"Ma Jixiang, Governor-General of Fubo, would like to report: In order to eliminate military disasters, appease the barbarian people, and increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, my husband, the king of China, has never been as prosperous as our dynasty in civil, political, and martial arts. He revived the Ming Dynasty and supported the country on the dangerous wall; the sea made waves and spread the emperor's power overseas. This is a grand pattern that has not been seen in thousands of years.
Your Majesty's achievements are great! How lucky is this lowly minister that he was born in a prosperous age, crossed thousands of miles across the sea, and became a feudal territory. I wish I could see the dragon's face, but I can only spend my days and nights on the sea. Every time I think about this, my heart breaks.
Officials have responsibilities and people to handle matters. I have received great favor from the country and dare not speak for His Majesty without heart and soul.
Now that Fubo Province has been established, the barbarians in the mountains do not submit to the king's rule, and all the ministers want to force them to use troops. Every time our dynasty deploys troops overseas, there is no one who is invincible. However, once the war starts, it will cost a lot and it will last for a long time.
It hurts the people's livelihood. Moreover, the people outside the country are also your Majesty's innocent son. Suppressing the barbarians is like pacifying the barbarians. He can control the world without spending a single penny. He is a good person. Please use the position of chieftain to appoint native chiefs so that they can calm their people and serve the king.
Transformation. Once the whole province is established, it is not too late to change the land and return it to the current situation.
In the land of Fubo, the folk customs are fierce. If we recruit garrison troops to replace the fighting soldiers, we can avoid the hardship of soldiers hanging overseas and save huge military expenditures. There are many merchant ships coming and going in the ports along the coast. If the ports are opened for trade, the income from customs duties will be greatly reduced.
It can be used for national purposes; there are not many rivers on the island, so I want to build dams and livestock ponds to store rainwater for civilian use, and also plan military settlements to save expenses; along the beach, salt farms can be set up to produce salt, and the profits from the salt tax will be huge?? In the battle of war and defense, each other is constrained, and the humble ministers are bold and respectfully request the Holy Judge. For this reason, I would like to report it to you."
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After reading this essay on Ma Jixiang, Zhu Hengjia exclaimed: "Talents are rare, and Ma Jixiang has won my heart!"
In the previous section of this book, the old emperor was praised as the best in the world for his martial arts and martial arts. If you have read this kind of flattery article too many times, it’s okay not to read it. It also expresses your loyalty and longing for the emperor. This is not worthy of deep belief. If this person
You are so loyal. Why didn’t you come to rescue me when I was under house arrest after seizing the door?
What caught the emperor's eye was the middle part. The key was to increase revenue and reduce expenditure! Unlike Yang Wu and others who advocated suppressing the barbarians, Ma Jixiang advocated pacifying the barbarians. To suppress the barbarians, it would cost money, 300,000 taels for troops, and another 300,000 taels for the placement of military subordinates in the fields.
Liang, hundreds of thousands of taels often come to me for silver. Where can I get so much money? Ma Jixiang said that it is better to suppress than to suppress, "the world can be conquered without spending a penny", which really speaks to my heart. Moreover, they also mentioned recruiting.
The native soldiers replaced the fighting soldiers, opened commercial ports to levy customs duties, built dams to collect rainwater in livestock ponds, built military camps, boiled salt, and other methods to increase revenue and reduce expenditures. All of them were mentioned in my heart. They were much better than Yang Wu who only knew how to spend money lavishly! Finally, the emperor's eyes fell on the sixteen words in the last paragraph of the memorial: "The battle for war and defense is mutually constraining, and the humble ministers are bold and respectfully ask for the Holy Judgment." Ma Jixiang's killing move was also in these sixteen words.
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Well, in the battle of war and defense, Yang Wu and Ma Jixiang had different opinions. One wanted to suppress, the other wanted to appease, one wanted to spend money, the other wanted to save money; they were mutually constrained, and the two people were in conflict, and neither one wanted to obey the other;
Respectfully requesting the Holy Judgment is to ask me to make a decision on who to support.
Since we have reached the point where we are mutually constraining each other, I can only use one of Yang Wu and Ma Jixiang. Who should I use? After all, the words "the world can be determined without spending a penny" impressed Zhu Hengjia. Using Ma Jixiang does not cost any money.
, it must be him!
