Zhu Jingyuan didn't know what the British were planning, but he just felt that now was not the time to discuss the Southern Tianzhu deal with the British.
It’s not that Ming is not interested in Nan Tianzhu.
Only after integrating Nan Tianzhu can we truly and completely pull out all the external forces of Xiao Xiyang.
The resources and land in the Tianzhu area were also favored by the Ming Dynasty people.
But this interest is not urgent, first of all because Ming Dynasty already has enough colonies in Yinzhou and Mozhou.
At the same time, this land has become tasteless and a pity to abandon for Britain.
Completely surrounded by the Ming Dynasty, I dare not fully develop it if I keep it, and I am reluctant to throw it away.
Zhu Jingyuan fully understood this situation, so he would not pay a high price in exchange for Nan Tianzhu.
At the peace talks, they directly refused to discuss the South Tianzhu deal.
After the armistice, the British decided to abandon the land of South Tianzhu, so they began to transport people and materials from South Tianzhu.
They were obviously planning to completely evacuate Nan Tianzhu and then abandon it.
All valuable things in South Tianzhu have been taken away, and the remaining population is basically the old, weak, sick and disabled. The entire area is a huge mess.
But even so, the psychological price for the British to sell Nan Tianzhu has not really fallen to the lowest freezing point.
As they prepare to abandon Nan Tianzhu, Nan Tianzhu's "value" will continue to decrease.
After all preparations are made, the actual "value" will drop to freezing point.
But "value" is not the same as "price".
It has lost its value, and if you keep it, it will become a burden.
At the same time, if there is no next buyer to take over for a long time, the sales "price" will continue to fall, and will eventually break through the lower limit of value.
Daming can continue to wait for this situation to actually occur.
Because the only person who can take over Southern Tianzhu is the Ming Dynasty, and no other country has the courage to intervene in this matter.
So what Zhu Jingyuan plans to do is to continue to forgive the British for a few years or even ten or twenty years.
In the end, you should be able to get this land for almost nothing.
After Zhu Jingyuan talked with Charlotte, he basically forgot about it, because it would happen a long time later.
Charlotte stayed in the Lion City and spent the New Year of six years of health with Zhu Jingyuan and his family.
After the first month, Charlotte left very reluctantly.
Then the two children of the King of Prussia came.
Zhu Jingyuan asked Luo Feiya to pick them up at the pier and take them to Zhu Jingyuan's residence to meet him.
The two and a half-year-old children, both dressed in Ming-style clothes, bowed to Zhu Jingyuan respectfully rather uneasily:
"See His Highness Prince Dashi."
Daming Yayan speaks quite standard, and the accent attached to the language of the native ethnic group is not obvious.
Obviously, they have had the most qualified teachers since childhood, who have specially educated and guided them to learn and practice standard accent.
Zhu Jingyuan sat in the master's seat and looked up and down at the two half-year-old children.
After the new year, William will be fifteen years old and Louise will be fourteen years old.
In Zhu Jingyuan's memory, William I is a bald and bearded image.
Maybe it's because he was not his father's eldest son, but became the king after his brother died. When he became the king, he was already over sixty years old.
Now the boy-like William shows no signs of baldness. After all, he is still young...
His current image is quite upright. After all, he was born in the royal family and has been pampered. At least he is not shriveled and decadent.
As for the image of Louise, Zhu Jingyuan had no impression at all.
The person standing in front of her now is a fair and pure little girl.
Although my appearance is not that outstanding, it has nothing to do with being ugly.
At least it wouldn't make Zhu Jingyuan uncomfortable just looking at it, otherwise he would never keep it by his side and use it.
Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly and responded to the two people's questions:
"Well, you two have been working hard all the way, so don't stand around. Sit down and talk."
The two and a half-year-old children immediately returned the favor and sat down, then waited for Zhu Jingyuan's further instructions.
Of course the two of them came here with a purpose and a mission, not just to play.
Zhu Jingyuan had already considered how to arrange the two of them.
Zhu Jingyuan was not prepared to really train and educate them for Prussia, mainly because he did not have the time now.
You should arrange a job for them that makes them feel close enough to you, but does not involve the real confidential affairs of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, you can get the influence of the Ming Dynasty culture, and it is not too hard work.
After a slight pause, Zhu Jingyuan looked at the two and a half-year-old children:
"Your father asked me to take you with him and teach you, but I don't have time to do it myself.
