Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 443

After finishing Champa, Cambodia and Siam, the fleet set sail again for Singapore.The fleet will no longer visit the Coconut City on Java Island, but will go directly to Singapore.

In the past two years, Singapore has had a trend of catching up from behind. Thanks to its unique geographical location and the large investment of Ming Dynasty in this port city, a port hub city and service center city with obvious Ming style has grown from a barren built on the land.

Ming Dynasty officials and enterprises all regarded Singapore as an important base. Dayang Company and Tianzhu Company alone had more than a thousand employees stationed in Singapore.The navy established Changi Naval Base here and stationed a small fleet of ships to protect passing ships and Ming Dynasty's interests.Even the Myanmar Propaganda Department has sent a large number of personnel here.Today, Singapore is considered a very international city. More than [-]% of the city's population is Han Chinese, and the rest of the population comes from Malays, Indians, and even Ryukyus and Japanese. The European population also accounts for about [-]% of Singapore's population. About [-]%.A large number of sailors and businessmen from various European countries have gathered here. Because of the relatively open policy and stable situation, people from different regions can buy their own houses in Singapore and run their own businesses while paying taxes legally.

The streets of Singapore are full of people looking for opportunities to make a fortune, no matter what their ethnicity or face, there are even agencies here that specialize in selling business intelligence, and there are also financial service institutions set up by Daming and some European countries. Commercial banks are located here, and ship owners can easily find insurance companies here. There is even a futures trading market and a stock exchange in Singapore, where countless people seek to make a quick buck and become rich. dream.

Even if Bai Mingxiu came here for the first time, he could feel the amazing charm of this city.Her municipal construction is far inferior to that of the cities in the mainland, and many times it even makes people feel chaotic, and most of them are buildings and streets built quickly, but there is an undisguised sense of worship of money, and a real sense of Adventurer spirit.

From a certain perspective, the city of Singapore is more similar to the impetuousness and recklessness of human beings during the Industrial Revolution of the 17th to 19th centuries, while cities such as Shuntian, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty are surprisingly similar. 21 The city after the century, grace, restraint and etiquette.

After disembarking, Bai Mingxiu, as the fleet commander Wang Kai, was received by Lu Nan's consolation envoy Zhao Jingtai.Singapore is not a separate colony, but serves as the capital of the entire Lunan Xuanweisi.

"As you can see, Commander Wang, Singapore's development conditions are very good. It not only sits on the Strait of Malacca, a major shipping route, but also has its own hinterland and supplies with its back on the entire Lunan Peninsula. We hope that in the next ten years Within this year, let Singapore become the leading international city in Eastern Xia." Zhao Jingtai said that the consolation envoys appointed by Bai Mingxiu are basically systematically employing talents with modern governance thinking, but now there are more and more traditional Ming Dynasty civil servants Get started with new ways of working.

Bai Mingxiu asked: "The hinterland of Lunan is mainly operated by the Lunan Garrison Army. It seems that Lunan still maintains some sultanates."

Zhao Jingtai said: "To be precise, it is not. There are indeed some Green religion countries in Lunan, the largest is the Johor Sultanate. They were originally a powerful Malacca dynasty. Go to other places. After our power entered Singapore and Lunan, Johor also carried out armed conflicts against us, but was quickly defeated. The Sultan of Johor begged us, so we took over the power of the Sultan of Johor, and He obtained the nominal title of Duke of Johor for him. Well, in fact, this Johor Duke was spontaneously initiated by our Department of Consolation, and it was not quite in compliance. After it was sent to the Legislative Yuan, the Prime Minister reprimanded us, We have been suppressing and did not give us approval. However, formally, we have removed all the sultanates in Lunan, and even removed the title of sultan, and those who are willing to surrender are now holding the title of Xuanweisi of Daming."

Bai Mingxiu didn't know much about this section yet. He had indeed heard a little bit about this before, but he didn't care too much.

The Federation of Malaysia in another plane is actually a very strange existence.Each state in Malaysia is equivalent to a small country with its own sultan, which means that Malaysia has multiple heads of state.The supreme head of state of the Federation is elected by 9 monarchs, and of course it is also a virtual head of state.

As a unitary empire, it is impossible for Ming Dynasty to allow multiple heads of state.But in actual operation, Ming’s mode of action in the colonies is still a plundering, and Ming people who value face still need a little tricks.Therefore, the various practices in Lunan are similar to national mergers.Its monarch cut off the title of monarch and became the title of Xuanweisi, and the land it controlled was completely managed by Xuanweisi.

The title of the Xuanwei Division and the title of the Empire are completely two different things. There is not much gold in it. Even the title of the Xuanwei Division is approved by the Xuanwei Division. Council's permission.What made Bai Mingxiu feel even more ridiculous was that not only did he not have any salary or rewards for the title of Xuanweisi, but he still had to pay an application fee to obtain this title.For example, the Johor Sultan Sa'ah III paid an application fee of about 7000 Mingliang in order to obtain this title, and he is still waiting hard.

Not everyone can apply for the title of Xuanweisi. It must be the real ruler of the original land, not even the tyrant or the prime minister.

Zhao Jingtai didn't have any psychological pressure on the award of the title, he said with a smile: "Our Lunan Xuanwei Division has issued a total of one duke, three earls and one viscount. The Xuanwei Division's title must be renewed regularly, which means that they If you want to keep this title ten years later, you have to pay a title tax. Haha, if you can’t pay this money, then the title will be deprived. Fortunately, we have reserved some necessary properties for these original sultans, such as Their royal palace, part of the fields, etc., if they transform themselves into capitalists and business owners, they may be able to afford the money for generations to come, and have a more honorable title. If they end up down, then this title will disappear Lost."

Bai Mingxiu was also amazed: "Which genius devised such an unfortunate method? It's so incredible!"

(End of this chapter)