Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Because the publicity was strong enough, from August to October, the opening of Yingzhou not only became a hotly discussed matter among the people of Ming Dynasty, but also became a matter that many people participated in.

The seven princes who were about to seal Yingzhou were actively recruiting immigrants, mainly in the five provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi.

Because during the reign of Chongzhen, these five provinces were the places that suffered the least wars, and they were all provinces with narrow land and dense population, which were suitable for immigration.

Although the imperial court moved many people from these five provinces to the north by promoting policies such as clearing Zhang Tianmu and sharing Ding Ding to the north, their population is still large.

It is worth mentioning that Tang Wang Zhu Yujian knew that his fiefdom belonged to tropical regions, so he sent people to Fujian and Guangdong, and only recruited people from these two provinces as immigrants.

He even sent people to Dongfan Island to recruit a group of naturalized Dongfan warriors as soldiers.

Because there are not many native tribes in Yanzhou (New Guinea Island). Although some tribes are initially civilized, there are many native tribes with headhunting customs, and even cannibal tribes.

In addition, the climate there is relatively hot, and most of them are tropical jungles. If you don't bring some Dongbo native warriors as helpers, it may not be easy for Tang Wangling to open up.

Another example is Zhu Yihai, king of Lu, who sent people to Zhejiang to recruit immigrants, and at the same time he was already seeking other more affordable labor.

On this day, he hosted several businessmen in the overseas labor service industry for a banquet in the restaurant.

During the dinner, these businessmen kept touting their respective business capabilities and the advantages of their goods.

"Your Majesty, now that North Korea has been at war with the Qing captives for years, and the higher-ups are extorting violently, many Korean people have been displaced.

The situation was even worse than ten years ago in the north of Daming. I don’t know how many people sold their wives, children and even themselves for a living.

It can be said that buying people in North Korea these days is not right, it is hiring people. Apart from some money needed to run the local government, the hiring itself costs almost nothing.

In addition, if Your Majesty hired those people, he would be doing good deeds and accumulating virtue if he saved them.If this generation goes to Lu Wangling, he will definitely work hard! "

Hearing what the labor businessman who went to North Korea said, Zhu Yihai showed emotion again, and the labor businessman who went to Japan hurriedly spoke up.

"Your Majesty, the Japanese government is now extorting and extorting violently, causing many people to be displaced.

In order to solve this problem, some big names simply cooperate with us and help hire common people to go to sea to work.

Although these people are more expensive, they are of high quality, and the Japanese are more hardworking than the Koreans, and they are more obedient after being tamed. "

After this man finished speaking, other labor service merchants also spoke one after another.

Some "hired" people from Vietnam, some "hired people" from small civilized countries such as Southeast Asia, and some even "hired people" from India.

A group of people talked for a while, and then they expressed a meaning: as long as King Lu speaks, and the money is in place, people from various countries around Daming can get it for you.

Zhu Yihai was very happy, but unfortunately his funds were limited.So after the banquet, people invited the labor businessmen who went to North Korea and Japan to the palace for negotiation.

Apparently, he has taken a fancy to the laborers from North Korea and Japan.

However, he did not plan to transport the laborers from the two countries to the territory in the first batch. Instead, he entrusted labor merchants to send them to Luzon after he took over the feudal domain, and then he asked the imperial court's transport fleet to send them away.

Of course, if the fleet of labor merchants has the ability to sail far away, and they are not afraid of accidents, and are willing to deliver goods to their doorsteps, he is not stingy about paying more for shipping—the freight charges for these labor merchants may be lower than what the imperial court asks for.

On the other hand, after Zhu Huiyan borrowed Zhou Wang Zhu Lunkui's "Yingzhou" class notes to copy, she focused on recruiting farmers.

She is not just talking about running Hui Wangling into a granary in the south of Yingzhou, but she is really planning to do it.

In addition to farmers, she plans to spend a lot of money to recruit two prospectors, dozens of blacksmiths, and a group of miners.

When recruiting immigrants and laborers, the shortcomings of Zhu Huiyan's selection of the territory in the far south of Yingzhou were undoubtedly revealed.

