In the blink of an eye, it was already December of the 26th year of Chongzhen.
Overseas Huben troops are rapidly expanding their territories on every continent, but in the center of power in one town and nine provinces, there are fewer and fewer official documents in the Qinzheng Yuan of Prince Qi's Mansion.
The reason is simple, because Li Zhi transferred Zheng Kaicheng who was stationed in Japan back and established an overseas affairs department covering one town and nine provinces. This department is specifically responsible for handling immigration affairs in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
There are basically no Han immigrants in these newly acquired territories, and the number of local indigenous people is also small. There is basically no tax revenue, and they are classified as "overseas territories" by Li Zhi. For overseas territories, Li Zhi's policy is to control the military affairs with Tiger and Ben troops, and at the same time, a large number of
Immigration from inland provinces gradually allowed Han Chinese to occupy these new territories.
If the Han population density in these areas exceeds three people per square kilometer, these provinces can be converted into formal territories and local governments established in the form of provinces.
Of course, this population goal is extremely difficult to achieve in the short term. Three people per square kilometer is the population density of white Australians in later generations, which means that there will be 25 million people in Australia. And Li Zhi is in Tianjin, Shandong, Henan and Jianghuai
The total Han population in the province is only 40 million.
Within a hundred years, I'm afraid there won't be 25 million Han people in Australia. It wouldn't be enough to move half of Li Zhi's subjects to Australia.
Therefore, military control of overseas territories will still last for a long time.
Because it was military control, the actual local managers were all soldiers and officers. Ordinary civilian officials could not deal with these soldiers with guns in their hands, so Li Zhi specially transferred Zheng Kaicheng to be the minister of this department.
As one of the four division commanders of the Huben Army, Zheng Kaicheng is very prestigious in the military system. Only when the overseas department he sits in is established can he issue orders and prohibitions.
After Zheng Kaicheng began to deal with overseas affairs, Li Zhi immediately felt much more relaxed. Every day he only went to the Qinzhengyuan to sit for an hour and a half to deal with official documents. Sometimes it was enough to come once every three days.
But today, Li Zhi specially sat in the Qinzheng Yuan to greet Li Xing, who came back from Nanjing to celebrate the New Year.
Li Zhi poured his brother a cup of oolong tea and said with a smile: "How is the situation in the south?"
Li Xing took a sip of tea and said, "Okay, it's pretty good!"
Li Zhi didn't speak when he heard this.
After a long time, Li Zhi asked: "How many days do you hunt?"
Li Xing's face froze, knowing that he had been seen through by his brother, and said with a smile: "Once every five days."
Li Zhi frowned but still said nothing.
Li Xing coughed, knowing that it was impossible to deceive Li Zhi, and said: "In Nanjing, it is once every two days."
Li Zhi sneered and said, "Are you so free?"
Li Xing said solemnly: "Brother, it's really nothing. Our Huben Army stationed in Nanjing is a deterrent to the south, and we have not taken over the government affairs of Nanjing! The six ministers in Nanjing who stayed in Beijing were very afraid of me. At the beginning, they came every three days
He came to report to me on the government affairs of Southern Zhili, but I kicked him out."
"The relationship between us and the emperor is very tense now. If we continue to interfere in the political affairs of the south, I am afraid that we will be given the reins. So I don't care about political affairs. So there is really nothing to do in Nanjing."
Li Zhi was choked by Li Xing and said, "You are quite good at talking."
Li Xing smiled and took a sip of tea.
Li Zhi thought for a while and asked: "Besides hunting, what else do you do?"
Li Xing said: "In addition to hunting, I train soldiers! Those soldiers are exhausted from my torment. Also, I go to Jianghuai Province in the north of the Yangtze River every half month to participate in the inauguration ceremony of major temples."
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and asked, "What kind of temple is this?"
Li Xing said with a smile: "Brother, don't you know? Now Jianghuai Province is getting richer day by day, and it has also been led by the people of Shandong Province. Shrines to worship your immortal tablet have been built like bamboo shoots after a rain. Now basically the shrines have been built.
At the township level, each township has a shrine to enshrine your tablet."
"But this ordinary small ancestral hall can't invite me, so the big ancestral hall dares to invite me. Last month, a 16-acre ancestral hall in Yangzhou was completed, and I was invited to unveil it. At that time, there was a sea of people in the south of Yangzhou city..."
Li Zhi frowned and said, "Didn't I not allow the local Xiu Sheng Temple to be built?"
Li Xing smiled and said nothing for a long time.
He seemed to hesitate for a while, then he said directly: "Brother, you don't understand this. Now the people here really worship you. They say that you are the White Tiger, the true master of the Western stars, who came to the earth to lead the Han people to open up the world."
From all over the world. Nowadays, there is no way to stop the shrines built by ordinary people. Although the local officials know that you have policies not to allow them to be built, who dares to defy public opinion and forcibly demolish the shrines built by ordinary people?"
"If a civil uprising is triggered, won't you lose your official position?"
"Only the people in Tianjin Acropolis and Fanjiazhuang are well-informed and know that you yourself will not allow the construction of students' temples. Moreover, under your eyes, the officials of these two cities have to forcefully suppress the construction of students' temples. In other places, especially in
In Shandong, Taiwan and Liaodong, the shrines are more ornate and bigger than the last."
"Han Jinxin probably feels that this matter cannot be explained clearly. He probably thinks that it is a good thing for the people to give you a shrine to worship students. He feels that reporting this matter to you will force you to demolish your own shrine, so he simply doesn't talk about it."
"Nowadays, many people don't go to temples to seek help from monks when they are sick. Instead, they go to their homes to place immortality tablets. It is said that kowtowing twice a day, morning and evening, can cure all diseases."
When Li Zhi heard this, he didn't speak for a long time.
Li Zhi did not expect that his image among the people was no longer that of an excellent manager or an engineer, but that he had become half a god.
Li Zhi took a breath and was about to speak when Gao Ligong, the governor of Tianjin Town, suddenly stumbled in and said, "Your Majesty, something happened."
Li Zhi frowned and said, "What are you so worried about?"
Although Li Zhi did not advocate kneeling, Gao Ligong still subconsciously knelt in front of Li Zhi at this time and said: "The locals in Jinghai County were fighting with the outsiders who came to Jinghai County from Shanxi to work. The two sides fought fiercely.
More than thirty people died."
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment, his face darkened.
"Why are you fighting about something?"
Gao Ligong couldn't help but tremble when he heard Li Zhi's stern tone, and looked up at Li Zhi's face.
Last time, Li Zhenpin's factory killed more than 30 people, and Li Zhi finally killed Li Zhenpin and Li Yousheng. Jinghai County is the jurisdiction of Gao Ligong, so many people died at once, will Li Zhi deal with himself?
It took him a long time to muster up the courage to say: "A pair of brothers from Shanxi destroyed the clay statue of the Prince Dasheng at the gate of Jinghai County. The people in Jinghai County were so excited that they wanted to kill the brothers. The brothers were hiding in Shanxi
The workers' gathering area was not allowed to come out. Shanxi workers united to save the lives of the two brothers. The people of Jinghai County took out their swords and attacked the Shanxi workers' gathering area, causing heavy casualties on both sides."
When Li Zhi heard this, he was stunned.
After a long while, he slapped his hand on the table.
