Outside Guangzhou City, Huangpu Wharf, there are sailboats gathering on the river, covering the river surface, which is very spectacular.

The territory of the Han Dynasty was in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and its main trading ports were Ningbo, Hangzhou and Shanghai. These three ports were closer to Japan and North Korea, but too far from Nanyang.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty had the advantage in trade with East Asia, but in Southeast Asia, it could not dominate and always faced competition from the Zheng family, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Therefore, in the trade in Southeast Asia, the Han Dynasty had no obvious advantages and it has never been able to open up a bigger situation.

Now, the Han army occupied Fujian and Guangxi, and the Han trading companies flocked to the Han Dynasty.

Guangzhou is one of the most important ports in the south, with a large number of Zhejiang merchants pouring in, causing land prices and shops in Guangzhou and around Huangpu Port to rise by 30%.

At this time, it was already early December, and Guangzhou was as warm as spring.

The whistling north wind in winter is just right for the fleet to set off from Guangzhou and travel around Nanyang.

Now that Guangdong is pacified, the small-scale fights in Guangxi cannot affect the Han Dynasty, so Zhao Ming came to Huangpu to inspect the fleet's outing sea.

Zhao Ming was interested in the battle for hegemony in the Central Plains, determined to pacify the world and become a great hero to end troubled times. At the same time, Zhao Ming was also very interested in overseas trade and colonial areas.

In another ten years, the British bourgeois revolution that lasted for nearly forty years was over.

Now, the Netherlands has declined, leaving a large vacuum, Britain and France are accelerating their expansion, and their hands have reached India.

In order to avoid the oppression and enslavement of the people of the world by Western colonists, Zhao is about to rise up.

On the edge of the pier, Zhao Ming stood on a hill and stared at the calm river surface, as well as sail shadows in the distance.

A large number of ships loaded with cargo are heading overseas.

Zhao Ming asked: "Why are these many ships coming to Guangzhou? Will it have an impact on Jiangsu and Zhejiang?"

"Don't worry, your highness will not only not affect it, but also reduce the pressure on Ningbo in Shanghai!" Chen Mingyu said: "The dispute between Tang and Lu has caused a large number of refugees. The ports in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are busy transporting personnel and exhausted to deal with it. Guangzhou is close to Luzon and other places, which is convenient for transporting materials."

Speaking of this, Zhao Ming couldn't help but worry: "When the people were transported overseas for resettlement, the government must be fully prepared!"

Due to different cultures, the overseas expansion model of the Han Dynasty was destined to be very different from the brutal colonization of the West.

The Western Yi naked plundered resources and wealth and massacred indigenous people, while the Han Dynasty carried out colonization, with the purpose of building the local area and obtaining appropriate rewards.

This is determined by the level of civilization. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, China's level of civilization was already quite high, and the West has just walked out of the dark medieval times.

The expansion of the Han Dynasty was to return the barbarians to Xia and educate the people in all directions, which was a great merit.

Zhao Ming doesn't care whether he can plunder or not. The Lord requires that the merits be fulfilled and all sentient beings can be saved.

"This time I came to Guangzhou, I purchased a batch of grain and supplies from Guangdong, Guangxi and Annan, and transported them to Luzon and Xinmingzhou. So your highness can rest assured that there will be no major problems. However, after all, there are too many people this time, probably nearly 500,000, and there are hundreds of thousands. I am stranded in Zhejiang for resettlement. It is really difficult to discuss the government's response!" Chen Mingyu persuaded tactfully.

Zhao Ming attaches great importance to population and overseas colonies.

After the Han Dynasty issued the "Breeding Order", Zhao Ming allowed the gentry and merchants in China to spontaneously expand their colonies, and based on the amount of tax payment, they recognized their sovereignty over the colonies, allowed them to establish a feudal state, or grant fiefs to those who have made contributions.

This is equivalent to a disguised implementation, the system of fiefs and fiefs in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

This decree set off a wave of overseas colonization in the Han Dynasty, and all the major tribes and gentry were ready to move.

Many large clans incited and recruited personnel, prepared to go out to sea to expand their colonies and establish their own fiefdoms, but ordinary people were not interested in this, and no one responded, and poured cold water on their heads.

After all, this is their desire to be the throne of the country, and the people live in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, why do they travel thousands of miles to fly across the sea to make their landlords rich and wealthy?

Is it because the Han Dynasty is not rich or strong, or is it because life in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is uncomfortable and only goes overseas if you are sick.

Therefore, the gentry and tribes were happy in vain and only recruited some people who had committed crimes, caused trouble, and hid debts.

These people are not good at brute force, and the gentry and landlords dare not take them to breed, for fear of being killed by them, so this wave of breeding enthusiasm soon became aborted.

However, some people did not give up and began to influence Han officials through various channels, and had the idea of ​​nearly one million refugees.

Zhao Ming also knew that it was not easy to let the Han people leave their hometowns and expand their colonies overseas, so he valued this group of refugees very much and ordered that the people not be allowed to recruit these people.

At the beginning, Zhang Yida was almost thrown into prison because of his private recruitment.

On the one hand, Zhao Ming encouraged the people to expand their colonies, but on the other hand, he was worried that they would grow overseas. At the same time, he was worried that domestic gentry would invest large amounts of resources overseas, which would affect the Han Dynasty's domestic hegemony, so Zhao Ming was actually very contradictory.

He hesitated for a while, but eventually he was desperate and refused to allow the people to resettle refugees privately.

After hearing Chen Mingyu's words, Zhao Ming seemed to be persuading him to allow the people to participate in resettlement, and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Zhao Ming couldn't help but wonder whether it was because the government was indeed limited in its ability and it was difficult to resettle, or because Chen Mingyu was influenced by someone.

Zhao Ming pondered for a moment, "The Lord King has learned about this. The progress of resettlement can be slowed down. The Lord King will immediately transfer some people to overseas, and then they can use their power to resettle them."

Transferring the throne is different from private resettlement. Private resettlement will strengthen the strength of domestic tyrants. Transferring the throne will entrust the princes who are originally powerful overseas to overseas, weaken their strength, and at the same time annex their original territory and strengthen their own strength.

This is equivalent to using bad land to exchange for good land.

When Chen Mingyu heard the words, he had to salute, "I understand!"

At this time, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed over and dismounted at the foot of the mountain. They hurriedly climbed up and saluted on one knee: "Report to the King, the Jianwu court has an urgent letter to him!"

When Zhao Ming heard the words, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said quickly: "Where is the faith?"

The cavalry took a bamboo tube from the back and put it on. The guard commander Wang Shuang immediately took it, took out the letter, and handed it over to Zhao Ming.

Zhao Ming shook the letter paper and quickly glanced at it, and his face changed.

When Chen Ming met this, he couldn't help but say, "The Jianwu court wrote a letter at this time, but did you ask Your Highness for help?"

Zhao Ming nodded slightly and said with a calm face: "Li Chengdong rebelled and Ajigennan invaded, Emperor Jianwu could not hold on!"

Chen Mingyu was also shocked when he heard this, "Li Chengdong actually rebelled. If this is true, Emperor Jianwu will be in danger!"

Zhao Ming put away the letter. He was also shocked by Li Chengdong's rebellion. He thought that Old Li had reformed himself and became a new person, but he did not want to be so unrestrained.

"What should you do when your Highness is going to do?" Chen Mingyu said again.

Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "The lips are gone and the teeth are cold. Moreover, now everyone in the world thinks that he is the vassal of the Jianwu court. Once Longwu defeats Jianwu, he will definitely take advantage of the situation to attack Jiangdong. It seems that this king should take action."
Chapter completed!