Without Fan Ning looking for Mingren, at night, Mingren took the initiative to find Fan Ning. Novel.

Fanning took him to the outside study room, asked him to sit down, and asked the maid to serve tea. Fanning asked with a smile, "Where is Mingli? Why don't he come?"

"That boy"

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

"What's wrong?"

Fanning's smile disappeared and she 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, and refused, and even hid Mingli's son."

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

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

Fanning nodded slowly. Although Mingren said it vaguely, Fanning still understood, "Whose child belongs to that child? Is it Mingli?"

"I can't explain clearly. Mingli has been overseas all year round and has a very weak family relationship with his son. He himself doesn't know who the child is. Maybe it's his or not his."

"Then we have to break up!"

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

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said, "Actually, the Japanese woman Mingli married first is good. She has been helping him take care of his parents and keeping his integrity for him. Her children are all teenagers. In my opinion, since I have gone overseas, don't care too much about family background."

"My father also meant that he asked him to divorce his wife and then help Lizi become his wife."

"Okay! Let's not talk about Mingli anymore, let's talk about the situation in Beidao."

"The development of the North Island is very smooth. Japanese laborers and two cities have been built. In addition to Wucheng, Songcheng has been built two hundred miles east. We are preparing to build another Yuecheng on the beach north of Wucheng. The area of ​​the three cities is almost the same. This time, 6,000 households have immigrated, and the population is 8,000, and the three cities are just enough to accommodate them."

"It should be seven thousand households. I remember there were only one thousand households at the beginning!"

"This is quite interesting. We have five hundred soldiers guarding the island. During the Chinese New Year this year, we said we had a blind date and picked hundreds of Japanese girls. We thought they would come to visit more than a hundred people, but we didn't expect that all five hundred soldiers came to visit the blind date. As a result, five hundred pairs were successful. These soldiers were willing to stay in the Kitajima. This time they wanted to take their parents and family over together, which added 500 new households. Now Zhu Long is the commander of 500 people and continues to monitor Japanese workers."

"Then what?"

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

"We recruited the other five hundred households in Quanzhou. The people of the Song Dynasty immigrated overseas one after another. We set up a recruitment site in Quanzhou. In a year, we recruited 530 households. Last year, we took a boat to Beidao."

“What is the biggest problem facing North Island now?”

Mingren thought for a while and said, "The biggest thing now is the shortage of supply, which is too far away from the Song Dynasty. This time we are considering building a supply transit station on the southernmost part of Luzon Prefecture. Then the Luzon Prefecture Trading Company regularly sends various supplies, and then our fleet goes to transport it regularly, so we don't have to go to the far side of the Song Dynasty."

Fan Ning nodded and said, "You can also build a supply transit station in the South Mainland. After all, the imperial court established an official there. According to the court's rules, supply will be sent twice a year, and the amount of supply will be sufficient. Then you can use the imperial court's supply fleet to purchase supplies from the court and store them in the South Mainland. It will be convenient for us to take them in the past. This time I will tell you about the rich husband, 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 it's still a boat. Our county town is built by the river. The land that has been reclaimed is also by the river. Sheep and cattle are also by the river. Even if the wood is logged, it will be thrown into the river and float down the water."

Fan Ning took a few steps behind his hands and said to Mingren: "This time Hebei fought against the Liao army, we seized tens of thousands of war horses, and then replaced 20,000 Central Plains horses from the army, preparing to be auctioned in the folk. Since you need it urgently, I will make the decision to leave 6,000 for you or buy them according to the market price. You will leave 4,000 of these 6,000 horses, and the remaining 2,000 will be transferred to the South Island."

Akihito rubbed his hands so excitedly that he said, "It would be better to get another hundred stallions."

Fan Ning smiled and scolded, "You are lucky. Liu Kui happened to get five hundred stallions from the Liao Kingdom, so he left one hundred for you. But I want to remind you that you would better hire the imperial court's horse and boats. They have the experience of taking care of horses on a long distance at sea, and the boats are suitable for horse life. Don't be careless."

"I remember, when I look back, I contacted the Overseas Business Administration, it seems that the horse and boat are under their jurisdiction."

Fanning took a sip of tea and asked again: "Have the island completely searched for indigenous people?"

Akihito nodded, "Zhu Hu, Zhu Bao and Zhu Ying each led a team of soldiers to conduct a thorough search of all parts of the Beidao. So far, no traces of human beings have been found, but"

"But what?" Fanning asked.

