Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 478 Xinxiangfu City
Xinxiangfu City is also the original Batavia, now the capital of the British government.

As for why the place name of Xinxiangfu was chosen, it is because Zhang Yu, king of Hejian, and Zhang Fu, the first British prince, were both from Xiangfu.

Xiangfu is actually the capital city of Kaifeng Prefecture in Henan Province at this moment.

Because Taichang personally determined the relationship between the place names such as the New Tang State Mansion, New Chang'an City, and New Jinling City, the place names for the newly opened territory of the Ming Dynasty basically put a new character on the front of the ground in the original Ming Dynasty.

This method has already formed a trend in the two newly opened provinces of Dongyang and Nanyang.

After Taichang left Manila, he went straight to Xinxiangfu City.

This place was originally taken by him at the head of the army, so he is naturally familiar with it.

However, after the naval fleet entered Xinxiangfu Port, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The reason why he was shocked was not because this new Xiangfu Port was very different from the past.

At this time, Xinxiangfu Port has all changed the pier on the left side into a large pier specially designed for two thousand ships to dock, and the pier on the right side has basically remained the same as before, even just Even the buildings on the two bastions have not been changed.

He was shocked because the pier on the right side of Xinxiangfu Port was already full of sailboats, and there were also [-] armed merchant ships of the Daming Western Company parked on the pier on the left side.

These boats seem to be pulling people, and almost all the boats are pouring people down.

Who are these people?
Taichang scanned with the binoculars for a long time but couldn't figure out exactly where these people came from and what they came for.

Those who got off the boat were all young and strong, and there were all kinds of young and strong. It seemed that there were some from the East, some from the Ming Dynasty, and even some Nanyang natives who were slightly tanned.

The flagship soon approached the pier, and the British public Zhang Weixian, Zheng Zhilong, Xu Erjue and others were already waiting there.

Why are these two boys here?

After paying respects to the emperor and ministers, Taichang couldn't help asking: "Weixian, why are there so many boats here?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Weixian quickly explained: "Except for the [-] new armed merchant ships, these ships are all rented by our ministers from the navy through the Western Company. Rest assured, the freight of these ships will be paid by our ministers at market prices. This humble official is not greedy for the cheap money of navy masters and Western firms."

I'm not saying you're greedy for cheap!
Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "That's not what I'm talking about, I just want to ask where the people on these boats are brought from, why did you bring so many people here?"

If all the people brought here were from Daming, he naturally knew that Zhang Weixian was brought here to develop this island.

The problem is not, it seems that few of these people came from Daming.

This is a bit strange, it is impossible for Zhang Weixian to distribute the land to these Nanyang natives or even the Orientals, right?
If so, it's kind of ridiculous.

Therefore, he has to ask clearly.

But Zhang Weixian said without hesitation: "These people are drawn from Dongyang, Annan, Chenla and Luzon. They are all here to do farm work."

Uh, none of them came from the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and these people were all brought here to do farm work?
How many people have you pulled here? I'm afraid it's more than a hundred thousand!
The development here is later than Dongfan, and does it require more labor than Dongfan?

Taichang couldn't help but asked curiously: "How many acres of land have you opened up here? Are all the land here distributed to the common people of Ming Dynasty?"

Zhang Weixian nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, all the land and officials here are allocated to the common people of Daming. If calculated according to the population at the end of last year, the entire British government has opened up more than 100 million mu of land. , this year, if the armed merchant ships of the Western Company are free, Weichen plans to open the land to about 4000 million mu."

My goodness, this land is counted as tens of millions of acres!

Ready to open nearly 2000 million mu of land in one year?
Where do you get so many people to open up wasteland and farm land!

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but say: "Where do you find so many people farming land, Dongyang, Annan, Chenla, Luzon and other places?"

This is a long story.

Zhang Weixian thought for a while, then asked: "Your Majesty, why don't we find a place to talk?"

Well, it's not a problem to chat on the pier all the time.

