian felt that after the Jin Dynasty faced the Ming army, the loss would be on the cannons. Whether it was Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, or other places, or even Dongjiang Town, they actually suffered from the cannons.

So Dajin must have his own artillery.

At that time, the technology of casting artillery was actually not difficult. As long as there were blacksmiths and enough copper and iron, they could basically be done.

Therefore, the Great Jin Kingdom also had its own red-clothed cannon.

Huang Taiji stroked the slightly ferocious cannon body and laughed: "Okay, with this thing, why fear the artillery of the Mingguo barbarians? My Khan must teach the Mingguo barbarians a lesson!"

Fan Wenjian walked up and said with a smile: "The Khan is wise, but although this cannon has been cast, it has not been named yet. The slave dared to ask the Khan to name this cannon."

The feeling of touching the cannon barrel was even more charming than the feeling of touching the Hai Lanzhu. Huang Taiji immediately said, "One shot can be a million troops. This item is called the General's cannon. He gave the book to engrave it on the top: Tianyou cheers the general.

In addition, the casting date is engraved on it, and the names of the supervising officials, casting craftsmen and blacksmiths are named. If there is any problem with one, you can directly hold them accountable."

Fan Wenjian bowed and smiled and said, "The Khan is wise, I am a servant to congratulate you!"

Although the words sound nice, the pig's tail was dragged behind the shiny head, making the whole person extremely funny.

Huang Taiji and his sons were even happier, and even planned to contact Lin Danhan to find fun for Emperor Chongzhen.

At least, the dog emperor cannot live a comfortable life, so he must know that Ben Khan has something to do with him.

Especially North Korea's Wen Maolong, don't always rely on the excellent firearms in his hands to come to the Dajin Kingdom to cause trouble for Ben Khan.

This time I have artillery in my hand, so I will definitely keep you from coming and going!

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know what Huang Taiji was thinking, and even if he knew, he wouldn't take it seriously.

You dare to come to the Ming Dynasty, but I dare not bury you?

But as later generations said, handsome only lasts for three seconds.
To be continued...