Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 495 The Voyage Continues
The Kingdom of Italy was formally established. Aderno and other new ministers of the kingdom have already returned to China. Aderno also sent an ambassador to Daming to greet His Majesty the Restoration Emperor of Ming Dynasty and also the king of the Kingdom of Italy, Zhu Cixuan.Aderno also specially set up an official position of "Special Adviser to the Royal Family", which is held by an official sent by Ming Dynasty. This is considered a permanent position in the cabinet of the Kingdom of Italy, and it is also a member of the cabinet. It is used to represent His Majesty the Emperor. purpose.

But basically, the Kingdom of Italy is still governed by its Great Council and Cabinet. Although it is a monarchy in name, it is very close to a constitutional monarchy to some extent.Of course, Bai Mingxiu never loved the Western system. The reason why he gave the Italians a high degree of autonomy was not because he admired the constitutional monarchy, but because he was too lazy to fully assume the responsibilities of the Italians.

The temporary capital of the Kingdom of Italy is located in Milan. After Adelno returned from Madrid, he began to perform his administration in Milan.A series of reforms in the new Kingdom of Italy are more difficult for the former states of the kingdom that are still in feudal thinking, but legally they have been incorporated into the kingdom. If they do not cooperate with the kingdom's laws, the cabinet will take measures .

Like Ming Dynasty, although the Kingdom of Italy retains the rights and interests of European nobility and titles, it is not a divided country.A series of political rights of nobles are basically deprived. The kingdom is a unitary country, and all administration must be carried out in accordance with the laws of the kingdom. Must comply with the provisions of the Kingdom's laws.

Although some nobles were dissatisfied with this, everyone saw Spain's unlucky fate, and no one was willing to come out to be this early bird.And Adelno was also happy to centralize all the power of several states in the hands of the royal cabinet. As the prime minister, he had great power.However, he is also a smart person, knowing that his power comes from Daming, so he hugged Daming's thigh tightly, copied almost all of Daming's series of laws, and accepted Daming's reform strategy.

He even ordered artists to go to Ming Dynasty to paint and make sculptures for the great emperor with European brushwork.Adelno plans to build huge sculptures of the emperor in important cities such as Milan to show his majesty.

Another thing that many people did not expect is that Italy is obviously a kingdom, but from the prime minister to the common people, they will hardly call Bai Mingxiu the king in their later life. The Italians keep saying "the greatest on earth King", "His Majesty the Kind and Wise Emperor", and the abbreviations are also "emperor", not king.

This is actually emphasizing their special status from the side. They are not the subjects of some idle European kings, but the subjects of the most powerful emperor in the world.

Bai Mingxiu's attention to this Italian kingdom is really limited, and he doesn't have much investment.After several states merged into a new kingdom, apart from Daming providing some software support and forming a kingdom political system, that is to say, Bai Mingxiu left a sum of 200 million taels of funds to Italy. Looted from Spain.The Kingdom of Italy itself was unambiguous, and Adelno directly formed a study group of a thousand people to go to Daming to learn various knowledge in administration, finance, finance, education, industry, and military affairs.Aside from other things, Bai Mingxiu is quite appreciative of Aderno's attitude.

How Italy struggles and how to unify Italy in the future is their own business. At most, Bai Mingxiu will send some officers and staff to help after the event, and continue to directly send the Ming army to help.But Daming's deterrent effect must still be very effective.

And now other states in Italy are also very nervous. Venice, Modena, Mantova and other countries are all seeking the support of France or Austria to continue to maintain their independent status. For example, the relatively powerful Republic of Venice and the Papal State simply start The whole army is ready for war.The Pope even released that an attack on the Papal State would be a great insult to the Christian world and become the enemy of God.The Papal State even called on Catholic countries to unite and resist heresy.

But Spain has fallen, Portugal has become a Ming dog with peace of mind, Louis XIV of France is looking east with great interest, Austria has more than enough energy, and the Pope is really helpless.

After the completion of the establishment of the King of Italy, Basque Country, and Catalonia, Liang Haisheng participated in the founding ceremony of the Three Kingdoms as a representative of Ming Dynasty, and then returned to the fleet. Next, they will continue their voyage around the world.

Arriving on the largest cruise ship, Penglai Xiandao, Bai Mingxiu saw that Yu Chenglong was obviously getting fatter, and smiled and said, "Director Yu, life seems to be going well."

Yu Chenglong was a little ashamed, and turned to talk about his work: "Most of the goods we brought from the mainland have basically sold about [-]% in Lisbon and Gibraltar. Of course, not all of them were bought by the Portuguese. We A lot of goods were left directly in Gibraltar, allowing this free port to play its important role, which has already attracted a lot of European businessmen to go there."

Bai Mingxiu was very happy and asked, "How much do we have left?"

Yu Chenglong replied: "About 35% of the goods are expected to be shipped to France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom for sale. The three countries have agreed that we will directly ship to merchants in their own countries. It is said that these countries are still discussing related categories of goods. The problem of monopoly, but it should not be well coordinated, but in short, the Portuguese have the biggest advantage in our global fleet trade this time."

Bai Mingxiu smiled and said, "However, in order to eat so much goods, the Portuguese must have used their own capital, and even asked Gan Zhaolong for a loan."

Yu Chenglong also smiled and said, "But they can earn more from this batch of goods."

One of the Ming Dynasty is the spider economy. Those who walk on multiple legs not only need to develop their careers, but also the industrial and commercial service industries go hand in hand, and even finance has never been given up.That is to say, if a non-capitalist country dares to do this, the leader knows what direction the country should be moving in and can mobilize various production factors, instead of simply considering from the perspective of capital and pursuing investment maximization.A regime with obvious socialist characteristics considers more the development of productive forces. After blending with Chinese culture, factors of social stability and stability are added.

Bai Mingxiu finally made a prediction: "After this wave of global fleet trade, I am afraid that the European economy will be turned upside down, and many industries will go bankrupt."

(End of this chapter)