If you go to Southeast Asia, you will naturally have to vigorously develop the navy. In addition, the soldiers in Yunnan and Guangxi need to train well. Bai Lang has no intention of opening up territory in Southeast Asia except North Vietnam, but he must ensure the Ming Dynasty's power to operate freely and trade in these countries. Relying on simple trade, he can obtain a large amount of rice from these countries, so there is no need to occupy it specifically as the local area.
But Bai Lang wants the archipelago in Southeast Asia - these islands are rich in various spices and wood minerals, and can be said to be a series of treasure and silver islands. There are many native countries on the island who worship the Ming Dynasty, and of course some people think that the Ming Dynasty is too long to accept the king's war. Bai Lang is planning to form a navy to visit it well, and some islands are to be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty does not mind becoming a country of thousands of islands, nor does he mind taking the South Pacific Islands into his hands.
Not to mention anything else, can you still take a vacation in hundreds of years, right?
The Ming Navy now built cruisers in large quantities - the northern Shandong built large flat-bottomed ships used to sail along the coastline to transport grain, silk and other materials, while the Shanghai built pointed cruisers, which were directly incorporated into the East China Sea Navy formed by the Ming Dynasty to escort sea merchants to Japan for business. While making money, it also completed the training and running-in between sailors and hundreds of households on the ship. What made Bai Lang even more interesting was that the first four cruisers that appeared had been sold to sea merchants.
These ships were originally tried-and-tested works and cannot be considered perfect. Therefore, after the subsequent ships were continuously improved, the first batch of models were sold to the maritime merchants at high prices, and accompanied by privateing licenses. The maritime merchants should also take high-priced goods to the sea and rob. According to Bai Lang's prior order, they would go south. The west of the Malacca Strait is their hunting area, and privateing is not allowed after passing through the Malacca Strait.
As long as the Emperor of Ming Dynasty wants it, there is nothing he can't do in Asia. Bailang has calculated from the day when the sea ban was opened. In just six or seven years, the scale of the maritime merchants and navy has expanded sharply and began to drive the Dutch out east of Malacca. The cruisers have all been replaced with Western-style soft sails since the third batch. There is no way, it is better to sail from oceans. The most important thing is that the load capacity of the ship can be much larger.
The number of artillery guns has not increased at the first layer of gun deck, but it has adopted a rear-mounted smoothbore gun - not a fixed-load metal bullet, but it has been black gunpowder-launched sprayed medicine wrapped in oil paper or oil-soaked silk. The artillery used by the Ming Dynasty now is the most technologically advanced and most expensive marine artillery in the world, and the artillery used by the army is also the most advanced technology and the best performance, but the price is not the most expensive.
All of these cannons are bored barrels, "Let's develop slowly. Anyway, there will be boring a barrel with a boring machine after forging the barrel in the future." Bai Lang said after visiting the artillery factory. Now he is working on the imperial examination, the first thing he wants to do is to expand the education scope - Bai Lang has considered three years of compulsory education. Anyway, after learning a thousand words and four calculations, he will at least not be blind. In the future, he will be much better than illiterate when working as a farmer.
After that, Bai Lang was admitted to the examination level one by one. In the level of local officials, especially officials, Bai Lang was preparing to adopt the examination system - from other governments in the province, just to take it as a civil servant exam. The imperial examination became a national civil servant exam. This thing originated from the Chinese imperial examination. The British carried it forward and formed a pretty good civil servant level examination system, and there was nothing wrong with it. Anyway, bureaucracy will implement human society at all, so there is nothing.
Bai Lang is now acting like a mighty man. As long as he can tighten the army, no matter how he is doing it, it will be fine. "Unlimited violence, infinite tyranny. Hahahaha." This tyrant ordered the development of the southeastern waters. Anyone who can open up a new island has franchise rights and rewards, and it is not impossible to become an official. Today, the Ming Dynasty is growing wildly and its vitality is still enough - "It is still necessary to carry out marine trade of industrial products, and how much money can it be made by digging food in the ground?"
Traditional export products of the Ming Dynasty - porcelain, silk, tea, sugar and many luxury goods have grown massively, and now there are arms, steel ingots and coins. It is very interesting that even the Wanli Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty is ace export product. Not only East Asia, but also countries on the Maritime Silk Road are happy to accept the exquisitely stamped Ming silver coins and gold coins. Of course, copper coins were popular early in the morning.
The Ming Navy also followed Bailang's orders and headed north along the coastline. Bailang was preparing to head north along the North Asian coastline and spent a year to arrive in North America - going ashore in winter and sailing in spring and summer. As for Australia's exile, Bailang didn't plan to want it from the bottom of his heart - of course he knew that this small continent had rich high-grade minerals, but the natural environment of this ghost place was not good and was completely unsuitable for large-scale immigration.
These large islands, including New Guinea Island, cannot be said to be suitable for the Ming people in East Asia to move, so Bailang prepared to establish several ports and then let the Ming navy block these places as nature reserves. Anyway, as long as the Straits of Malaya and Malacca are stuck, it is completely impossible for Europeans to exile criminals to these places. "I vaguely remember that there are also huge bay crocodiles in Australia, and I don't know if I can catch more than seven meters of bay crocodiles in this year."
The Ming Navy developed greatly after the Korean War, and it has been very cool in the South China Sea recently. There were news that it had a conflict with the Dutch East India Company fleet, and both sides suffered losses. However, the Ming Navy could quickly add to it - the new shipbuilding method made huge logs not completely necessary, and it could be used to splice to create keels and masts. Even the iron ships have been tried in the military staff bureau of the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Works and the inner court.
It was a small boat. I tried to forge the spliced ​​steel keel and the ship ribs, and then used wooden boards as the inner compartment, and the outer compartment was still made of iron plates. For this reason, steel rolling mills were developed, of course, now they are rolling iron plates. This ship is not big, and the hull of thin iron plates is only five or six meters long, which is purely for testing. Even if I really wanted to build an iron-shelled ship, the Ming Dynasty has not fully developed the coal-iron industry.
One of the major demands for the Ming Dynasty steel ingots is Japan. Japan's knife making industry has abandoned its own "yu steel" and has completely turned to steel imported from the Ming Dynasty. Since almost all of them are transported from Shanghai Port, it is called "Su Steel". This has comprehensively improved the quality of Japanese knives and may also change the style of Japanese knives.
Chapter completed!