Taichang looked at the bastion in the distance and then at the flagship behind him, still raised his hand and said, "Alright then, let's talk on the ship."

Soon, a group of people came to the meeting hall on the top floor of the flagship.

After Taichang invited everyone to sit down, he couldn't help but asked: "I remember that there were only a few hundred thousand people here, and the Dutch seemed to have only opened up a few million acres of land in total. Why did you open up this land to two places at once?" More than one million mu?"

Zhang Weixian explained in detail: "Didn't the emperor say that he wanted to develop this place as soon as possible, so I thought of a way to go to Kaifeng Mansion and Guide Mansion and other places to recruit some ordinary people. These places were developed after they came here. of."

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help being surprised and said: "You went to the inland provinces to recruit people! Are they willing to come to this extremely hot Nanyang?"

If it were before he cleaned up the vassal king, those ordinary people would probably be willing to come here.

After all, before he took over the vassal kings, most of the land in Henan was private land of the vassal kings, and the common people basically could only be tenant farmers, with nothing to do.

If you want to attract people here, it must be as much land as they can plant, and most of the land harvested by these ordinary people is their own, only need to pay [-]% of the tax.

This kind of treatment is still very attractive to tenant farmers who have no money to spend.

The problem is that the vassal kings have been taken care of by him now, and the land in the northwest provinces has basically been distributed to the common people, and the Ministry of Agriculture is still promoting water conservancy over there, promoting high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, and the common people's lives should be good. Why are they willing to go to places like Nanyang to suffer?
Zhang Weixian explained in detail: "This is because the conditions offered to them by Wei Chen are better, and Wei Chen ordered people to go to the Kaifeng Mansion to post a notice that all the people who come to Nanyang, regardless of men, women, old or young, will be given a share For a hundred mu of land, each family will give a new year.

Moreover, in the first year when the land here is opened, we do not collect any taxes, and they only need to pay half of the tax from the imperial court.

One hundred mu of land per person can harvest tens of taels of silver even if they only plant one season a year, not to mention that it is no problem to plant three seasons a year and four seasons here.

So, after the first batch of people came and tried for about half a year, the people in Kaifeng Prefecture and nearby prefectures were all eager to come here.

As long as the Western Company has enough ships, it will be easy to recruit more than 2000 people. More than 4000 people will be more than [-] million mu of land. Therefore, Wei Chen said that this year the land can be opened to about [-] million mu. . "

Uh, this condition is really tempting.

The problem is that a laborer can plant [-] mu of land even if he has cattle to plow the land for a year, and he will be exhausted after one season of planting.

You give each person one hundred acres of land, and let them plant several seasons a year!

Hearing this, Taichang was puzzled and said, "How many seasons can a person plant in a year if he plants a hundred mu of land?"

Zhang Weixian quickly explained: "Isn't this minister trying his best to bring people from Dongyang, Annan, Chenla and Luzon to plant land for them? They can hire part-time labor or tenant farmers, and the first year's freight and wages We borrowed money from the Daming Bank to pay them in advance, and we also asked Western companies to lend them the fertilizer they used, and they just paid back the money they made the next year."

It turned out to be the case.

This is simply inviting people to come over to make money, no wonder people are rushing to come.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help giving a thumbs up and said: "Ginger is still hot, Wei Xian, your ideas are really good. Originally, I was worried that there would not be enough food here for us to develop the territory in the south of Nanyang. Now it seems that the food here should Is it enough to feed millions of people?"

That must be enough.

Zhang Weixian nodded and said: "Basically, three seasons are planted here a year. Except for the profitable things mentioned by the Dutch, at least one season of grain is planted every year. Now the two million acres of land support two to three million people. It’s definitely not a problem, and the grain here is cheap, one tael of silver can buy four shi, which is the price that Western companies buy grain from here.”

My God, one tael of silver and four stones, that's six or seven hundred catties!

The food here is really cheap.

well.

The British government has really become a food supply base, so Daming can safely and boldly develop those big islands in the south of Nanyang!

(End of this chapter)