In February of the fifth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan's appointment for the next stage was officially announced.
"Tongzhi of Johor Prefecture, governor of military and political affairs in Tiannan and Nanyang regions, and involved in foreign affairs."
The scope of Johor Province included Singapore, which later became Singapore, and the state of Johor, which belongs to Malaysia.
Johor was governed by the Lion City, which would later become Singapore.
The Tiannan region included later Australia and New Zealand and the surrounding islands.
The Nanyang region is basically the Southeast Asia region in later generations.
These areas are all located south of the center of the entire ruling area of the Ming Dynasty today.
Military affairs, like the local area, are all under the jurisdiction of the Central Military Governor's Office.
After arriving in these areas, Zhu Jingyuan's work will focus on internal affairs.
However, he still needs to continue to participate in foreign affairs.
Before the Spring Festival of the fifth year of Ankang, everything about Xintianfu was basically explained.
After the Spring Festival, Zhu Jingyuan's thoughts had already shifted.
In order to avoid suspicion, Zhu Jingyuan did not participate in the wedding organization of Xia Er and Liu Muyu.
Relevant matters were directly handed over to Liu Muyu's family and handled completely in accordance with private plans.
After receiving the notice, Zhu Jingyuan was ready to leave Xintianfu and take office in Nanyang.
In Zhu Jingyuan's previous positions, he had no predecessors or successors, and the handover work was with his former subordinates.
He summoned people from all walks of life, said goodbye to them, and told them to continue doing their jobs well.
That night, Zhu Jingyuan went to Charlotte's room again to say goodbye to the Queen of America.
Charlotte had long known that this day would eventually come, and she also knew that she could not be with Zhu Jingyuan forever.
Now that things have come to an end, Charlotte still can't help feeling sad. She grabbed Zhu Jingyuan's arm with both hands and asked:
"My dear, can we meet again in the future?"
Zhu Jingyuan smiled and comforted and said:
"Of course we can meet. My next mission has been determined. I will be in the Lion City for the next two years.
"If you want to see me, just go to Tianzhu in the name of visiting Tianzhu, and then go to Lion City in a private capacity.
"Besides, even if you meet me in a completely private capacity, there's nothing wrong with it, right?"
Charlotte leaned on Zhu Jingyuan’s chest:
"But, I want to stay with you forever..."
Zhu Jingyuan patted the girl's back:
"I understand what you mean, but the two of us are not ordinary people, and we cannot be willful.
"You are the queen of the United States, and you have to look after and lead your people.
"Besides, if we stay together, sooner or later we will grow tired of each other.
"Just like now, we have been together for so many days, you have nothing new, right?
"Living separately for most of the time, and then seeing each other from time to time, can we always maintain a fresh and cordial feeling,"
Charlotte was basically convinced by Zhu Jingyuan. At this time, she raised her head and looked at Zhu Jingyuan's face.
"Then you should spend more time with me these days..."
Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded:
"Okay, okay..."
Zhu Jingyuan stayed in Charlotte for three days, and then the two formally said goodbye.
Charlotte packs her things and returns to America.
Zhu Jingyuan went to find his grandfather Zhu Zhongliang.
Before Zhu Jingyuan opened his mouth, Zhu Zhongliang knew what he was doing, so he took the initiative and said:
"You don't have to leave in a hurry. Let me pack up and let's go together..."
Zhu Jingyuan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately realized:
"Are you going back to the capital?"
Zhu Zhongliang nodded lightly:
"Yes, I have been running outside for more than two years, and it's time to go back and take a look."
Zhu Jingyuan had nothing to say. If the old man wanted to go home for a visit, he couldn't stop him.
Moreover, Zhu Zhongliang was already seventy years old. Although Zhu Jingyuan initially persuaded him that he could retire in Xintianfu, he also felt that such an arrangement seemed very good.
But at that time, he decided to come to Xintianfu largely because he wanted to be with his grandson.
I want to see Zhu Jingyuan come up with new things, and I want to experience the garden planned and constructed by Zhu Jingyuan.
Now, he has basically understood Zhu Jingyuan's vision and has experienced the amusement park planned and built by Zhu Jingyuan.
The key is that Zhu Jingyuan is leaving Xintian Mansion now, so it is no longer interesting for the old man to live here by himself.
There are no children around. No matter how comfortable this new Tianfu is, it is boring to live there.
Zhu Jingyuan could vaguely understand, so he agreed directly now without trying to persuade him to stay.
When he got back, he asked his family and Zhu Zhongliang's servants to prepare to leave.
Aoxue will continue to follow Zhu Jingyuan to the Lion City this time.
Aoxue came to report to Zhu Jingyuan at the end of last year and has not left again until now.
Because Aoxue is pregnant with a child.
