Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 627 New Island News
There is no need for Fan Ning to find Ming Ren, Ming Ren came to find Fan Ning at night.

Fan Ning took him to the outer study, asked him to sit down, and served tea to the maid. Fan Ning asked with a smile, "Where is Mingli? Why doesn't he come?"

"that kid"

Mingren shook his head, "Don't mention him!"

"what happened?"

The smile on Fan Ning's face disappeared, and he asked, "What happened to Mingli?"

"Do you still remember his father-in-law? The Li family in Quanzhou, Mingren wanted to send his wife and children to Beidao, but the Li family refused, no matter what, and even hid Mingli's son."

"What about Mingli's wife's attitude?" Fan Ning asked sharply.

"She has a cousin who has never been married and is waiting for her, so she refuses to go overseas."

Fan Ning nodded slowly. Although Ming Ren spoke vaguely, Fan Ning still understood, "Who does that child belong to? Is it Ming Li's?"

"It's not clear. Mingli has been overseas all year round, and his relationship with his son is very weak. He himself doesn't know who the child is. Maybe it belongs to him, or maybe it doesn't belong to him."

"Then we have to break up!"

Mingren nodded, "Mingli has already made up his mind. If his wife still refuses to go to Beidao when he comes back this time, he can only divorce his wife, and he doesn't want the child anymore. He will leave it to the Li family."

Fan Ning said with a slight smile: "Actually, the Japanese woman Mingli married was pretty good. She has been helping him take care of his parents and keeping festivals for him for so many years. The children are all in their teens. In my opinion, since I went overseas, Just don’t pay too much attention to family background and the like.”

"My father also meant the same thing. After he divorced his wife, he made Reiko his wife."

"Okay! Let's not mention Mingli, let's talk about the situation in Bei Dao."

"The development of Beidao went smoothly. Japanese laborers built two cities. In addition to Wucheng, they built Songcheng two hundred miles to the east. They planned to build another Yuecheng by the sea to the north of Wucheng. Three The size of the cities is about the same, and the population of [-] households has immigrated to [-] households, and the three cities can accommodate them."

"It should be [-] households. I remember there were only [-] households at first!"

"This incident is quite interesting. We have 500 soldiers guarding the island. During the Chinese New Year this year, we said that we would hold a blind date and selected hundreds of Japanese girls. We thought they would come to more than [-] people, but we didn't expect [-] soldiers. They all came to go on a blind date, and it turned out that [-] pairs were successful. These soldiers were willing to stay in Beidao. This time, they wanted to take their parents and family members over. This added [-] households, and now Zhu Long has [-] people. Commander, continue to monitor Japanese laborers."

"and then?"

Fan Ning asked with great interest: "Where did the other five hundred households come from?"

"The other 530 households were recruited in Quanzhou. People from the Song Dynasty continued to emigrate overseas. We set up a recruitment point in Quanzhou. In one year, we recruited [-] households. Last year, we went to Beidao by boat."

"What's the biggest problem facing the North Island right now?"

Mingren thought for a while and said: "The biggest problem now is the lack of supplies, and it is too far away from the Song Dynasty. This time we are considering building a supply transfer station in the southernmost part of Luzon Prefecture, and then the Luzon Prefecture Commercial Bank will send various supplies regularly, and then Our fleet goes there on a regular basis, so we don’t have to travel far to Dasong.”

Fan Ning nodded and said: "It is possible to build a supply transfer station in the Southern Continent. After all, the imperial court established the government there. According to the court rules, supplies will be sent over twice a year. The supply will be sufficient, so you can use the imperial court to The supply fleet bought supplies from the imperial court and stored them in the Southern Continent, so it would be convenient for us to get them in the past, this time I will talk to Fu Xianggong later, including the South Island.”

"That's great. This time we plan to purchase a batch of horses and breed them on the North Island, so that everyone can ride horses when they go out."

"How do you solve the traffic problem now?"

"Now we still rely on boats. Our county seat is built by the river, the reclaimed land is also by the river, and the sheep and cattle are also raised by the river. Even if logging is thrown into the river, it floats down the river."

Fan Ning walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said to Mingren: "This time Hebei fought against the Liao army, we captured tens of thousands of war horses, and then replaced [-] Central Plains horses from the army. They are going to be auctioned among the people. Since you are in urgent need , then I will make the decision to keep [-] horses for you, or buy them at the market price. Of these [-] horses, you keep [-] horses, and the remaining [-] horses will be transferred to Nandao."

Ming Ren was so excited that he rubbed his hands, "It would be best to get another hundred stallions."

Fan Ning scolded with a smile: "You guys are lucky, Liu Kui just got [-] stallions from the Liao Kingdom, and I will leave [-] for you, but I want to remind you, you'd better hire the horse boats of the imperial court. They have experience in taking care of horses for long distances at sea, and ships are also suitable for horses, so they must not be careless."

