The stars are moving, and the sun and the moon are like shuttles. Time flies by, and when you try to catch it, it spun around at once.

For the Ming Empire, which has embarked on the fiery road of no return to capitalism, more and more people have begun to feel that time is running out!

Time is money!

Time is the New World!

Building ships, training sailors, recruiting immigrants, preparing supplies, and sailing eastward all take time, and all of them can produce the profits that capitalists love the most - this is probably the most evil thing about capitalism, it can link almost all human behavior to commercial profits, and then use profits to drive human greed and make people go crazy.

And Zhu Cihong's financial means can amplify and magnify capital, profits and people's greed. Therefore, since the beginning of the Hongxing decade, the United States of New Island has become one of the most eye-catching wealth outlets...... So much so that the people in the rich and prosperous land in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty are almost forgetting that their homeland has not actually achieved real unification, even if it is nominal unification, it has not yet been realized.

Because in the southwest corner of the land of the Celestial Empire, at this time, there was still a Dashun Empire that openly confronted the Ming Empire, and also regarded itself as the Celestial Empire!

Dashun is now also a colonial empire!

Because she also has her own colony.

After the successful raid on Awa, the Dashun court set up the Awa Governor's Mansion and the Salian Governor's Mansion to take charge of Upper and Lower Burma. After the destruction of the city of Ayutthaya, the Dashun court set up a Governor's Office of Ayutthaya to govern the Siamese lands they conquered.

Because Dashun annexed the vassal state of Myanmar that depended on him by means of sneak attack, it was equivalent to tearing up the "Treaty of Sects and Vassals" with his own hands, so while opening up the territory, he also destroyed his own Celestial Empire system. Therefore, after seizing the upper and lower Burma and part of Siam, the Dashun court had to rule in a different way.

At the beginning, Li Guo, Li Laiheng and others wanted to move the military system of Dashun to upper and lower Burma. But then they realized that this was not the case!

The reason for the setback of the implementation of the government army system in Upper and Lower Burma is that there is no way to let the government soldiers take root in Myanmar!

It is the government soldier system that must take root in the countryside - the government soldiers of Dashun are actually small landlord soldiers, and after receiving 1,200 mu of land, the government soldiers will sublease the land to the peasant households, and use the collected rent to support themselves and their families and bear the cost of military service.

However, the soldiers who moved to Myanmar from Sichuan, Shaanxi (Hanzhong, Gongchang), Hubei (Yunyang) and other places found that they could not put down roots. Because the Burmese are not Han farmers in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places after all, although there is also a gap between the latter and the Shaanxi people, they can still barely communicate. Moreover, while implementing the government and military system, the Dashun imperial court also engaged in the calculation of buying people's hearts and minds, so that the poor peasants also benefited, so the government and military system was established very smoothly.

But in Myanmar, the situation is very different.

The Han soldiers had no way to communicate with the Burmese farmers, and if they couldn't communicate, of course, they couldn't talk about taking root. Moreover, there is no intensification of land contradictions in Burma, nor is there the concept of equality that the Han people in the Central Plains have gradually developed since the Warring States period - they are very accustomed to the enslavement of the Burmese aristocracy, and they do not need the Great Shuntian soldiers to liberate them at all.

Moreover, Burma is a place of miasma, and the soldiers who migrated from Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei were easily infected with diseases and died. It's better if you let them live in a more developed city, but if you disperse to the countryside, you're more likely to get sick.

In the "Northern Expeditionary Army" that followed Li Laiheng and Li Dingguo on their southern expedition, the number of people who died due to the epidemic was several times greater than those who died on the battlefield.

Since there was no way to go to the countryside and take root, Dashun's rule in Upper and Lower Burma could only be centered on the cities and aimed at grabbing economic benefits—the purpose of Dashun's raid on Burma was not limited to opening up territory, but also included the acquisition of southern outlets to the sea, to obtain Western firearms technology, and to obtain export channels for Shu brocade produced by the government-run handicraft industry.

