Bai Wenxuan went to Qiongzhou for the New Year, and he was amazed by everything he saw in Qiongzhou.

Since Wang Xinyu left Qiongzhou for more than half a year, Qiongzhou has developed by leaps and bounds, Haikou City has been completed, the construction is a new style with a fortress, the city is prosperous in commerce, the wide stone road is full of shops on both sides, in addition to the army living in Qiongzhou, most of the family members also live here, and many ordinary people have moved to the city.

The facilities in the city are very complete, with commercial areas, residential areas, factory areas and barracks areas.

"What is this donkey pulling?" Bai Wenxuan pointed to the disc pulled by the donkey and asked, "It doesn't look like a grinding disc, what is this thing for?" ”

In front is a tall tower with four donkeys pulling four discs, and there seems to be iron pipes connected to the discs.

Fang Yizhi told Bai Wenxuan: "Lord Wang, this tower is a water tower, and this disc is a spiral pumping machine, which can pump water from the underwater well and fill it into the water tower. The water tower is connected to the house by bamboo pipes so that the water can flow automatically into the barracks, shops and public toilets. ”

"Public toilets?" Bai Wenxuan asked in surprise.

"It's the house." Fang Yizhi pointed to a building with a beautiful appearance and said.

When you walk into the building, you can see that it is divided into men's and women's toilets, and after you finish untying your hands inside, you can pull the rope and automatically release water to rinse. There is no smell in this toilet and it is very clean.

"This is what the Admiral said, if the hygiene is done well, the disease can be reduced." Fang Yizhi said.

"There aren't many places where the water from the water tower can be provided?" Bai Wenxuan asked.

"It's not much, the average resident draws water from the well at home, and the water tower can not store a lot of water."

Out of Haikou New Town, I saw a stone road paved on the wharf, and a wide stone road led straight to the distant central mountainous area. There are many large trucks loaded with iron ore and coal from the mountains in the distance. Mules, donkeys and oxen pulled carts into the docks, after which iron ore and coal were loaded onto ships.

"Qiongzhou's coal and iron ore mines have been developed. The ore miners were captured Tartar captives. Fang Yizhi said.

"It's like there's more iron ore and less coal." Bai Wen Xuandao.

Fang Yizhi nodded and said, "Not bad!" There is no shortage of iron ore in Qiongzhou, but there are too few coal mines. And there are many coal mines in Annan, and this time the Admiral will personally go to Qiongzhou to talk to them about coal mining. ”

"Before, those Annan people didn't agree with us to open a mine, but now they are scared, and they can't help it!" Bai Wenxuan laughed a few times.

Outside the city of Haikou, many workshops have also been established, including mills for processing grain, workshops for making spices, and weaving workshops. There are also porcelain kilns for firing ceramics, factories for producing tea, workshops for making vehicles, and workshops for processing food.

What surprised Bai Wenxuan the most was that there was also a cigarette factory here, because he asked about the aroma of roasted tobacco leaves from afar.

"Didn't you say there were cigarette factories in Singapore? We also have a cigarette factory over there, why is there a cigarette factory here? Bai Wenxuan asked.

"The more cigarette factories, the better, and this is a lot of money! The cigarette factory in Singapore mainly sells to the Tessie people; Here are the troops sold to themselves, and there are also sold to Zhejiang. Fujian, Taiwan and other places; The one on your side is sold to Yunnan. ”

The New Year has just passed, and all parts of Qiongzhou are busy. The barracks have already begun training, and the shops are already open. The workshops have also started.

Bai Wenxuan was very surprised to find that there were several Mongolian soldiers in the Qiongzhou army. After asking Fang Yizhi, Bai Wenxuan understood what was going on.

As for those prisoners of the Qing soldiers who worked in the mines. Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day were also given holidays, and the Qiongzhou soldiers who were guarding them gave the captives extra meals, allowing them to eat white rice and a small amount of meat. Wages were also paid. Those captives who have been reformed well will be able to regain their status as a free man after two years, and they can choose to become soldiers or do other things.

However, the prisoner of war camp was not so peaceful, and a few years ago the Mongols came to report that several Manchus and Han Chinese were trying to rebel. As a result, according to the report of the Mongols, the Qiongzhou army suppressed the prisoners who tried to make trouble, and the severed heads were hung on the mines.

Originally, there was a contradiction between the Mongols and the Manchus, and a few Manchus who did not know whether they were alive or dead tried to rebel, but they were naturally reported by the Mongols who had already targeted them.

The meritorious Mongols were immediately freed. After the Mongols regained their freedom, they had nowhere to go, so they chose to become soldiers. They were drafted into the army and served as cavalry instructors.

