Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 324 Department of Immigration Affairs

Compared with Bai Mingxiu's general situation, the group of people from the White Lotus Sect and the Xinfu Society are not the ones that Bai Mingxiu focuses on dealing with. He doesn't even care much about it. Naturally, people from Jinyiwei and related departments will deal with it.If Bai Mingxiu had to personally intervene in every aspect of this huge empire, then Bai Mingxiu would have failed too much.

But even so, Bai Mingxiu is still a busy man.

The Council of Government still handles most of the important administrative affairs, and what is sent to Bai Mingxiu for decision is often some outlines, such as national strategy, reform steps, and even the four major sections of national defense, foreign affairs, trade, and colonists. .

And beside him, a senior management team has gradually formed around four major sectors, namely Zhao Xu, Minister of Military Affairs, Yang Laiqiong, Minister of Rites, Gai Zhe, Trade Advisor, and Xue Shuting, Minister of Immigration Affairs.Basically, the group of people around Bai Mingxiu is a complete system of mercenaries. It's not that Bai Mingxiu doesn't want to be born in this plane, but most of these people don't have such professional training. The speed of learning is also very fast, but if you want to be able to take on the big job, you still have to practice solidly for several years.

Bai Mingxiu is not a person who likes to hold meetings, but he still has to hold a meeting to make arrangements for this matter in Luzon.

"...Military expenses include subsequent garrison expenses, um, 96 taels, well, wars are getting more and more expensive now." Bai Mingxiu complained with this "bill".

In fact, when he raided Dagukou from the south of the Yangtze River and captured the capital, the overall military expenditure was only 400 million taels. Of course, this number cannot be accurate. After all, he had a lot of expenses that could be offset by the system.Until he went through the dungeon and frantically recruited soldiers, he had to rely entirely on the golden finger coins in his system to cash out various supplies to meet the needs of the huge army.

Zhao Xu still explained: "After all, this long-distance raid, dispatching the navy and various follow-up ship transportation cost a lot of money; in addition, it is necessary to maintain the local garrison, continuously eliminate the resistance force, and suppress the local aborigines. All need continuous investment. Fortunately, Major General Meng Hui has worked very hard to scrape three feet in Luzon Island, and has received a lot of wealth from the Spaniards, which can be regarded as evening out part of the budget of the Ministry of War."

Bai Mingxiu raised his head and said, "It will still take some effort to occupy the entire Philippine Islands. On some key islands, we still need to garrison troops. Well, the Department of Immigration Affairs should pay attention to arrange some new immigration plans. We have to transfer of immigrants to the Luzon Islands."

Shangshu Xue Shuting still expressed a little shame to His Royal Highness: "Your Highness, at this stage we can only promote immigration policies and benefits on a larger scale, but our country's national resettlement thinking is very strong. So far, because of breaking the law The "repatriated immigrants" who were sentenced to exile and the "refugees" who lost their livelihoods and were taken in by us accounted for 92% of the immigration ratio of our country at the current stage, and only a small number of people are really willing to embark on this road of immigration."

Bai Mingxiu felt particularly troubled by this matter, after all, the population of Daming is not as large as that of later generations.That is to say, the population is not as large as [-] million, and it is still in the state of population recovery.Even in many provinces, due to the shrinking population, the conflict between people and land is not particularly serious, let alone the degree of immigration.

There are many reasons for European migration to the world. On the one hand, religious cleansing caused many Protestants to go to the New World. On the other hand, many Europeans lacked the necessary means of production at home and had to try their luck in the New World. , These two parts are the main force of population migration. As for those who go to the New World for plunder and missionary work, they are not the main force.

Bai Mingxiu knew that he must not only focus on the Chinese ancestral land now, the Chinese must plan early to expand to all parts of the world, to develop more living space for themselves, and at the same time, it is also for the national interests of Ming Dynasty.Only these consolation divisions of Ming Dynasty have very large economic benefits to obtain.For Westerners, what they need may be some "local specialty" level trade products, or turn the local people into an exclusive market for exploitation, but Bai Mingxiu, who is familiar with the economic operation of later generations, knows these places very well After developing and forming an economic system with the local Ming Dynasty, what great benefits can it bring.

The Burmese Propaganda Department was the first to be acquired by the Ming Dynasty, even earlier than the provinces in the Han region. Thanks to the governance of Wu Min, a peerless minister, Myanmar's current GDP is already extremely impressive.Myanmar now not only has a large area of ​​land to grow food and cash crops, but also provides Daming with important copper. Myanmar's gemstones have also become extremely important strategic resources.Wu Min is not only satisfied with the production of gemstones, but also has established a jewelry processing industry with a full industrial chain in Myanmar, and the final products are directly exported to Europe.In just two years, all kinds of exquisite jewelry and gemstones from Myanmar have become the most rare treasures of Europeans.For gems alone, Myanmar has provided Daming with several million taels of benefits.

Although the situation in Java is not as strong as in Myanmar, it is still good.Java's tropical plantation economy now provides Daming with rubber, sugar, and palm fiber. Although they are relatively primary industries, they become more valuable after primary and secondary processing.

From this point of view, as long as these seemingly barren and backward areas are managed with care, the economic benefits produced can be compared to a province in the Han Dynasty.In addition, Bai Mingxiu is a serious supporter of the "Chinese living space theory", and hopes to let more Chinese flourish in these places.Taking Java as an example, Java is not a crowded island with a population of hundreds of millions in the later generations. The backward productivity and health and medical conditions make the population of this island only a few hundred thousand. Bai Mingxiu organized a large number of Jiangnan people to migrate. In the past, the Chinese population of the entire Java Island was expected to exceed the native population within three years, becoming the most dominant ethnic group on the island.

As long as he persists in this operation, Bai Mingxiu can make the Chinese the most important ethnic group in all lands in Southeast Asia by the end of the 17th century.The work in Java has basically been done, so the next one is obviously the turn of Luzon, which also has very good natural conditions and geographical location.

Bai Mingxiu brought up the idea of ​​saving the country with curves, and said: "If you don't want to immigrate directly, then you can sign a labor agreement with the laborers in the form of recruitment, ranging from three years to as many as ten years, and attract them to Lu with a relatively high price. Song went to work. Whether it is mining, doing business, or farming, we must still rely on the Han people, and they will probably be pissed off if they let the locals do the work."

(End of this chapter)