Seeing that the princes were very enlightened, Emperor Zhu nodded with satisfaction - this is the benefit of Mingjun's reign. Even a bunch of "pig princes" now know how to work hard!

But just knowing how to work hard is not enough, you also need to know how to use your strength, and you also need to know how to use your strength to gain strength.

Colonization and nation-building cost money and lives, and it lasted for many years. You can't just use your own notebooks and paste them in, otherwise you will have to pay for it!

For example, except for the United States, which has underground mines (the gold mines are huge in that area!) and the Principality of Malacca, which is located at the center of trade and is convenient for road toll business, the other colonial countries seem to be some start-up companies of later generations.

, you have to burn investors' money fiercely, burning it for ten or twenty years before you can make a lot of profits... And the colonial establishment business will burn not only money, but also human lives!

This is also the reason why Zhu Cixiang has always been timid about the issue of colonization in Southeast Asia!

The Gulf of America looks far away, and you have to cross the Pacific Ocean, but because there are ocean currents and wind belts that can be used, for Ming Dynasty captains who have been able to measure latitude more accurately, crossing the Pacific Ocean is not more dangerous and time-consuming than traveling to and from the South China Sea (both are

(one round trip a year). Although the North Pacific westerly belt (the only way to the New World) sometimes blows strong winds and waves (big winds and waves mainly occur in winter), the trade wind belt that you have to pass when returning from the New World

It is still very mild, with typhoons only blowing in late summer and early autumn.

Therefore, the Pacific sailing ships of the Ming Dynasty usually avoided the winter when traveling eastward, and the late summer and early autumn when traveling westward. Therefore, the number of human lives swallowed up on the route across the Pacific was no more than the number of lives swallowed up on the route to the South China Sea -

—It is inevitable that people will die when a ship capsizes! However, with the continuous improvement of the Ming Dynasty's sailing capabilities, the mortality rate at sea is still acceptable, even lower than that of sailing Westerners of the same era. After all, East Asians are "immune to scurvy"

"Well!

But after the immigrants arrived at their destinations, the mortality rates in the South Seas and the New World were immediately different. The climate in the Gulf of America was comfortable, the land was fertile, and the products were abundant. It was also very "clean" and there were almost no fatal infectious diseases.

It is different when immigrating to Southeast Asia. The climate in that area is hot and humid, which is very different from most areas in the Ming Dynasty, so many immigrants will not be accustomed to the climate.

What's even more frightening is that it has always been a place of miasma and diseases. If there are ready-made land and cities to live in, the death rate can be lower. If you open up the jungle, more than half of them will die within a few years.

In the just-concluded Battle of Pattani, the Japanese samurai regiment commanded by the conquering general Xu Zhengjing (Hoko Zhengjing) suffered from multiple outbreaks of disease, resulting in the loss of more than 10,000 people!

More than ten times more people died from illness than from fighting!

The Ming Dynasty immigrants who cultivated semi-cultivated lands such as Ca Mau, Jinghai (Jinghai Navy has now been merged into Ca Mau Army and is called Ca Mau Army Jinghai Mansion), Siam, Xiyang (Western Army) and other semi-cultivated lands also suffered from tropical infections, mainly malaria.

The disease has taken a heavy toll.

According to Jin Yiwei's secret investigation, the mortality rate of immigrants within three years exceeded 25% - this is the mortality rate when there is a large amount of cultivated land available in Jinghai, Siam, Xiyang and other places.

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As for the prisoners who have been exiled to Taiwan over the years, except for those "remnants of the eunuchs" who were cared for by the Zheng family, the mortality rate within three years was more than 50%!

So the business going to Nanyang is, to put it bluntly, costing lives!

What? Cinchona?

It has not been discovered by the Spanish yet, and the origin of the cinchona tree is in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Kingdom of New Spain. The Ming Dynasty's expedition team cannot enter at all. Even if they can enter, it will be of no use, because no one knows what the cinchona tree looks like?

