The courtyard where my father-in-law lived was originally the house of a retired official in Sitang Town. After his father-in-law drew a circle and specially asked the man to establish a special maritime special zone, the radius of dozens of miles of Sitang Town and the people became citizens of the special zone. The total population was not large, only more than 4,000 people.

In addition to these original local residents who officially built yellow books in the maritime yamen, there are also family members of the former Wusong Shui Camp officers and soldiers and craftsmen brought from the capital by Eunuch Wei, with approximately 3,000 people.

In other words, before Eunuch Wei returned from Liaodong, the permanent population of the Maritime Special Economic Zone was about 7,000. However, the permanent population of the Special Economic Zone has exceeded 10,000 people, and the newly added population is the captured Kuandan residents transported by the Navy from Pi Island and Yizhou. These residents are the majority of Han people, while the Jurchens and Mongolians and Koreans are only 30%.

If you want a place to flourish, business is the main reason, but population is the foundation.

Therefore, Eunuch Wei has always hoped to attract immigrants from other places to the SAR through various preferential policies. Before leaving, he gave the focus to Zhang Hua, the guards of the garrison, Zheng Duo, Cheng Qing, the left-behind generals of the Imperial Army, and Zhao Xinquan, who was responsible for civil affairs in the maritime garrison.

However, until my father-in-law came back from Ningbo, there was no substantial progress in immigration work. The total number of newly relocated immigrants was only more than 240. These more than 240 people were "technicians" hired by the Special Administrative Region yamen from various places with a large amount of money, such as blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters, etc.

The reason why the immigration work has not progressed is not that Zheng Duo and Cheng Qing and others have not done their best, but that the outside world has "stigmatized" the SAR.

My father-in-law put in full enthusiasm and countless energy on the construction of the SAR seamlessly, and he truly regarded the SAR as his own child. Therefore, when he was in the SAR, he would go deep into various places to meet the people whenever he had time, hoping to tell these people face to face the people how the future of the SAR is bright and brilliant. After becoming a citizen of the SAR, not only will he benefit himself, but his descendants will benefit even more.

In addition, my father-in-law often convenes symposiums with subordinates and formulates various policies for internal and external publicity, hoping to promote the Special Administrative Region as the pearl of the southeast of the Ming Dynasty so as to attract more talents to invest.

However, these efforts cannot resist the "stigmatization" propaganda from the outside world.

The governments in Suzhou, Songjiang and other places claimed to the people that the so-called maritime special zone is nothing more than the imperial village, and the so-called special zone people are the tenants of the imperial village. Once the people become the tenants of the imperial village, they have to bear the exploitation of the imperial village, and they also lose their freedom and their descendants will be enslaved by the imperial village.

This propaganda is very targeted. As we all know, the current emperor issued an order last year to King Fu to derive the Maritime Special Zone, so the special zone is what the imperial village also said in terms of law.

What's more, some people with bad intentions even claimed that the people in the Special Administrative Region were slaves of Eunuch Wei in the future and were slaves to the birdless generation as cows and horses.

This statement is vicious and too bad, and has a great effect, making it difficult for the Special Administrative Region to deal with it. After all, the manager of the Maritime Special Administrative Region is indeed the Admiral Eunuch Wei.

In fact, it is nothing wrong with becoming a tenant from the imperial village. My father-in-law's hometown was encircled by the Fuwang. But that was a poor area, and this special zone was in the wealthy Jiangnan. No matter how poor the people in Jiangnan were, they were always better than the northern land.

I was a good time at home, but I went to the imperial village to be a tenant, or even a slave to a zoo-less eunuch. Isn’t this full and full!

Therefore, no matter how hard the Special Administrative Region works, these immigrants are always missing, that is, those craftsmen are willing to come for high wages.

There is no way to solve this problem in Jiangnan unless Eunuch Wei openly ordered the imperial army to plunder the good people of various prefectures.

All along, wealth and poverty have been moved.

So my father-in-law didn't want to have a verbal battle with the officials who were hostile to him in Jiangnan. He wrote something to speak for himself and corrected the name of the Special Administrative Region. It would have no substantive significance at all.

The solution my father-in-law chose was to write a letter to Chen Mo and Li Yongzhen, asking them to try to send people to set up "immigration stations" in the western region, and to migrate the poor people from the western region through various methods.

This method works. With the East Factory behind the back, the local governments in the northwest will not be troublesome. What's more, removing the poor in the country is also a moral policy for the local governments, which can at least relieve their pressure.

Now they are poor, and they may not be refugees in the future.

In the past decade, disasters have occurred in the northwest, and some prefectures have begun to see small groups of victims gathered. Although the number is not large, as the weather becomes worse and worse, crop harvests are getting smaller and smaller. Some knowledgeable people are already worried about whether there will be a major disaster in the future. Once it occurs, the consequences will be very serious.

Therefore, when the wealthy areas in the southeast come to attract immigrants, the local government will never make things difficult for them to oppose them. Even if there are opponents and the East Factory participate, they have to weigh the consequences of opposition.

Eunuch Wei hopes that Chen Mo and Li Yongzhen can help him attract 100,000 immigrants to the SAR within three years. For this reason, he needs to prepare hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for immigration fees.

It's really asking for money everywhere.

If the stall is big, it is easy to pull the eggs.

My father-in-law invited Wang Yue'e to come to make money.

Doing maritime affairs is to make money, and making money is to save the Ming Dynasty. It takes people to make money, but people need money. The various relationships of hardship can be said to be very complicated.

The two met this time, but it was not a matter of a reunion.

It was a year and a half since the ecstasy night in Yangzhou. When I saw Wang Yue'e again, the other party was not the Zhao family daughter-in-law who had a big belly, but a young woman with a mature taste inside and outside.

When my father-in-law arrived at the back garden, Wang Yue'e was sitting on a stone bench holding Fang Man's one-year-old son and coaxing her to sleep. When she heard the footsteps, she looked up and saw that it was Eunuch Wei, so she immediately stood up and bowed to Eunuch Wei.

"Is this my dear?"

My father-in-law liked it very much and went up to look at the child in Wang Yue'e's arms. At the beginning, he accepted this child as a kid. It was precisely because of this that Wang Yue'e was very fed in the business world of Taizhou. After all, no one was willing to offend a eunuch who had just shown his power in the country.

"What's the name?"

Maybe it was because of my thoughts on my son, my father-in-law felt sad for no reason.

"It's called Xingye."

Wang Yue'e's voice was not loud, and she was neither humble nor arrogant.

"Xingye?"

My father-in-law nodded slightly. This name is good and rich.

Wang Yue'e glanced at the maid next to her, and the other party hurriedly stepped forward and took the young master out. The father-in-law didn't say much, signaling Wang Yue'e to sit down and talk, but found that the other party's chest was very full, and it had not been seen for more than a year. He couldn't help but sway, aroused his greed, coughed, glanced around, and whispered: "There is no one here, I don't know how easy Yue'e can go into the house to talk to me? Just remember, you and I haven't seen each other for more than a year. It's really a matter of hehe."

Upon hearing this, Wang Yue'e was shocked and took a step back, with a solemn look on her face, and she shook her head firmly and said, "Brother-in-law, please respect yourself!"
Chapter completed!