I am the king of the dead

"When I was in Jiujiang Mansion, Yao Long, the governor of Jiangxi, often complained that the people in Jiangxi had all gone to Fujian. I just entered Pucheng today, and I saw spring plowing along the road, which really made me gratified."

Fujian, which has been orthodox for 14 years, has been beaten to pieces by swarms of drones. Today, ten years later, it is a thriving scene.

Zhu Qiyu is an ordinary person, he likes to see the common people living and working in peace and contentment, recuperating and recuperating, and it makes him feel at ease.

This made Zhu Qiyu pleasing to the eyes of the local officials in Fujian, and affirmed their achievements in the past ten years.

Yao Long was transferred from the governor of Fujian to the governor of Jiangxi. When he was in Fujian, Yao Long tried every means to poach Jiangxi's corners every day. When he arrived in Jiangxi, Yao Long tried every means to prevent Fujian from poaching corners.

From Zhejiang to Fujian, Zhu Qiyu felt a big difference.

"Thanks to His Majesty's great grace, the servants wait until His Majesty does not abandon the grace, and only then can there be a small contribution, and the servants dare not take the credit." Teng Zhao just stood up and wanted to kneel again, but seeing Chen Yi's face, he did not kneel in the end , bowed his head and said.

Chen Yi is the censor of Zuodu, that is, the Beijing official title of the chief constitution of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is the governor of Jilong Island and the three Ryukyu prefectures. He is in charge of the preparation and operation of the Penghu Shipping Department.

This old official who used to control the water in Zhangqiu and Jing'an Hetao was much older.

Chen Yi understands His Majesty, except for some unavoidable etiquette, His Majesty does not like courtiers to kowtow to express gratitude and apology. In His Majesty's eyes, it is a sign of incompetence and shirking responsibility.

Chen Yi knew a little more than Teng Zhao. For example, he knew that His Majesty had a letter card of a seventh-rank official of the General Administration Department who participated in the administration of government affairs. What criteria should be used to judge the quality of people's livelihood.

Zhu Qiyu's judgment standard is very simple, his standard is the child.

If he goes to a place and sees many children, it means that the people in this place are prosperous, able to marry and have children;

If these children are not pale-faced, and there is some aura in their eyes who are curious about everything, it means that they can barely eat enough;

If these children still have a pair of shoes, it will be a big deal, then Zhu Qiyu must affirm that the local officials are officials, and they have done a good job, and they must give them a good compliment.

When Zhu Qiyu entered Fujian from Zhejiang, his first feeling was that there were more children.

Children in the fields are helping their parents with farm work or playing, and their father or mother is carrying a doll on their backs.

Moreover, when these children saw Dajiayu, they all pointed and yelled in groups of three or four. Most importantly, most of the children had shoes on their feet.

When Zhu Qiyu got out of the car, he was naturally full of joy, praising the local officials in Fujian for doing a good job.

"The last Fujian Zuo Buzheng was called Song Zhang, or Ningyang Marquis Jianzhan?" Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Mao and asked with a smile.

Chen Mao naturally remembered the scene where Song Zhang was supervised and beheaded. Song Zhang produced winter animals, which intensified the conflict between people and land in Fujian, and took away the last morsel of food from the people, so the people rose up.

Song Zhang is the cousin and son-in-law of the Empress Dowager Sun. At that time, Zhao Hui, the captain's son-in-law and His Majesty's aunt, also sent a message to save Song Zhang.

Song Zhang was beheaded, and Zhao Hui hanged himself in Beizhen Fusi.

"Yes, I still remember that scene." Chen Mao sighed.

When Song Zhang's head fell to the ground, firecrackers were set off in Fuzhou city.

At that time, Chen Mao still remembered the feeling when he received the edict to supervise and execute Song Zhang, that is, the sun was rising again, and the sun was shining brightly on the earth.

It has been nearly nine years now, and Chen Mao is convinced that what he felt at the time was not wrong.

It’s hard to say how good the officials in Fujian are, but Song Zhang, as Zuo Buzheng, a second-rank official in the court, and the cousin-in-law of the Empress Dowager Sun, was beheaded in the end.

Local officials in Fujian always remember Song Zhang's lessons when doing things.