The emperor praised Ma Jixiang in his reply, "Looking at what you said, you are loyal to the public and the country, and every piece of work is of good quality. All are approved. It is windy overseas, so you need to keep warm and don't catch cold."
With a stroke of his pen, he ordered the Marquis of Annan, Yang Wu, to return to Annan with 8,000 soldiers, leaving only 7,000 soldiers in Fubo Province. In order to take care of Yang Wu's face, he also summoned him to Beijing for an audience on the pretext that the emperor missed his old minister.
Poor Yang Wu, as one of the first batch of heroes who followed the dragon, was loyal and had great military exploits, but in the end he was no match for a few taels of broken silver!
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After Yang Wu left, Ma Jixiang had no constraints, so he threw off his arms and started doing it.
First, he recruited 11 Minahasa tribes and nine Toala tribes, and granted the tribal kings the titles of 100 households, 1000 households, etc., and gained more than 50,000 barbarian people.
He also recruited two thousand supervisors, one thousand Fubiao, and three thousand native soldiers, all of whom were treated as guards; he actively traded with neighboring countries such as the Gowa Kingdom and opened three customs; he built dams to collect water and established military camps;
Encourage industry, support merchants to set up salt farms to cook salt, and build shipyards; they also introduce more taxes, including customs duties, commercial taxes, salt taxes, etc., and even fishery taxes are levied.
This governor was a restless master, but as soon as Emperor Guangwu delegated power to him, he took advantage of it.
After the East India Company was driven out of Fubo Island, it still occupied Ambon Island to the east of Buru Mansion, with thirty soldiers stationed there. He was unequivocal and ordered the Navy Chief Ma Xuansheng to send a warship to seize it.
He also ordered deputy general Zhang Jimin to survey the surrounding sea areas.
Zhang Jimin was very conscientious and went east to discover Seram Island and the Aru Islands. However, these islands lacked fresh water and had a sparse indigenous population. Going east again, he discovered Irian Island, which is very large and has a large population. The Papuans on the island,
Warm and hospitable. After Zhang Jimin established foreign trade relations with more than a dozen local tribal kings, he returned and was greatly praised by Ma Jixiang.
Governor Ma sent him to investigate again to the south, this time going further. Starting from Yaku Island, he first went to Melville Island and Bathurst Island. These two islands are located in the Timor Sea and have harsh living conditions. However,
The local indigenous residents were very artistic and liked to use colorful carvings; then he reported to Ma Jixiang with great joy: A new continent had been discovered in the south, which was vast and even exceeded the country of Tianzhu.
The news spread to Nanjing, and Emperor Guangwu smiled when he saw it.
The New World in the South is Australia. It is not really a New World. In 1606, the Spanish navigator Torres' ship sailed here. In the same year, the Dutchman William Janes landed here and named it "New World".
"The Netherlands". So, it's really not new! Moreover, more than half of the land here belongs to arid or semi-arid zones. There are 11 large deserts. Most of the central area is not suitable for human habitation. Only some areas on the southeast coast can be used for livestock and
Farmed land.
Although the resources are rich, in this era, the cost of immigrants and development there is too high and not cost-effective, so Zhang Jimin only allowed Zhang Jimin to erect a monument and return.
However, Zhang Jimin's suggestion that Yaku Island was too small for supplies moved the old emperor and ordered him to find suitable places to live in the surrounding area.
After much searching, I finally found a large island called Weta. Because it has steep mountains, steep cliffs along the coast, and lack of good harbors and bays, it was not favored by the Portuguese and East India Company. However, Zhang Jimin discovered after inspection that the island
The freshwater is extremely abundant and the rainfall is abundant, which is suitable for the development of agriculture and fishery. It is rich in sago, sea cucumbers and tortoise shells. Moreover, although the southeast coast is mountainous and rocky, it can still be used as a seaport with hard work.
After seeing the report, Emperor Guangwu issued an edict to name the island Nanqian Island, and set up Nanqian Prefecture on the island to govern Nanqian and Yaku Islands.
No one thought that the area under their jurisdiction was large. Fubo Governor Ma Jixiang and Governor Li Weizuo saw that Fubo Province had another prefecture under their jurisdiction. They happily appeased the local indigenous tribes and actually appeased more than 10,000 people. In the future, this place became the Ming Dynasty Wanli