Chapter 333: Entering the Southern Hemisphere
New Zealand is a good place, and the reason why it enfeoffed it to Zhu Youjian was mainly to set an example for a good start.
At this moment, Liang Fei also gave birth to a boy for Zhu Youxiao. The second prince was born. After Zhu Youxiao looked through the dictionary, he found the word "玉" and named it Zhu Cixuan.
The second prince will definitely have to be a vassal in the future. Zhu Youxiao naturally doesn't want to see his son being locked up in a city and is depressed. He has no choice but to do his career and can only live and die every day. So when Zhu Cixuan grows up, sending him overseas to form a vassal state is the best choice.
In this way, you can also do some business.
People are born to do things. The cruelest thing is not to deprive them of their glory and wealth, but to deprive them of their own efforts and direction of struggle.
It is a very terrible thing for people to eat and wait for death all day long. What will happen when a person’s blessings are overdrawn?
Therefore, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were actually quite pitiful. Although the glory and wealth seemed to be endless, there was no endless glory and wealth. In the blink of an eye, what else could be left when closing his eyes?
Many vassal kings are born to know their destiny, so many force themselves to be mentally abnormal. Especially those vassal kings living in small cities have a feeling of being imprisoned for life, which will be very depressed.
The system of vassal kings at this time also felt like they were killing a boat of people with one blow.
As long as Zhu Youjian set a good example overseas, the second prince grew up and saw the example in more than ten years, and then the system of enthroning the vassal kings overseas will become a convention.
After the news that the letter to King Zhu Youjian of the overseas "Taoyuan Island" was announced, it immediately caused a sensation among the royal family.
Can a vassal king become a country overseas?
This is simply unprecedented!
But many vassal kings were envious of them. They lived a life of big fish and meat every day, and they were free to eat and clothing. Those vassal kings felt that they were just like that, and they got used to it, and they didn't think there was anything good.
Life has come to this point, and people always have some other pursuits! They all want to make an emperor in their hearts, but some vassal kings are self-aware, but they just think about it occasionally in their minds, and some vassal kings think about it every night.
It would seem pretty good if I went overseas to build a vassal state!
Of course, it was good to think about it. But it was obvious that those pampered vassal kings could not stand it.
In contrast, although Zhu Youjian is a little too old, he is extremely hardworking and frugal. There is obviously no problem in suffering overseas.
The six ministers had no objection to the emperor's decision to enfeoff the letter of the king overseas. The enfeoffment overseas would not have any threat to the local imperial power, and it did not conflict with the original intention of the current vassal system. It can still maintain the stability of the state's regime and reduce the threat to the regime by the vassal kings.
Therefore, the ministers of the six ministries basically supported the attitude. With the support of the ministers, the feudal matter was quickly implemented.
There are many things. You can't just throw people to Taoyuan Island.
The country name must be determined first, and this is also simple. Since it is called Taoyuan Island, the country name is defined as "Taoyuan Kingdom", and the regulations were subsequently formulated. As a vassal king enfeoffed by the Zhu family royal family, its status is naturally higher than that of the kings of the vassal states such as North Korea and Ryukyu. Therefore, the cost of clothing and carvings is higher than that of ordinary foreign vassal kings, but lower than that of the emperor.
The bank loans were also released, and the first batch of loans of 5 million yuan were issued to the King of Letter to establish a vassal state. The monthly interest rate was 3%, which was definitely a conscientious interest rate.
At this time, the Central Bank of Ming Dynasty loaned North Korea and charged nearly 5% monthly interest, and the actual amount received was only 80%.
Immigration is also recruiting, and provinces across the country have issued list documents to recruit people to immigrate to Taoyuan Country.
The list is written very beautifully, "There are two islands adjacent to the southeast of Australia, with fertile soil from north to south, and lush grass and trees; there is no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, just like a fairyland. Now the imperial court has signed a letter to the king as the king of Taoyuan Kingdom, recruiting people to grazing and reclamation, all the travel expenses are included, and the monthly wages are 5 yuan...'.
Immigrants obviously will not directly distribute land, because the grasslands in New Zealand are of good quality and state-owned capital needs to be fully entered.
