Chapter 232 The Minister Seconded the Proposal......
"The lack of development efforts in the imperial court is indeed a problem."
Du Ruhui smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, it is indeed a good thing for Datang that you have opened up such a large territory for Datang, but so far, the development of Nanyang has involved all of our Datang's energy, and you have suddenly found such a large piece of land......
Datang really doesn't have so much spare power, for the current Datang, Borneo is a piece of fat, but at the same time, it is also a piece of chicken ribs, and the situation is too embarrassing. ” "Maybe we can put the development plans in Borneo on hold for the time being?
Anyway, the territory is there, and sooner or later it's ours.
Someone suggested.
"Absolutely not."
Fang Xuanling didn't think about it, so he opened his mouth and refused: "The news of Borneo can't be hidden, if we let the people know that we have opened up a new piece of land, but hide it and not develop it, they will definitely not be satisfied, and we will easily lose the support of the people if we do this." ” The news of Borneo must not be hidden, even if the imperial court issues a gag order, the matter will eventually spread - you must know that this time in addition to the regular guards who went to sea with Li Zhen, the rest are all sailors recruited from the people, there are four or five hundred sailors on the four merchant ships, the regular army can issue a gag order, but the sailors are all ordinary people, do you want to let them be muzzled?
And once the situation in Borneo spreads, those poor people who have been crazy for a long time will definitely put great pressure on the imperial court, thus forcing the imperial court to issue a policy and immigrate to Borneo, and the imperial court will definitely do the same under pressure.
Moreover, Borneo is different from Nanyang, the reason why Nanyang is making slow progress is because there are a large number of indigenous people in Nanyang, and it is certainly impossible to implement the immigration policy thoroughly until these indigenous people are exterminated or captured in a safe range, and to achieve this premise, even if the imperial court goes all out, it will take at least three or five years.
But Borneo is different, the territory here is large enough, the resources are rich enough, and the environment is also very good, but there are few indigenous people, and the typical land is vast and sparsely populated.
I dare not say more, what Li Zhen can guarantee is that as long as the imperial court can immigrate 200,000 people, the Han population can completely form a quantitative suppression, and then slowly assimilate or exterminate the indigenous people.
Does Datang now have the capacity to emigrate 200,000 people to Borneo?
Of course, if a thousand-ton merchant ship is only used to transport people, it can probably transport about a few hundred people (according to five hundred passengers, one passenger is a hundred catties, that is, about twenty-five tons) - people are different from goods, a thousand-ton cargo ship, if fully loaded, may load two hundred tons of goods, but it will definitely not be able to load people of the same weight, because while transporting passengers, you must give passengers a certain space to move, and it is impossible to let them squeeze together like sardines, so the cliff will have an accident.
What's more, in addition to people, immigrants not only need to transport people over, but also need a large amount of materials, and they also need to be transported by fleet, which determines how many people a ship can't carry.
A ship transports 500 people, and if there are 20 thousand-ton merchant ships in a fleet, it is 10,000 people, plus the accompanying small boats can also decorate people, and one trip is calculated as transporting 15,000 people, which only requires a dozen trips.
From Yuezhou to Borneo, in fact, it is from the northern end of the South China Sea to the southern end, and the north-south length of the South China Sea is 2,000 kilometers.
The ultimate speed of a flying scissor is 14 knots, and it is no problem to reach a full load speed of at least 10 knots (that is, 18.5 kilometers per hour).
From Yuezhou to Borneo, it only takes more than 100 hours, that is, four or five days, the islands in the South China Sea are scarce, and the reefs are even less pitiful.
If you go all out to transport it like this, it will only take half a year at most to run a dozen round-trip trips, compared with the fact that the immigrants on the Nanyang Peninsula have just started for almost two years, and it takes half a year to occupy Borneo in a month, and no one will refuse.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what do we do?"
Someone muttered, "Could it be that we are going to make Borneo a military district?"
” "Well, that's a good idea."
Someone's eyes lit up: "If this place is classified as a military district, then this will become the territory of the army, and ordinary people are not qualified to occupy this place." ” "No, it's deserted in such a good place, not only the people don't want to, but we also feel distressed when we look at it."
Fang Xuanling immediately shook his head and refused: "According to the information given by His Royal Highness, Borneo is simply a place where you can live and work in peace and contentment as long as you go, and it would be a pity to leave such a good place there in vain." ” "Everyone, don't argue, everyone looks at His Highness's confidence."
The eldest grandson Wuji stopped everyone's quarrel and asked Li Zhen with a smile: "Your Highness, since you have discovered this Borneo, you should also know our current predicament, right?"
There should be a solution, right?
” Li Zhen did not deny it, but nodded and said: "Yes, this palace does have a preliminary idea, and I hope that you adults will help to correct it." ” Seeing that it attracted enough attention, Li Zhencai said: "Everyone, the palace you are worried about has long thought that the development focus of Datang is Nanyang, but in the same way, the development of Nanyang has also firmly involved a lot of energy in Datang, not to mention that Borneo is far overseas, and the development cost may not be much less than that of Nanyang."
Therefore, Hongu came to a conclusion - that is, if you want to use the power of the imperial court to develop Borneo in a short period of time, it is simply impossible. ” The eldest grandson Wuji asked, "What does His Highness mean ......?"
Li Zhen smiled faintly and said his thoughts: "What this palace means is that since the imperial court can't develop it, why not let the people develop it themselves?"
” "Let the private sector develop it themselves?"
Du Ruhui thought for a moment, and almost instantly understood what Li Zhen meant: "Your Highness means to open Borneo and let the people move and emigrate?"
And we just need to set up a government and army on Borneo to assist in the management of security in Borneo?
” That's what Hongu means.
Li Zhen said: "Borneo is too big, and the imperial court has no way to develop it immediately, so we have only one way left, that is, to let go of Borneo's development rights, let the people immigrate by themselves, and develop by themselves, from Yuezhou to Sabah in Borneo is only more than 4,000 miles, with the speed of our flying scissor sailboats, it will arrive in four or five days, and we can run back and forth in ten days, and we can transport 200,000 immigrants over within half a year, and then Borneo will be our final say." ” "Your Highness really has great wisdom, and I admire it."
The eldest grandson Wuji was the first to say: "This is indeed the best solution at present, and the minister seconded it." ” Du Ruhui said sincerely: "Although it has not been verified, but at present, this is indeed the best way, and the minister also seconded it." ” "The minister seconded the ......"
Fang Xuanling.
"The minister seconded the ......"
Wei Zheng.
"The minister seconded the ......" hundred officials.