Aoxue is already in her twenties, and she has begun to feel anxious personally, worried that Zhu Jingyuan will lose interest in her.
Giving her a child is the best comfort.
Although Aoxue has a special background and her current status is also very strange, she is still Zhu Jingyuan's woman after all.
With Prince Daming's child in her belly, it would be impossible to take her child to work in Taixi.
Now that the smuggling channels in Thailand and the West have been fully established, they can continue to operate without Aoxue personally presiding over them.
So Aoxue was allowed to stay with Zhu Jingyuan.
At least wait until the child is born.
Of course Wang Ya and Li Shuangni would also go with them.
Wang Ya is not the oldest, but has the most mature personality. Now she is the de facto supervisor of Zhu Jingyuan's harem.
All aspects of things are handled in an orderly manner, and people from all walks of life have a good impression of her.
Zhu Jingyuan was actually thinking that if he couldn't find a woman who made him feel special in the future, he would just let Wang Yalai be the queen of Shiguo and the princess of Ming Dynasty.
Wang Ya is also in charge and presiding over the current move, with Chunxiang assisting.
From Xintianfu to Nanyang and Tiannan, there are far fewer things to prepare than from Dashi to Xintianfu.
The main reason is that you don’t need to bring the industrial system with you. You can just bring your family with you and take office.
On March 20, the fifth year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang boarded a specially prepared passenger ship and officially set off for Nanyang.
After setting out from Xintianfu, the fleet headed south, passing through the southernmost peninsula of Nanyinzhou and entering the Daming Ocean.
Then we crossed the Great Ming Ocean and arrived at the Baiyun Islands in the Tiannan area in early April.
The Baiyun Islands were Zhu Jingyuan's New Zealand in his previous life.
When the Ming Dynasty's exploration fleet came here, they found that the scenery of blue sky and white clouds was very pleasant.
So the place was named Baiyun Islands, and later became Baiyun Emperor Village.
The indigenous Maori people of the Baiyun Islands were Austronesian-Polynesian in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
It has relatively close blood relationships with ethnic groups from Southeast Asia to Hawaii and most Pacific Islands.
They arrived at the Baiyun Islands around the Southern Song Dynasty and named the island "Aotearoa", which means the place where the white clouds float.
Therefore, the Baiyun Islands named by the Ming people coincide with the place names used by local indigenous people.
Because both parties got their names based on the local environment.
It's a pity that the Ming people in this world currently don't know when these natives arrived at the Baiyun Islands.
Otherwise they would not be considered indigenous.
After all, in Ming Dynasty’s customary understanding, what happened in the late Song Dynasty was not considered ancient at all...
Now they are regarded as indigenous people, but they have also become fully enlightened.
The civilization level of the Ming Dynasty was several eras ahead of the local indigenous people.
Whether it is force, culture or institutions, the local indigenous people have no room for resistance and can only be completely assimilated.
The key point is that the image difference between the Austronesian people and the Ming people is far less obvious than that between the people of Taixi.
As long as the indigenous people accept the culture and living habits of the Ming Dynasty, they can integrate into it.
At least it won't look particularly out of place at first glance.
At present, the total population of Baiyun Islands is less than 500,000, of which 400,000 are pure-blood Ming immigrants.
There are only about 100,000 indigenous people, and apart from the records in household registration information, they have no traditional indigenous characteristics at all.
Baiyun City, the capital of Baiyun Islands, is located on the peninsula in the northwest corner of the islands.
It was almost the location of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city in later years.
The entire Baiyun Islands are in the Great Ocean Seismic Zone, and only Baiyun City in the northwest corner is relatively calm.
While the fleet was replenishing here, Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang met with the shopkeeper of Baiyun Imperial Villa.
This meeting was not just a mere reception. As the trusted governor of the Tiannan region, Zhu Jingyuan directly used these few days to arrange the future tasks of Baiyun Imperial Manor on the spot.
Baiyun Huangzhuang is required to learn from Xintianfu's plan and start implementing the general education examination certificate system.
Subsequently, the general examination certificate was used as a pass to gradually eradicate the remaining self-awareness of the indigenous people here.
Other than that, just how Huangzhuang was run in the past is how it will be run in the future.
The total area of Baiyun Huangzhuang is 270,000 square kilometers, which is basically the same as the total area of the entire South Zhili.
But there are only half a million people here in total.
The environment of Baiyun Huangzhuang is very good. In terms of being suitable for human life, the climate can also be said to be very good.
But there's not enough heat here.
The highest temperature throughout the year usually does not exceed 23 degrees, and only one season of food can be grown each year, making it more suitable for pasture.
Moreover, the interior is mountainous and prone to earthquakes, the plain area is not particularly vast, and there is no internal market.
