Ava's victory didn't attract any attention at all in Daming, and he didn't even qualify for making headlines......

Who cares about that!

In this year, the Ming army was qualified to make headlines only after defeating the battle, and winning the battle was not worth mentioning at all, and it was not worth mentioning killing 100,000 enemies, that is, the price of jewelry on the market plummeted, and everyone knew that this meant that Mogu Baojing fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. This legendary gem pit is just two hundred miles north of Ava, and it goes without saying that ruby production will skyrocket in the future......

"A gemstone is eternal, a gemstone lasts forever!"

Yang Qing pinched a ruby and read the advertising slogan with emotion.

Yuanyuan humbly asks for advice.

"Control the production, you know, it's essentially a stone, it's worth nothing but to look good on it, it's worth just because it's too little. If we produce 100,000 taels of gems a year and make it 10,000 yuan, then 10,000 taels a year will not give us 10,000 yuan, and it may not even be 1 million. Its value only lies in its scarcity, so we must control the number of products put on the market each year, and even if more and better ones are dug up, they must be locked up and auctioned off once in a while. And we can't take out the best, the best has to be given to the Empress, and Her Majesty can wear it on her body, and then we have to make up some legends for it. In addition, we also have to develop a rating system, what kind of gems are the best, what is good, this is all up to us, and each gemstone is engraved with a certificate of the grade we evaluated. In the future, if there is no ruby with the certificate we give, it is not a gemstone, a worthless mess of stones, yes and no, all of them are worthless. ”

Yang Qing said.

"You're so cunning!"

Yuan Yuan said as he snatched the ruby.

Of course, this is just a trifle that is not worth mentioning.

The most important thing in the conquest of Burma was not the Mogok ruby and the northern Burmese emerald, it was only a bait to attract those generals to fight hard, and the real most valuable thing was to give the southwestern provinces the nearest access to the sea.

This is the most important thing.

The goods of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan can go directly to the sea through the Irrawaddy River, so as to shorten the transportation distance of more than 10,000 li, and at the same time balance the seriously unbalanced economy of the east and west of the Ming Dynasty, but only if the real conquest of Burma is completed. In addition, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has to be built, and the current road cannot transport too many materials, plus the port of Yangon, which must become the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or at least a leased land.

So the war has to go on.

If you don't fight to Donghu, I'm afraid that the people of Donghu will not give in, but fortunately, it is only a matter of time, and the next thing that needs to be done is that the Ming army will fight to Donghu to force the Burmese to submit, and then restore the major Tusi of the year. However, the Tusi is not suitable, and these Tusi should be knighted, for example, Mengmi Tusi is a marquis, Mengyang Tusi is a marquis, as for the fief, of course, it is their own territory, Daming only needs to obtain important transportation hubs, and then give them the right to guard the town of their original jurisdiction. Let them send their children and grandchildren to live in the Ming Dynasty as officials, and then together with the Ming merchants who poured into their territory, they did their best to squeeze their subjects to maintain the luxurious life of their children and grandchildren in the Ming Dynasty.

Prosper the Ming economy.

As for the natives of their earth, this one is enough to be a cow and a horse.

In the end, the Taungoo Dynasty was left with territory in the lower reaches of the Irrawaddy River, and they were given the title of King of Burma, as a vassal state similar to Korea in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

What's so bad about being a vassal state for the Ming Dynasty?

The king of Joseon was satisfied.

It is nothing more than the control of the economy, military and diplomacy by the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty enjoy extraterritoriality within their borders, and occasionally cut a few pieces of land to the empress to show their loyalty, and the king of Korea now no longer even mints his own coins, and the coins of the Ming Dynasty are completely circulated in the territory. But these in exchange for the rest assured and bold drunken dream of death, who dares to invade has the Ming to support them, and who dares to rebel in the country also has the Ming to solve them. In short, as long as you are obedient, you can die of drunken dreams for generations, and the upper-class nobles can also send their children and grandchildren to the Ming Dynasty, and they will be truly included in the Ming nationality and become the people of the Ming Dynasty.

All that remains is to confidently and boldly squeeze your own subjects, and then maintain the status quo.

Isn't this the ideal of a monarch?