"Even if it is a Manchurian, as long as we honestly accept the reform, use our own labor to wash away the crime, and truly turn ourselves into Han Chinese, we can accept it. But if you make trouble, you will definitely be severely punished! Fang Yizhi said.

The beginning of the Lunar New Year means the arrival of the first year of Kangxi. Shunzhi died early last year, and it was a leap year, and the ass of the little emperor Kangxi sat on the dragon chair for more than a whole year before he officially used the name of the first year of Kangxi.

The seven-year-old little emperor sat on the dragon chair and listened to the duet between the auxiliary minister and his grandmother in a serious manner. Listening to the ministers and grandmothers talking about the new emperor's year, the celebration of the whole world, the amnesty of the world, etc., some people objected that the southwest and southeast are not peaceful, and it is not appropriate to amnesty the world. The little emperor didn't know much about this, and he only saw the spitting of saliva, which was incompatible with Sukesaha.

Suppilon stood on Aobai's side, and the old Shousuke Sonny looked weak and incompetent, like a puppet, and had no opinion, but kept claiming that he was unwell and wanted to give way to Shousuke.

The Empress Dowager looked at the more and more domineering Aobai, and felt very uncomfortable, and secretly thought: This Aobai is becoming more and more unpleasant! That's pride! When Emperor Taizong was in the past, Ao Bai was loyal and a simple person, how did he become like this now? I didn't expect it, I don't know my heart, this person will have to be eliminated sooner or later, otherwise it will be too much of a threat to my grandson!

After retreating from the dynasty, the Empress Dowager led the little emperor to the apse.

"Good grandson, you have to remember, this Ao Bai is not a good thing!" The Empress Dowager hugged the little emperor and said softly.

"Grandma, isn't he a hero of our Great Qing Kingdom?"

"That's right! It's just that he has so much credit that it's hard for us to control! Good grandson, you have to remember one thing, disobedient heroes deserve to die! The Empress Dowager said with hideous hatred.

In fact, Ao Bai is loyal, very loyal to Kangxi and Xiaozhuang, and to the Qing Dynasty. It was that the Yu Hope for power was too high, so he wooed Curb Bilong, killed Kangxi's personal guards who were disrespectful to him without authorization, and executed the three people including Hubu Shangshu Sunahai, Zhili Governor Zhu Changzuo, and Governor Wang Denglian, and later designed to get rid of Suke Saha, who had been against him, which led to the later Empress Dowager becoming more determined to get rid of Aobai.

The new emperor's year name is used, and the world is amnesty? Nothing to do! With regard to major cases such as the Tonghai case, Ao Bai ordered that it must be strictly investigated, and after the investigation and punishment, the "human offenders" must be severely punished.

Raiding those Jiangnan Shi clans can deprive them of their property. They were killed as fattened pigs, and part of the property obtained was eaten by Zhu Guozhi and other officials, and part of it was handed over to the Qing court, otherwise how would the Qing court solve the financial problems caused by years of war? They don't think it's fast enough to rely on Jiangnan's taxes alone, and it's better to raid their homes the fastest.

With the above will, Zhu Guozhi began to extend his hand to Zhejiang, which was not originally under his control.

Zhu Changzuo, the governor of Zhejiang, is not too bad, but Zhu Guozhi of Jiangsu has the will of the above, and there are also some so-called "confessions" of people who have been tortured as evidence, and Zhu Changzuo does not dare to disobey. Knowing that those Jiangnan scholars in Shanyin and Huiji were innocent, he had to send an order to Shaoxing Mansion to arrest the Jiangnan scholars on the list.

The communication back then was inconvenient, and Zhu Changzuo also deliberately delayed time. Because of the drought in Zhejiang a few years ago, under his persuasion, many Zhejiang gentry also took out silver for disaster relief, and wanted to do something to them, Zhu Changzuo still felt a little unbearable. Therefore, the arrest sent to arrest people did not arrive so quickly.

Thousands of miles away from the Kingdom of Dayue. Wang Xinyu, who had just left after the New Year, was escorted by a group of personal soldiers and the cavalry of Li Dingguo's department, and hurried to Tokyo by land on horseback.

In the Imperial Palace of the Great Yue Kingdom in Tokyo, the Great Yue Emperor Li Weiqi sat on the main hall. The seat of Lord Zheng to his left had long since been moved, and no one could sit on an equal footing with him Emperor Dayue. However, Mo Jingyu and Ruan Phuc Wei in the audience were arguing, as if they wanted to compete for the position of the new Zheng Zhu.

Ruan Phuc Wei hurriedly came by clipper from the south, just to be able to compete with Mo Jingyu for power.

As a "great hero" and a general of the Shangguo Kingdom, Liu Qi naturally received a seat from the emperor and sat in front of all the civil and military officials in front of the main hall.