Therefore, although the environment here is good, it is not attractive to the people of Ming Dynasty.
After so many years, there are only half a million immigrants.
Now, except for Baiyun City, which has a certain urban scale, the other areas are vast wilderness and forests.
Even farms and ranches are quite rare.
In such a vast and sparsely populated place, there will not be any big development in the future, and half of it will not have any big problems.
After replenishing supplies in Baiyun City, the fleet continued to set off, heading north along the southeastern coast of Tiannan Continent and entering the Nanyang Islands region.
Zhu Jingyuan did not go to Tiannan Continent.
The origin of the name Tiannan is very simple. This land has reached the south of the sky and the sun is to the north, so it is called Tiannan.
There are few things going on in Baiyun Imperial Manor, and there are even fewer things going on in Tiannan Continent.
Although the Tiannan Continent is adjacent to the Nanyang Islands, the bloodlines of the indigenous people of the Tiannan Continent and the indigenous people of Daming Yang are very different.
Including the Baiyun Islands, the indigenous people on the Da Ming Yang Islands gradually spread from the southeastern part of the mainland of China hundreds of years to a few years ago.
But the indigenous people of Tiannan Continent are people from the previous era, who came here between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago.
The Ming Dynasty people in this world don’t know when they came, but you can tell by looking at their appearance that they are not our own people.
The indigenous people of Tiannan Continent are the Mo people.
The Ming Dynasty was able to assimilate the Nanyang Islanders, but it was unable to assimilate the Mo people. The image gap between the two sides was too big.
According to the tradition left by Emperor Shizu, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to accept the Mohists.
According to Zhu Jingyuan's plan to recognize ancestors and return to the clan, there are less than one million indigenous Mo people in Tiannan Continent, and they have been sent to Mozhou Continent one after another in the past few years.
Today's Tiannan Continent has a total area of more than 7 million square kilometers, and only more than 5 million Ming immigrants live there.
Tiannan is closer to the Ming Dynasty and its area is so vast, but the scale of immigration is not large.
The reason is also because this place is not suitable for farming...
As the smallest continent in the world, the pattern of Tiannan Continent is completely opposite to that of Nanyinzhou.
The tallest mountain range in Nanyinzhou is located on the westernmost edge of the continent. It helps the entire continent absorb the water vapor from the eastern ocean and retains rainwater on the entire continent, making it the wettest continent in the world.
The main mountain ranges of the Tiannan Continent are located at the easternmost edge of the continent. The mountains block water vapor at the edge of the continent. Only the foothills leave terrain rain. Most of the interior of the Tiannan Continent is a dry desert.
From the satellite cloud map, most of Nanyinzhou is green, while most of Tiannan Continent is burnt yellow.
Without green plants continuing to grow and die, nutrients cannot continue to accumulate.
At the same time, Tiannan Continent itself is far away from the plate edge, the geological environment is too stable, and the surface soil is unusually old.
This means that the soil on the land surface itself will be very poor.
Before the large-scale application of chemical fertilizers, it was difficult to develop large-scale planting here, and it was only suitable for the development of limited animal husbandry.
Therefore, the immigrants from Ming Dynasty were very grateful to this place.
Whether farming or grazing, North and South Yinzhou are the best choices.
Before the development and construction of Yinzhou reached a bottleneck, Ming immigrants had very limited interest in other areas.
Historically, the Thais also lacked interest in Australia.
It was the discovery of gold mines in Australia that accelerated the immigration of Thais. By the time of World War II, the country had only accumulated a population of 7 million.
The Ming Dynasty in this world does not allow private individuals to mine on their own.
The minerals discovered here can only be operated by the royal consortium, so private immigration will not be promoted on a large scale.
If it weren't for the imperial court, which in order to control this continent, divided vassal kings here in the early days and continued to organize official immigration, there would not even be five million people here now.
There are rivers and lakes where there are people, and there are fewer things in places where the land is vast and the people are sparse.
At the same time, although Tiannan Continent is not suitable for farming, the area is really vast enough. Immigrants here can get a lot of land, and the actual living standards of a small number of immigrants are not bad.
What's more, now that the indigenous people have been cleared away, the people on Tiannan Continent are all Ming people.
The vassal state has also been completely abolished, and only the chief envoys are left as political institutions.
Except that the area of the subordinate prefectures and counties is extremely large, but the population is extremely sparse, there is no difference from the mainland.
Therefore, there is nothing that Zhu Jingyuan needs to pay special attention to here.
That's why Zhu Jianyan arranged Zhu Jingyuan to the Lion City.
The Lion City is the center of the Nanyang region, and the situation in the Nanyang region is much more complicated.
Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang's fleet traveled through the Nanyang Islands and arrived at the Lion City on April 10.
