The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 219 Qiongzhou Development Plan
Zhu Hongyu ordered someone to fetch a map of the Southeast China Sea, spread it out on the table, and then pointed to the locations of Guangzhou and Fuzhou on the map and said.

"Guangzhou and Fuzhou are both on the coast. Rather than attacking South Australia, it is better to fight Guangzhou or Fuzhou!"

"If our army can threaten Guangzhou or Fuzhou, the Qing army will definitely return to help, and the siege of Nan'ao will be resolved."

Before he had enough strength, Zhu Hongyu didn't want to have a large-scale decisive battle with the Qing army.

It's the best choice to fight coldly against the scattered forces of the Qing army!

Thinking of these, Zhu Hongyu thought of Macau again.

Just as the Ming army was able to take Macau and station a certain amount of troops near Macau, it could greatly attract the Qing army to Pingnan Palace.

Share the pressure for the anti-Qing rebels along the coast!

Zheng Chenggong nodded, and then spoke again.

"I don't know when His Royal Highness Jian Guo thinks it is more appropriate to send troops?"

Zhu Hongyu pondered for a while, then spoke.

"Let's fix it for a while!"

"The soldiers came across the sea, and today they fought another battle, and they are exhausted physically and mentally!"

"Even if there is money to reward, you still need to rest!"

Zheng Jun's soldiers have long been used to the bumps in the sea, but the Guangfu Army can't.

After sitting on the boat for a while, a large number of Liberation Army soldiers need to rest and recover their strength!

Of course, another point is that Zhu Hongyu still needs some time to sort out Qiongzhou's internal affairs.

Get ready for the great development of Qiongzhou!
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Zhu Hongyu returned to his bedroom, the bedding and everything were brand new.

But he didn't go to sleep immediately, but began to write Qiongzhou's development plan at his desk.

Zhu Hongyu searched his memory and suddenly remembered that there is a Shilu iron mine in Qiongzhou known as "the richest iron mine in Asia".

The iron ore is of excellent quality!

If the Restoration Army can develop this iron mine, it will definitely greatly enhance the industrial strength of the Restoration Army.

Luzon has iron ore, but the quality of iron ore is not very good.

As a result, the tapping rate of the Guangfu Army's steelmaking furnace was very low.

In fact, when it comes to iron ore, Australia's iron ore is the best choice.

It's just a pity that at present, Daming is unable to develop Australia.

Shilu Iron Mine may be able to make up for this to a certain extent!
There is agricultural development!
To some extent, Qiongzhou is actually more developed than Dayuan and Luzon.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, China has been developing Qiongzhou. After hundreds of years of reclamation, Qiongzhou is full of fertile fields with two crops and three crops a year.

There is also the cultivation of cash crops!
Such as sugar cane, tea, and various tropical fruits!
What's more worth mentioning is that Qiongzhou can grow wheat.

The agricultural development plan formulated by Zhu Hongyu is to promote the development of the grain industry while also promoting the expansion of the planting area of ​​cash crops.

Whether it is sugar or tea, they are the leading products of China's foreign trade in this era!

Because of these two things, only China can do the world!
There is also the matter of promoting business development!
On the one hand, it is to promote sea trade, and on the other hand, it is to find ways to stimulate internal purchasing power.

Qiongzhou has a large population, and the Han people plus the few people, it is estimated that there are almost one million people!

In fact, before the end of Ming Dynasty, there were not so many people in Qiongzhou.

However, years of wars have caused a large number of people to migrate from the mainland to the Southeast Asia.

During this process, Qiongzhou also received a lot of people.

If the purchasing power of these 100 million people is fully utilized, it will definitely greatly stimulate the commercial development of Qiongzhou.

It's just a pity that class oppression in this era is very severe.

It is good for the people at the bottom to fill their stomachs, but it is difficult to stimulate their purchasing power.

Of course, in order to win over the people at the bottom, Zhu Hongyu will definitely do something.

For example, for owner farmers and small landowners, he can continue to implement the policy of no taxation for three years and five and a half years in Luzon Island!

What's more, open the channel to emigrate to Luzon for tenants who have little land, or have no land at all, and live on the land of the landlord's family!

And the unowned land in Luzon will be distributed to the people for reclamation free of charge, and the government will provide seeds and farm tools.

Although Qiongzhou is well-developed, there are many mature fields.

But if Zhu Hongyu doesn't want to beat the local tyrants, divide the land, and offend the landlord and gentry class to death.

There is hardly any room for manipulation!
But Luzon is not!

The current Luzon is a blank slate, especially after Luzon's Spanish strength has been completely eliminated.

In Luzon now, Zhu Hongyu can completely let Zhu Hongyu paint freely.

Now, Zhu Hongyu's plan is to use Luzon as a pressure relief valve for Qiongzhou!

Migration of the surplus population from Qiongzhou to Luzon is to develop Luzon on the one hand and alleviate social conflicts in Qiongzhou on the other hand.

A large number of landless farmers have immigrated to Luzon, and the number of tenants in Qiongzhou has decreased. In order to retain tenants, landlords and gentry must reduce rent and interest.

In this way, the social contradictions in Qiongzhou can naturally be alleviated!

Logically speaking, the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty lasted for decades, and the population loss in various places was serious, so social conflicts should not be very acute.

However, Qiongzhou was isolated overseas, and neither the Qing army nor the Ming army looked down on it, and it was not the focus of the two sides' contention at all.

Therefore, the war rarely spread to Qiongzhou.

Moreover, the war caused a large influx of people, which made Qiongzhou's population even larger than that of Ming Chongzhen!

The final result is that the social contradictions in Qiongzhou are even more serious than in the Chongzhen year.

This thing is magical, but it is reality!

But this is just Zhu Hongyu's prediction.

He can be sure that Qiongzhou has a large population now, but how many are there.

He didn't know until the detailed results of the investigation of Dingkou were reported.

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Zhu Hongyu put down the pen in his hand, glanced at the sky, and prepared to sleep.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

After being strictly inspected, a beautiful maid came in with hot water, ready to dress him up and wash.

The maid looks very beautiful, with soft features, big and energetic eyes, eyebrows like distant mountains, crimson lips, fair skin like mutton fat jade...

She has a slender figure, giving people a soft and weak feeling, a very outstanding beauty!
However, her movements were a bit clumsy, not like a maid serving others, but more like a pampered young lady.

"Grandfather ordered the slave family to serve His Highness Jian Guo!"

There was some obvious fear on the beauty's face, and she said in a soft voice.

Zhu Hongyu was stunned, knowing that he guessed right, this is really a rich lady.

This Wen Liangchen is really an old fox.

Not only did I give myself a mansion, but I also gave away a granddaughter, what a treat!
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly, took off his robe, hung it aside casually, and asked.

"What's your name?"

The beauty lowered her head shyly, and then spoke.

"My family... my family's name is Wenwen."

"How old is this year?"

Zhu Hongyu stepped forward, took warm water towels and other things from Wenwen, put them on the wooden shelf, and asked.

Wen Wen stood aside a little at a loss, and answered.

"Return...report to His Highness Jian Guo!"

"My family is sixteen this year..."

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