When going to Southeast Asia, it is natural to vigorously develop the navy, and the soldiers in Yunnan and Guangxi must be well trained - Bailang has no intention of opening up territories in Southeast Asia except North Vietnam, but he must ensure the Ming Dynasty's free movement and control in these countries.
The power of free trade. Relying on simple trade, he can obtain a large amount of rice from these countries, so there is no need to specially occupy it as a native land.
But the islands in Southeast Asia are what Bailang wants - these islands are rich in various spices and large wood minerals, and they can be said to be treasure islands. Many of the indigenous countries on the islands worship the Ming Dynasty, and of course some feel that
The Ming Dynasty had no way to defeat the dissatisfied Wang Hua. Bai Lang was planning to form a navy to pay a good visit anyway. There were some islands that he wanted to include in the Ming Dynasty's territory. The Ming Dynasty did not mind becoming a country with ten thousand islands, nor did it mind taking the South Pacific Islands into its hands.
If nothing else, you can still go on vacation hundreds of years from now, right?
The Ming Navy now builds cruisers in large quantities - Shandong in the north built large flat-bottomed ships for sailing along the coastline to transport grain, silk and other materials, while Shanghai built all sharp-bottomed cruisers, which were directly incorporated into the Ming Dynasty.
The Donghai Navy escorted merchants to do business in Japan. While making money, it also completed the training and training of sailors and hundreds of families on the ship. What made Bailang even more interesting was that the first four cruisers had been sold to merchants.
These ships were originally experimental works and were not considered perfect. Therefore, after the subsequent ships were continuously improved, the first batch of models were sold to maritime merchants at a high price. By the way, they were equipped with privateering licenses. Those maritime merchants should also have brought them with them.
They went to sea to trade and rob with high-priced goods. According to Bailang's prior order, they would go south. The west of the Strait of Malacca was their hunting area, and privateering was not allowed beyond the Strait of Malacca.
As long as the Emperor of Heaven wants it, there is nothing he can't do in Asia. Counting from the day Bailang launched the sea ban, in just six or seven years, the scale of maritime merchants and navy has expanded rapidly.
Drive the Dutch out of the east of Malacca. And the cruisers have all been replaced with Western-style soft sails starting from the third batch. There is no way, this kind of soft sail is better for ocean voyages. The most important thing is that the load capacity of the ship can be
Much bigger.
On the first floor of the gun deck, the number of artillery has not increased, but breech-loading smoothbore guns are used - not fixed-loaded metal bullets, but already black powder propellant wrapped in oiled paper or oil-soaked silk. The Ming Dynasty now
The artillery used is the most technologically advanced but also the most expensive ship artillery in the world. The artillery used by the army is also the most technologically advanced and has the best performance, but is not the most expensive.
All these artillery pieces have bored barrels. "Let's develop slowly. Anyway, in the future, the barrel will be bored out with a boring machine after forging the barrel." Bailang said after visiting the artillery factory. Now he is taking action against Kemo.
, the first thing is to expand the scope of education - Bai Lang has considered three years of compulsory education. Anyway, after learning a thousand words and four arithmetic, at least he will not be blind. In the future, he will be better off working or farming than being illiterate.
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After passing the first-level examinations, local officials, especially the level of civil servants, Bailang is preparing to adopt an examination system - taking examinations from other provinces, just treat them as civil service examinations. The imperial examination becomes the national civil service examination, this thing
From the origin of the Chinese imperial examination, the British carried it forward and formed a fairly good civil service examination system. There is nothing bad about it. Anyway, bureaucracy will be implemented throughout human society, so it is nothing.
Bailang is now domineering. As long as he can control the army, it will be fine no matter what he does. "Infinite violence, infinite tyranny. Hahahahaha." This tyrant ordered to open up the southeastern sea. Anyone who can open up new islands
There are franchise rights and rewards, and it is not impossible to be an official. Today's Ming Dynasty is growing wildly, but its vitality is still enough - "How much money can we make by digging in the fields to carry out maritime trade of industrial products?"
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The traditional export products of the Ming Dynasty - porcelain, silk, tea, sugar and many luxury goods have experienced massive growth, and now arms, steel ingots and coins have been added. Interestingly, even the Wanli Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty is a trump export
Products, not only in East Asia, but also in countries along the Maritime Silk Road, are willing to accept exquisitely stamped silver and gold coins of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, copper coins have been popular for a long time.
The Navy of the Ming Dynasty also followed Bailang's order and went all the way north along the coastline. Bailang was planning to go north along the coastline of North Asia and spend a year to reach North America - ashore in winter to overwinter, and in spring and summer to sail. As for Australia, the exile
Land, Bailang didn't really want it in his heart - of course he knew that this small continent was rich in high-grade minerals, but the natural environment of this damn place was not good, and it was completely unsuitable for large-scale immigration.
Including New Guinea, these large islands cannot be said to be suitable for Ming people from East Asia to immigrate. Therefore, Bailang plans to build several ports and then let the Ming Navy blockade these places as nature reserves. Anyway, as long as the card is
Living in Malaya and the Straits of Malacca, it would be completely impossible for Europeans to exile criminals to these places. "I vaguely remember that there are extra-large crocodiles in Australia, and I don't know if they can be caught these days.
It’s a crocodile that’s over seven meters tall.”
The Ming Dynasty Navy developed greatly after the Korean War, and has been very popular in Southeast Asia recently - there was news that it had a conflict with the Dutch East India Company's fleet, and both sides suffered losses. But the Ming Dynasty Navy can quickly add -
-The new shipbuilding method makes huge logs not completely necessary, and the keels and masts can be made by splicing. Even iron ships have been trial-built in the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty and the Military Staff Bureau of the Inner Court.
It was a small boat. They tried to forge and splice the steel keel and ribs, and then used wooden boards to make the internal compartments, and the outer shell was still made of iron plates. For this purpose, a steel rolling machine was also developed, and of course it is now used to roll iron plates. This ship is not the same.
The length of the large, thin iron ship is only five or six meters, and it is purely used for testing. Even if iron hull ships are really built, the Ming Dynasty has not fully developed the coal and iron industry.
A big demander for Daming steel ingots is Japan - Japan's knife-making industry has abandoned its own "jade steel" and fully switched to steel imported from Daming. Since almost all of it is transported from Shanghai Port, so
Called "Su Gang". This has comprehensively improved the quality of Japanese knives, and may also change the standard of Japanese knives.