Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1294, The significance of Myanmar to Ming Dynasty

In the luxurious palace of Awa City, Myanmar, the colonial army of the Zhang Brothers poured in like a tide, and quickly took over every corner of the place.

In the first battle of Toungoo City, the colonial army almost wiped out the army of the Ava Dynasty of Burma and the army of Toungoo Hou. Wa, captured the city of Ava easily, declaring the fall of the Ava Dynasty.

At the same time, the Zhang brothers also officially announced that Myanmar has become a colony of the Zhang brothers, and they demanded that the princes from all over Myanmar and the Shan chieftains in the north pay allegiance to the Zhang family and accept the rule of the Zhang family.

"Haha, I won Burma without any effort, and our Zhang family's colonies can be connected together in the future. From East Tianzhu to Burma, they all belong to our Zhang family."

Zhang Yanling sat down on the throne that originally belonged to the king of Burma, looking at the palace in front of him.

Although Myanmar is very poor, but because it is rich in jade, a large number of top-quality jades are used for decoration and embellishment in the entire palace. If you look at it casually, you can see pieces of top-quality jade.

At the same time, there are elephants in Myanmar, so decorations made of ivory can be seen everywhere. The walls are decorated with gold and silver, which looks magnificent and resplendent.

"Although Myanmar has been taken down and the territory is large enough, the princes in Myanmar and the Shan chieftains in the north have always been far away from the emperor and set themselves up as kings. They may not really pay attention to us. "

Zhang Heling also rushed over from the Emerald City, and nodded as he looked at the palace in front of him.

Well, at least, if these emeralds are sold, they can be sold for a lot of silver.

"Those princes, chieftains, etc., we will slowly clean them up one by one, just be obedient, and if they are disobedient, we will kill them all."

"Hmph~ Now these Burmese natives are very honest."

Zhang Yanling is very murderous now, almost all of them were killed this way, and several cities were slaughtered. Here in Dongyu City, they even killed the troops of the Mon and Burmese. The Irrawaddy River became famous.

"Hmm~"

Zhang Heling also nodded slightly. In this regard, the two brothers have the same philosophy. In the colony, it is not a place to talk about benevolence and morality, but to maintain their colonial rule with a powerful army and strict laws.

Of course, there are some scholars under the command of the two brothers to manage these colonies. In terms of important agricultural taxes, the two brothers are still kind, and the proportion of collection is relatively low. Take away the land and distribute it to the landless.

In this way, the aborigines at the bottom have land to cultivate and food to eat, and they will not resist the Zhang family's rule if they live on.

As for the natives, tycoons, and nobles in the middle and upper classes, the Zhang family's usual practice is to kill them all.

The Zhang family does not need these tyrants, nobles and the like, because the most direct interests of the Zhang family are taken from these people.

The land, minerals, population, resources, etc. of the colonies are all things that the Zhang family made their fortunes, and they are basically in the hands of the local aboriginal tyrants and nobles.

If these people are not killed, if the Zhang family controls the land, minerals, population, resources, etc., how will they get the most wealth from the colony.

The Zhang family is very clear that for the people at the bottom, the most important thing is to have enough food, and it is enough to have a field. Food is not worth much in Daming, so don't expect to get rich from food.

Therefore, the agricultural tax of the Zhang brothers is set low, but in other aspects, they are monopolized by the Zhang brothers, such as minerals, resources, etc. These things are easy to cash out and are the most profitable.

The Zhang family's colonial strategy has achieved great success, allowing the Zhang family to occupy the vast area of ​​​​Eastern Tianzhu with very few people. Because there are still many people who feel that under the rule of the Zhang family, their life has become better, at least they can eat enough.

"Brother, Myanmar also uses the East Tianzhu system?"

Zhang Yanling looked at the map in the hall, thought about it and asked.

"Well, we still use that system."

"Introduce the caste system, and put all these native Burmese people into the low caste, and let them believe in the afterlife, and believe that the hardship in this life is for the next life to be reborn in our Daming family to enjoy the blessings."

Zhang Heling nodded without thinking.

The Zhang family has a small population, and the entire family plus many fellow villagers who have immigrated from Daming are less than [-] people. This is all because the Zhang brothers exhausted all kinds of methods to get here.

Relying on these [-] people to rule this vast land and a huge population, it is not enough to rely on swords and guns in hand, and it cannot be said that they will kill everyone.

