Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 458 Request for protection
In Tuticorin, Europeans are also allowed to move freely here. The European diplomats who came here with the Global Fleet also saw this large construction site in full swing, and even saw the almost abnormal rapid construction of the Ming people. ability.

"God, do they want to build a large city within a month?" Harvey exclaimed.

Hasholt said: "I am not surprised at all. The Chinese find it easy to do things that we cannot do, or this is their normal state. This is probably a nation that creates miracles. "

Harvey said sarcastically: "Mr. Hasholt, your mentality is too good. This place originally belonged to you Dutch."

"The Netherlands has no ability to keep him, why am I so entangled? Besides, if the Ming army wants to attack Madras, can you British defend it?"

Harvey blushed a little, but didn't answer, the answer is naturally self-evident.He wanted to explain that the army would not attack Madras, which is an important trade route and port for them, but thinking about it, Ming's strength has soared rapidly, and maybe they will be able to complete the trade from Europe to the East soon up.

"I'm worried that one day the entire ocean will be filled with Ming's merchant ships, and there will be no room for everyone to survive," Harvey said.

Hasholt shook his head: "You are worrying unnecessarily, Mr. Minister. If Ming Dynasty wants to do this, they should not sell us the technology of new sailboats. In Burma's shipyard, you British East India Company ordered several ships."

Harvey said indignantly: "But they have steamboats, which sail faster, and what they give us is just a grade lower."

"If you owned the steam engine, would you hand it over to other countries?" Hasholt asked a soul torture.

Harvey got stuck, and said to the Dutchman with a red face, "Your habit of defending Daming almost made me mistake you for a spineless Portuguese."

Hasholt smiled and said: "The Portuguese are doing well now, aren't they?"

Hasholt glanced at the busy construction site over there. On the concrete streets that had just been paved, street lights had already been erected, and then there were two-story wooden buildings. People in Ming Dynasty like to paste wooden buildings A layer of skin seems to have the function of setting fire and insulating from cold and heat, which seems to make these buildings appear more solid.

"I don't know if Daming's construction company will accept outsourcing work. If possible, I would like to ask them to build our other colonies." Hasholt said.

Harvey spread his hands: "Sometimes your ideas are really incredible."

His Majesty the Emperor, who was moving bricks on the construction site, seemed to enjoy it a bit, but after staying on the construction site for a week, he found that he still had to deal with a lot of fleet affairs.

Liang Haisheng came to him with a smile on his face and said, "Good news, because of our large-scale operation in Tuticorin, the feudal lords around us seemed to be very shocked when they saw our large army and our big ship. After learning that we will operate here for a long time, and that we implement relatively tolerant religious and economic policies, these lords hope to join us, contribute taxes to us, but also ask for our protection."

"Huh? The little brother who sent you to the door?"

Liang Haisheng explained: "Because the Vijayanagar Empire has fallen, these feudal lords have established themselves, but they are still under attack from various sultans. This area can be said to be constantly warred. Their military strength They are all weak, so they often lose battles. Now they see that we have a lot of troops, and they also heard that we occupy Sri Lanka on the opposite side and are capable of fighting against those Green Sultans, so they hope to regard us as the master in name, but in fact It’s still based on survival considerations.”

In the end, South India was annexed by the Mughal Empire in history. This area became very chaotic in the 18th century. After the British gradually took control of the situation, the local Nayak (lord) began to pay taxes to the British. In exchange for local governance rights and status.

"I didn't intend to expand the colony to this extent. I just wanted a port in Tuticorin to do business." Bai Mingxiu felt that this was a happy trouble.

"Well, the Marine Corps has a garrison in Colombo, and it's not too difficult to send them to the Tamil area to maintain stability. Of course, you can refer to other propaganda divisions and recruit their soldiers directly from these Nayaks. Then form the Tamil Fan Army." Bai Mingxiu began to think of a way by himself.

"However, training and maintaining the vassal army is quite expensive, but if the local lords give money, they can amortize part of the cost."

Liang Haisheng provided his own perspective: "The question is, should we conduct overall development management from the perspective of a propaganda and comfort department, or simply provide this kind of protection and create a kind of regional sphere of influence that belongs to us."

Bai Mingxiu smiled wryly: "If possible, we definitely want to actually control this area. However, the chances of Da Ming spending extra energy, human, financial and material resources are very low. What Wu Min did in Bangladesh will definitely make people The Council of Governors gives priority to certain policy and financial inclinations to Bangladesh, not to mention the whole of Nanyang is the area where Ming is most directly going to sinicize and emigrate, and South India is not at all the turn."

Liang Haisheng said: "Commander Wang is very similar to our Majesty in many ways. He has a strong initiative and wants to be perfect. But in fact, we really don't have to worry about everything. It doesn't mean that we have to send administrative officials to every territory. , engage in relevant education, send agricultural technicians, and carry out industrialization. This is unrealistic for Ming Dynasty, and we do not have such great capabilities. Our focus is still on developing a city, with Tuticorin as a trading port, Radiating to the whole of South India. The things we bring are actually attractive enough. The lords will naturally see what we are doing, and take away the relevant agricultural technology, industrial production and business concepts. They will also send their children here For our Chinese schools, we can entrust them to produce economic crops that we think are valuable, and control their trade and circulation. Gradually, they will become part of our system by themselves. This time will definitely take longer than your active integration strategy, but That's the norm."

Bai Mingxiu smiled after hearing this, and said, "That's true, then it seems that a propaganda department will really be established here."

(End of this chapter)