Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 448 New Myanmar

After crossing Singapore and passing through the Strait of Malacca, Ming's global fleet entered the Indian Ocean region.In the region before this, Ming completely dominated land and sea, owned almost all land in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and controlled all sea areas.But after entering the Indian Ocean, it is even a more neutral waters, although Ming still controls Myanmar and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, and apart from Ming, other forces are not big enough to overwhelm other countries.

In recent days, Bai Mingxiu has gotten used to living as Wang Kai, but his real body has always been idle in the Taiping Palace.After all, he yearns for a less peaceful life, including the colonization and exploration of the North American continent as a bodyguard as Bu An, and now leading the fleet to conquer the sea as Wang Kai, which is very interesting and meaningful.

The routes in the Indian Ocean are already very busy routes, with a large number of Chinese and foreign merchant ships traveling between them.After seeing the huge Ming Dynasty's global fleet, these merchant ships often pay tribute.

This is the largest tonnage with the largest total displacement ever seen on the water surface. It represents the peak of human production capacity and technology, and it also represents the strength of a great empire. It deserves and must be respected.

At this point in the voyage, the excitement of most of the people in the fleet has passed, and they have realized that it is actually a very painful thing to be adrift at sea for a long time. The place is not necessarily where the conditions are very good.Even in a city as large as Singapore, not everyone can find a suitable place to live, and they might as well stay in bed.And as it entered the Indian Ocean, Ming Dynasty still had some military missions and colonial missions, so the conditions became even more difficult.

The fleet arrived in Yangon after a week of sailing. Beyond many people's imagination, Yangon is even better than Singapore.This city can be regarded as the first city built by Bai Mingxiu, even though he just started, the real work was done by Wu Min.

This is the second time that Bai Mingxiu has come to Yangon. When he left here last time, it was just a small fishing village and barren land, but now that he came back to see it, it is already a quite grand city.

Even Liang Haisheng, a diplomat, not only said: "Wu Min has the talent of a prime minister. You can know that he has a big picture just by looking at the construction of Yangon."

The Yangon Mansion in the field of vision is really urban, with very first-class port facilities, and the shipyard in the harbor is extremely busy. At least 20 ships are under construction, and there are dozens of merchant ships on the dock. Workers Loading and unloading of goods is busy.Most of the people working here are Burmese, but their clothes are very modern, very similar to the local Han people in Ming Dynasty.

On the side of the port area is actually an area similar to the CBD, with a series of high-rise buildings. Although these high-rise buildings may only have five or six floors, or even thirteen or four floors, they are already very impressive in this era.There are hotels, offices of various companies, a large number of shopping malls and shops, streets already crowded with people.

On the outskirts are the residential areas in Yangon. The residential areas here have obviously been planned in a unified way, and the houses look neat.Half of the residential buildings are single-family houses, and the other half are three-story residential buildings. A building may accommodate dozens of families, and half of them are wooden structures. Such apartments are relatively small, but they are also suitable for people with a small population. family residence.

Bai Mingxiu was also quite interested in the development of Yangon. He pointed to those rows of low-rise apartment buildings that were not very aesthetically pleasing but expensive to use, and asked, "Who are the people living there?"

The person in charge of the port affairs contact replied: "Over there, it is the residence of ordinary people. It is a public rental house built by the Xuanwei Department. This thing was built very quickly, basically from laying the foundation to the final completion. Experienced construction companies It was completed in 4 months, with water, electricity and sewers connected. This kind of public rental housing is provided cheaply to Yangon residents, about 150 yuan per month. Many Burmese, Mon and Shan people who have entered the city live in In public rental housing like this, the salary of ordinary workers is about 2-3 taels a month, so 150 cash is really cheap.”

Bai Mingxiu was really surprised: "Is Myanmar going to realize socialism before the mainland?"

The official said with a smile: "Where are you, Yangon is the capital of our Department of Consolation after all. A rich place, but the consolation envoy has also arranged a series of policies to help backward areas get rid of poverty and become rich. In particular, he is promoting new urbanization, concentrating residents in remote villages to live in new cities, protecting Myanmar's ecology, and improve the standard of living of residents.”

The population of Myanmar is actually not large, and now it is just over 200 million.But strictly speaking, Myanmar is the first administrative area that Bai Mingxiu has started to develop since he crossed, and the first administrative officer that Bai Mingxiu recruited fortunately is Wu Min, who is almost like a god.

There is also a report in Bai Mingxiu's captain's room, which records some construction achievements made by the Burmese Propaganda Department in the past three years.After Bai Mingxiu saw it, he was amazed. Wu Min managed to build a port city with a population of more than 30 on a barren land, and built a road network throughout Xuanweisi, with a total mileage of more than 900 kilometers.Myanmar's fiscal and tax revenues are even placed in the middle reaches of the Ming provinces.You must know that this is not a region that has been developed for thousands of years, has dense rainforests and various inconveniences, and has a population of only about 200 million.

Bai Mingxiu hadn't seen Wu Min for a long time. More than a year ago, as the emperor, Bai Mingxiu wrote Wu Min a personal letter, asking Wu Min if he had any idea to come to the mainland to serve as a provincial governor, or directly join the cabinet as a minister.However, Wu Min’s reply clearly stated that he hoped to continue to operate in Myanmar. He promised Bai Mingxiu that he would give Wu Min ten years, and he would be able to give Daming a loyal and wealthy propaganda department. Now he is in Myanmar. The work done is just the beginning.

In fact, Wu Min's contribution to several propaganda departments in Southeast Asia of Ming Dynasty was not only that.His series of experience and policies have become the benchmarks for the propaganda and comfort departments in Babaidadian, Siam, Laos, Cambodia, and Champa.These places may not be as good as Myanmar in terms of progress, but they are still on the right path.

Thinking of this, Bai Mingxiu really wanted to meet this comfort envoy who had a high reputation in the political arena of Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)