Chapter 866: Exotic Prestige
Huang Han is not only strengthening the training of troops and horses and operating a new line of defense, but also actively laying out the coastal areas.
It has been three months since Huang Yong went to sea again to run the South Seas, and this time it should be the merchant ships and some of the warships that came back first, and he will lead 18 warships and two battalions of marines to assist Zheng Zhilong in grabbing territory in the Strait of Malacca.
Liu Xiang spent money at the beginning of the year to buy eleven warships, all of which were the "old lock boat" type of warships that Longwu Sailor was going to be replaced with a "flying scissors" plus a propeller-driven ship type, and was ready to be eliminated.
With these "old lock boats" type warships with wheeled oars, Liu Xiang's strength at sea has greatly increased, and the Galen ships, which could not catch up with before, are now being targeted and basically unable to escape, and the robbery efficiency is very high.
Liu Xiang realized the strength of the "Red Banner Army", saw with his own eyes that the larger, faster, and more powerful warships of the Longwu Naval Division were increasing day by day, and understood that only by clinging to the thigh of the "King of Hanjiang County" could he be able to mix well.
He heeded Huang Yong's advice and has been encroaching on the main island of Little Luzon, and now he has won 7,000 or 8,000 square kilometers of territory, and a fort with a circumference of six miles is in full swing 50 nautical miles from the northern tip of Little Luzon.
Named "Loyal Hamburg" by Liu Xiang, this port city was built on the west coast of the main island of Little Luzon, about 400 nautical miles south of Manila.
The Spanish colonizers' main area of activity was around Manila, and even if they wanted to completely eat the whole of Little Luzon, they were unable to do so, because the population was their shortcoming.
The southern part of Manila had always been the sphere of influence of the Sulu Kingdom, which had been waging guerrilla warfare against the Spaniards for sixty or seventy years.
However, there were no large-scale tribes in the tropical jungle north of the main island of Little Luzon, which was about the same as a terra nullius, and Liu Xiang brought tens of thousands of people, and a few thousand pirate armies stabilized the situation.
The Spaniards named Little Luzon after their king, Philip II, and of course it was not recognized by the Ming Dynasty, let alone by the Huang Han.
Moreover, they slaughtered tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Han Chinese living in Little Luzon twice around the Wanli year, and this revenge is not a gentleman
The Han Chinese were so tame that the ferocious Spaniards actually went on a killing spree, which shows how many natives and tribes they killed during the colonization of Little Luzon.
In the twelfth year of Chongzhen's reign in history, the Spaniards once again collectively slaughtered Han merchants and expatriates, which was due to the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty and the large number of people who ventured to the sea to seek a living, and there were more than 100,000 Han people living in Little Luzon.
It is now the eleventh year of Chongzhen, but now it is not what it used to be, the foreign dragon warrior has dominated the South China Sea, and the Spaniards are trembling, lest they offend the Ming Dynasty and cause a catastrophe.
Lend them the courage of the tiger, and the Spanish governor of Manila did not dare to give the order to raise a butcher's knife against the Han Chinese.
Liu Xiang received the support of the Longwu Naval Division to build a large castle in the north more than 800 miles away from Manila by land, and the Spaniards could only choose to wait and see when they got the news, and they were really unable to go on an expedition.
It is not surprising that the total number of Spaniards colonized in Little Luzon did not exceed 10,000, and the number of young men was only about 3,000.
What if the Spanish governor did not choose to swallow his anger
They could only pray that the Han people living near Manila would not revolt to overthrow the colonial rule, and for this reason they reduced their taxes to show favor to the Han Chinese.
The area to be conquered by the "Red Banner Army" is large, there are many enemies, of course you can't do it by eating fat in one bite, take your time, the little Luzon Han people are worth having, but they don't fight for the day.
Development is the last word, and only with a strong motherland can we have enough right to speak, and only when we have a strong motherland can we be respected, and only when we look at where to colonize can we be stable and accurate
Today, the population of "Tiger's Nest City" is as high as more than 400,000, and Tianjin Wei and Hancheng are already prosperous cities with a population of more than 300,000.
Qingniwakou has become the base camp of the Longwu Naval Division, the location of the Naval Academy, the sailor training base, and the location of a large shipyard that ranks second only to "Tiger's Den City" and mainly builds warships.
Dengzhou has also returned to the state it was in before Kong Youde's rebellion, and Nantong Prefecture is already one of the largest supply areas, not only for ship maintenance and repair services, but also for the construction of inland warships and maritime merchant ships in the dockyards.
Nowadays, the coastal cities under vigorous development include Jiaoao, Haizhou, Wusongkou, Zhoushan, Taiping, Kinmen, Hong Kong and Qiongzhou Port.
The coastal area of the Ming Dynasty was very different from that of later generations, because the Japanese rebellion accompanied almost the entire Ming Dynasty period, so the coastal area was in a depression.
The supply base needs supporting docks, ports, grain depots, logistics and warehousing, a large number of blacksmiths, carpenters, plasterers, painters, etc., as well as many factories and workshops.
Huang Han, who came from later generations, certainly understood the development potential of port cities, and under the impetus of the capital of the "Red Flag Army", driven by the large project of "supply base" of government projects, and in the case of a large influx of capital and population from the mainland.
Jiaoao, Haizhou, Zhoushan, Qiongzhou and other regions have ushered in the opportunity of great development, and I believe that within three years, there will be prosperity.
"No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education." Education and personnel training are so important, and the "Red Banner Army" system is not poor at all.
Huang Han will increase investment in education every year, and the six-year compulsory education of three years of primary school and three years of junior high school is fully covered in the "Red Flag Army" system, and the three-year high school, two-year junior college, and three-year undergraduate university have formed a scale.
The official language teaching of the "Red Flag Army" has been popularized, and almost every household in the "Chongzhen Dictionary" system is necessary.
The "Hangang University" located on Ganghwa Island in Seoul, the "Hanhua University" and the "Army Academy" in Huxue City, the "Jinmen University" in Tianjinwei, and the "Sailor College" in Qingniwakou have 30,000 students, of which less than 2,000 are women.
The influence of the feudal dynasty that has discriminated against and suppressed women for thousands of years cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, and the liberation of the little feet may not necessarily liberate the minds of all sentient beings.
Although the imposition of six years of compulsory education covers girls, it is unlikely that they will all be supported by their families to attend self-financed upper secondary schools, so the proportion of women who can go to university is even lower.
In order to give the grassroots people a way out, when Huang Han vigorously ran the school, he strictly stipulated the system of going on to higher education, and the principle of merit-based admission was the acceptance of special students, and the acceptance of special students must be jointly reviewed by Xu Guangqi or Wang Zheng and other chief officials, and it was a one-vote veto system.
The children of martyrs will receive extra points, and the extra points cannot exceed 5% of the total score, and they are based on the total score of the candidate, which means that the better the test, the more the score will be added.
There is no preferential treatment for military dependents and different names, and the territory of the "Red Banner Army" is not large enough to have a huge regional difference, so the enrollment policy of the same score line is currently implemented.
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