Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 413 Sri Lanka
Basically only on formal occasions, Sister Lion will wear the uniform of an admiral. When she is alone with Bai Mingxiu, Sister Lion will wear very changeable and casual clothes. Sometimes it is a gorgeous lady's dress, and sometimes it is a A modern girl, even sometimes looks like a young casual girl.In short, with her figure and appearance, she looks good in almost anything.

With such a beautiful woman drinking tea and talking with him, Bai Mingxiu often feels that he can't ask for more.But the beauty of the lion lady is a bit too otherworldly for him, and this kind of beauty makes him feel very alienated.Even though this Miss Ship Girl had taken care of his food and daily life before, Bai Mingxiu preferred to define his relationship with Sister Lion as a pure comradeship.

It is also because of Sister Lion's status as a ship's wife that she knows Bai Mingxiu's situation better than anyone else, even Bai Mingxiu's clone who went to North America to carry out colonial activities.

"Is the scenery in North America any good?" Sister Lion asked casually, her green fingers gently pinching the small teacup, she looked like a beautiful painting of a lady.

Bai Mingxiu replied: "It's not bad. North America is indeed a very good place. With vast land and abundant resources, it is absolutely true that it can become the cradle of a superpower."

Miss Lion shook her head lightly. She has always been so incomprehensible to His Majesty the Emperor, and she only knows about state affairs and beatings and killings. She is used to it.Although she is a ship girl, she is a girl after all, and she likes to talk about girls.For example, delicious things, beautiful things, art, gossip, and even emotional problems.

But Sister Lion is often just a listener to Bai Mingxiu's ambition.

"Two days ago, our Marine Corps' Sri Lanka task force set off. They will first arrive in Singapore and then land directly in Colombo." Sister Lion still picked a topic that Bai Mingxiu was interested in.

Bai Mingxiu was really shocked, and said, "Is this so? Very good. I have read the report submitted by the Marine Corps before, and I want to discuss the details with you, but the plan is indeed very good."

One of the things that made Bai Mingxiu particularly satisfied was that a large number of exceptionally outstanding talents had emerged, whether in the Lizheng Yuan or the Ministry of War.Some of them may be talents recruited by Bai Mingxiu from the system, and some were directly trained by Ming people, but they all accepted some new ideas and new methods.The knowledge and skills brought by Bai Mingxiu have been absorbed by the people of this era to a certain extent, and transformed into real efficiency.

Based on consultations at multiple national strategy and security conferences, Bai Mingxiu basically established a naval-led foreign colonial strategy. The Ministry of Immigration, the Ministry of War, the Naval Command, Ocean Company and other entities will participate in the colonial plan. In the past, the Marine Corps was the most important official military representative. After military operations, the chief officer of the naval task force would also temporarily act as the agent for colonial affairs, and the Department of Immigration and the Ocean Company would cooperate and coordinate accordingly.

Sri Lanka's strategy was actually on the agenda before Ming Dynasty unified the mainland.Bai Mingxiu's original intention was to obtain a solid base for Ming in the Indian Ocean, and substantially radiate Ming's influence to the Indian Ocean region, and then control the hugely profitable route from India to China.

At this stage, it has become more and more obvious that the importance of trade to a country is almost irreplaceable.By mastering the trade in the South Seas and the East China Sea, the profits that Ming can obtain from trade have already surpassed the local agricultural tax and other huge taxes. If it were not for the rapid growth of taxes such as value-added tax and state-owned enterprise profits, I am afraid that tariffs and trade income would have become the mainstay of Ming Dynasty. The most important thing is taxes.

Daming has already embarked on a path of rapid development that took place in another plane until the second half of the 20th century. The national policy is good, and there is a large amount of infrastructure investment, which drives various productions, thereby promoting the further development of the economy in a benign manner. ;Construct the colonies to a certain extent, cultivate the local market, and conduct benign two-way trade, so that the trade income of the Ming Dynasty has also continued to rise.

If the colonial road taken by the Western colonists is plunder, slaughter and exploitation, then the colonial road taken by the Ming Dynasty is to drive, communicate and build.

Sister Lion said to Bai Mingxiu: "Your Majesty, you set the general direction, and the Navy Command is also capable of completing a series of tasks. The Dutch's control over Sri Lanka is relatively superficial, and there are still many places that cannot Actual control. After taking down Sri Lanka, our navy plans to strengthen the control and construction of important port cities such as Colombo on the one hand, and try to establish a plan suitable for Ming Dynasty to rule Sri Lanka on the other hand.”

Bai Mingxiu nodded in agreement, the governance of the colony has always been a big deal.So far, only Myanmar has been studied as the best example, but Myanmar under Wu Min's governance has many irreproducible characteristics.At that time, Wu Min had a lot of Li Dingguo's soldiers under his command, and with the help of Yunnan chieftains who were familiar with Burma, he won over some small nobles at that time, and directly won the poor peasants with the other hand to carry out land reform.Its scale and complexity of the system are simply unimaginable to many people.To put it away, Wu Min's central idea is one, people benefit, then the system can continue to operate healthily.But easier said than done.

Later Java was more due to the migration of a large number of Chinese immigrants, forming a situation where there were more Chinese than natives, and the natives were slowly and passively included in the ruling order of the Chinese.

Luzon, which has not been taken for a long time, is much more difficult to govern.Although there are quite a few overseas Chinese there, the power of the Ming Dynasty is also limited, so the rule of the Ming Dynasty only extends to important cities such as Manila, as well as relatively important industrial areas and vast rural areas. Most of these people obey Daming in name and pay taxes to Daming.

Many colonies may form this order for a long time.Bai Mingxiu hopes to create a large number of job opportunities and improve living conditions through the establishment of the city built by Ming Dynasty, so as to attract native people to live and live.The spirit of treating colonial people peacefully and equally with fair and equal opportunities formed the difference between the direct rule of Ming Dynasty and those nobles, and eventually more natives supported Ming, while the traditional ruling form of native nobles or tribes gradually disintegrated.

(End of this chapter)