Supporting the body in the white blade, wandering in the red dust

Chapter 911
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 freedom in these countries The power of 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 peoples on the island worshiped the Ming Dynasty. Of course, there were also those who felt that the Ming Dynasty was beyond its reach and dissatisfied with Wang Hua. Bai Lang was planning to form a navy to pay a good visit. Some islands he wanted to include in the Ming Dynasty's territory.Ming Dynasty did not mind becoming a country of 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 - the ones built by Shandong in the north are large flat-bottomed ships used to sail along the coastline to transport grain, silk and other materials, while the ones built in Shanghai are all sharp-bottomed cruisers, which are directly integrated into the Ming Dynasty. The Donghai Navy escorted merchants to do business in Japan.While making money, he also completed the training and running-in of the sailors and the hundreds of families on the ship. What made Bailang even more interesting was that the first four cruisers had been sold to maritime 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 after crossing 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 naval forces has expanded rapidly. Drive the Dutch out east of Malacca.The cruisers have all been replaced with Western-style soft sails since the third batch. There is no way, this kind of soft sail is better for ocean sailing. The most important thing is that the load capacity of the ship can be much larger.

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 artillery currently used by the Ming Dynasty 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 gun factory.Now he is taking action on science and technology. The first thing is to expand the scope of education. Bailang has considered three years of compulsory education. Anyway, after learning a thousand words and four arithmetic operations, at least he will not be able to be blind and will work as a farmer in the future. are much better than being illiterate.

After passing the first-level examinations, local officials, especially the civil servant level, Bailang is preparing to adopt an examination system - taking examinations from other governments in the province, it will be treated as a civil service examination.The imperial examination became the national civil service examination. This thing originated from the Chinese imperial examination. The British carried it forward and formed a pretty good civil service grade examination system. There is nothing bad about it.Anyway, bureaucracy will be implemented throughout human society, so it’s okay.

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, even if you want to be an official, it is not impossible.Today's Ming Dynasty is growing wildly, but its vitality is still sufficient - "Or do we need to carry out maritime trade of industrial products, and how much money can we make by digging in the fields?"

The Ming Dynasty’s traditional export products—porcelain, silk, tea, sugar, and many luxury goods—have seen massive growth, and now arms, steel ingots, and coins have also been added.Interestingly, even the Wanli Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty is a top export product. Not only East Asia, but also countries on 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 Ming Dynasty Navy also followed Bailang's orders and went north along the coastline. Bailang was preparing to go north along the North Asian coastline and spend a year arriving in North America - ashore to overwinter in winter and sail in spring and summer.As for Australia, a place of exile, Bai Lang didn't really want it from 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 not suitable for large-scale immigration at all. of.

Including New Guinea, these large islands cannot be said to be suitable for Ming people from East Asia to immigrate. Therefore, Bailang planned to build several ports and then asked the Ming Navy to blockade these places and use them as nature reserves.Anyway, as long as Malaya and the Straits of Malacca are blocked, it will be completely impossible for the Europeans to exile criminals to these places. "I vaguely remember that there are very large crocodiles in Australia. I don't know if we can catch crocodiles that are over seven meters tall these days."

The Ming Dynasty Navy developed greatly after the Korean War, and has been very popular in the 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 that the new shipbuilding method makes huge logs not completely necessary, and the keels and masts can be made by splicing them together.Even the 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. We 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 developed, and of course it is now used to roll iron plates.This ship is not big either. The length of the thin iron hull is only five or six meters. It is purely used for testing.Even if it really wants to build iron-hulled ships, the Ming Dynasty has not completely launched 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 Call it "Su Gang".This has comprehensively improved the quality of Japanese knives, and may also change the format of Japanese knives.
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