Daming 1805

Wu Xiongying's family's plane landed at the airstrip on the outskirts of Philae.

A group of soldiers wearing Ming Dynasty military uniforms lined up at the edge of the airport runway to greet him.

After Wu Xiongying came down with his family, two officers immediately came to greet him.

The two parties did not know each other, but they both served in the Ming army, so they naturally gave each other military salutes.

The two officers first announced their identities as Commander Qian and the military governor of the temporary "Philo Qianhu Station", and also directly showed their ID badges.

Then he asked Wu Xiongying directly and seriously about his identity.

They all know Wu Xiongying's identity, but now they still have to formally ask him in public and follow the normal procedures.

This is to confirm each other's identities in accordance with official procedures before the handover of control of arms and assets can begin.

Wu Xiongying also knew this process, so he was very cooperative throughout the process.

First, show your military badge, and then take out the general education examination certificate equivalent to your ID card.

Finally, he presented his own male canonization edict from Philo County and the accompanying explanatory documents.

After General Qian and the military governor jointly confirmed the documents, they once again saluted Wu Xiongying and returned Wu Xiongying's documents.

Then the two of them led a team of guards to escort Wu Xiongying and his party to the largest Ming-style manor on the outskirts of the city, which would be the future male residence in Philo County.

Wu Xiongying and his father made arrangements with their family and friends first, and had dinner together again in their new home in the evening.

Wu Xiongying also had a good night's rest and got some jet lag.

The next morning, accompanied by his father and Wei Yuan, the formal handover procedures began.

Interim General Philo Qian and the Governor first explained the situation in Philo County.

According to current statistics, the remaining population in the newly established Philo County area is approximately 16.

Among them, 5 people live in Philae City, the center of the county, 3 people live around the seaside Porto Rosa, and the remaining 8 people live in the surrounding countryside.

The Aragondu Commandery of the Ming Dynasty Right Army Governor's Office dispatched [-] Ming soldiers and [-] Hu servants to the temporary Philo Qianhu Station.

After the handover is completed, the servant soldiers will escort a group of Taixi exiles from Mozhou to garrison in the new vassal country of the western colony of Mozhou in the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Xiongying can select up to [-] of the existing [-] Ming soldiers to form his own Philo County male guard.

Other soldiers and officers can change jobs in Philo County and become police officers and officials in Philo County or even ordinary immigrants.

However, this arrangement is only indicative and is not mandatory for either Wu Xiongying or the soldiers.

Whether the soldiers are willing to stay here, whether they are willing to become Wu Xiongying's bodyguard, and whether they are willing to become policemen and officials in Philo County depends on the outcome of negotiations between the two parties.

They can choose to return to their place of origin on an official transport ship.

Today's young and middle-aged people in the Ming Dynasty will not lack work even if they are not soldiers.

Wu Xiongying must come up with certain conditions to retain them, such as arranging housing for them and giving them land and property.

Philo Lord Wu Xiongying now also controls a large amount of assets, land, and money.

The original Spanish nobles in Philo County had already been looted and cleared out when Lucia and Germany invaded.

By the time Daming came back, they had cleared out the new Lucia and the Germans.

The remaining Spanish nobles who can still be found will be gradually sent to West Mexico to be handed over to the King of Spain.

But their belongings cannot be taken away directly.

The wealth that Lucia and the Germans seized from the Spanish was of course unilaterally and directly confiscated by the Ming occupation forces.

The few remaining assets that could find their owners, the Spanish nobles, were also forcibly acquired by the Ming Dynasty's occupying army at very cheap prices.

Now among these assets, except for infrastructure and large industrial facilities, the rest will be transferred directly to Wu Xiongying, the monarch of Philo County.

Including various houses, shops, banks, manors, orchards, farms, fish ponds, pastures, gold and silver jewelry, etc...

All became the wealth of the monarch Wu Xiongying. This can be regarded as a direct reward from the court to Wu Xiongying, a meritorious official.

But it was obvious that these rewards were not for Wu Xiongying himself. The imperial court directly photographed [-] Ming soldiers and came to share them.

Of course Wu Xiongying could choose to leave without a penny, but these Ming soldiers would definitely leave directly.

Without their help, it would not be an easy task for Wu Xiongying to control the 16 people on this land.

In addition to this wealth, there was also a batch of military equipment that was transferred to Philo County with the army.

The first is the basic firearms and infantry equipment assigned to Ming troops of corresponding size.

Then came a total of 32 armored and infantry fighting vehicles, as well as 24 artillery pieces of various types and calibers.

There are also 24 piston propeller aircraft, including attack aircraft and fighters.