Jianning Prefecture has seven counties under its jurisdiction, Jian'an, Ouning, Jianyang, Chong'an, Pucheng, Songxi, and Zhenghe. Because bamboo is abundant here, it provides abundant raw materials for papermaking, which has led to the development of the papermaking industry. Developed, providing sufficient paper for the printing industry.

Every county has an ink workshop, which provides enough ink for the printing industry of Jianning Prefecture.

Jianning Prefecture is also rich in pear wood, which provides high-quality boards for engraving.

These conditions have determined the prosperity of Jianning Mansion's printing industry. Even Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Nanya, Jiangsu and other places come to Jianning Mansion to buy books.

And Fujian was also the first place in the southern provinces to implement the farm law and popularize the Sociological "Common Character Table" and "Arithmetic", and now it is also responsible for supplying books from all over the south.

After Zhu Qiyu entered Pucheng, he saw a large number of extremely beautifully printed books, such as "Water Margin", "Quan Xiang Ping Hua Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Jing Zhong Romance Shuo Ben" and so on.

There are only 48 bookstores in Jianning Prefecture, and the types of printing include novels, story books, encyclopedia books, etc. The vigorous development of the printing industry here makes Zhu Qiyu quite at ease.

Where there are pillar industries, the development will not be too bad. When the masters eat meat, the common people can have a mouthful of soup.

The Bieyuan where we stayed was far inferior to Nanhu Bieyuan, with only less than [-] mu of land. It was the Bieyuan that Chen Mao used as an official residence when Chen Mao quelled civil unrest in Fujian. Prepare for Your Majesty.

Although the sparrow was small and well-equipped, Zhu Qiyu sat on the main seat of the Guanglan Pavilion, and Yu Qian, Chen Mao, Xu Chengzong, Chen Yi, Teng Zhao and others took their seats respectively.

Chen Yi stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I would like to invite your Majesty to look at something. This is the oil palm, also called oil coconut, sent by the merchant ship from Malin and Manbasa."

Xing'an took a fruit plate from Chen Yi's hand. Inside were cut oil palm fruits, one finger long, bright red, white seeds with shells, and brown-yellow flesh.

"What's so special about this thing?" Zhu Qiyu asked looking at the fruit in his hand.

Chen Yi said succinctly: "Oil can be extracted, it is the fruit of fruit trees, and the yield is quite large. Planting one acre of oil palm can produce more than a thousand catties of oil every year, while one mu of soybeans can only produce more than a hundred catties of oil."

Zhu Qiyu originally thought that the red oil palm was a fruit that Chen Yi had found, and took it out for the emperor to try, but after Chen Yi briefly introduced it, Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and looked at it seriously.

"Is it the oil palm from Manbasa and Malin?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a serious face: "The fruit tree can reach full fruit in a few years, is it easy to take care of? Is it difficult to extract oil? Where can it be planted?"

Zhu Qiyu asked several questions in a row, and he really took them very seriously.

Seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, oil ranks third, but it is a necessity of life.

Moreover, the oil in Daming is very expensive. It costs seventy Jingtai Tongbao per catty, which is one coin, and one imperial silver coin can only buy ten catties of oil.

Allusions to learning such as chiseling the wall to borrow light and sac Yingying Yingxue, even ordinary people who can afford books, can't afford oil.

Oil lamps were also a luxury.

Chen Yi continued: "Oil palm trees will reach full fruit within three years. At the full fruit stage, the weight is about [-] catties. In the first three years, there is only about [-] catties of oil per mu, and only [-] catties in the first year. about."

"There is no need to fertilize or water, but we need to eliminate insects and pruning. It is easy to take care of, and even barbarians can grow it."

"Ryukyu can be planted due to the warm current of Cangming, and the east side of Jilong Island can be planted in small quantities. Then there are Luzon, Boni, Java, Champa, Siam and other places. These places with relatively low latitudes can be planted in large quantities. Plant."

Zhu Qiyu thought for a moment and asked, "How much is it worth?"

Chen Yi said with great conviction: "Ten Jingtai Tongbao per catty in Hong Kong is one-seventh of soybean oil."

