The Protector did what he said, and the next day he began to renovate the gas street lamps in Yujie......

"Isn't this new?"

Tang Wang said suspiciously.

"It is said that Her Majesty the Empress thought that it was still not bright enough at night, so that in the summer the people ran to the square of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, and not many people came to the royal street to enjoy the coolness, so she doubled the street lamps in order to attract the people."

Xia Wanchun, who was accompanying him, said with a smile.

At this time, as the first batch of graduates who took the initiative to apply for the military academy, Xia Wanchun had already graduated and was assigned to the staff headquarters. As for the king of Tang, he was ordered to enter Beijing, he recovered after a month after the end of the escort, and was still thrown to Yunnan by Yang Qing to become the capital of Kunming. However, it is no longer the commander of the light pole, and a mountain army of the army was transferred to Yunnan, after all, at this time, the Ming army was overpowered, especially after the settlement of the Gui Domain, two new mountain armies were added. The Protector finally remembered Yunnan, a province that had always been guarded by militia troops, and of course, the main reason was that it was time to expand to the south. Especially in Burma, which still has no vassals, it is necessary to teach them a lesson about the majesty of the Celestial Empire......

Of course, the most important thing is that the treasure well of Mogu must be snatched back and controlled.

"It's a waste!"

Tang Wang looked at the workers who were removing the old street lights and installing new ones.

It's clear that his mind is too old.

How did he know that it was necessary to change the street lamp over and over again in municipal construction, and there was never a concept of waste in the mind of the protector who was well versed in modern routines, not to mention that this street lamp still had a special purpose.

The original gas street lamps were a small pavilion on top of a pillar, surrounded by glass inlays, which obviously did not meet the needs of the protectors, while the new street lamps all extended a long arm outward, and the cast iron was empty inside, which was used to transport coke oven gas from the coking plants outside the city. Nowadays, with the continuous expansion of the scale of the coking plant, the gas lighting is also becoming more and more popular in the city, and the use of the purification plant has solved some of the previous minor problems. Even small retorts dedicated to gas lighting have been put into production, and while it is still not possible to use it for home lighting, some small cities and large factories have enough lighting. After all, not all small counties have a huge coking plant next to them, and these small counties also need night lighting, this small retort can solve the problem, and then the Protector will force all counties near water transportation or coal mines to install street lights.

Don't underestimate this.

"In fact, it can't be said to be wasteful, these gas street lamps benefit the people of the city, if Kuang Heng was born in Daming, he wouldn't have to dig the wall to steal the light."

Xia Wanchun said with a smile.

This is the biggest use of street lights at present.

To provide night lighting for those poor people who still can't afford lamp oil, after all, the vast majority of poor people in the Ming Dynasty still can't afford lamp oil, and even after 300 years in history, kerosene in this land has not been popularized to everyone.

Not to mention this era.

But reading and studying in the evening is just as important.

The children of the rich families can study from dark until midnight in the light of whale oil lamps or even whale candles, while the poor cannot study anymore when it is dark when they cannot afford lamp oil. After a long time, the gap between the two sides immediately appeared, and these street lamps were very important to them, like these street lamps on the royal street, there were often people reading books in the middle of the night. In the final analysis, after entering the period of peace, reading has become the main channel for the bottom to rise, and at this point, it is necessary to try to ensure fairness......

It can only be as much as possible.

After all, there will still be a gap between rich and poor people.

Yang Qing is also helpless at this point.

Tang Wang nodded, did not continue to discuss this issue, but with Xia Wanchun, walked towards the Chengtian Gate in front, and before he reached the Wulong Bridge, he saw He Tengjiao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, with a small black charcoal wearing a county dynasty uniform, walked out of the Chengtian Gate and boarded the carriage waiting outside.

"King of the Ryukyus."

Xia Wanchun explained.

"He came to meet the empress and offer several small islands near the Ryukyus to make up for the prince's 100-day congratulatory gifts."

He went on to say.

So far, Yang Qing has received several vassal land offerings for his son, the largest one is naturally the Jingjiang Domain, followed by the Korean Domain, and the rest of the Annam Domain has also happily handed over the enclave and Mong Cai. Anyway, the Zheng family didn't dare to provoke Yang Qing, the latter had too many means to manipulate the Zheng family, and there was a rival in the north and south of their family, and one of the two rivals was theoretically directly subordinate to the Ming Dynasty, and the Mo family's Annan was all under the Ming Dynasty. The Ruan family has actually been a vassal to the Ming Dynasty, but at present, the Ming Dynasty still recognizes the Li family's King of Annam, and Zheng Jie's puppet Li Weiqi is still the King of Annam, so the Ruan family of the Ruan family has contributed a lot to the Ming Dynasty and was happily crowned the Duke of Quang Nam County by Her Majesty the Empress......

He originally called himself the Duke of Yangjun.

It's just that he used to be the self-proclaimed Yang County Duke of the Annan Domain, but which one is useless in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Weiqi is not qualified to be knighted, it doesn't matter if they call this internally, but it is impossible to get the official Ming Dynasty. The official Ruan family was still a vassal of the Ming Annam Domain, and now after being knighted by the empress, Nguyen Phuc became the second official Ming official knighthood in Annam.