There are even four small military offshore patrol boats.

These equipment were retired with the Ming army at Philo Qianhusuo.

Equipment captured from the Roman armies, as well as remaining equipment from the Spanish military, were given to the squires and countrymen.

A gentleman who only needs to manage a township does not need to care about the performance of this level of equipment. As long as it is available, it is already a strong deterrent.

Wu Xiongying was quite surprised by these equipment, and at the same time, he was a little bit regretful that he was not assigned a jet aircraft.

Jet aircraft are new products in recent years. During the pre-war expansion and replacement process, there was not enough time to replace all air force units.

Now that the war is over, Ming Dynasty has begun large-scale disarmament, and it is natural that priority should be given to the abolition of secondary units that use jet aircraft.

However, even if it is a propeller aircraft, it is an aircraft used by the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the top product among propeller aircraft.

When Wu Xiongying got off the plane, he saw the propeller planes parked at the airport.

I recognized their model at a glance and knew that the engine power they used exceeded [-] horsepower, which was a product that could not be owned by private individuals.

It was also the fighter jet that the air forces of all the Thai and Spanish countries once dreamed of.

With a thousand soldiers at the level of a thousand households, plus these aircraft, armored vehicles, and artillery, it should not be difficult to manage a total of 10,000+ indigenous people.

Wu Xiongying learned about the situation in Philo County, and after discussing it with Wei Yuan and his father, he came up with a tentative management plan.

Wu Xiongying asked Qianhu and the governor to arrange servant soldiers to maintain order in the city, and temporarily summoned all Ming soldiers.

In his own Philojun Manor, Wu Xiongying used the broadcast amplification equipment provided by the army to directly explain his arrangements to all Ming soldiers.

For Ming soldiers who are willing to stay, each person can get a temporary residence immediately.

The distribution of this housing may not be very fair, because the original housing was built by the residents of the original city, and they cannot all be of the same specifications.

Therefore, they will also receive ten acres of suburban land for the unified construction of specialized new residences.

Finally, a “Philo County Development and Construction Company” was established to operate and manage the existing major assets of Philo County.

Including all farmland, orchards, forest farms, manors, fish ponds, pastures, mines, businesses, banks and other assets that can continue to operate.

As the monarch, Wu Xiongying holds [-]% of the shares, and all other remaining soldiers hold [-]% of the shares.The final dividend rights of [-]% of the shares are allocated to the company's management, and the voting and decision-making rights belong to the lord Wu Xiongying.

Wu Xiongying's idea is not to distribute the existing assets directly, but to directly establish a joint-stock company for centralized management.

This can directly produce economies of scale, and at the same time prevent the soldiers who receive the assets from not knowing how to manage the assets and sitting on empty seats.

Most of the soldiers thought it was good after hearing it, but some found it difficult to accept it.

Many people have a simple and rough personality and feel that it is best to get an actual asset directly, and there is no sense of reality in waiting for dividends.

Or they feel that they have better management capabilities and feel that it would be better to manage their own wealth directly.

Wu Xiongying asked them to consider it for an hour. In the end, more than 400 people were willing to accept this arrangement, while nearly 200 people could not accept this plan.

Wu Xiongying didn't talk nonsense. Those who could accept this condition would stay and sign the contract. Those who couldn't accept it would be politely sent back to their hometowns to change jobs.

After deciding on the direction, Wu Xiongying directly asked his father to help him draw up a joint venture document.

Wu Xiongying is the monarch of Philo County, and documents signed by himself are legally valid locally.

However, in order to put all the soldiers at ease and to gain official recognition from the Ming Dynasty, Wu Xiongying arranged for people to go to the Capital Command and Envoy Department to register.

At the same time, through official channels of the Ming Dynasty, a formal joint-stock Philo County Development and Construction Company was established to facilitate operations across vassal states in the future.

Currently, the Western Taipei continent is still under military control, so to handle such procedures, go directly to the Commanding and Envoys Department, not the Chief Envoys Department.

The headquarters of the Aragon Capital Command is in the city of Barcelona, ​​which was the Barcelona of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.

It takes time to complete these procedures. Wu Xiongying, along with his father and Wei Yuan, started assigning tasks to his new subordinates in advance.

First, Wei Yuan, the general manager of Philo, did a small test and selected 200 people from [-] Ming soldiers.

Most of them have a middle school education or above, or a primary school education, but they have certain management capabilities and are good at communication.

They will accept Wei Yuan's centralized guidance, follow Wei Yuan to form the official Philo County Yamen, and become the backbone of the county Yamen in the future.

Wu Xiongying knew that he would not stay in the fiefdom for a long time, so he directly entrusted the overall affairs of Philo County Government to Wei Yuan.