"So I arranged for you to do simple tasks beside me, and you follow the seniors and watch and learn on your own.
"William, you go and be a soldier in my Prince's Guard, and occasionally do some errands and send out notices for me.
"Louise, you go to the office of my colleague from Johor and be a clerk to receive visiting officials.
"When I have free time at work, I will also chat with you.
"Can you accept it? Do you have any objections?"
Of course the two of them did not dare to have any objections, and indeed they did not.
Although the rank of a soldier may not be high, whether it is Taixi or Ming Dynasty, it is a very special status.
If you are a native of your country, you can easily establish a personal friendship with the prince by providing him with personal bodyguards.
In the future, he can serve as a close associate of the new king and be sent out as a general to lead the army.
William was an outsider and would return to Prussia sooner or later. He did not care about the grade of the position he held.
His most important task is to establish friendship with Zhu Jingyuan and maintain the relationship between the two royal families.
A personal soldier who could be in constant contact with Zhu Jingyuan couldn't be more suitable.
Louise's job is in a similar situation. This kind of office receptionist is essentially a secretarial staff, and it is also a job where she can often come into contact with Zhu Jingyuan.
I don’t know how many job opportunities there are for simply going in to report a letter and coming out to deliver a notice.
The two people immediately stood up and saluted respectfully again:
"As commanded."
Zhu Jingyuan directly handed William over to the guard captain under Guan Tianpei.
Guan Tianpei no longer follows Zhu Jingyuan directly. He is now the commander of the fleet of the Great Food Kingdom, which has begun to take shape, and spends most of his time in charge of training with the fleet.
The soldiers who followed Guan Tianpei as guards for Zhu Jingyuan are now officers and sergeants of the fleet of the Great Food Kingdom.
The officers guarding Zhu Jingyuan were also selected from these veterans.
Louise was directly handed over to Luo Feiya. Luo Feiya, An Xiaona and other Zhu Jingyuan's first maids have been used by Zhu Jingyuan as personal secretaries. Now, several of Zhu Jingyuan's offices and the reception room at home are all They take turns in charge.
Zhu Jingyuan continued to chat with them casually for a while, and today's meeting was over.
Three days later, the two began to work beside Zhu Jingyuan.
After they stabilized themselves, they returned home and together they sent a telegram to their parents in Prussia.
After William III and his wife received the news, they were relieved again.
This arrangement of personal soldiers and office secretaries really put them at ease.
Zhu Jingyuan's subsequent work focused on the promotion of general education examination certificates.
This policy of absorbing assimilated surrounding ethnic groups was officially promoted in areas that already belonged to the Ming Dynasty.
Now the ethnic group called "Da Ming" is forming. If the population that could have been absorbed is not absorbed into the group of Ming people in this process, then they will become "outsiders" within the Ming Dynasty.
The people of the Ming Dynasty treat them as outsiders, and they will also feel that they are outsiders. They will become a natural incubation pool for separatism.
Now, issuing the same certificates to the original "barbarians" and the Ming people so that they can enjoy the same treatment as the Ming people will certainly challenge the nerves of the original Ming people.
It's just that Ming Dynasty is currently in a state of labor shortage, and there are plenty of jobs in society.
Even if the barbarians were given the same employment conditions, it would not have an obvious direct impact on the interests of ordinary Ming workers.
Ordinary Ming people may dislike these barbarian colleagues, but they should not directly conflict with them.
Even if there are some individuals who will ask the boss and shopkeeper not to use these barbarians, but if the boss and shopkeepers don’t use these barbarians, there will not be enough workers in the Ming Dynasty.
So now is the best time to promote this system.
In an era of great technological development, the abundant technological and war dividends can offset the contradictions caused by this kind of system adjustment.
When the bonus disappears, it will be difficult to do such a thing.
Zhu Jingyuan didn't know when the bonus would disappear, so he had to seize the time as much as possible.
I have traveled around the entire Ming Dynasty, and I want to popularize this system throughout the Ming Dynasty.
The popularization of the certificate system is actually only the first step.
The second step is to abolish the original household registration system.
Because the household registration information contains ethnic information, and the records are very detailed, it can identify the identities of three generations.
Finally, the certificate of conformity is converted into a unique Ming Dynasty ID card.
In June of the sixth year of Ankang, when Zhu Jingyuan was copying the routine messages sent to him by various departments in the Ming Dynasty, he saw news of a plague in southern Tianzhu.
