Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 541 Han Jiang's Request

In late June, Fan Ning led the fleet back to Quanzhou City. Fifty days have passed since his journey. In fact, Quanzhou is much closer to Luzon than Japan and Kunzhou. They are two thousand miles away. , and paddle boat sailing, then it will take five days to arrive. This time is mainly the first time the Song Army went south to Nanyang, so the speed is relatively slow, and it took ten days one way.

After reuniting with his family in the morning, Fan Ning came to the Overseas Economics Mansion in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, the Economic Mansion was very deserted, and most of the officials were gone, even his aides Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance were gone. There are only a few officials sitting in town.

Fan Ning was full of doubts. He came to his official room. He had just sat down in his seat when he saw Chen Zhen, an aide, who was hurrying in with a thick stack of texts in his arms.

"Ah! Make you come back."

Chen Zhen was both surprised and delighted: "I heard that a fleet came back in the morning. I thought it was a merchant fleet going to Japan! I didn't expect that it was the fleet of Shijun."

"The trade with Japan has already started?"

Chen Zhen nodded, "It officially started 20 days ago. The Deputy Economic and Strategic Envoy Yu Xiaonian who just took office will lead a team of [-] official ships to Ping'an Capital."

Yu Xiaonian was transferred to the Economic Strategy Mansion at Fanning's request, as one of the three deputy economic strategy envoys, in charge of official trade and labor exports to Japan and Korea.

Fan Ning just needed to import [-] laborers and [-] Japanese girls from Japan. He quickly asked, "Have you established a pigeon letter connection with Heianjing?"

"It has been established. There is our trade bureau in Ping'an-kyo. Pigeon letters can be sent there directly, and then transferred through Liuli Island and Tanegashima. It will arrive in Ping'an-kyo in two days."

Fan Ning immediately wrote a text message, affixed his own official seal for pigeon letters, and handed it to Chen Zhen, "Send this letter tomorrow morning, it is best for Yu Xiaonian to receive it."

This is the first official trade between Song Dynasty and Japan, and it should not come back so soon. Calculate the time, it should catch up.

Chen Zhen took the pigeon and said, "Does your envoy have any other orders?"

"Also, there are no people in the Jinglue Mansion, even Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance are gone. Where are they?"

"It turns out that the envoy doesn't know yet!"

Chen Zhen hurriedly said: "They all went north to Yangzhou to pick up people. Almost all the officials of the Jinglue Mansion were dispatched, including Deputy Envoy Li and Judge Luo, and even Zhang Bo and Gongsun Xuance."

"Is it to pick up immigrants?"

"Yes! The first batch of [-] immigrants has arrived in Yangzhou. I heard that the officials in the north were upset and didn't want to go south. The court asked us to send someone to pick them up, but everyone went."

"Then who is in charge of the overall coordination?"

"It's Han Xianggong, it seems that he is in charge of immigration."

It was only then that Fan Ning remembered that he almost forgot that the Zhizheng Hall made it clear that Han Jiang was in charge of coordinating immigration matters, but only 5000 people came in the first batch, so what about Luzon Island?This matter made Fanning a little difficult.

"How long have they been gone?" Fanning asked again.

"It's been almost half a month, and it's time to come back after some calculation."

Fan Ning nodded and asked again: "How is the situation in the Ryukyu Prefecture? Is there any news about the death of a worker?"

"There are still labor deaths, but very few. During the absence of the emperor, there was only one accident report. There was an accident in the mine, and three people were buried. As for the death incident of poisonous snakes, there have been no more incidents."

Chen Zhen took another report and handed it to Fan Ning, "This is the report from Zhang Zhi County a few days ago. The road from the seaport to the county town that you are most concerned about has been completed."

Fan Ning briefly glanced at the report, and then asked, "Where are the fifteen officials? Where are they now?"

"They are currently in Liuqiu County, assisting Zhangzhi County in managing Japanese labor."

"I see. You go to deal with the pigeon letter. I'll take a closer look at this report."

Chen Zhen fetched another thick stack of documents, and then withdrew.

Fan Ning was flipping through the report written by Zhang Ying, and Chen Zhen's comments were included in the report. Chen Zhen helped Fan Ning sort out the key points in advance. This is the role of a confidential secretary. Pre-approval for some important documents, to seduce the key points, which greatly relieved the pressure on Fan Ning.

An envoy like him has to attack everywhere and control everything. With so much time and energy, a good confidential secretary will be useful.

Fan Ning is still very satisfied with Chen Zhen, otherwise he would not have kept him at the beginning. Although there is a Hedong Lion in his family, his own talents are still quite good.

Fan Ning suddenly thought of something, and asked loudly: "Has the Luzon report I sent a few days ago been sent to the imperial court?"