He picked up a small oil pot from under the table, filled a bowl with a bucket and said: "The oil is clear, suitable for frying, and it will solidify in the cold weather. This oil can be used for cooking. It's all good, but it's a bit... unpalatable. In terms of taste, it is similar to lard."

When tung oil is spit out, it will be solved immediately after getting wine.

Tung oil is poisonous, and it can cause vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, so it cannot be eaten. It is the main raw material for making paint and ink. It is extremely waterproof, anti-corrosion, and rust-proof when applied directly.

Soybean oil, seed oil, coconut oil, lard, and palm oil produced by Chen Yi are cooking oils, which are very suitable for frying food.

The taste of palm oil is similar to cooking with lard, but the price is much lower than lard.

Xing'an put the palm oil in front of His Majesty. The weather in Fujian in early February was still slightly cold, and the palm oil was in a semi-solidified state.

Zhu Qiyu sniffed and said with emotion: "The price is only one-seventh, which is very cheap. Is there anyone in Luzon, Siam and other places to plant and extract oil?"

Chen Yi thought for a while and said, "Most of us Daming people are hiring locals to plant and have built quite a few oil palm plantations."

"Hire?" Zhu Qiyu asked playfully.

Chen Yi thought for a moment and told the truth, then said helplessly: "In fact, it is to enslave the local foreign barbarians."

The wealthy households who ran out of Daming were not so gentle overseas, and they had no scruples at all in doing things. They completely tore off the disguise of great benevolent people. From the perspective of form and structure, the wealthy households in Wanli Haitang are typical. of slavery.

Slavery has no advantages, the only advantage is that it can squeeze the fruits of its labor to the limit, and there is no moral burden.

Daming does have a high moral disadvantage, but the wealthy households in Daming have a low moral advantage from the beginning to the end. Their overseas expansion is accompanied by blood and slavery.

"I don't care what they do, as long as they can transport the palm oil to Hong Kong." Zhu Qiyu will not stop them from engaging in slavery overseas.

Because the accumulation of primitive capital must be bloody, and it must be accompanied by cold blood, violence, cruelty, injustice, and even heinous.

But the accumulation of capital requires either the flesh and blood of the Ming people or the flesh and blood of the overseas Fanyi.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian and asked: "This time we changed clothes and eliminated a lot of armaments. How much more did Li Yimin and Li Sicheng buy?"

"A lot, there are about 12 more people's armaments." Yu Qian is very clear about the data of the replacement and Qingtai. The armaments of the Beijing camp were all the Yongle system, and now they are all replaced by the Jingtai system.

The frontier army is not interested in this batch of armaments that were eliminated from the Beijing camp. They are waiting to replace them with Jingtai standard armaments, and they don't even look down on these old armaments from more than 20 years ago.

It would be a pity to destroy this batch of armaments directly, but it is useless to pile them up in the arsenal, and they need to be maintained.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while, tapped his fingers on the table subconsciously and said: "If the overseas abandoned people need it, let them contact Ye Zhongxing, and we can provide them with the eliminated armaments."

"Although they chose to become overseas abandoned citizens, we should give them some support if they are the overseas abandoned citizens of our Ming Dynasty. Some people also covet oil palm plantations, tong gardens, spice gardens, and rice grain gardens. Without armaments, we can only At the mercy of others."

"What does Yu Shaobao think?"

When His Majesty asked, Yu Qian actually thought that His Majesty had this plan, and he already had the answer in his heart, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty is wise."

Brothers fight against the wall and are bullied by outsiders. No matter how fierce the fight inside the door is, the two brothers must be consistent with the outside world. This is the truth in the Book of Songs 2000 years ago.

Yu Qian has no reason to object.

Chen Mao sat up straight and said, "I think that if we are unable to do so, our Daming Navy can also uphold justice for them."

The oil supply of Daming is involved, and Chen Mao feels that Daming can provide some protection.

Chapter 742 Re-granting the Extraordinary Merit Card

Zhu Qiyu hesitated a little.

This group of ostentatious wealthy families ran out, and Daming still wanted to protect them?

It is agreed that one is different and two are wide, so everyone is happy?

Although it is said that it is to protect the safety of Daming's oil supply, Zhu Qiyu is still somewhat reluctant to provide such protection.

