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Chapter 52 The Forgotten Ones
The southern border of the Ming Dynasty.Luzon.Beiming Street.
With the continuous support of tools and manpower from Daming, the originally fertile plains of Luzon Island were developed piece by piece by Xu Chailao and turned into boundless fertile land.
Since the 16th year of Yongle, the internal supervision fleet has become the main way of immigration. A large number of cargo ships are filled with people from Daming and transported to Nanyang.
Subsequently, a large amount of grain was loaded in Nanyang and transported to Daming.
This frequent exchange has surpassed the connection between Daming and Jiaozhi, because although this piece of land is isolated overseas, the distance from Daming Fujian is still closer to the distance from Jiaozhi.
Moreover, this piece of land that has been blessed by the heavens is so unique.
Although Luzon Island is mainly dominated by mountains, there is still a large area of fertile land between the mountains. The combined area of the central and northern plains of the island is half the size of Jiangsu.
And there is no shortage of water here, and water flows everywhere.If such a large area of land is fully developed into fertile fields, the grain produced can supply less than half of the people of Ming Dynasty.
In the mountains of Luzon, there are also various metal minerals. According to the continuous exploration of the Ming Ministry of Industry in recent years, more than a dozen copper mines and gold mines have been discovered.
Even Zhu Di paid more and more attention to this place.
Although the Nanyang development plan has been planned, Luzon Island has not been included in the development plan, because it was directly designated by Zhu Di as the territory directly under it.
The Ming Dynasty will directly send officials here to educate the common people, develop agriculture, and develop mineral resources.
However, it is not without disadvantages, that is, there are too many typhoons.
For half a year in Luzon Island, there will always be sudden typhoons without warning.The storm brought by the typhoon has seriously affected the lives of local people.
However, the people of Ming Dynasty are tenacious, and it is not uncommon for them to have experienced typhoons in Fujian, but Fujian definitely does not have so many unowned fertile fields for them to reclaim and plant.
No matter how difficult the conditions are, they will take root here and thrive.
In the past two years, more than 20 Ming people have been added to Luzon Island. They have been issued tools and divided land.
Facing these folks, Xu Chailao tried his best to serve them, digging rivers and repairing canals, striving to make every piece of land not short of water.
Therefore, Luzon is developing more rapidly than Jiaozhi, which is still plagued by bandits.
Xu Chai Lao's prestige in Luzon is increasing day by day, and even the officials appointed by the imperial court admire this fourth-rank magistrate who is not from a professional background.
Although this person does not read the books of sages, he does the deeds of sages.
However, recently, Xu Chai Lao has one more worry, because Zhu Guijuan, who was imprisoned here by Zhu Zhanji at the beginning, is going to die now.
Three years ago, Zhu Zhanji imprisoned the clan's uncle, Prince Liao, in Luzon, and strictly prohibited anyone from communicating with him.
Even a person with a tough personality who cannot communicate with others for three years and is imprisoned in an isolated place will become insane, let alone a pampered and tyrannical son.
At first, he tried to escape by climbing the wall, but in the end, he was afraid of the spears of the guards, and he no longer wanted to escape.
In the second year, this Zhu Guijuan went crazy and wandered around naked in the small yard all day long.
The guards in charge of guarding him every day delivered the food on time, and he was used to grabbing it with his hands instead of chopsticks.
His body became more and more dirty, gradually thinning out of shape.
Xu Chai Lao wrote to the imperial court several times, and no matter what the request was, he was able to be satisfied, and the imperial decree of commendation issued by the emperor himself was still placed in the family's small ancestral hall.
However, the question about Zhu Guijuan has never been answered, and it seems that everyone has forgotten him.
In 16 and 17, the imperial court sent special envoys twice, including hundreds of Confucian scholars and a military guard of more than 5000 people, to assist Xu Chailao to establish a sound ruling structure on the island, but when it comes to the prince of Liao, But no one can give Xu Chai a result.
It is true that the King Liao family has lost power, but no matter what, they are all descendants of the clan!
Even if the emperor has no intention of forgiving, why is there no one in Liao Palace to pay attention to this prince?
He originally expected that when His Royal Highness returned to the country, he would think of this son and bring him back.
But His Highness stayed overseas for three years, and was finally urged by the emperor to go back to Daming, and did not pass by them on the way back.
This Zhu Guijuan was forgotten just like that.
Now except for the local children around Zhu Guijuan's small courtyard who would occasionally look at the lunatic with great interest, no one remembered him at all.
Since last winter, although Luzon is not cold in winter, Zhu Guijuan, who has gone crazy, slept all night in the heavy rain. After a few days, the guards saw that Zhu Guijuan's condition was wrong from the untouched food.
After the situation was reported, Xu Chai Lao went to see Zhu Guijuan for the first time in three years, but found that he was dying.
He could only find someone to diagnose and treat Zhu Guijuan, and at the same time entrust the internal prison's grain ship to bring the letter back to Daming.
But he doesn't do anything himself and expects to be instructed. He can only do his best and obey the destiny.
It may be that the three years of imprisonment have made Zhu Guijuan suffer a lot, or it may be that Zhu Guijuan was sheltered by God. Although the doctor only prescribed a few medicines for him, he survived strongly.
It has been more than two months, and he is still alive and tenacious.
However, this kind of life lying on the bed immobile is probably more uncomfortable than death.
On this day, Xu Chailao led a group of people to inspect the newly built imperial courtyard in Beiming Street.
This imperial courtyard is located on the only small hill in Beiming Street, surrounded by rivers, and a three-foot-high city wall was built.
There are four urns on the city wall, each of which can accommodate a thousand soldiers to guard.
The other courtyard has a main hall, a main hall, and 97 houses, forming a castle-like complex of 99 rooms.
The interior is lined with trees and flowers are blooming everywhere.
However, none of these expenses were borne by Xu Chai, nor were the people of Luzon borne. All the expenses were borne by the internal supervisor.
On the contrary, people in Luzon can still earn wages by selling bricks and providing services.
There is more than one such other courtyard, there is one here in Luzon, one in Xingcheng, and one in Kezhi in the west.
This other courtyard is prepared for Zhu Di's expedition. Although he can't live for a few days, the majesty of the royal family cannot be lost.
Feeling that there were no omissions, when Xu Chai was about to leave, a yamen servant ran over with a young eunuch.
"My lord, a ship from the court has arrived."
Hearing that it was the imperial court's boat arriving instead of the inner eunuch's, Xu Chailao cheered up and asked, "Who is the envoy?"
(I couldn’t bear the toothache, so I went to get an injection. I promised [-] today and I’m still [-] short. I’m sorry everyone, I will try to make up tomorrow. The [-] words are not counted.)
Chapter 53 The Storm
Beiming Street is the Manila of the later generations, and the Bashi River of the later generations. In this era, Xu Chailao, a native of Quanzhou, called it the Nanjin River.