Liu Qi looked coldly at both sides of the argument and did not express his opinion. Although he had decided to adopt Wang Yuyou's proposal, let the Ruan family deal with the Zheng family in Qinghua, and let the Mo family stay in Tokyo to contain the Li family, but because of this kind of major matter, he didn't dare to make decisions on his own, and he had to wait until Wang Xinyu arrived before deciding the matter.

A few days later, Wang Xinyu and his entourage rushed to Tokyo.

"Lord Wang!" Liu Qi took Wang Yuyou out of the mansion to greet him.

Wang Xinyu met Wang Yuyou and asked him about his plans for Vietnam. When Wang Yuyou told his plan, Wang Xinyu was very impressed by this person's plan.

"That's a brilliant plan! We deliberately left the Zheng family immortal, and with the Li family, the nominal emperor, issued an order, let the Ruan family deal with the Zheng family, and then let the Mo family contain the Li family. In this way, the Li family, the titular Dayue Emperor, is the center, and the Ruan, Mo and Zheng families contain each other, just like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

"If one of the two Zheng Ruan families wants to come hard, can the Mo family stop it?" Liu Qi asked.

Wang Yuyou said: "The Li family also has brains, the strength of the Li family is on a par with the Mo family, if the Li family is controlled by the Ruan family or the Zheng family, there will be no future." If you unite with the Mo family to deal with one of them, you can still deal with it. What's more, whether it is the Ruan family or the Zheng family, they still need this puppet emperor. ”

"It's the best thing they can do! I'm not afraid that Annan people won't join us in the future! Wang Xinyu said.

Liu Qi asked, "Why is Lord Wang so sure that they will join us in the future?" ”

"As long as they see that we are rich and our people's lives are better, they cry and beg to join us! We won't be too lazy to ask for them then! Wang Xinyu said with a smile. Later generations of the United States and Mexico, at first the United States annexed Mexican land. Later, Mexico wanted to join the United States, but the United States did not agree.

What the Nanyang Company wanted was only the cheap mineral resources of Annam, and then sold its own industrial products to Annam, and did not need their people, so it was the best way to achieve semi-colonial management, and use the Annam people themselves to manage the Annamite people, and let their emperor and army let them provide minerals to the Ming Dynasty and buy the industrial products of the Ming Dynasty.

Annan's financial income is very small, and each family's annual income is only a few hundred thousand taels of silver.

In this regard, all three companies will agree to Nanyang Company's development of minerals in Annam, buy cheap grain, hire cheap labor, and exploit the people of Annam.

After meeting Li Weiqi, the emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom, Wang Xinyu went to persuade the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom: "You are still your emperor, and we will not occupy your territory." In addition, you issued an order to the Ruan family and asked them to deploy troops in the Taiyuan area to deal with the Zheng family, so that there would be one less threat by your side! As for the Mo family, you have to join forces with the Mo family in order to play a three-legged stand and contain the Ruan and Zheng families. This is the best way for you to maintain the balance of the Great Viet Kingdom. ”

Li Weiqi is not a straw bag, he knows that Wang Xinyu's proposal is very reasonable. But he asked again: "Send the Ruan family out, he won't resist the decree, right?" ”

"Resistance? He didn't dare! If he resists the decree, you and the Mo family will deal with him together, and your strength will all be weakened, won't it be cheaper for the Zheng family? He wouldn't be so stupid! Wang Xinyu said with a smile.

Subsequently, Li Weiqi issued an order to Ruan Fuxian, asking him to transfer the troops in the capital and deploy heavy troops to the Taiyuan area to deal with the Zheng family, which may invade at any time.

Nguyen Phuc Bin also bargained, and in the end, the Nguyen family left 10,000 troops in Tokyo, so they sent the rest of the troops out of the city to deal with the Zheng family. And the Mo family's strength is insufficient, so they can only join forces with the Li family.

Later, Wang Xinyu came forward as a representative of Nanyang Company and signed an agreement with Annan on the development of Annan minerals.

Nanyang Company developed coal mines in Annam and hired Annan people as employees; Nanyang Company buys grain from Annam, and Annam sells it to Nanyang Company at a preferential price; Nanyang Company supplied industrial products such as cloth, ceramics, and ironware to Annam. In addition, the escort unit used by Nanyang Company to protect the company's interests was stationed in Annam.

Although these agreements did not benefit the country of Annam at all, Wang Xinyu gave great benefits to the Li family, the Mo family, and the Ruan family, and all the goods imported and exported, and these three families could get the silver they deserved.

No matter which one it is, think about it, not only do they have no losses, but they can also get rich, and they can get more income than their original taxes, and Nanyang Company is exploiting ordinary people, so these three agreed. (To be continued.) )