Isn't being a monarch just so that he and his children and grandchildren can be assured of being drunk and dreaming of death? Worked hard in the past, to put it bluntly, just to have this day? Now Her Majesty the Empress of the Ming Dynasty can give them it, they can live like this, is it still necessary to work hard?

Everything has been solved for them!

The Protector of the Kingdom can be said to have good intentions for them to be able to live a drunken life and dream of death! But even so, these rotten monarchs still can't understand his good intentions, and they have to fight with the Ming Dynasty, the king of Donghu, the king of Nanzhang, and the king of Johor all have to resist stubbornly. The Ming soldiers had to travel thousands of miles to use guns to make them understand, I have to say that these barbarians are barbarians, and their minds are not flexible at all, that is, they are not as sensible as the king of Korea and the king of Annam, who were educated by Confucianism......

The latter is also very sensible.

Whether it is the Zheng family, the Ruan family, or the Mo family, they all show a very high level of consciousness.

Especially the Zheng family.

In order to transport military supplies to the Ming Dynasty, the Zheng family forcibly recruited 200,000 people and boatmen, and sent a steady stream of ammunition to the front line along the Li Xianjiang River under the supervision of the Ming army. However, their loyalty was also rewarded, and the Zheng family even received a royal pen from Her Majesty the Empress, and it was a rare honor to write to the public and the country.

It is said that in the face of the Ming Dynasty, these monarchs in the Confucian circle have behaved very smartly.

Even the Wa Kingdom performed very well.

Over the years, the Tokugawa family and the daimyo of various places did their best to meet the needs of the Ming military and civilian ships that passed through the Wa Kingdom to the north and then turned east to the Americas and Hawaii, and what grain, meat, fruits, and all the food they could find were sent to several open ports. Countless prostitutes worked hard in these ports to serve the passing Ming people, and then exchanged them for dragon dollar bills, and then used the dragon dollar bills to import various goods from the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the prosperity of the Wa Kingdom has been obvious to all......

And, of course, the slave trade.

Those samurai who have lost their way to make a fortune because there is no war are about to sell out of the Wa Kingdom's Shita, after all, the people of Wamachi can't just catch and sell it, but they can catch it casually.

However, there are more and more cases of kidnapping and smuggling to slave traders, and it is also inevitable, and those samurai who have made a fortune by selling slaves have nothing to catch, and of course they have to extend their black hands to the Japanese townspeople. At present, there are people in the Wa Kingdom, and selling a few million can be regarded as relieving the pressure on the population, and even the Tokugawa family and the daimyo acquiesce to this kind of thing, after all, this can prevent the samurai from having different intentions due to lack of money. But the unfortunate people at the bottom of the Wa Kingdom have no one to take care of, and on the one hand, they have to face the fact that the merchants are constantly pumping out the people's grain in order to supply the passing Ming merchant ships. On the one hand, they have to face the greed of the samurai, who may break into the house at any time, tie up their whole family, and then sell them to slave traders to send them to Daming for surgery.

The poor people of the Japanese country are in complete dire straits.

In short, for them......

Heaven is too far away, Daming is too close!

But they are still the best small countries in the current Ming military force coverage, and those who resist the Ming will all have to face the Ming army that expands outward like a flood after the end of the civil war. Because of the commissioning of the new steelmaking furnace, this huge army is completing the full-flintlock pistol at a very fast speed, and it has begun to expand unstoppably in all directions, east, west, north and south, crushing all enemies who dare to challenge the majesty of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty.

The resistance is a dead end.

"Why don't they understand my kindness? I'm doing it for their good! ”

Yang Qing said with emotion.

The round face next to him was speechless.

Obviously, she also felt that Yang Qing's words were too shameless.

And at this time, another little monarch who couldn't understand Yang Qing's kindness had already turned into a dead corpse lying in the mud on the coast.

Sumatra.

"Their gods are useless!"

Ruan Jin, the commander of the First Army of the Daming Marine Corps, kicked the dead body under his feet with mud-stained canvas boots, and then said with a look of contempt.

"This is also the king of a country, cut off his head and go back, maybe he can get an earl!"

Zhou Rui, the deputy commander next to him, said with a smile.

