The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

"Please pay attention to where you step. Don't walk around after everyone gets off the boat. Someone will arrange accommodation and provide food for you!"

"Take care of your children, hold on tight to your mother-in-law, don't get lost!"

On the Xinjing Pier, on a sand boat that had just entered the berth, the boatman stood on the bow and shouted continuously with a tin horn.

Following his shouts, a large group of refugees with ragged clothes and hesitant faces began to disembark from the boat.

The staff who had been waiting for a long time on the dock immediately stepped forward to classify and guide these refugees.

These people were the immigrants that Emperor Zhu Da tried to bring from the southeast coast in order to fill the shortage of Han people in Luzon Island.

As for how to pull it?

Of course money clears the way!

In fact, when the Jinyiwei wanted to buy people from Manqing at first, it was really difficult.

Although they were recruiting workers under the name of the Luzon Chamber of Commerce, no people signed up voluntarily, and no one was willing to sell people to them. Instead, they attracted an investigation from the local government.

No way, this is not after the Opium War.

During this period, the Qing Dynasty cracked down on human trafficking very severely.

Once a trafficker is caught, regardless of success or failure, the principal will be hanged directly, the accomplices will be punished with 80 sticks and exiled for three thousand miles, and the more serious ones will be exiled to the army for 100 miles.

A job like Jin Yiwei's blatant recruitment with a brand name seems quite formal, but the place of work is in Luzon, which is a bit mysterious.

However, it was precisely because of this government investigation that Jin Yiwei, who was in charge of immigration work, opened up new ideas.

Since recruiting people from the private sector is not feasible, then we should cooperate with the government.

So, the Jin Yiwei, wearing the waistcoats of the Luzon Chamber of Commerce staff, met with the local officials of the Qing Dynasty and made an offer of ten taels of silver per head.

It is said that if you clear the prefecture in three years, you will earn one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.Why did these Manchu officials become officials?Isn't it just to make money?

And ten taels of silver is a lot!You must know that the annual salary of a seventh-grade county magistrate is only 45 taels of silver!

Although none of these officials live on the salary provided by the court, this is enough to illustrate the weight of twelve taels of silver.

So, the two hit it off.

Aren't they just some untouchables?The most important thing our Qing Dynasty lacks is population!

At present, the Qing Dynasty has not yet implemented the method of apportionment of people into acres. In order to avoid the poll tax, there is a phenomenon of large numbers of people underreporting the population.

In other words, even if a large number of people are sold to Luzon, the official registered population will not decrease.

As a result, after some officials made a lot of money after the first few trial transactions, their actions became more and more exaggerated.

Some officials even asked police officers to go to the countryside to arrest people with the registered population.

For every registered household registration, all the excess will be arrested for the crime of concealing the population and tax evasion, and exiled (sold) for three thousand miles.

Fortunately, these officials who are obsessed with money still have some sense.

In order to prevent the Han people from causing trouble, when people are arrested, they are all members of the same family. If a family is arrested, it only needs to match the total registered population.

Officials knew that as long as these ordinary people were not forced into desperation and had food to eat, they would not resist.

This is indeed the case. Exile is not beheading, and the whole family is still together, so these people do not have much resistance to being exiled to Luzon.

While Jin Yiwei bought a large number of immigrants from the southeastern coast, ships of horses were also transported back at the same time.

However, the quality of the horse made the expectant Emperor Zhu Da shake his head after seeing it.

They are small in size and not very fast. The asking price for each horse is as high as 20 taels of silver! (Data shows that in the 16th year of Qianlong's reign, Guangxi's native horses cost 17 taels of silver each, and oral horses cost 12 taels in freight. They could not be found during the Kangxi period, but horses were always in short supply)

These southern local manas are of really poor quality and high prices.

But there was no way around it. The price was cheap and the quality of the horses was high. The Qing army itself was in short supply, so it was his turn to buy them.

Fortunately, he did not plan to let his cavalry clash with the Qing cavalry. It was enough to use them as dragoon mounts.

……

"Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang from the Nanwan Shipyard has sent word that the new warship has been built. Mr. Zhang asked your Majesty if he wants to go in person to inspect it."

Wang Chen held a telegram and reported to Zhu He.

"Oh? So fast!" Zhu Heyi was a little shocked. How long has it been, two months?Is this done?

"Go! Of course I want to go! Tell Zhang Hongfang that I will be there tomorrow morning!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After Wang Chen left, Zhu Heyi immediately opened his system interface.

【Rise of Empire System】

[Empire name: Ming Empire]

[Emperor: Zhu Heyi]

【Age: 18 years old】

[People: 328565 people]

[Army Force: 32061 people, Navy Force: 8145 people, Foreign Legion: 3000 people]

【equipment:……】

[Treasury: 61230000 taels of silver]

……

It has been nearly a month since the signing of the Ming-Dutch Agreement. During this period, the development of Ming Dynasty was not unsatisfactory.

A large number of new factories have been put into operation, the main roads connecting various counties have been laid, and schools that can accommodate thousands of people have been built and started to operate.

With the blessing of a large amount of money, Ming's military power was also expanding rapidly.

Today, the Ming Army Army and Armed Police Force already have two standard infantry divisions, an independent cavalry brigade, an independent artillery brigade and a Guards regiment.

As for the navy, not counting the newly built warships, there are 22 warships with more than 8000 officers and soldiers.

Even the Foreign Legion was expanded to the size of an infantry brigade by Zhu Heyi.

It's a pity that Miracle Market has never brought him any big surprises during this period of time.

The steel battleship that appeared twice before never appeared again after he got the money.

This is quite speechless. Is the system worried that he will penetrate the world directly?

In terms of equipment, except for the independent cavalry brigade, which is equipped with a carbine-type Mini rifle with a sawn barrel, the standard firearms of other troops are still dominated by Mini rifles.

Although the Mauser G98 he had previously given to the arsenal for imitation has been successfully imitated and tentatively named the Type 90 rifle,

But the gun was built, but the supply of bullets became a problem. (The name of the rifle is Tianyun Type 1?)

Emperor Zhu Da admitted that he took it for granted. The difficulty of making this fixed bullet was much higher than he imagined.

Although the production of 7.92mm bullets has begun, its output is only 5 rounds per month...

What can I do with these bullets?

If one day I bought him an mg42 general-purpose machine gun from Miracle Mall, wouldn't those 10 rounds of ammunition be used up in just [-] minutes?

Therefore, so far, Zhu Heyi has been unable to re-equip the entire army. Only some scouts and a small number of elite troops are equipped with this new rifle, and each person is only issued 40 rounds of ammunition.

The six Gatling guns that had been used up before were still without ammunition.

The situation with artillery was better than with rifles.

Although the development progress of new barrel artillery has also been hindered, the imitation of mortars has been quite successful, and the production of mortar shells is simpler than bullets.

Although the current production speed is not fast, it will not be in the embarrassing situation of a serious shortage of bullets like the rifle.

In addition, in order to make up for the shortcomings of barrel artillery, the arsenal was based on the existing large and small Napoleon cannons, replacing the original bronze barrels with steel barrels to create a batch of new artillery.

Well, let's call him a new type of artillery.

After all, the steel cannon is a third lighter than the original, and its range has been slightly increased.

This new mortar is tentatively named the Type 90 82mm mortar.

The new barrel artillery is tentatively named Type 90 6-pound field gun and Type 90 12-pound field gun.

……