Yingtian City.
Zhu Yuanzhang has been busy recently with the opening of the sea and the affairs of Japanese islands.
As the dust settles on the Japanese island, it seems that it is time to open the sea.
Under the planning of Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen and Li Shanchang, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to temporarily use Shanghu County and Dengzhou County as ports for opening seas.
The Municipal Shipping Department was also established in these two places and began to collect commercial taxes on merchant ships entering and leaving.
Not only that, Zhu Yuanzhang also asked the navy to patrol the waters of the Ming Dynasty. If anyone dared to go to sea privately, he would immediately capture it.
If anyone dares to resist, they will be sunk on the spot.
Therefore, Shanghu County and Dengzhou instantly became the two most eye-catching cities in the country.
Shanghu County was originally under the governance of Li Jin and had a large population. When more people poured into the city and saw the majesty and splendor of the city, they suddenly felt incredible.
In this way, under Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement, Shanghu County began to expand again.
Until it can accommodate one million people, Shanghu County at this time can no longer be called a county, but should be called a mansion, even larger than Yingtian mansion.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not appoint a new magistrate for Shanghai Mansion, but directly administered it himself. Zhu Yuanzhang could only rest assured that he had a place like this in his own hands.
Zhu Yuanzhang left the affairs on the Japanese island to Yang Xian. As the prefect of Yangzhou, Yang Xian made outstanding achievements last year, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy.
Yang Xian was directly promoted from the fourth rank of the magistrate to the second rank of Sicong, the chief envoy of Japan Island.
However, what Zhu Yuanzhang told Yang Xian was that the manpower from Japan Island needed to be imported into the Ming Dynasty for labor transportation, which was actually a disguised form of slave trade.
Yang Xian is so smart, he can tell this kind of thing immediately. In addition, his character is very ruthless. This time, the Japanese on the Japanese island are destined to be doomed.
After the Japanese island was completely pacified, Zhu Yuanzhang withdrew Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Zhu Di and others from the Japanese island, leaving only Lan Yu to guard the area.
However, in order to reward Lan Yu for his meritorious service, Zhu Yuanzhang named Lan Yu the Duke of Liang.
After waiting for so many years, Lan Yu finally became the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, and she couldn't be more excited.
However, Lan Yu still needs to wait on the Japanese island for a few years. After all, all the generals have withdrawn, leaving only 100,000 guardsmen responsible for the security of the Japanese island. Lan Yu is under great pressure.
Even Tang He, who was stationed at Shijian Yinshan, was recalled by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Liu Bowen did not stay.
However, before Liu Bowen left, he told Lan Yu not to kill too much on the Japanese island. Attack the city first and attack the heart first.
Servants can be recruited on the Japanese island. The people of the Japanese island have extreme personalities, but their bad national characteristics are also very obvious.
After Li Jin carried out the massacre of Tokyo, the Japanese people seemed to have their bones broken, and their will to resist the Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker.
In the end, even all the daimyo began to surrender voluntarily.
Liu Bowen asked Lan Yu to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions, and then recruit 50,000 local servants to suppress possible rebellions.
Lan Yu readily agreed, and Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded in agreement.
Later, Lanyu recruited nearly 80,000 people in the West and South China Seas of the island as servants of the island.
In the days that followed, these servants brutally suppressed the uprising of their former compatriots, with such cruelty that even Lan Yu was stunned.
Lan Yu was amazed by the cruelty of the methods. He felt as if these servants had some abnormal psychology.
You know, those people were once their compatriots, but they acted with no mercy at all, and were even extremely hateful, as if they were their enemies.
As the conqueror, Lan Yu seemed to be the master of these servant armies.
After the matter on the Japanese island was settled, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered his eldest son who was thousands of miles away.
Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask Mao Xiang and how his eldest son was doing recently.
But when he heard about the changes that had taken place in Hepu County, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious. He immediately attacked the case and said angrily:
“That bitch Li Jin, as the prefect, actually took the lead in raising the price of food??”
