Seeing Chen Qingren's surprise, Liu Si told him the story.

After listening to Liu Si's story, Chen Qingren understood why Liu Si suddenly found him and said that he had taken over Wang Dong and Wang Shuai's errands.

It turned out that not long ago, Wang Dong's decision to replace Xinming, Governor of Pan Mengyuan, had been confirmed. After the change of military service department next year, Wang Dong will set off from the Ming Dynasty to Xinming, and then serve as the plenipotent Minister of the Ming Dynasty to replace the current Governor of Xinming.

If it were just a replacement, Wang Dong's former military minister and founding first-class duke seemed to be a bit useless when he went to Xinming. After all, the current governor of Xinming, Pan Mengyuan, was only Wang Dong's subordinate at the time, and his status in the court or the level in the army was far inferior to Wang Dong.

However, according to Liu Si, the reason why the court asked Wang Dong to go to Xinming this time was because Emperor Zhu Yicheng decided to make a major adjustment to Xinming and set up provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties to break the original loose political structure of Xinming, so that Xinming and local areas would be included in direct jurisdiction.

In addition, after Wang Dong arrived in Xinming, the court would also make a clear adjustment to Xinming's military and political affairs, and completely separate the military and political affairs, thereby strengthening the central government's control over Xinming and increasing the efforts to develop Xinming.

In addition to these, there are also complex situations facing Xinming that also need to be dealt with. These include diplomacy, military, business, etc. between France, Britain, Spain and the Ming Dynasty, as well as the conquest and naturalization of the Indians in Xinming. Looking at the entire court, only Wang Dong, a person with both qualifications and prestige, can be competent.

Although he was just a replacement for Pan Mengyuan, many of Xinming's officials are considered Wang Dong's former subordinates. After all, when Pan Mengyuan was exploring Xinming, he was still a navy general at that time, so the first group of people who arrived in Xinming were basically from the navy.

In recent years, although the Ming Dynasty has made great efforts to immigrate Xinming, the official and private immigrants exceeded the huge number of 20,000 to 30,000 people per year from the beginning. In the third year, the Ming Dynasty sent nearly 50,000 people to Xinming through various channels in this year, reaching the peak of immigration, and then gradually becoming stable.

In addition to immigrants, there are also naturalized Indians. These people who have begun to wear Hanfu, speak Chinese, and learn from the Ming people that they have begun to grow food and are used to the Ming life. It is difficult to distinguish the differences if they have not looked carefully.

In addition, the combination of Ming and Indian families has brought more and more children. As time goes by, the number of this mixed-race child continues to rise in tens of thousands every year, which is probably not enough for more than ten years. When the next generation fully grows up, these Indians will be able to fully integrate into the Ming group, and there is no difference.

It is precisely because of the above that Xinming is no longer the wild land that was originally developed. The expansion of territory and the surge in population. If there is no good national organization to operate and manage it, then no one can predict what kind of way Xinming will develop in the future.

Zhu Yicheng's foreign policy was completely different from the colonial policies of Western countries. From the beginning, Zhu Yicheng regarded Xinming as the new territory of the Ming Dynasty, not just as simple as a colony. Therefore, what the Ming Dynasty needed in Xinming was long-term stability, rather than simply plundering resources to make profits from it. This was the main reason why Zhu Yicheng decided to send important officials like Wang Dong to Xinming at this stage of the development of Xinming to this stage.

Since he learned that he was going to Xinming, Wang Dong also conducted a detailed investigation of Xinming's situation and collected a lot of information through his identities as Minister of Military Affairs and Navy Commander. He admitted that Pan Mengyuan did a good job in Xinming. If it were someone else, it would be impossible for Pan Mengyuan to achieve his current achievements, and this contribution cannot be erased.

However, Pan Mengyuan also has his limitations, or he considered it, but because of the rapid expansion, he could not expect Xinming's rapid changes.

Not to mention the rest, Pan Mengyuan didn't want to do the work of provinces, prefectures, prefectures and counties that Zhu Yicheng wanted to hand over to him, but he couldn't do it at all. In addition, the serious lack of basic officials in Xinming also made the Xinming Governor's Office temporarily only use the Governor's Office and the army to conduct extensive management of Xinming localities.

Wang Dong keenly noticed this and understood Pan Mengyuan's difficulties. Although there were many immigrants to Xinming in recent years, most of the immigrants were ordinary people, or those who had experienced wars, disasters, land annexation and other factors caused their families to be destroyed and their families could not survive, and they really had no choice but to struggle on the brink of life and death.

They came to Xinming because there was no other way out in the Ming Dynasty and could only take great risks to Xinming in hopes of living in this place. In addition to most of the people, there are also some guys who just want to try overseas. These people are from humble origins but are far from being unable to survive. Because the rapid development of Daming's maritime trade in recent years has opened up many people in the Ming Dynasty's eyes for the world. Without channels and resources, they learned about the Ming Dynasty's preferential policies for Xinming immigration. These people felt that since they were not mediocre in their hometowns for the rest of their lives, it was better to go to Xinming to take a look, and then boarded the ship to Xinming.

These people accounted for 99% of the Xinming period, and the remaining were craftsmen, small handicraftsmen and merchants. As for the officials, except for the few officials assigned by the Ministry of Personnel of the Ming Dynasty, few people were willing to go thousands of miles away to places like Xinming to become officials.

After all, in the eyes of the Ming people today, Xinming is thousands of miles away, and it takes nearly half a year to travel. The vast sea is dangerous, and scholars have always disdained overseas. Even if they are officials in the local area, where can they not go to so many prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty? Furthermore, it is better to go to a place like Luzon than the distant Xinming?

It is precisely because of this that the Ming Dynasty had a very shortage of officials in Xinming, especially the shortage of middle-level officials, which led to the fact that many policies of Pan Mengyuan were not suitable for implementation. Wang Dong could see this clearly and was also very clear in his heart. If this problem was not solved, then he would also face the problems troubled by Pan Mengyuan when he arrived in Xinming.

Therefore, Wang Dong had a special talk with Zhu Yicheng for a long time, and got the preferential policies of officials to go to Xinming from the emperor, and also proposed to imitate the model of the Nanjing imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty to open the imperial examination in Xinming to absorb and cultivate talents.

In addition, Wang Dong also received support from the Military Affairs Office and the Sixth Ministry, and worked hard to select suitable officials. In this way, Wang Dong set his mind on the local middle and lower-level officials, and used his power to instruct his subordinates to find suitable talents, so that he could bring him to Xinming to build a team and conduct local management.
Chapter completed!