Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 549 Expanding Wars and Stimulating the Economy

After the military occupation of Annan State, apart from senior officials such as Lu Jiayu and Zhang Huangyan who were familiar with colonial rule and assimilation education, they directly led the newly established Chief Secretary of Jiaozhi.

The prefects of the thirteen prefectures established on the basis of the Thirteen Xuanfu Division under the former Annan Metropolitan Control Department were directly transferred from local officials in Monan and Mobei who were familiar with the assimilation rule of different races, or from those who had experience in land reform in the southwest He was transferred among the grassroots officials, and immediately began to sinicize the rule of Jiaozhi.

During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty failed to rule Jiaozhi. The main reason was that it only carried out military occupation and the appointment of top officials, but did not fundamentally change the basis of Jiaozhi’s rule. This time, the Ming Dynasty will completely change the basis of Jiaozhi’s rule.

It is not only reflected in the unified transfer of grassroots officials by the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, but also in the fact that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty immediately decreed that those who join the household registration of the Ming Dynasty, follow the customs of the Han people, and change their clothes and crowns, the Ming Dynasty will not confiscate their private property and land and protect them , the people at the bottom will also enjoy the same benefits as the people of Ming Dynasty.

But for those who refuse to change customs, they will be directly transferred to the second class, incorporated into slave labor camps, and participate in the construction of the Jiaozhi Chief Commissioner, and for those who intend to resist, they will directly implement the continuous sitting system, that is, each Jia has If one person rebels against Daming, all the people in the first class will be beheaded.

On the one hand, there is no need to pay tax and corvee for arable land, and the temptation of free education, business, military, and official welfare is compared with the harsh treatment of not being able to go to school, joining the army, or being an official, and having to pay poll tax and work hard. People from all walks of life in the Cochin Chief Envoy naturally chose to submit to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

However, in order to prevent the remnants of the former Annan Kingdom's separatist regime from having a chance to revive, they were directly slaughtered on charges of aiding thieves or failing to suppress thieves.

Although this also led to some sporadic rebellions in the Cochin chief envoy in the next few years, it also completely killed the chances of these indigenous families trying to become the owners of this land again.

In short, in order for this piece of land to completely become a province of Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to adopt the means of co-existing iron blood pressure and cultural export.

Even for this reason, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty specially issued an order to transfer [-] wealthy households in Jiangnan to enrich Jiaozhi. This not only weakened the control of Jiangnan by the gentry who had transformed into businessmen, but also allowed them to take root in the Han culture they had mastered in Jiaozhi. A piece of land that hasn't been fully developed yet.

However, what is unexpected is that it was less than a month after Daming completely occupied the Jiaozhi chief envoy.

His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, decided to strike while the iron was hot according to the proposal of the Ministry of War, and ordered to mobilize the First Army to go south and the Fourth Army, except for the troops left at Jiaozhi, with a total of more than [-] troops. Instead of helping Daming to suppress bandits, he directly attacked Wudong, its important place.

The Chenla Kingdom was caught off guard, and their armies were still limited to the era of spears and swords. Many tribes even lacked iron tools or their ironmaking skills were not high enough, so some armies even only used sticks and bamboos as weapons.

Because of this, in the face of guns and gas bombs, these native troops naturally couldn't resist the attack of the Ming army, and at most they used the mountains and jungles to resist stubbornly.

According to the plan of the Ministry of War, since it is so easy to defeat Annan, they decided to directly conquer Chenla, Siam, Laos, Toungoo and other countries within a year, and then unify the entire Southeast Asian peninsula, and completely divide Nanyang into Ming Dynasty inland sea.

However, unifying the entire Southeast Asian peninsula is not really smooth sailing. As Ming's ambition to unify the entire Southeast Asian peninsula and bring it under Ming's rule becomes more and more obvious, some Southeast Asian separatist forces that have not yet been wiped out will no longer participate. Internal strife, busy thinking of various ways to resist Daming.

Due to the complicated geographical conditions in this area, it also caused some difficulties for the Ming Dynasty's war process.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not give up. Instead, he simply transferred a total of 20 troops from the Second Army and the Third Army to the Southeast Asian battlefield, and went out to fight from Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, it was necessary to pull all the troops of the Ming Dynasty up and attack from all directions in turn. This would not only train the troops but also plunge the local regime in Southeast Asia into a quagmire of war, which would intensify its internal conflicts and completely disintegrate them.

Meanwhile, the South China Sea Fleet and the Ocean Fleet of the Ming Navy carried out shelling of various fortresses along the coast of Southeast Asia along the coastline from the South China Sea to the Bay of Bengal, focusing directly on their rear bases.

In this way, from Yunnan to Guangxi, then from Guangxi to Pinchi, and then the entire sea area, Ming was basically in a situation of strategic encirclement of Southeast Asia.

In addition, Ming Dynasty directly used this to increase the army. Soldiers who had retired to serve as instructors in military academies or served as garrison officers and soldiers were called back, and immediately expanded the number of recruits, directly expanding the army by 60. Three months later, 30 troops were directly dispatched to the south.

The military industry of the entire Ming Dynasty, which was already losing money, was completely driven by this. Several large-scale manufacturing workshops under the Ordnance Department immediately changed their production models and began to mass-produce guns and ammunition. Crop prices have also recovered.

The decline in the employment rate due to the improvement of production technology and the influx of immigrants has also begun to pick up.

Because of this war, Ming's economy continued to enter a state of healthy development.

With the continuous expansion of the newly occupied areas, the main traffic lines that play an important role in controlling the newly occupied areas need to be constructed immediately, and some key passes also need to be constructed. Transportation, etc., all require a lot of manpower, that is, slaves.

Therefore, it became inevitable to plunder the natives from various colonies or directly plunder the native population of the newly occupied areas, and the trade scale of selling white pigs and Kunlun slaves from places such as Europe and Africa was also increasing.

In order not to make these foreign populations completely overwhelm the native population of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to order that in the future, people who are not registered citizens of the chief envoy in Daming will be castrated forcibly, and non-castrated people will not be allowed to be trafficked into Daming, and their human trafficking companies will also suffer huge fine.

In this way, the chief envoy of Jiaozhi and the Sinicized local people in the area previously occupied by the Ming Dynasty were lucky to escape the bad luck of extinction, and the local people who were unwilling to accept the trend of assimilation and were willing to work as low-level slave labor The common people have to face the fate of their offspring.

However, because of the huge number of slave laborers who need to perform this operation, the Ministry of Health had to send a large number of medical personnel to help these human trafficking companies. Zhu Youxiao also ordered the Ministry of Households to allocate 100 million silver dollars to provide postoperative drug treatment. Support and Surgical Instrument Support.

This also reflects the generosity of the Ming emperor.

(End of this chapter)