However, he also handed over one of his wife's brothers and the two brothers who came from the Ming Dynasty's concubine's family to Wei Yuan to arrange to work in the county government.

Not only did he really help Wei Yuan with work, but he also helped Wu Xiongying keep an eye on the operation of the county government.

Wu Xiongying himself handles and arranges military and security affairs.

First, eight hundred soldiers were allocated to form the Philo County Standing Guard.

Among them, the Air Force has a division assigned to 160 pilots, 24 ground crews, and a total of [-] soldiers to manage all [-] aircraft.

The Navy is also a division, and is also assigned a total of [-] soldiers, responsible for patrolling with four patrol boats, as well as the security of Port Rosa itself.

The Army is a full division establishment, with four hundred soldiers assigned to it, responsible for using the Army's main mechanized equipment as a mobile security force.

The last 400 people formed four Jinyi Hundred Household Offices, and together they formed a Jinyi Town Fusi.

The tasks of the vassal Jinyi team are the same as those of the local Jinyiwei, and they are responsible for daily public security management, traffic management, emergency response, and urban management.

Wu Xiongying also inserted his two younger brothers into the Jinyi team.

Neither of them wants to continue studying. One is 15 years old and the other is 17 years old. They can already learn to do some serious things.

Neither he nor his father could just let them play as they pleased.

Then Wu Xiongying and Wei Yuan, together with a group of soldiers, a group of Jinyi, and a group of Yamen officials, began to inspect and confirm the situation of the fiefdom.

Identify major buildings and facilities within the city and identify functioning assets that have been developed in the suburbs.

Then go out to the city to confirm the asset status of rural residential areas.

This was to hand over and confirm the assets and local conditions with the temporary guard station, and also to let the main personnel of the fief know that their official lord was coming.

Therefore, wherever they go, the main local managers will be summoned to pay homage to Baron Wu Xiongying.

The shopkeepers in the city, the stewards on the farm, and the foreman in the factory were all very nervous and excited when they met Wu Xiongying.

In fact, most of them were originally ordinary workers, and they had just obtained their current status not long ago.

When the Ming Dynasty took over the town, it gradually eliminated the original ruling class and sent them to Mozhou along with their masters and employers.

A group of relatively smart workers who can speak the elegant dialect of Ming Dynasty were temporarily promoted to take charge of the affairs.

These ordinary people had always longed for Ming Dynasty, and now they are even more grateful for Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts.

Thinking that they would all be subordinates of Lord Ming from now on, they were all inexplicably very proud.

In the eyes of Wu Xiongying and others, the images of these people are somewhat funny, like actors who specialize in playing ugly on the stage.

They all wore Ming style buns and Ming style clothes.

But most buns are not very straight. Many people's hair is not long enough, and when they are tied up, a few strands will always come loose.

Many people's clothes don't fit well, or there are obvious problems with their shape.

Obviously, I have just started to learn how to do it, and I have only recently bought clothes. There is no professional guidance yet, and many places are unnatural.

Wu Xiongying fought from the Urals to Gibraltar. He had seen too many similar situations and was no longer surprised.

But I have never met Wu Xiongying's two younger brothers. They are both at the age when their emotions are the most wanton.

They were used to seeing the normal appearance and dress of Ming people, and they often couldn't help but laugh out loud when looking at these people.

The two of them often couldn't help discussing in low voices and pointing fingers at the Thai people.

Wu Xiongying and Wu Zhiyuan, father and son, both felt that these two boys were a bit presumptuous and wanted to talk about them when they returned home.

But the Thai and Western stewards standing opposite Wu Xiongying did not feel that the brothers were rude at all.

When they heard the sneers, they lowered their heads slightly in shame.

They feel that there is definitely something wrong with their image.

Although I couldn't find the problem for a while, when I stood with a real Ming Dynasty person, I always felt that the temperament of both sides was completely different.

The images of Baron Daming and his entourage give people a very harmonious and natural feeling, and their images are also very outstanding.

Not only are the images of myself and my fellow Thais and Westerners around me completely different, even the costumes are not up to par.

Then many of them secretly swore in their hearts that they would find a special place to customize real Ming Dynasty clothing when they returned.

In the future, I will work hard to learn the writing and art of the Ming Dynasty, and make my temperament more in line with the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Many of them don't even think about how to make themselves completely the same as the Ming people, because they know that the two sides are really not exactly the same.

Innate image differences cannot be improved by acquired modification.

We can only hope that our descendants will marry people from the Ming Dynasty and give birth to children of mixed blood with the Ming Dynasty to inherit the family business...