Of course Yu Qian saw His Majesty's hesitation, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, I think what Ning Yanghou said is very good, even if he is an abandoned citizen of Ming Dynasty, he is also an abandoned citizen of Ming Dynasty, and he cannot be bullied by a group of foreign barbarians."

"Your Majesty, the Daming Navy is famous for being a teacher. If the overseas abandoned people are bullied, please protect them from Daming. This is the name."

It is inevitable for a large army to be famous, otherwise, no matter how elite the army is, it will turn into a puddle of mud, and armies that restrain each other and cannot cooperate with each other are easily defeated one by one.

In the military sense, being famous is to unite people and boost morale.

In politics, it pays attention to righteousness and integrity, and if the name is not righteous, the words are not smooth. To start a war, one must give the country and the conquered side an account of the past, otherwise they will fall into endless passivity.

Doesn't Zhu Qiyu know the importance of being famous as a teacher?

The most unreasonable United States even got a bottle of washing powder when it launched a war, accusing Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction.

The United States is already a rare and unreasonable overlord in the world, so he has to find an excuse, right?

Being famous is a necessary condition in politics and military affairs.

No matter how unreliable the name is and how much controversy it will cause, it is still a name.

Zhu Qiyu said quite solemnly: "My soldiers of the Ming Dynasty traveled long distances, and the sea was rough and windy. When we got there, our eyes were darkened. I answered the petition of these abandoned people. Do they want to pay some military expenses?"

"If I don't even want to pay for the military support, even if I agree to it for the sake of fame, the soldiers of Ming Dynasty can't agree, can they?"

The meaning is very clear, you have to add money.

Yu Qian said quite approvingly: "Your Majesty is wise! Only if you give them money will they feel at ease."

Only by giving money can these wealthy fugitives feel more at ease, because this means that it is a business, not that Ming is robbing the capital they have worked so hard to oppress the slaves.

"The Daming Navy is very expensive, and they may not be able to afford it." Zhu Qiyu added, his appetite is very big, and all supplies and pensions must be top-notch, so invite the Daming Navy to come out to help the army The fee is not just tens of thousands of taels.

"No matter how expensive it is, it is not as expensive as building a well-trained and powerful navy, Your Majesty." Yu Qian said with a smile.

How expensive is a court?

The counselor of the Nanya government, the current governor of Yingtian, Li Xian, has something to say. At the beginning of the calculation, everyone in the court felt numb. Sun Zhong and others just wanted to surrender.

To maintain the basic stability of a court, the annual administrative expenditure is as high as 800 million taels of silver after being converted into silver, and to maintain an army of 25 people, it is also close to 800 million taels of silver after being converted into silver. The army will not wait and see.

Navy will only be more expensive.

Zhu Qiyu was speechless, nodded and said: "What Yu Shaobao said is reasonable."

When discussing history, the century-old humiliation will be completely attributed to the absence of China in the age of great voyages. Although it is somewhat generalized to a certain extent, the absence of great voyages is indeed an extremely important part of learning from the East and learning from the West. ring.

The inflow of brass and silver directly affected the smoothness of Daming's business exchanges; and the rice in Jiaozhi directly affected the food security of Daming; the emergence of oil palm trees, oil extraction and the vigorous development of related industries were the main reasons for the lack of oil in Daming. complement.

There is also the lime blowtorch that needs oil to smelt light oil, which directly affected the power of the Ming and Dukes to yearn for and pursue the light.

Forget about anything else, let the Ming Gongs of Ming Dynasty be blind, and the Ming Gongs who hold power will be happy?

Zhu Qiyu and Chen Yi had a detailed discussion on palm oil, oil palm plantation and other related issues before nodding in satisfaction.

Tung oil is indeed not tasty, just like lard, only one, but its price in Hong Kong is only one-seventh of that of soybean oil, and the quantity is very large.

Only by solving whether there is a problem can we solve the problem of whether it is good or not.

Zhu Qiyu drank a cup of tea contentedly. After arriving in Fujian, he was in a good mood. With the appearance of oil palm, his mood became even better.

The food, clothing, housing and transportation of the people are the moat and city wall of the emperor.