Throughout the nine years of Zhongxing, the Ming Dynasty has no intention of continuing to use troops abroad, and will concentrate on the development of cement roads and railway networks, and the most important two directions have been established, one south and one north, south to Yunnan, Annam and other places, facing Burma, Siam and other countries, north to Mongolia Baikal and northeast, facing Tsarist Siberia.

There is no doubt that the concentrated construction of these two cement roads is for the next step of the Ming Dynasty's territorial expansion.

Originally, the railway was the best, but it was difficult to build the railway, and no matter how much efforts were concentrated, it was impossible to build the north and south to the destination within a year, but the cement road could.

In recent years, with the Ming Dynasty successively conquering the Mongolian tribes, Korea, the Wa State, Annam and other places, the main prisoners also came from these places, the most is undoubtedly the Wa State, the Ming Dynasty alone has nearly two million prisoners, counted, the Ming Dynasty as a coolie as more than 3.2 million captives, just to guard these captives will use more than 500,000 Ming garrison.

With the establishment of the main direction of the construction of the cement road in the north and south, the more than 3.2 million captive coolies, in addition to leaving 700,000 to continue to build the railway, the other 2.5 million were all taken to the two directions to build the cement road on a large scale.

In order to have sufficient cement supply, Zhu Ci staggered and once again approved the construction plan of eight large-scale cement plants.

The construction of the north-south cement road is intensifying, and the time will soon reach mid-March.

Six years ago, it was at this time that the first batch of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty responded to the call of the Ming Dynasty and went to live and develop in the Indonesian archipelago in the South Seas.

Six years ago, Daming promised the people who voluntarily emigrated that as long as it took six years, the immigrant people would be able to choose whether to return to the Ming Dynasty.

At one time, nearly three million Ming people immigrated to the South Seas, taking root on both sides of the Strait of Malacca and other parts of the Indonesian archipelago.

So many immigrants, six years later want to return to the life of the Ming Dynasty is naturally no longer a few, located in the Indonesian archipelago Yamen began to accept registration a few months ago, the data has come out, about twenty percent of the people intend to return to the Ming life, of course, more people still choose to stay in the Indonesian Islands, after all, they have been rooted there for six years, many are family immigrants, now living there quite happy, even if you want to return to your homeland, but to give up the land and house that you have worked there for six years and then move your family back, It's not easy.

However, even if only 20 percent of the population intends to return, it is nearly 600,000 people.

The two major fleets of the Navy were ordered to mobilize 5,000 large and small ships to transport, and the entire South China Sea was full of Ming ships transporting returning immigrants.

"Maiga, God, are those the fleets of the Ming Dynasty, they are too huge!" A number of European fleets, also sailing in the South Seas, exclaimed.

With 5,000 ships capable of sailing on the sea, and more than 200 warships escorting them, its enormity and shock can be imagined.

"Where did they come from, and where are they going?" The Portuguese captain on a Portuguese ship said strangely.

Merchant ships from all over the world, including Spain, Portugal, France, England, the Netherlands, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Among them, the only ones who knew where these Ming ships came out and what they were going to do were the Dutch.

A Dutch merchant ship.

"Damn it, these Ming bandits, they robbed our great Dutch Indonesia, these people are all coming back from Indonesia." The captain of this Dutch merchant ship was both the leader of the caravan and a viscount commander of a Dutch fleet, commanding several Dutch warships.

After the naval war between the Ming Dynasty and the Dutch, the Indonesian archipelago and the Strait of Malacca were captured from the hands of the Dutch.

Originally, the Dutch were not only able to plunder a lot of goods and colonies from the Indonesian archipelago, but also collect taxes on ships passing through the Strait of Malacca, and there were a large amount of inputs every year, but since the Indonesian Islands and the Strait of Malacca were occupied by the Ming Dynasty, these inputs became the Ming Dynasty.

