Iron Dynasty

Qingzhou.

A month after Lei Ming went to Australia, the first battle report was finally sent to Xiao Ming.

As he expected, the battle went smoothly, and the British army was vulnerable to the machine guns that swept the line tactics.

Your Majesty, Lei Ming's capture of Australia is a great achievement, but it would be inappropriate to privately distribute Australian land to his generals.

In the imperial study, Fiji looked serious. These days, the cabinet has been planning the land in Australia, and now he was suddenly interrupted by thunder, and he was naturally a little unhappy.

Pang Yukun sneered, Elder Fei Ge's eyes seem to be a little bad, Lei Ming clearly wrote in this battle report that the emperor should approve it, how could it be private? It was Fei Ge old when the war in Australia had not yet been decided. It’s not appropriate to leave the high-quality land to our own talents.”

What nonsense! Fiji suffocated and was furious.

enough!

Xiao Ming was in a good mood, but the quarrel between the two made him a little unhappy. After the victory, too many people want to divide the cake, and maintaining a relatively fair distribution is more difficult than war for him as an emperor. .

Glancing at the two of them coldly, he continued: Australia is only the first battle of the colonial war, then North America, South America, Siberia, Southeast Asia, and Africa will all have our interests, and there will be a lot of land in the future, and you won't be lazy in the end. I want, what a hurry! So the top priority is not your small abacus, but the empire's current big abacus.

After that, Xiao Ming threw a document in front of the two of them, This is the meritorious method that I thought about in January. From now on, whether it is officials, common people, or generals who make meritorious deeds, they will receive meritorious deeds according to the actual situation. Points, people with meritorious deeds who want to acquire the land of the colony will exchange merit points for meritorious points. The geographical location, the size of the land, and the merits of the land are all different. The meritorious points required for those who do not have merit points are to get the land. In exchange for real money.

Pang Yukun and Fiji were stunned for a moment, then they picked up the document and glanced at it. The document was more than 30 pages in total. It listed in detail the number of merits that could be obtained by different meritorious deeds. At the same time, whether it was domestic land or colonial land The price is clearly marked with the number of merits and dragon coins.

In addition, the property in the colony is also listed here. In short, when this meritorious order is issued, the officials' right to allocate land will be officially recovered, and everything will be done in accordance with the regulations.

And the punishment for violating the merit law is also very cruel, the serious ones will be delayed, and the light ones will be exiled to Siberia.

Pang Yukun and Fiji's expressions changed, and both of them felt a chill in their hearts. In his opinion, Xiao Ming is an important step in strengthening the rule of law. Perhaps the chaos in the country during this time has reached an unbearable level.

The major events of the country should be relied upon! The merits and deeds are made, and there will be no objection to the distribution of this land. Fiji bowed and said.

Xiao Ming nodded. In this era when human civilization has just started and people's hearts are still barbaric, severe criminal law must be used to regulate personal behavior.

So the reply to Lei Ming this time is this merit law. In terms of merit and deeds, he can allocate land to his generals according to the merit law, and we also need someone to migrate here to achieve complete control over Australia. , After you go back, you will officially promulgate the Merit Law, which will open up the authority to exchange Australian land for the private sector. Xiao Ming said lightly.

Yes, Your Majesty. Pang Yukun and Fiji said at the same time.

After dealing with this matter, Xiao Ming asked the two to go back. As for the slave bill temporarily promulgated by Lei Ming in Wales, he did not discuss it.

Maybe there will be a virgin whore accusing him of this behavior in contemporary times, but it is only the eighteenth century, and it has not been long before human beings have struggled from the wilderness of civilization. Barbarism is still synonymous with this era, and slavery in Europe is developing to its peak. , this indifferent kindness only invites jokes.

What's more, even during World War II, there was basically no difference between prisoners and slaves, but it was changed to a high-sounding name.

After seeing the two away, Cui Shangan, who was waiting outside the imperial study room, walked in. When he received the battle report, he asked Cui Shangan to come over.

Your Majesty. Cui Shangan looked cautious. Just now Xiao Ming was a little unhappy because of the quarrel between the two patriarchs. He didn't want to be in trouble now.

Glancing at Cui Shangan, Xiao Ming said, I asked you to come here today for a very important matter. Now that Australia has been conquered, the empire's Nanyang strategy has had a good start, but it is still far from what the empire needs now. Now Britain can sail on all the seas of the world not only on sailing warships, but also on ports.

Before coming to the map, Xiao Ming pointed to a series of marked British ports on the world map from the United Kingdom to the Americas, Africa, and Asia; I see, this is the basis for Britain to maintain its maritime hegemony and economic interests. , they simply cannot put military power into it.”

Does the emperor mean that we also want to build our port? Cui Shangan thought about it.

Yes, we want to destroy European ports and build our own ports. As long as we control the ports, the world's economic hegemony is in our hands, and this strategy I call it the Pearl Strand Project, which took Europe two hundred years. The results I have just achieved, I hope to be able to achieve in a short period of time. Xiao Ming said solemnly.

With the development of the imperial industry, the market needed is getting bigger and bigger. A Korea or a Japanese country cannot meet the current domestic market demand.

If the next market cannot be found, the industry of the empire will gradually shrink for lack of profit.

So, he now continues to export goods to the South Seas, to India, to the Ottomans, the Americas, Africa, and even to Europe for profit.

But contrary to this wish was the news the Dutch brought three days ago.

The impact of the breakdown of the negotiations with Britain and France was that the British and French embassies ordered the trading ports of the coastal colonies to be closed to the Chinese Empire on the way back, and no longer allow any merchant ships and warships of the Chinese Empire to dock.

If the embassy returns to Europe, Britain and France are likely to jointly pressure the Netherlands to make decisions that are unfavorable to the Chinese Empire.

Just because he got this news from Rhodes mouth, he was determined to launch this pearl chain strategy to break the arrogance of Europe.

However, it is not easy to realize this plan. After all, there is only one way to realize this plan, and that is to send troops around the world to occupy the colonies of Europe.

Cui Shangan nodded and said, If so, we need to strengthen our investment in the navy and build an invincible fleet across the sea.