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Chapter 281: Taking advantage of others

Ever since Chen Yu took the lead in attacking Zheng Jian in the first year of Jingkang, Chen Xun paid special attention to him.

First, he became the commander of the first flintlock army, and then it was a smooth journey. With the power of the flintlock, he made great achievements one after another, and his promotion speed was like a rocket.

Finally, during this year's reorganization, he became the youngest major general in the empire and commanded the Shandong Army.

Among all the group armies, the Shandong Group Army was the smallest in size, with the smallest number of people, and they were all new recruits. From the outside, they thought Chen Yu had lost power.

In fact, everyone knows that Chen Xun is worried that Chen Yu is young and has little experience and will not be able to withstand the heavy burden, so he plans to let him train well in the Shandong Army.

But Chen Yu was very unwilling.

He was promoted quickly and is now the leader among his peers. However, most of his peers are in the frontline troops and may achieve great achievements at any time and may surpass him.

But I stayed in Shandong, there was no war around, and there was no chance to make meritorious deeds.

He has always been worried in his heart that if His Majesty forgets himself for three to five years, his first-mover advantage will be completely lost.

Fortunately, there is always a road ahead. Just when Chen Yu was worried about where to find opportunities to make meritorious deeds, the intelligence sent by Yue Fei as usual made his eyes light up.

Although Shandong is located in the hinterland, there is one place very close to the Jin Kingdom's Shangjing Road, and that is Penglai County in the northern part of the peninsula.

Penglai County is only [-] miles away from Suzhou Pass in the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula on Shangjing Road.

This distance can only be reached by boat in a day.

On the day he received the news, Chen Yu immediately recruited a large number of merchant ships in Penglai and transported all the imperial troops near Penglai to the opposite Liaodong Peninsula.

During this period, the main force of the Jin people was concentrated in Liaoyang Mansion, and the peninsula was almost empty, which happened to be taken advantage of by Chen Yu.

From Tieshan, the southernmost part of the Liaodong Peninsula, to Suzhou Pass, it takes half a day to pass the pass.

Next, Chen Yu went north along the west coast of the peninsula, to Fuzhou, Ningzhou, Chenzhou, and Yaozhou, and successively attacked the state cities, and finally arrived at Liaoyang Prefecture at the same time as Yue Fei.

"Good job!"

Chen Yu happily accepted Yue Fei's praise. He also felt that he was very good for being able to seize such a rare opportunity to make meritorious deeds in the hinterland of the empire.

Next, the credit for conquering Liaoyang Mansion cannot be lost, and he, Chen Yu, will definitely be able to get a share of the pie.

Perhaps, he could also use this to participate in the subsequent war against the Jin Kingdom.

……

On June 100, Chen Xun met in Guangzhou with Fang Yang's expedition team returning from Nanzhanzhou, and personally issued silver notes worth [-] million silver coins to Fang Yang.

The newspaper of the day published in detail the whole process of Fang Yang's expedition team going south to discover the New World, and attached a map.

Under Chen Xun's instruction, the New World became a very fertile land, in order to maximize the motivation for independent private immigration.

In order to support private immigration as a policy, Chen Xun issued a decree - Horse Racing Enclosure.

Anyone who has landed on the New World can enclose land on their own and set boundaries, and the right to use the land within the boundaries is owned by the individual without an upper limit.

Of course, in order to prevent people from frantically enclosing land and not developing it, the decree also sets a limit on the development period. Undeveloped land within the limit time is classified as unowned again, or if it is developed by others for a certain number of years, the land use right belongs to the owner. Developer owned.

The Chinese people's enthusiasm for the land is deep in their bones. Seeing that there is a new continent in the south that is bigger than the land of China waiting to be developed, a frenzied immigration wave immediately set off.

For a time, all industries related to immigration began to enter the lane of rapid development, and even the price of food increased a lot, forcing Chen Xun to open storage warehouses to suppress food prices.

What surprised Chen Xun most was that with the wave of immigration, the "manpower employment" business in Southeast Asian countries also benefited.The Chinese Empire strictly prohibited the slave trade, but there was no way to completely ban disguised "slavery". This will be an unsolvable problem in future generations, let alone now.

Those laborers sell the employment value of the back half of their body at one time for money. After 20, 30, or even 40 years of employment contracts are signed, they are no different from slaves.

In order to stop this extreme exploitation, Chen Xun had to issue an emergency order stipulating that the withdrawal ratio of "employment" fees in advance should not exceed 50.00%.

In other words, at least half of the salary is reserved for these "sold" laborers, so that their future lives will not be completely hopeless.

To this end, Chen Xun also specifically urged the Legislative Yuan to formulate a "Labor Law" as soon as possible to protect the basic rights and interests of workers.

……

In September, after the National Day, Fang Yang's expedition set off again.

This time their target is the North American continent.

In order to improve their success rate, Chen Xun has given Fang Yang all the information he knows about the North American continent.

According to the plan, the expedition team will go north along the East China Sea and finally spend the winter in Nurgan City to adapt to the extreme cold weather in the North.

When the sea surface in Northland thaws next summer, it will reach the North American continent through the Bering Strait.

The Bering Strait is less than two hundred miles at its narrowest point, and there are several large islands in the middle. It is not difficult to reach the North American continent through here. The difficulty lies in knowing that there is a continent further east.

This most difficult point has been solved by Chen Xun. All members of the expedition team completely believe the information given by Chen Xun. The success rate of this expedition can be said to be [-]%.

It seems that there will be two more new continents that need to be developed next year. Chen Xun already feels that the Han population is seriously insufficient.

Plan ahead!

Chen Xun directly arranged for the Legislative Yuan to formulate the "Birth Encouragement Law", which will increase taxes on couples who are over 20 years old and do not have children after marriage without objective reasons.

For families with multiple children, not only tax reductions are provided, but also tax exemptions for families with more than three children, and maternity subsidies for families with more than four children.

"Your Majesty, if this law is established, you should be breaking the law." The president of the Legislative Yuan looked at Chen Xun and said helplessly.

Is this shooting yourself in the foot?

"You legislate first, don't worry about me." Chen Xun replied.

In order not to take the lead in breaking the law, Chen Xun had no choice but to schedule the long-delayed wedding in December.

For his own wedding, Liu Xinqi's initial requirement was to be solemn but not extravagant, ensuring solemnity and dignity while avoiding extravagance and waste.

But Chen Xun has no choice now. As the emperor of the Chinese Empire, the emperor's wedding is the face of the Chinese Empire.

Chen Xun felt that he was now the person with the highest status in the empire. If he made a bad start, the people below him would definitely follow his example. Therefore, in order to avoid "the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked", if he wants to be strict with himself and be frugal, he must first start with himself. Start.

However, this request was strongly opposed by the ministers.

Some upright ministers also clearly told Chen Xun that if the emperor was frugal in his wedding, it would be a slap in the face to all the subjects of the Chinese Empire.

In the end, Chen Xun considered that after so many years of suffering, it was time to enjoy it, and chose to compromise.

However, I still strongly rejected some processes that were too extravagant and wasteful.

(End of this chapter)