Zhu Youzhen pondered for a long time before he looked up at Wang Chengen and said: "This is really good news, this time should indeed give the people a good news, and it is so encouraging."

Later, you will inform the Daming Times of this news, and ask them to publicize the significance of recovering Taiwan in the newspapers. For example, the island of Taiwan recovered by the Ming Dynasty is such a rich and beautiful land. ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly agreed, Zhu Youzhen paused, and continued: "Relocating some people to freshwater is conducive to speeding up the development of Taiwan's land, and can also bring continuous benefits to Taiwan's reclamation company, which is still a good suggestion."

However, if you want to relocate the population, you will need to spend at least 20 taels of silver per household. If you want to develop the northern part of Taiwan as soon as possible and let the new immigrants take root in the local area, it should be most appropriate to relocate 5,000 families.

Wang Banban, how many refugees from Liaoxi and Phi Island are willing to migrate? Is the statistics out? How many households have been relocated to Jeju Island now? ”

Wang Chengen hurriedly walked to the corner of the study and found some documents, he looked down for a while, and then reported to Chongzhen: "Most of the people in western Liaoning who are willing to move have moved to Yongping Mansion, Tianjin and other places, and the remaining population is about less than 3,000 households.

There are 50,000 to 60,000 families willing to relocate to Phi Island and other places, and about 941 households have already moved to Jeju Island. However, Your Majesty, this Taiwan reclamation company has been losing money since its establishment, and the shareholders of the company have been complaining.

Even maintaining current expenditures is already very difficult. If you want to move 5,000 families to the island, where should the money be allocated? ”

Zhu Youzhen scratched his head, at the beginning of the year, the construction of various workshops, road facilities, and water conservancy projects, the development of coal, iron mines, and iron-smelting plants in western Beijing, Zunhua, Tangshan, and Qianxi, as well as the investment in coal and iron mines in Shanxi, plus the disaster relief funds in various places, etc., the silver deposit in the inner treasury has already spent less than 2 million taels.

If it weren't for the fortune from King Fu and the household officials, it is estimated that there would not be even two million taels left. What can still give him some comfort now is that the Daming Central Bank is running well, and in an emergency, he can call a quota of less than 3 million taels.

Although that being said, Chongzhen did not intend to use the money on the premise that he and the Hui merchants had not yet established a foundation of mutual trust.

Although the profitability of the newly built workshops and the Four Seas Commercial Bank is good, most of these profits are invested in the reproduction process. If he wants to embezzle, it will also be a troublesome matter.

Chongzhen was stunned to find that there were many places where he wanted to spend money, but the money in his hand would never be enough to fill these holes. But he knew that the Ming Dynasty was actually not short of money, but the wealth was just accumulated among the people.

Later in his life, he once watched a television program that showed that the silver flowing into China in the season was as high as 300 million to 500 million taels, half of which came from Japan and half from Spanish America. And the silver stock that China has preserved since ancient times is not included.

After thinking for a long time, Zhu Youzhen suddenly asked Wang Chengen: "Wang Banban, you just said, what kind of loot did Xu Xinsu send this time?" ”

"Fifteen Spanish prisoners, three sets of Western full-body armor, 12 kilograms of golden sand..." Wang Chengen was reading the list in his hand when Chongzhen suddenly interrupted him.

"Sands, this thing is good, but 12 kilograms seems to be a little less. Go get some more and increase the amount to more than 10 kilograms.

Then let the Daming Times publish the news that there is a rich gold mine in northern Taiwan, and a tributary of the Tamsui River is covered with golden sand. However, according to the agreement, the Taiwan reclamation company will own the gold mine for 30 years.

Then let the personnel in charge of managing the Taiwan Reclamation Company get a share prospectus to expand the shares by 200,000 taels for the development of northern Taiwan, including the development of precious metal minerals. ”

Wang Chengen's face did not change, and he readily accepted Chongzhen's order. After closing the document in his hand, he hesitated for a moment before asking the emperor for advice: "Then what does Your Majesty plan to do with these Spanish prisoners they sent, is there a ceremony to be held?" ”

After a moment of silence, Zhu Youzhen finally nodded and said: "Yes, but don't go too far with the ceremony, these Spanish prisoners will still be useful in the future, so after the ceremony is over, it is okay to sentence them to hard labor, don't damage their lives." ”

According to Dong Weixian's report, the fleet returning from Taiwan this time included 1,200 quintals of cane sugar, in addition to deer skins, antler velvets, deer whips, and preserved venison.

Taiwanese sika deer are different from mainland species, one is larger in size, and the other is that the fur is more beautiful. Therefore, Japanese daimyo and samurai were very fond of armor made of Taiwanese deerskin.

After the Dutch settled in Taiwan, they regarded deerskin as a Taiwanese specialty exported to Japan. In addition, sugarcane cultivation began to be promoted on a large scale in order to obtain the sugar, which was the best-selling sugar in overseas trade at this time.

After the Sihai Battalion, which belonged to the Taiwan Reclamation Company, arrived in Taiwan, although the soldiers in the Beijing camp knew that they had been deceived, they quickly succumbed to the pressure of a powerful pirate group under the command of Zheng Chenggong in a completely unfamiliar environment.

Although they approved of the imperial court's arrangements for the Four Seas Camp, they had neither interest nor technology in farming. However, under Dong Weixian's arrangement, they were divided into hunting teams.

Centered on the newly named Chiayi County, these hunting teams hunted and explored in three directions: south, east and north. After penetrating deep into the Pingtung Plain in the south, the Sihai Battalion stopped.

