Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 434 Re-recruitment point
After finishing this report, Bai Mingxiu stood up and gave Gao Ning a warm applause.He never hesitates to encourage those who work hard. Gao Ning has obviously done a lot of work.

Gao Ning once again saluted the audience and expressed his gratitude.

In fact, during this speech, Bai Mingxiu was also touched by other things.The theory of living space and colonial thought are things that are very unfamiliar to this country and the people here. It was Bai Mingxiu who sowed this seed, and now more and more people have begun to realize the value of it.

Bai Mingxiu approved the new colonial plan put forward by the preparatory meeting, and agreed to use the forces of the Garrison Army and Escorts to build a total of more than [-] colonies in different regions.

"Indeed, the size of my garrison army is not large enough now." Bai Mingxiu made a calculation in his mind.

Most of his garrison troops were reorganized and dismantled from the regular Ming army after he ascended the throne.At that time, a large number of soldiers were demobilized and returned to their hometowns to work in farming. In the ultimate copy of Shuntian Mansion, his newly recruited troops were added to the regular army. Together with the newly recruited soldiers, there were still about [-] soldiers left, who were organized into the garrison army.

Later, the Garrison Corps was deployed on a large scale in the development of remote areas, such as Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Monan, Mobei, Moxi, and the seven provinces of the Western Regions, as well as the Lingbei Xuanwei Division.Its units are called Liaoning Zhuntun Army Corps, Moxi Garrison Army Corps, and the like.

Nanyang has also sent some garrison troops, mainly in Lunan Xuanweisi (Malay Peninsula), but the scale is small. The garrison troops in the northeast, northwest and Lingbei have 3 to 5 troops in each province. The Lunan garrison only has the size of two regiments.

At that time, Bai Mingxiu felt that [-] people were enough.However, he still underestimated the vastness of the country he governed. Even now, the garrison troops only built settlements one by one in a barren area.In remote areas, there has not been any increase in population density.

And now the military is discussing the use of garrison troops, which is completely equivalent to the car running out of gas, but it still wants to run another 200 kilometers.

"What can we do, recruit some more system mercenaries?" Bai Mingxiu thought about it.

Even if there is a wave of foreign immigration in Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that it will be a long-term process. In fact, Bai Mingxiu can encourage about 2 people to go overseas every year for the Immigration Affairs Department, although most of them sign for 5-15 years. The number of immigrants or overseas labor contracts goes out, and the number of personnel concentrated in the Nanyang Consolation Department is relatively large.But all in all it's a start.

Bai Mingxiu has a lot of gold finger coins in his hand, and there are more and more coins. Although he looks forward to spending more in the next era after the round-the-world voyage, he will not spend less money.

For example, in Gao Ning's colonial plan this time, not all places are suitable for large-scale immigration.For example, in India, the purpose of Ming's control of several Indian colonies is to obtain trade benefits, protect its own Indian Ocean routes, and expand Ming's influence on the subcontinent by the way.Perhaps in the next few centuries, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of Chinese may settle in India, but it is impossible to change the population structure of India.The colonization of India should focus more on dividing its regions and politics, and controlling its economy.

The real destinations for large numbers of Chinese immigrants are Southeast Asia, North America, South America, and Australia.Nanyang's Xuanweisi system will automatically attract more and more people to live there. After all, it is directly controlled by Ming Dynasty and it is relatively close to the mainland.Places such as Java, Luzon, Boni, Old Port and Lunan are all promising.Although there were some locals in these Xuanwei colonies, they could not compete with the Chinese and gradually became part of the social and economic system.

Bai Mingxiu clarified his thoughts: "The colonies of India, Tianfang (Arabian Peninsula), and Africa, except for South Africa, which is more suitable for sending a large number of people to form a complete Chinese settlement, the development of other areas still needs to be integrated. Our manpower and resources are the main focus. Anyway, our Ming Dynasty is engaged in colonization, which is different from the Europeans. We have to face, we know that we should pay attention to relative fairness, we will not simply plunder, and we still need to build. Then, India, Africa, West Asia The colonies in these places should be opened on a small scale, and then gradually expand inland to establish the ruling order of the Ming Dynasty over the region and integrate it into the overall economic system of the Ming Dynasty, that’s enough.”

The current Bai Mingxiu is not clear about what the colonial plan established by Da Ming today will look like in the next 50 or 100 years.Generations of Ming colonists and explorers have explored around the world. Since the Ming people established colonies along the coast of Africa in the 17th century, the entire black Africa has become the territory of Ming in the next half century. Although Africa is inferior to some wealthy regions such as the mainland and Southeast Asia, it is tens of thousands of times better than Africa in another plane, which is full of famine, war and ignorance until the 21st century.

Bai Mingxiu is ready to send 100 million garrison regiments and escorts to the world in the next period of time.Although the cost may be at the level of 2000 million gold finger coins, but His Majesty the Emperor has money and can afford it.

However, at the beginning, Bai Mingxiu only recruited about 3000 officers and soldiers of the garrison regiment, and 600 escorts.Although the size of the circumnavigation fleet is already very large, it is impossible for Bai Mingxiu to stuff it with infinite number of people.These soldiers and escorts engaged in immigration will be assigned to more than 20 different places.Fortunately, after the global voyage fleet arrives, they will mobilize everyone's strength to help build piers, forts, and camps when they choose a place. Compared with the immigrants sent by the Oceanic Company to the west coast of North America, they are happier and simpler.

After several months of preparation, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty circumnavigation fleet were finally settled. Rear Admiral Wang Kai, the second clone of Bai Mingxiu, was the commander, and Liang Haisheng, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, was the master. Envoys, a total of 36 Ming Navy capital ships, 52 merchant ships, 29 passenger and auxiliary ships, a total of 117 ships, a huge fleet of more than 38600 people.In terms of personnel, this round-the-world voyage also surpassed the scale of Zheng He's voyages to the West at its peak.

For the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, this round-the-world voyage was full of the romance of the great kingdom of heaven, conveying the majesty of the Ming Dynasty to every corner of the world, seeing unseen scenery, and exhausting the whole world. This kind of pride , is in the bones of this nation, but has never been expressed so obviously.

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