"But I heard that the southern continent had discovered natives and fought with the army. The army destroyed a tribe and killed more than 300 people, less than 300 miles away from Xinding County. In addition, when we headed north to Luzon Prefecture, there was a long and narrow island with an area of ​​about the same as Kaifeng and was covered with jungles. Last year, when our fleet passed by, hundreds of natives ran out of the forest and shot arrows at the ships."

Fanning understood that Mingren was talking about New Caledonia, about 20,000 square kilometers. There were indeed indigenous people on that island. The natives they destroyed last year came from this big island.

Fanning was never ruthless in dealing with these indigenous people. He always advocated taking the initiative first and eliminating them all first, at least to weaken them to the point where they could not threaten the Southern Continent and the North Island for hundreds of years.

Fan Ning pondered for a moment and said, "I will arrange the matter of eliminating the indigenous people. You don't have to worry about it. I will ask the court to send troops, including the indigenous people in the southern continent to clean up."

"I'll get a lot tonight. It's not too late, so I won't bother you to rest."

Fan Ning did not try to keep Mingren, and sent him out of the mansion and looked at his carriage to walk away. At this moment, he suddenly remembered that he had not asked his brother-in-law about his family about going to Beidao. It seemed that it was Mingren who encouraged him, and it seemed to be related to Zhu Yuanfeng.

Fan Ning thought about it and asked Zhu Pei to ask her sister directly. She had to go to see the empress dowager tomorrow. She had to convince her to agree to add new engineering studies in the Imperial Academy, or to directly study the engineering studies in the Imperial Academy.

The next morning, Empress Dowager Cao met Fan Ning, an envoy to conquer Liao in Cining Palace. Empress Dowager Cao no longer cared about general government affairs and basically did not interfere with military and national government affairs. She is now only concerned about the major personnel appointments and removals of the court and major changes. Not long ago, she had a very stale relationship with Wang Anshi's several reforms and the relationship between the emperor Zhao Xu, and she directly rejected the reform proposal.

In the past two days, she is considering dismissing Wang Anshi's assistant minister to prevent him from proposing excessive reform measures.

"Mr. Fan Xianggong, the Ai family is not an old-fashioned person. He blindly opposed reforms. The late emperor once told me that the system of the Song Dynasty was established to adapt to the specific situation of the Song Dynasty. If it is not suitable, it can be repaired and adapted. However, the Ai family was very disgusted with the practice of denying it completely. Nothing in this world is completely correct or wrong. Naturally, the system has existed for so many years, so it must have its meaning."

Empress Dowager Cao obviously thought Fanning came to be a lobbyist for the emperor and persuaded herself to accept various reform systems, so when she saw Fanning, she first showed her attitude.

Fan Ning smiled bitterly and said, "The Empress Dowager misunderstood. I am not here to make a visit to the Empress Dowager. I am not here to make a move for the king and the Queen Mother. To a certain extent, the Empress Dowager's opinions are consistent. The reform requires slow remediation, nourishment, and gradually change the prescription. You cannot apply a tiger or wolf medicine as soon as you come. This is the attitude of the empress dowager."

Empress Dowager Cao showed a smile on her face, "Since that's the case, what's wrong with you visiting Ai's family today?"

"First is to greet the Queen Mother, and secondly, I want to talk about engineering."

Before Fan Ning finished speaking, Empress Dowager Cao said, "The Ai family did not agree to establishing the project of engineering in the Imperial College. It was not that the Ai family opposed engineering, but it was not suitable to put it in the Imperial College. Besides, the Song Dynasty itself had a Wensi Academy, so why did we build another engineering college?"

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

But Wensi Academy and Military Equipment Institute are both factory-like and are not the educational institutions that Fanning wants.

"Weichen agreed with the Queen Mother's opinion and did not set up engineering studies in the Imperial Academy, so weichen proposed to set up a special college as a supplement to the imperial military and cultural institute, to cultivate talents who combine the wisdom of scholars with the superb craftsmanship skills of craftsmen, and to study various military and civilian machinery, such as replacing water trucks with steam engines, studying new agricultural tools, studying new ships, studying new textile machines, and studying more powerful weapons. This is a good thing for the country and the people."

Empress Dowager Cao nodded, "Military and Agriculture Ai's family has always been very supportive, as well as textiles, mining, shipping, these are good things that benefit the country and the people. If the Institute of Technology is developing in this regard, instead of designing those clever tricks, the Institute of Technology will strongly support it, and even allocate silver from the treasury to establish the Institute of Technology. I believe you already have a plan in your mind. Who do you plan to recommend to preside over the establishment of the Institute of Technology?"
Chapter completed!