Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 455 The Challenge of Governance

The Portuguese acted as lobbyists, and Shaista Khan finally chose to surrender to Ming Dynasty.In fact, what really made Shaista Khan give up was the bombardment on the battlefield. Shaista Khan knew that this Chinese army could easily enter the city, and he would be a corpse by then.

The capitulation terms that the Portuguese secured for Shaista Khan were that it would allow him to leave Bengal without harming his life.Shaista Khan originally wanted to fight for more, but the Portuguese negotiators had the power of a big Minghu and a fake tiger, and they refused to give up at all.

For these Portuguese, they also hope to please Ming, not to please the Mughal Empire.The stronger Ming Dynasty is, the more prosperous the Portuguese people living in the order of Ming Dynasty will be.

These guys are very smart. Paulinho doesn't even consider asking for any favors from Daming. Even though he knows that Bangladesh has a lot of wealth, being blinded by profit will not do Portugal any good.Daming is very powerful, but he is also a difficult master. If he messes with them, his fate will not be good.

Shaista Khan ordered the Bengalis to open the gates of Dhaka, and the Ming Dynasty Burmese vassal army entered the city first.This is also their glory. In the battle to capture Bengal, the Burmese vassal army contributed the most. They also proved their strength and loyalty to the Ming Empire.

The palaces and important facilities of the Mughal Empire in Dhaka City were sealed up by Ming soldiers, and no one was allowed to enter them. Then these facilities would be searched by them, and the wealth in them would become the spoils of the Ming army.

Except for the wealth belonging to the Mughal Empire, ordinary people of the lower classes would not move the Ming army, but the princes and nobles in the city would not have such a good life. From the officials of the Mughals, Bai Mingxiu got The list of princes, nobles and even big businessmen in Bengal, he ordered the soldiers to bring these big men to the palace that had been looted for centralized management.

Except for the other nobles near Dhaka, Wu Min will slowly come to clean them up.

Three days after Dhaka surrendered, Wu Min also came to the city.

Bai Mingxiu accompanied him to inspect his new management area, and Bai Mingxiu passed on his own message, saying to Wu Min: "I have already reported to His Majesty, and His Majesty has agreed to set up the Mengmen Burma Consolation Department, and you will be in charge of consolation." Make. As for how to choose the capital, you can decide for yourself."

Wu Min cupped his hands towards the back, and said, "Thank you, the emperor, for your kindness. This humble minister will definitely live up to his holy hope."

Bai Mingxiu still expressed his concern. He said: "Bangladesh is a region with a population of 2000 million. It is not comparable to the Burmese you governed before. The people you brought are all Han and Burmese, with different races and religions." Different from the locals, the more important thing is that you are still planning to break the Chamindaer system and establish our agricultural cooperatives in Ming Dynasty, which I think is still very difficult.”

Wu Min smiled: "In a short period of time, I don't intend to make Bangladesh succeed as quickly as Myanmar. We are 'foreign invaders', but the same is true of the Mughal Empire or Europeans."

Bai Mingxiu sighed: "But you are planning to directly eliminate the landlord class here. Without these Chaimindars, your Xuanwei Department has almost no control over the vast rural areas of Bangladesh. The decree must be conveyed and taxes must be collected. , this is very difficult. Unlike what we do in the mainland, we have a large number of well-trained civil servants in the Han provinces, and we have an army with the same culture and race, and the people have a stable mind. Our policies are easy to publicize and the implementation effects are very good. Well, in Bangladesh, you can’t have the conditions and resources that you have back home.”

"Believe me, Commander Wang Kai, I have my own talents and abilities to implement our Ming Dynasty's policies in foreign lands. For the time being, I may not attack all Chaimindars. My main purpose is to connect Bangladesh and Myanmar. , and directly connected to our southwest province of Daming, to realize Daming's 'Greater Southwest Economy', my focus is still to develop local industries and economies. We will pilot a series of state-owned farms and plantations, and gradually transfer our experience Extended to the entire Bengal region.”

"In other words, temporarily paralyze the local landlords, and when you are ready, will you revolutionize them in one go?"

Wu Min replied: "It is similar, but there will be a lot of details in it. It is not easy to achieve this goal. At least for the next two or three years, my main job is to integrate the existing industries and forces of Bangladesh. Develop in line with the needs of our Ming Dynasty. I did not expect that there will be relatively large resistance to our Ming rule in Bangladesh, there may be some, but when our army shows invincible strength, the local people will be very obedient .”

Bai Mingxiu nodded. This is actually a very prominent national character of the people in South Asia. India, as a geographical term, has been ruled by countless foreign invaders in history. Aryans, Persians, Da Yue Clans, Turkic Mongols, and generally speaking, the whole of India accepted foreign rulers relatively calmly.Now it was replaced by the Ming Empire and the Huaxia people, and the result was the same.

"The top priority of the Bangladesh-Myanmar Propaganda and Consolation Department is to cultivate a group of talents who understand Chinese and Chinese and have modern national awareness, not only in the government office, but also in different fields of agriculture, industry and commerce. Therefore, it may be a relatively long time to rule Bangladesh well. Time, but I’m not in a rush, it’s not something that happens overnight.”

Even Bai Mingxiu couldn't get him a large number of Bengali-speaking civil servants, and although the system mercenaries may be fundamentally from different ethnic groups, after the entire Ming Dynasty, their style may be similar to those in the original game. Ethnic units, but in the final analysis, they are still Chinese, and they don't know how to use other languages.

This also reminded Bai Mingxiu that Daming should establish a colonial official school now. Although Daming will continue to provide popular Chinese education so that the locals will eventually use Chinese, in the early stage of governance, they still need to be able to use the local language. Man opened up the situation for Ming Dynasty.

The rise of the Ming Dynasty was still too fast. Basically, an idea came into being and they took over a new colony. Not only did they know little about the area, but they didn’t have much preparation. There will be chaos.

Bai Mingxiu believes that it is still necessary to have an overall system for the Ming Dynasty to manage the colonies, and to be able to select and send a series of outstanding talents to the colonies of the Ming Dynasty to participate in the process of construction and integration into the empire.

(End of this chapter)