However, neither Xichang nor Beitianzhu officials, nor Zhu Jingyuan himself, felt there was anything unusual about this news.
The war in Southern Tianzhu lasted for more than ten years, and the British carried out predatory transfers of people and materials for several consecutive years.
The social order in Southern Tianzhu has almost collapsed, and the emergence of a plague will not be surprising at all.
This seems to be a normal thing to everyone.
The relevant bureaucratic knowledge report stated that he would strengthen security in the border areas.
To prevent people from southern Tianzhu from crossing the border into the north.
Then there is no other reporting and analysis.
In the following months, some new news came one after another.
The number of South Tianzhu people trying to cross has increased, but the border security force has also been strengthened.
In this day and age, driving away is a merciful approach rather than killing them directly.
When the security forces cannot manage them, they will be killed directly.
Then the density of relevant news slowly decreased. By the end of Ankang Six Years, there were no direct reports.
In fact, Zhu Jingyuan did not realize that unlike modern times, where no news is good news, no news at this time may be the biggest bad news.
In a modern society with smooth communication, the lack of news in a certain place means that there is no unexpected news in the local area that is worthy of making news. This shows that the local situation is relatively calm and stable.
But at this time, especially in places where order has collapsed, there is no meaning of news. It may be that there is no one in the local area who can deliver the news to the outside world, or there is even nothing that can form the news.
No one in the world knows about the situation in South Tianzhu now.
After the New Year of the seventh year of Ankang, Zhu Jingyuan started packing his bags again, preparing to go to a new policy training location.
This time the destination is closer to home.
After the first lunar month, Zhu Jingyuan received notices and appointments from his father and the court, just like in previous years.
Councilor of the Chief Envoy of Edo, governor of the Japanese Islands and the Korean Peninsula region's military and political affairs.
The name "So-and-so Chief Envoy Secretary" still exists, but it has become the title of the government affairs office corresponding to the province. The place where the chief envoy, political counselors and councilors work is the Chief Envoy Office.
The Chief Envoy's Department is equivalent to the provincial government, the General Command and Envoy's Department is equivalent to the provincial-level military division, and the Inspection and Envoy's Department is equivalent to the provincial-level court.
Continuing to retain these names can not only clearly distinguish the names of government affairs from military affairs, justice, and supervision systems, but also reduce unnecessary administrative adjustments as much as possible.
(And convenience to prevent harmony...)
Except for the official overall name of the province, which was changed from "etc. place" to "province", the organization itself has not changed at all.
Because the "waiting places" are originally provinces, they already have a complete set of provincial-level yamen.
Governor-General of Korea and Japan, this may be the smallest governor-general Zhu Jingyuan has ever served.
There are a total of three provinces below, with an area of more than 200,000 square meters and more than 50 million people.
However, the Chief Envoy Councilor was promoted through the normal administrative training process.
Especially the scope has crossed from the prefect's Yamen to the Chief Envoy's Yamen.
Tongzhi is the fifth rank, and the counselor was originally from the fourth rank. After the official grades of the local provinces were adjusted, it became the fourth rank.
Directly skipping the threshold of the fourth rank, this is a privilege only for princes...
However, when I was in Johor, as a fellow magistrate, I had only one magistrate above me.
When I arrived at the Chief Envoy Department, in addition to the political envoys of the third rank, I also had chief envoys who had been upgraded to the second rank.
The key is that both participating in consultations and political affairs are "unlimited", and specific ones will be set up according to the situation to take charge of certain affairs.
Therefore, if the additional governorship was not taken into account, Zhu Jingyuan did not even know what rank this counselor's position would rank in the Edo Chief Envoy's team.
But these things are actually not important. Zhu Jingyuan read the official appointment letter and put it aside.
What's important is another piece of news, news about his father himself.
There is only one content, which is to ask myself to go to Yingtian Mansion on the way to Edo to take office.
My grandfather, the Ming Emperor Zhu Zhongliang, is now in Yingtian Mansion.
He, the Ming Emperor, will also use the banner of inspecting the Southern Shipbuilding Industrial Zone to inspect Yingtian Mansion after the year.
The two of them wanted to discuss a problem with themselves live.
As I mentioned before in the "paper", the power of the imperial court will continue to decline in the process of change.
This incident directly attracted the attention of two generations of emperors.
Because this is related to the future stability of the royal family and even the Ming Dynasty.