Second only to Li Weiqi.

Simply Zheng Jie, when he saw Ruan Phuc Wei, he had to salute, because Zheng Jie was theoretically just a retainer of Li Weiqi.

Of course, when they do meet, they will shoot each other with guns.

But in any case, the Ruan family and the Mo family, the two hungry wolves in the south and the north, have already given Yang Qing a dead eye on the Zheng family, and the result of the latter's disobedience is either the Ruan family going north or the Mo family going south, or the two families landing on the flank together with the Ming army, in this case, of course, Zheng Ji will not be entangled in the land of a county.

And it's very remote.

As the closest vassal to the Ming Dynasty, they also knew the strength of the Ming Dynasty at this time, not to mention that those battleships that cruised the Beibu Gulf all the year round were enough to make them sober.

In addition, the king of Champa also offered ......

Well, at this time, there is also Champa, although under the bullying of the Ruan family, there is only a small piece left, and it was also reduced to a vassal of the Ruan family before, but after all, it is also a small force, in line with the principle of dividing these guys as much as possible, the Protector Gong continued to recognize Champa and named him the king of Champa County. And this time, in order to show loyalty to the Ming Dynasty who protected him, the king of Champa County offered the Cam Ranh Peninsula to the empress and the Ming Navy to rent Lan Bay. As a result, Yang Qing gained another colony on the Indochina Peninsula, and it was also the world's best deep-water port and naval base.

Similarly, the Phnom Penh dynasty of Chenla also happily offered Saigon.

There was no city at this time.

Modern Saigon is the result of Chen Shangchuan and others, the lonely ministers of the Ming Dynasty who failed to resist the Qing Dynasty, and after attaching themselves to the Ruan family, they partnered with the Ruan family to open up, and then the Ruan family got the right to rule, and Chen Shangchuan and others got the place of residence, but they did not claim to the Ruan family, but continued to live there as Ming people.

That is, the Minh Thanh people of Vietnam.

But now it's just a swampy delta out of the Mekong River.

Worthless for the Phnom Penh dynasty.

Originally, the competition between them and the Nguyen family on this land was not fierce in history, the core of the Phnom Penh Dynasty was around Dong Sari Lake in Cambodia, and although the Mekong Delta was also somewhat populated, the Phnom Penh Dynasty was the same as the brain-dead before, allowing refugees from the north to escape the battle of Nguyen Trần to live in this area. Needless to say, the result of the overflow of the heart of the Virgin Mary is needless to say, the original few Khmers are under the impact of the Vietnamese, and they are now completely uncontrollable, since Yang Qing wants it, then give it to him as soon as possible. Anyway, not the entire Mekong Delta is given, or with Saigon or the current name Puliango as the center, almost a thousand square kilometers of land, and then Yang Qing is going to plant rubber there.

This area is the core rubber producing area of modern Vietnam.

In this way, Indochina had three colonies.

The previous Ha Immortal has been forcibly bought back from the Jinla Company by the imperial court, and has become a direct subordinate territory of the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, similar to Jeju Island, and the same is true of the newly acquired ones, after all, the people are dedicated to the crown prince, not to the imperial court. Since this is of course the direct territory of the empress, and the future will also be directly under the royal family, it is said that the prince who is still breastfeeding is already expanding the territory for the Ming Dynasty in this way.

And the king of the Ryukyus also happily offered his earth.

He is actually the most refreshing, because there is no shortage of uninhabited desert islands in the Ryukyus, and at this time, the control area of the Ryukyu Kingdom has been as far as the Yaeyama Islands, that is, small islands such as Yonaguni Island to the east of Taiwan Island. Therefore, the king of the Ryukyus presented to the Ming Dynasty, that is, these small islands for him, except for the occasional tribute from the local chieftains, had no actual rule at all. His rule over these small islands is similar to the rule of the Ming Dynasty over him, that is, he is just a tribute, and the real actual rule of the Ryukyus is the Ryukyu Island.

It wasn't really useful to Yang Qing either.

He even Hualien is just a penal colony for the Confucians, and the small islands to the west of Hualien are even less likely to have any problems with development, and Hualien does not need these small islands as anchorages.

But if you give it, you have to be!

This is also a piece of loyalty of the King of the Ryukyus, and it is said that the King of the Ryukyus even took the Ming Navy cruiser to meet Her Majesty the Empress in person for this reason, but he can't chill the heart of such a loyal minister. In order not to hurt the loyalty of the Ryukyu king, the Protector reluctantly accepted the Yaeyama Islands on behalf of the empress and his son. And also on behalf of the empress and his son, he gave back some generous gifts to the king of the Ryukyus, which is nothing more than a clock, mirror, white rabbit, toffee, etc., which is the standard configuration for returning gifts to the subject country, plus a royal pen of Her Majesty the Empress......

"I'm really coming to the Ming Dynasty!"

King Tang looked at the King of Ryukyu who left in an open-top carriage and sighed.

The latter bowed his head to him.

However, the king of Tang was wearing a military uniform, so the king of Ryukyu did not know him, and then the king of Ryukyu, who was actually lower than him, wore a red dragon robe, wore a black gauze winged crown on his head, and held the empress's imperial pen in his arms, and drove to the right Chang'an Gate with satisfaction......