Many people who wanted to become immigrants applied for the recruitment, and after knowing that King Hui was so far away, they left on the spot.

Now Zhu Huiyan needs to spend twice as much to recruit a farmer as Tang Wang and Huai Wang, and [-] times as much as Lu Wang, Yi Wang, and Heng Wang.Even Zhou Wangling's recruitment cost is lower than Hui Wangling's.

Prospectors, blacksmiths, and miners are already labor-intensive occupations in Daming, and they cost more money to recruit.

Prospectors were even hard to come by—Zhu Huiyan finally had no choice but to contact Princess Kunqing for help, and then hired two prospectors with an annual salary of [-] silver dollars plus prospecting rewards.

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The seven princes prepared for more than two months before they formed a huge fleet and went to sea on October [-], the seventh year of Zhaowu.

This fleet was escorted by a squadron of the Dongyang Navy in the East China Sea.After passing Dongfan Island, they will be escorted by two Nanyang Navy squadrons.

In addition, these transport ships are armed merchant ships, equipped with a lot of artillery, which is enough to ensure that the fleet will not be threatened by any overseas hostile forces.

Hall of Martial Arts.

After Auntie Zhu learned that the Yingzhou immigrant fleet had set sail, she couldn't help but read a related document.

This is the first time to immigrate to Yingzhou, the king of Tang took advantage of the short distance, and the immigration funds ranked third, and the number of immigrants and laborers recruited was as high as [-], ranking first among the seven kings.
It was King Lu again, who recruited more than [-] people.

Then came King Zhou, who recruited more than [-] people.

King Hui recruited more than five thousand men.

King Huai had four thousand, and King Yi and King Heng had recruited more than 3000.

The reason why they all recruited more immigrants than the first batch of immigrants in King Lu was that the preparation time was longer, and the second was that they spent all their financial resources.

After all, Yingzhou is far away from Ming Dynasty, and it takes four or five months for each batch of immigrants to pass...
At 05:30 in the afternoon, Zhu Wei, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, was about to get off work and return to the old residence in Zhulin. Unexpectedly, another piece of good news came from the telegraph office.

"Your Majesty, the American Exploration Squadron has sent a telegram, saying that they have arrived in North America!"

After Liu Shuying finished speaking, she handed the telegram to Liu Zhu with a smile.

Auntie Zhu took the telegram and looked at it, she was also full of joy.

Because of the various voyage materials she brought from later generations as a reference, this American Exploration Squadron is well prepared.Coupled with the fact that the personnel are all selected elites and capable people, it can be said that the opening of the sea route from the North Pacific Ocean to North America this time has been smooth sailing.

The squadron set off from Ezo in May, went north through the Soya Strait and then entered the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.Going east slowly along the coastline of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands, it took five months to finally arrive at Yakutat, British Columbia, Canada.

After reading the telegram, Aunt Zhu said: "Call back to the American Exploration Squadron and let them go south as soon as possible."

Now in the Little Ice Age, North American winters are not generally cold.Therefore, the squadron will only establish a few necessary strongholds on the northern coast to facilitate the fleet's temporary supply of fresh water in the future.

The center of gravity of the squadron's expedition to North America this time is mainly the west coastline in the southern half of North America, and the end point is Los Angeles.

As for the return, it is planned to wait until the next year to take the same route, that is, the North Pacific waterway.

As for the South Pacific waterway and the Central Pacific waterway passing through Hawaii Island, we plan to wait a few years before exploring.

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After receiving the telegram from Aunt Zhu, the American Exploration Squadron headed south along the west coast of North America.

Because of the guidance of the information given by Aunt Zhu, the coast is mostly high cliffs and there are few good ports, so the fleet rarely stops.

It took half a month to finally arrive at an important destination marked on the nautical map given by Auntie Zhu.

On the deck of the flagship Ningbo, Shi Lang looked at the long bay in front of the binoculars and said with a smile, "That's right, the front must be the Seattle marked on the map."

Second more.

Good night~