Therefore, what is needed is workers. All kinds of construction require workers, and some small businessmen and some service industry practitioners are also needed.
The pastures on the north and south islands will be mostly under the state-owned capital circle.
What are those Zhu Youjian doing?
He will collect taxes as usual after the vassal period! State-owned capital will pay taxes to him as usual, and Zhu Youjian himself can also enclose some pastures and forest land.
At the same time, we must build a city and build a central city. In the future, it will be the capital of Taoyuan Kingdom, where Zhu Youjian manages administrative and military affairs.
In terms of military affairs, Zhu Youxiao certified Zhu You by 2,000 troops, and the court would also send a Marine Corps to station in Taoyuan Kingdom to cooperate with its military operations.
The main force in developing pastures, forests and minerals is the state-owned capital consortium, and workers are directly drawn from the local area.
Those workers don’t have much objection to the transfer to work overseas, because the salary for transfer to work overseas will be higher. And they are not unable to go back. After working for a certain level of work, they can naturally apply for transfer back to the local area. It is no problem to settle down overseas.
The tax system and administrative system of Taoyuan Country were basically established in accordance with the new policy model. At the same time, Taoyuan Country also had six ministers and prefecture-county officials.
These officials were all transferred from the court because they were foreign vassals of the Zhu family. These officials from Taoyuan Kingdom could also be promoted to their local governments if they did well.
Zhu Youjian actually had some power, but he could not change the fundamental system of Taoyuan Country. It was equivalent to Zhu Youjian drawing a circle for him. In this circle, Zhu Youjian could do whatever he wanted, but once he touched the bottom line, his behavior would be stopped.
The Taoyuan Kingdom's finances are self-profitable, and they can apply for loans from the Central Bank of the Ming Dynasty without money. The currencies circulating in its territory are also Tianqi Baobao and copper coins.
In fact, after the founding of Taoyuan Kingdom, as long as some resources on the island are developed, the finances can be enriched. After all, the resources in this place are too rich, with few natural disasters and mild climate, which is indeed a good place.
Although Zhu Youjian was a vassal king, he was on the surface and was governed by the Ming Dynasty. In fact, he was the colonial governor sent overseas by the Ming Dynasty, but he could control taxes. However, most of the taxes were still interfered by the court, and only the surplus part was freely controlled by Zhu Youjian. If the finances were not surplus, Zhu Youjian could also get a part of it to pay for people, but there was a fixed quota.
Such a system has already existed in the royal family. The emperor has his own small treasury. If the emperor wants to use the money from the treasury, the court officials will come forward to advise and hinder it. Previously, the Emperor Wanli could only get more than 100,000 taels of silver from the treasury every year for the purpose of expenses, but a lot of the money from the three major levies in Wanli was paid from the treasury.
Although this account is a bit messy, the emperor cannot move the money from the treasury at will, which has become a rule. Although it is not so compulsory, the reason is there.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao did not change the money from the treasury and did not even receive his salary. Zhu Youjian, the vassal king, could still get some salary, so as a vassal king, naturally he could not be poor. Of course, Zhu Youjian could run pastures and other things by himself. As a vassal king, he could naturally get large areas of pastures and forest land on Taoyuan Island, and then run some mines, so he could live a comfortable life.
As for Zhu Youjian being too young, this is not a problem. The ministers sent by Zhu Youjian will naturally help Zhu Youjian manage Taoyuan Country well.
The Marine Corps took the lead in landing on Taoyuan Island, and the state-owned capital consortium arrived and then developed its resources. At the same time, using military as a vanguard, they carried out carpet-style sweeps and arrests on the Mao people on the island, thus obtaining a large number of indigenous labor and investing in the construction of development activities.
Everything was unfolding in an orderly manner, and Zhu Youjian would also rush to Taoyuan Island in late summer of the seventh year of the Apocalypse. In addition, various materials will be continuously transported.
The state-owned capital consortium is not only developing New Zealand in Southeast Australia, but also developing Australia has begun to make efforts in the seventh year of the Apocalypse. Shipment of state-owned enterprise employees were sent to Australia to carry out large-scale development of the southeast coast of Australia. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
Chapter completed!