"I remembered. Later, I contacted the Overseas Economic and Strategy Office, as if the horse boats belonged to them."

Fanning took a sip of tea and asked again, "Has the aborigines been thoroughly searched on the island?"

Mingren nodded, "Zhu Hu, Zhu Bao, and Zhu Ying each led a team of soldiers to conduct a thorough search across the North Island. So far, no human traces have been found, but"

"But what?" demanded Fanning.

"However, the Southern Continent heard that the natives were found, and they fought with the army. The army destroyed a tribe and killed more than 300 people. It was less than [-] miles away from Xinding County. Two or three thousand miles away from the island, there is a long and narrow island, about the size of Kaifeng, covered with dense forests, when a fleet of ours passed by last year, hundreds of natives ran out of the forest and shot arrows at the ships.”

Fan Ning understood that what Akihito was talking about was New Caledonia, which was about [-] square kilometers. There were indeed indigenous people on that island, and the indigenous people they wiped out last year came from this big island.

When dealing with these aborigines, Fan Ning has never been merciless. He has always advocated that the first strike should be done first, and that they should be wiped out first. At least they should be weakened to the point where they cannot threaten the southern continent and the northern island for hundreds of years.

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and said, "I will arrange the elimination of the aborigines. You don't have to worry about it. I will ask the imperial court to send troops, including the aborigines in the southern continent."

"It's a big harvest tonight. It's not early, so I won't disturb your rest."

Fan Ning did not keep Ming Ren, sent him out of the mansion, and watched his carriage go away. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't asked his brother-in-law's family about going to Beidao. related.

Fan Ning thought about it. It would be better for Zhu Pei to ask his sister directly about this matter. He would go to see the Queen Mother tomorrow, so he had to persuade her to agree to add engineering to Taixue, or to directly study engineering.

Early the next morning, Empress Dowager Cao received Fan Ning, the envoy to the Liao Dynasty, who came to see him in the Palace of Compassion. And the major reforms are very concerned. Not long ago, the relationship between Wang Anshi's several reforms and the emperor Zhao Xu was very tense. She directly vetoed the reform bill.

In the past two days, she is considering dismissing Wang Anshi as a political adviser to prevent him from proposing radical reform measures.

"Fan Xianggong, Aijia is not an old-fashioned person who blindly opposes reform. The late emperor once said to me that the system of the Song Dynasty was established to adapt to the specific conditions of the Song Dynasty. I really dislike the approach of total negation, nothing in this world is completely right or wrong, and the natural system has existed for so many years, so it must have its meaning.”

Empress Dowager Cao obviously thought that Fan Ning had come to be a lobbyist for the emperor and persuaded herself to accept various reform systems, so she first stated her attitude when she saw Fan Ning.

Fan Ning smiled wryly and said: "The queen mother misunderstood. The minister did not visit the queen mother because of Wang Xianggong's reform. To a certain extent, the minister and the queen mother have the same opinion. The reform needs to be recuperated and nourished slowly. , Gradually change the prescription, you can't just give the medicine for tigers and wolves, this is the attitude of Wei Chen."

A smile appeared on Empress Dowager Cao's face, "In that case, why are you meeting with Ai's family today?"

"The first is to greet the Queen Mother, and the second is to talk about engineering."

Before Fan Ning could finish speaking, Empress Dowager Cao said: "The Ai family does not agree to set up the project of engineering in the Imperial Academy. It is not that the Ai family opposes the engineering study, but it is not appropriate to put it in the Imperial Academy. Besides, the Song Dynasty itself has a Wensi Academy. Why build another engineering college?"

The Wensi Academy of the Great Song Dynasty was established in the third year of Taiping Xingguo in the Song Dynasty. It is in charge of the manufacture of various mechanical weighing instruments. Zhu Yuanfeng's steam engine is currently manufactured in the Wensi Academy.

However, Wensi Institute and Armory Institute are both workshops, not the educational institutions that Fanning wanted.

"Wei Chen agrees with the Queen Mother's opinion and does not set up an engineering school in Taixue, so Wei Chen proposed to set up a special academy as a supplement to the Imperial Armament Institute and Wensi Academy, to cultivate talents who combine the wisdom of scholars with the superb craftsmanship of craftsmen. Simultaneously researching various machinery for military and civilian use, such as replacing waterwheels with steam engines, researching new types of farm implements, researching new types of ships, researching new types of textile machines, researching more powerful weapons, this is a good thing for the country and the people.”

Empress Dowager Cao nodded, "Military and agricultural supporters have always been very supportive, as well as textiles, mining, and shipping. , the Ai family will strongly support it, and even allocate money from the internal treasury to establish the engineering college, you must have a plan in mind, who do you plan to recommend to preside over the establishment of the engineering college?"

Fan Ning bowed and said, "This official is going to recommend Shen Kuo, the editor of the Hanlin Pavilion Pavilion, to be responsible for the establishment of the Engineering College."

(End of this chapter)