The most unbearable thing for the Dutch is that the Ming Dynasty conquered the Indonesian Islands, not for colonization, and not only to plunder the resources above, the Ming Dynasty completely incorporated the Indonesian Islands into the Ming Dynasty, set up county officials on it, set up garrisons, and immigrated nearly three million, so in the past few years, it is almost completely evolved into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"Those should have been the places of our great Netherlands, or it won't be long before our great Netherlands will be recaptured, and at that time, the Ming immigrants above must all be driven into the sea to feed the sharks!" The Dutch Viscount said viciously.

In recent years, the Netherlands has fought with France and England, and has no time to take care of the Far East, and now the Netherlands has signed a peace treaty with England and France, not only supporting the Netherlands to recapture the Indonesian Islands and the Strait of Malacca from the Ming Dynasty, but also faintly preparing to unite with the Netherlands to deal with the Ming Dynasty together.

Although the Ming Dynasty has stopped manufacturing wooden warships in recent years, the two fleets together also have 260 warships, of which ninety percent are Shenwei-class warships with strong combat effectiveness, and their naval power is all over the East China Sea and the South Sea, and from time to time from the Strait of Malacca out of the Indian Ocean, so that European countries feel an unprecedented threat.

Due to the strength of the Ming Navy, whether it is the Dutch fleet or the fleets of other European countries such as England, they dare not pass through the Strait of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, but turn around and pass through the edge of Oceania, which is unimaginable for European countries that have always been conceited.

What worries them even more is that they are afraid that the Ming fleet will come out and compete with them for colonies all over the world.

Therefore, they dreamed of destroying the Ming Fleet, defeating the Ming Fleet, and at the worst, blocking the Ming Fleet in the South Sea.

The ideas of European countries, Daming does not know for the time being, at present, solving the problem of resettlement of returning migrants is the main thing of Daming at present.

Nearly 600,000 returning immigrants, whether it is land or houses, need a lot, fortunately, the Ming court has been prepared and has reserved a large amount of wasteland, which will be distributed to these returning immigrants for planting.

Most returnees choose their original hometowns.

As the first batch of immigrants set foot on the Central Plains from Quanzhou, some people in Quanzhou got the news in advance and watched here curiously.

The people of Quanzhou did not seem to be surprised to see the huge fleet of ships, but the people who got off the ships made their eyes widen.

I saw the returning immigrants who got off the ship, one by one wearing silk and silver, dressed quite gorgeously, it seemed that the wealthy businessmen who had come back from doing business somewhere, no one could think that many of them were refugees from the north who had fled the war.

At the beginning, the Ming Dynasty did not have the Northern Expedition to recover the north, and many people who immigrated to Indonesia were refugees from the north.

With the return of immigrants each returned to their original hometowns, each province has a group, these people are almost the best propagandists, in Indonesia for six years, blood and sweat, just to return to their hometown, one by one back to their hometowns, squandering money, the last return of immigrants have brought back more than 100,000 silver dollars of property, equivalent to the original 1,000 taels of silver, you know, a family of five, if only simple food, a year can not use 1,000 silver dollars, and now 100,000 silver dollars, It's almost equivalent to a family of five living without doing things for a lifetime.

100,000 silver dollars is still the second person, the most powerful person plus a little business in Indonesia, someone brought back more than a million silver dollars.

If only some people are like this, but almost all the immigrants who return are like this, and Daming Daily is also consciously fueling the fire, it seems that immigrants can become local tyrants after a few years of hard work, and this idea has become the consensus of many Daming people.

The Ming Dynasty currently has a population of 158 million, growing at a rate of millions or tens of millions every year, and the resources of the Central Plains are limited, and people who want to get rich have their eyes on immigration.

A round of immigration fever was set off in the Ming Dynasty, and many immigration projects in Zhungeer and Tibetan areas, even if the imperial court began to offer preferential conditions, only a very small number of people signed up, but now, a large number of people poured into the yamen, and there was a long queue in the place where the immigrants signed up.

With the active immigration of a large number of local people of the Ming Dynasty, the progress of the assimilation and transformation of the Ming Dynasty to the Tibetan areas and Junggar has been greatly enhanced.