"Such a king of a country? It's not shameful enough to bring it back, so don't make a joke, who doesn't know what kind of Langkat Sultan this thing is? If you really take a head like this and go back to ask for credit, and then let those newspapers expose the truth, you will not be able to see people in the future. ”

Ruan Jin said.

At this time, they were standing on the land that Yang Qing wanted most, forty kilometers northwest of modern Medan, and this land belonged to the one at their feet, that is, the Sultan of Langqat. It's just that this Sultan doesn't even have a decent city, to be precise, he is not even as good as the great names of the Wa Kingdom, and his Sultanate is just a small town on the coast, plus some small villages scattered nearby. You must know that from here to the coast of two hundred kilometers to the south, belong to the four sultans, Langkat, Deli, Sendeng, and Asahan, each of whom rules over a population of 10,000 and can piece together a thousand men who can fight......

Then they welcomed the conquerors of half an army of the Ming Marines.

It's all about being crushed.

There wasn't even a real fight, it was almost a tiger walking up to the Chihuahua and casually slapping it aside.

The latter flew out and became a dead dog.

Before that, the First Marine Army of the Ming Dynasty and the Nanyang Naval Division had completely conquered the Sultanate of Johor, and only the Sultan of Johor fled, which should have fled into the city of Malacca, but the Dutch did not admit it, and whether to attack Malacca next, this had to wait for the order of the Protector. After all, the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands are still friendly trading partners, whether to take advantage of their fierce war with the British and then fall into the ground, or to maintain the strength of the Netherlands and let them continue to fight with the British, this depends on how the protector of the country chooses.

But the Ming army was fine in Nanyang.

The new King of Johor has been canonized, and a brother of the Sultan of Johor has been given the Golden Seal of the King of Johor at the cost of abandoning heresy and worshipping Lord Haotian.

Of course, he had to sacrifice his earth.

In fact, he donated a lot of land, not only the Longyamen that the Ming army wanted at the beginning, but also the future tin mines, but also all the land in Sumatra, which was also under the rule of the Sultan of Johor, after all, there were a lot of oil fields, and the protector did not know the exact location.

In short, the king of Johor gave everything that should be offered.

Then he could send his son to the southern capital, just like the king of Joseon, and die of a drunken dream under the protection of the Ming army.

Then the idle and bored marines came by the way to take over this land named by the Protector, it was really by the way, there were no enemies here who could be regarded as opponents, and there were even headhunters in the jungle. There was originally a Hindu kingdom of Aru in this area, but it was destroyed by the Sultanate of Aceh in the last century, and eventually the remnants of the Aru kingdom became small lords after converting, and this kind of destruction was exalted by the word conquest.

While they were talking, an officer rode up quickly.

"Two generals, found it!"

He said excitedly.

"Let's go, let's see!"

Zhou Rui immediately came to his senses.

He and Nguyen Jin quickly mounted their horses and followed the officer on a wild run, and a few minutes later they stopped at the edge of a foul-smelling black pond where a large number of soldiers were gathering, one soldier still stirring in the pond with a stick, and then carrying it out to let the black crude oil drip down.

Ruan Jin and the two of them quickly dismounted and walked over in a salute.

Nguyen Jin snatched his stick.

Zhou Rui immediately took out a match and rowed over, and at the moment the flame touched, the flames quickly expanded and wrapped the wooden sticks, and those soldiers found wooden sticks dipped in crude oil and ignited them, watching the flames burn in their hands with great interest. And in this black pond in front of them, black springs are constantly bubbling up......

"This is the future!"

Zhou Rui said with emotion.

Of course, he meant the future of their family.

Yang Qing fully fulfilled his pre-war promise in Nanyang, and the economic lifelines of these colonies were divided among mining companies and trading companies, and even the cultivable land was divided among the generals of the various armies. And oil is the most important component of this, and even these generals already know that the Protector Guild will completely replace lamp oil with kerosene in the next twenty years. This alone means that these generals who have obtained shares in oil companies can enjoy wealth for future generations, and the stinking black pond in front of him is burning with choking black smoke, which is the future of his family.

"Leave and send a communication ship to Qiongzhou, report to the Protector, and say that the oil field has been found!"

Ruan Jin next to him also suppressed his excitement and said.