If you want to get this treasure, you must occupy the territory for a long time, and then contact the local indigenous people, and then you can use various means to extract the cinchona tree seeds.

Even if Zhu Cixi had some cunning means to obtain the seeds of the cinchona tree, it would still take ten years to grow the tree. It would probably be twenty years before the cinchona tree could be produced in large quantities.

As for forcing the indigenous people to open up or something like that, is this kind of thing something that honest Han farmers can do?

Let alone the farmers, neither can the landlords here in the Ming Dynasty! The landlords in the Ming Dynasty always carried two knives when they went out, and would chop them to death when they encountered peasants who resisted rent and taxes. How could there be a peasant uprising?

Therefore, the colonization of Nanyang will be a history of blood and tears for a long time to come.

Since it is a history of blood and tears, "leeks" are needed... and "leeks" cannot be forced to grow! They must be allowed to grow voluntarily!

Therefore, forcibly colonizing Southeast Asia will definitely not work. Wait a little while, Southeast Asia will not have many colonists, and the country will already become one.

Moreover, "leeks" must have a certain amount of capital. How can you be a "leeks" if you don't have capital?

After all, going to Nanyang to open up is a business, so you can't just trick some poor people into going south. Then the mortality rate will not be 25%, but 60 to 70% - recruiting poor people, sending them south, and giving them land and tools all costs public money.

, as a result, 70% of them died within a few years, and most of the remaining ones went bankrupt due to poor management. Isn’t that nonsense?

Therefore, we have to let "leeks" who have some capital, some ability, and a little bad conscience go to Nanyang with the dream of getting rich and honoring their ancestors.

This way the probability of survival will be higher and it will be easier to develop.

"Since everyone is willing to plant trees for future generations, then I will take you all to plant trees together!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "Besides, I have quite a lot of experience in planting trees!"

In fact, he doesn't know how to plant trees, but he can cut leeks when he has them... Now the princes in the Huangji Palace, who are stretching their necks and dreaming about future generations, are also like giant leeks that are growing vigorously.

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Zhu Cihong paused and then said: "You have to listen to me on this matter! You have to do this... To do big business, you have to take a long-term view. You can't rush to make money. You have to develop competitiveness first.

, do you know what competitiveness is? Here in Nanyang, it is the manpower that can develop and operate!

The place to develop your competitiveness is the Kingdom of Luzon! The 250 square miles allocated to you is not to make money for you, but you need to develop your competitiveness first.

In order to develop competitiveness, you must first attract powerful talents! You must not hesitate to pay, and you must be eclectic... So of the 250 square miles allocated to you, you can use 10 square miles to build your own home.

Zhuangzi had enough for his own use, and the rest was divided into 24 barons and used to attract talents.

And this talent cannot be limited to one type. There must be at least big farmers, craftsmen, warriors and veterans who are responsible for cutting people, doctors who know a little bit of medical skills, and scholars who can help with education and management.

, and finally there will be monks and Taoist priests. They have to be introduced one by one, and they must be encouraged to bring their customers or tribesmen to Luzon together..."

Emperor Zhu is teaching the big leek how to set the little leek!

Only when a big leek is paired with a small leek can the idea of ​​opening up Southeast Asia be successful!

Because people with big leeks have few lives, so if you burn money you can burn them, but you can’t rely on them to burn lives... Life must be given to little leeks.

Moreover, these little leeks can't just live, they also need to have some capital and ability, so that they can do things for the big leeks.

"Your Majesty," Zhu Youlang (Yongli in history), the king of Yongming County, asked, twirling his beautiful beard, "where can I recruit useful and reliable people?"

Zhu Cixiang glanced at him and said to himself: Wasn't your Emperor Yongli very good at winning people's lives in history? Why are you still asking me now?

"There are many ways to recruit talents," Zhu Cixiang thought for a while, "You can openly recruit in newspapers, you can send people to recruit from the barbarian army, you can go to Annan and Japan to recruit, in short, you have to be eclectic, regardless of your origin.
Chapter completed!