Chen Zhen said at the door: "It was sent to the imperial court ten days ago."

Fan Ning breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly reviewed Zhang Ying's report and handed it back to Chen Zhen, "Send a pigeon letter to Zhang Ying. The matter of building a new county can be put on hold. The matter of land allocation must be done immediately, and no further delay is allowed." .”

"But, five thousand immigrant households are coming soon." Chen Zhen reminded Fan Ning in a low voice.

Fan Ning nodded, "I know that these immigrants can send [-] households to Liuli Island to establish Liuli County first, and I plan to send the remaining [-] households to Luzon."

On the second day after Fan Ning returned to Quanzhou, the fleet transporting [-] households and more than [-] immigrants also arrived in Quanzhou. The magistrate Su Liang had already led the county officials to set up a camp in an open space outside Quanzhou City. .

All the students from the prefectural and county schools, including Quanzhou, were mobilized to help the migrants stay in the camps temporarily.

Teams of soldiers patrolled the camp to maintain the security of the camp.

Fan Ning accompanied Han Jiang to inspect the immigrant camp. Han Jiang accompanied the immigrants to Quanzhou for the first time. His other task was to find out about Fan Ning on behalf of Zhizhengtang. The Wanxiang Army needs a large amount of resettlement fees, but Zhizhengtang can't afford it, so it can only play Fan Ning's idea.

"These immigrants are from Yan'an Mansion and Zhending Mansion. The imperial court also followed the Queen Mother's order to minimize the number of people in the frontier states, so as to prevent great losses if war broke out."

"Fu Xianggong also seemed to implement this strategy back then, and was criticized by the court, saying that it was a waste of money and a lot of land wasted. Why is it going back now?" Fan Ning asked with a smile.

"That's all for now and then! When Fu Xianggong evacuated the frontier people to the south, it really caused a lot of financial pressure on the court. It has been almost 20 years, and there are still hidden dangers. Will there be a peasant rally in the Daming Mansion? Thousands of immigrants from Zhending Prefecture have asked the government to return the land, and now they can be resettled overseas, and the plan to reduce the number of people in border states has become feasible again."

Speaking of this, the smile on Han Jiang's face became a little unnatural, "The Zhizheng Hall has officially advanced the matter of reducing the township soldiers and some Xiang troops that Fan Shijun has been advocating."

Fan Ning was overjoyed and quickly asked, "How many people will there be?"

"Current statistics show that there are 16 township troops in each prefecture. The Xiang Army mainly reduces the troops in the Central Plains and Jiangnan prefectures, involving about 20 troops, for a total of 36 troops."

"If these old and weak troops are reduced, the court's military burden will be reduced by nearly 2000 million guan every year. It's a good thing!"

"Of course a good thing is a good thing, but the disarmament requires the court to provide a large sum of money and food for compensation. There is food, but the money is still short of 400 million yuan. The court can't afford it!"

Fan Ning suddenly understood, and he smiled: "Isn't the land not good? Or encourage them to emigrate overseas, why do you have to spend money?"

"Land must be given, ten acres per person. As for the immigrants going overseas, we will also try to get them to volunteer, but resettlement money must be given. It's not much, ten yuan per person, but it can't cope with the large number of people. Ah! It’s nearly 40, but it’s actually not that much. There are a lot of people who are empty-handed, and the court has recognized it, and they don’t want to pursue it any further.”

"So you come to rip me off?"

Han Jiang also said with a cheeky smile: "Everyone knows that the Overseas Economic and Strategy Office is rich now, and you are recognized by the court as the number one master of making money. If you don't look for it, who else can you look for?"

"It seems that Lao Han didn't see the report I just sent to the court!"

Han Jiang's spirit lifted, "Another good news?"

Fan Ning nodded, "It's not ordinary good news. I have taken Luzon Island and moved the entire Luzon Kingdom to Sulu Island in the south. Because of the outbreak of war, we confiscated the treasury of Luzon Kingdom and obtained 160 million taels of gold."

"How much?" Han Jiang was stunned.

"160 million taels! Among them, 10 taels are used to reward soldiers, and I plan to hand over the remaining 150 million taels of gold to the imperial court. The gold is now in Quanzhou."

Han Jiang blushed with excitement, 150 million taels of gold!With this money, the court can do many things. Fu Xianggong said that Fan Ning is a boy who recruits money, and he is absolutely right.

"But I have conditions!"

"Tell me, I think as long as it's not too much, Zhizhengtang will definitely agree!" Han Jiang said without hesitation.

Fan Ning said indifferently: "I will add another [-] immigrants to Luzon Island this year. The imperial court has to help me arrange this matter."

(End of this chapter)