In front of them were the more powerful Kaliyan Society and the Madou Society, as well as the Xingang people who were friendly with the Dutch. Dong Weixian was worried that if the Four Seas Camp was too persecuted, the two societies would also fall to the Dutch.

Chiayi County, 2 to 300 miles to the east, is an endless high mountain, from north to south Taiwan is divided into two parts, east and west. Sihaiying opened up to the east and was welcomed by the Pingdi native tribes who were friendly with the Han Chinese.

Because of their contact with the Han Chinese, the indigenous tribes on these plains have changed from simple hunting tribes to farming tribes. Although the hunting activities of the Four Seas Camp encroached on their hunting grounds, they also brought with them many advanced iron tools and daily necessities.

Moreover, these indigenous tribes are located on the edge of plains and mountains, and are often infested by strong mountain tribes. For these tribes, the loss of some hunting grounds in exchange for the protection of the Han Chinese would be acceptable.

The exploration from Chiayi County to the north stopped at Datuxi River, and further north it was no longer a plain area. There are 25 villages between Chiayi and Datuxi, 15 of which are ruled by the same Tu chief, and these villages have been in contact with the Han people for a long time, also known as Shufan.

During these months of hunting and exploration, Dong Weixian, who was in charge of Taiwan affairs at the Taiwan Reclamation Company, discovered that the plain area centered on Chiayi was full of trees in all seasons, and crops could be harvested three times a year.

The only drawback of this plain is that the precipitation is concentrated in June and August, and if water conservancy facilities are not built, there will be floods in the rainy season and drought in the dry season.

But if this problem can be solved, this plain can be completely turned into a land of fish and rice on the island of Taiwan. At present, there are less than 1,000 hectares of high-yield paddy fields on this plain, and if the rivers on the plain can be repaired, ditches and ponds can be built, the area of paddy fields can be expanded by 4-5 times.

In this way, the task of developing Taiwan's cultivated land required by Chongzhen can be easily accomplished. However, there are now 40,000 or 50,000 natives on this plain plus mainland immigrants, and if you want to develop the entire plain area, you must at least double the population.

After Dong Weixian finished reporting on his work in the past few months, he roughly talked about what Zhou Kangeng, the prefect of Taiwan who is now in charge of civil affairs on the island of Taiwan, and Zheng Zhilong, a man from Chiayi County, who is in charge of Taiwan's coastal defense, have done in the past few months.

After the former arrived in Taiwan, he quickly seized the civil power of the newly established Chiayi County. He also visited the Turen and Han villages in the entire Chiayi County, and mobilized nearly 1,000 people to carry out preliminary rectification of several major rivers flowing through Chiayi County.

As for Zheng Zhilong, he has no objection to Zhou Kangeng and Dong Weixian's development of Taiwan's interior, but has a firm grasp of the control of Beigang.

According to Dong Weixian's report, the Chiayi county man now spends most of his time on Xiamen Island, a newly opened trade port.

Because Xu Xinsu gave up Fujian's foundation, Zheng Zhilong finally gained control of Fujian's foreign trade. The geographical location of Xiamen Island is far superior to that of Yuegang, and if it weren't for the fact that he also has the title of a chiayi county baron, it is estimated that Zheng Zhilong would have transferred Taiwan's foundation to the mainland a long time ago.

Now, although he has also divided part of his energy into the construction of Beigang, most of his energy is still on Xiamen Island. Xiamen Island is not far from Zheng Zhilong's hometown of Jinjiang Anhai Town, where he has built a lot of buildings, which can be said to be a return to his hometown.

After listening to the report sent by Dong Weixian, Zhu Youzhen slowly reminisced, and asked: "Did the Taiwanese prefect Zhou Kangeng and the Chiayi County man Zheng Zhilong send the chapter with the ship?" ”

After Wang Chengen flipped through the documents in his hand, he immediately said: "Both of them have a concert, Your Majesty wants to listen to it?" ”

"Well, let's miss it." Zhu Youzhen nodded and said.

Wang Chengen immediately rummaged through two pieces of music, and the first thing he read was Zhou Kangeng's music, the content of the new Taiwan governor's music was similar to Dong Weixian's report.

However, he believes that although the land in the plains of western Taiwan is fertile, it may not be worth the loss to convert all of them into rice-producing areas.

After referring to the Dutch's agricultural guidance to Taiwan's indigenous people, he believed that in addition to relocating the population and repairing water conservancy facilities, the development of Taiwan should also change to a three-year crop rotation system.

That is, one-third is planted with sugarcane, one-third is planted with miscellaneous grains, and one-third is planted with rice. Among them, the cultivation of miscellaneous grains and sugarcane does not require too much water, which can well resist the possibility of drought and is more suitable for Taiwan's agriculture.

Taiwan's soil is more suitable for planting sweet potatoes, which have a high yield and are drought tolerant, which is really a treasure for farmers.

At the end of the recital, he might as well sue Dong Weixian and Zheng Zhilong. The military discipline of the Sihai Battalion under the former was too poor, and the harassment of the Turen villages was too great, which greatly damaged the harmonious relationship between the Turen and the Han people in the plain area before.

Zheng Zhilong took advantage of the severe drought in southern Fujian this year and was wantonly relocating the population of Fujian to Taiwan, although this would help the imperial court to control Taiwan, but the population migration of a single province would also cause the hidden danger of the Zheng family's excessive influence in Taiwan.

Therefore, he suggested that the emperor ordered Dong Weixian to rectify the military discipline of the Sihai Battalion, and that the immigration to Taiwan should be presided over by the imperial court and not fall into private hands.