Therefore, part of the land of Upper and Lower Burma and Siam became a vassal of the Dashun Empire to grab resources and money, that is, a colony.

Moreover, since there was no way to place a large number of government soldiers in Upper and Lower Burma, the Dashun court had no way to transform Burma from a colony to a native province for a while......

Therefore, the Dashun court could only set up three governorates with large cities as the core of the ruling core in the lands of Upper and Lower Burma and Siam, and exercised colonial rule over Upper and Lower Burma and Siam that was completely different from that of Dashun itself.

After completing the establishment of the three major governors' palaces, the commander of the Dashun Northern Expeditionary Army, the crown prince Li Laiheng, ended his years-long trip to the south, handed over the army and territory to Li Dingguo, the governor of Ava (the three southern governors of Dashun were headed by the governor of Ava), and led a small number of guards to return north, and in the spring of the tenth year of Dashun's co-rule, he returned to Chongqing, the northern capital of the Dashun Empire, with a heavy heart.

His heart was heavy not for no reason, when he was in Burma and Siam, he once set up his Fujun Prince's Mansion in Salian, the mouth of Lower Burma. There are many Portuguese and Burmese people living there, and the connection with the outside world is relatively close, so Li Laiheng also knows that the Ming Empire has become more and more prosperous in recent years.

For Dashun, the life of the Ming Empire is prosperous, which is not a good thing......

After entering the boundary of Chongqing Prefecture, Li Laiheng did not go to Chongqing Mansion City non-stop, but first went to the Bishan Imperial Mausoleum of the first emperor Li Zicheng. He also has a manor in Bishan, which is near the imperial tomb. After visiting the imperial mausoleum, Li Laiheng took his subordinates and one of his sons, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy named Li Jicheng, to dismount and walk slowly towards his manor.

On both sides of the official road, at this time it is already a verdant green, in the paddy fields, wearing short clothes, wearing hats of Bashu peasants, dotted with stars, while working, while shouting and talking in Sichuan sound, the sound comes and goes, it seems very lively.

Passing by a village, groups of children were playing at the entrance of the village, and when they saw Li Laiheng and others leading the horses, they all came up and sang and danced, which was very harmonious.

Li Laiheng also stopped, picked up a six- or seven-year-old boy, and asked with a smile: "Child, what is your name and how old are you?" ”

The child's mouth was Shaanyin: "Uncle, my name is Shuanggui, and I am eight years old this year!" ”

"Are you from Shaanxi?" Li Laiheng smiled even more happily, "What about you Ada?" ”

"Eada went up, and the family is E, Eniang, Erniang, E's two brothers and two sisters, and a younger sister."

"Hey, a big family!" Li Laiheng's smile unconsciously put away a little.

This child has one father and two mothers in the family, and his contemporaries are two brothers, two sisters and one sister, plus he himself is six children...... Seems like a bit much!

Li Laiheng knew that since the beginning of the communist rule, Dashun's rule in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places had gradually stabilized. And the Ming Dynasty did not launch a frantic attack, but to a certain extent "ignored" Dashun.

In this case, Dashun's more than 200,000 government soldiers and tens of thousands of official households have nothing to do, except for the last errand, they are giving birth to children at home and playing.

So at the gate of the soldiers, there are a lot of people in a family with six or seven children!

The next generation of more than 200,000 government soldiers and officials is afraid that it will swell to one million! Even if women are excluded, it will grow to more than 500,000!

Can the Dashun Imperial Court give these 500,000 people positions and fields? 100 acres for one person is 50 million acres......

Moreover, it is not only the government military households and official households that are rapidly breeding people, but also the peasant households who plan to give birth to the fields.

Because the income and burden of the peasants were equalized, it was easier to get married and have children, and there were no contraceptive means in those years, so when the food supply was relatively abundant and the social environment was stable to the point of solidification, the production of the population was greatly accelerated.