If they were killed, the Zhang family would have no way to benefit from it.

Who will farm?

Who will mine the minerals, the resources?

Therefore, a good governance system is extremely important, and Tianzhu has already figured out a mature and perfect system and strategy.

"Brother, I have asked someone to find out."

"There are many good things in Myanmar."

"Myanmar has a lot of copper, silver and gold mines, and there are also a lot of iron ore, and the quality of the iron ore is very good, and the most important thing is the emerald jade mine."

"The emeralds from Myanmar are estimated to be larger and much better than those from Hetian in the Western Regions. They are estimated to be top-notch in the world, enough for our Zhang family to slowly mine."

"In addition, there are a lot of precious trees in Myanmar, such as mahogany and nanmu. The original forest area is very large, and there are many kinds of precious trees, including a lot of teak, which is the most suitable tree for shipbuilding. When the time comes, we will move our Zhang family's shipyard here and build a large shipyard directly here, and we will definitely make money."

Zhang Yanling became more and more excited.

The Zhang family worked hard, spent a huge price, and planned for several years, and finally captured Burma.

The Zhang family paid a heavy price for this.

The land around the capital has been sold at an extremely low price, and a large amount of Daming's properties have been sold, and even had to be listed on the Tianjin Stock Exchange to share part of the fruits of victory.

Still, it's all worth it.

Such a huge Myanmar is rich in resources, and there are so many precious minerals and resources that it is enough for the Zhang family to mine and dig for generations.

"Well, I'll ask Zhang Zhijie to formulate a detailed system later."

"The local natives of Myanmar, in addition to farming, they must have a certain amount of time to serve every year, mining various resources for our Zhang family, repairing bridges and paving roads."

Zhang Heling is also full of smiles, it is really good to enjoy the fruits of victory.

Here, their Zhang family is the aloof emperor, the words of the Zhang family are laws and regulations, and the aborigines here are the money-making tools of the Zhang family.

Everything here belongs to the Zhang family.

Since ancient times, even the emperor may not be as comfortable as the Zhang family. At least, the emperor has no way to take all the resources in the world for himself, but the Zhang family can.

Everything in this colony belongs to the Zhang family, even including these natives. When necessary, the Zhang family can even sell these natives as slaves.

This is the horror of colonial rule!
"Actually, I think the biggest advantage of conquering Myanmar is that it is close to our Daming."

"You said that if we build a road or railway from Myanmar to Yunnan, then our Daming railway will be built to Yunnan through Sichuan."

"There is no need to go around a big circle from Daming to Tianzhu. You can go directly to Myanmar from Yunnan, and then go to Tianzhu from Myanmar."

"How much time and energy can be left over? For such a railway or highway, we, the Zhang family, don't have to worry about collecting tolls in the future."

Zhang Heling looked at the map, stroked his mustache and said.

Looking at Yunnan and Myanmar, I actually thought about building roads and railways here to connect Daming and Myanmar.

"Brother, don't think about it~"

"I know this place. It is very difficult to walk between Myanmar and our Ming and Yunnan. The mountains and rivers here are steep. Let alone road construction, it is very difficult even for people to walk."

"In the past, our trade between Daming and Myanmar relied on people carrying something on their backs. Although the distance is very short, it took a very long time to go back and forth, and it was extremely difficult to walk."

"This Hengduan Mountain Range is not a joke. If you want to build roads and railways here, who knows how much money you will have to invest, and you don't know how much money you have to invest until then."

When Zhang Yanling heard this, he immediately shook his head.

What are you thinking, the Hengduan Mountains are not a joke, if there is no Hengduan Mountains, what kind of Burmese kingdom would there be?It has long been called and occupied by the people of Ming Dynasty.

"Not now, maybe later."

"Myanmar is still very meaningful to our Ming Dynasty. This is equivalent to having an outlet to the Indian Ocean. If roads and railways can be built in the future, and the natural moat can be opened up, its significance will be extraordinary."

Zhang Heling nodded slightly after listening.

He also knows that the mountains and rivers in this place are steep.

Since ancient times, it has been said that the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky. However, compared with the roads in the Hengduan Mountains, the Shu Roads can be regarded as a thoroughfare.

But Zhang Heling looked at the map and always felt that there might be a day in the future when he could realize his idea, and then the meaning of this place to Daming would be different.

(End of this chapter)