Chapter 272: The Expansion of the Great Ming
In recent years, with the private exchanges with the Australians, the economy of Liangguang has been greatly developed, I have to say that this is a miracle in Daming, with the current situation in Daming, Liangguang can maintain stability, the people have clothes to wear, there is food, it is not easy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
A lot of the credit for this is actually due to Shen Youlong, without his support, these trade exchanges would certainly not be well implemented and promoted, such as Australians signing grain planting agreements with local large households, such as joint workshops.
The landlords and merchants made a lot of money from the workshops and grain harvests, so they were relatively friendly and welcoming to Australians, but as the influx of refugees into the counties of Liangguang and Guangzhou increased, they saw the crisis.
One is a sense that a catastrophe is coming, and this feeling is not small at all, and with the influx of refugees, there are more and more thefts, and other types of crime are also increasing, which makes them not so welcoming to refugees.
Not to mention that ordinary people are not welcome, even the government is not welcome, even if these people can get an immigration fund by sending these people to Australians, but the key is that many people do not really want to leave, which invisibly causes them a lot of pressure.
With so many people, it must be very difficult to solve the problem for them at once, especially the problem of eating. Although Liangguang has some surplus money in the past two years, it can't withstand this toss, so in the end, it is mandatory to send these people to Australia.
Whether they want to go or not, they must be sent over, which can reduce a lot of pressure on the government, but it is inevitable that some unpleasant events will occur on the way, after all, they don't want to go, there will definitely be people who resist, in this case, it can only be forced to be rough with them.
In the past few years, Liangguang has been very good in treating the inevitable, in addition to distributing food, some people have also been arranged to some wild places to open up wasteland, here I have to mention one thing that Shen Youlong did.
Because the land in Liangguang is limited after all, Zhou Yang proposed to Shen Youlong in a conversation that this Annan originally belonged to the Central Plains, but later took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to be able to establish itself as a country, and this time is a good time.
Originally, Shen Youlong was still a little hesitant, after all, Annan was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and it would be morally unjustifiable to occupy their land.
Zhou Yang explained, let's annex inch by inch, and now let some refugees in the border areas go to reclaim the wasteland, and then slowly infiltrate, of course, the officials and the army must also accompany them, after all, we must ensure the safety of the people.
In fact, the ancient borders were not clearly defined, and even if the Annamite people found out that something was wrong, they couldn't do anything, not to mention that there was an army to protect them, and the Annamite people didn't dare to say anything.
It is in this way that Shen Youlong has reclaimed a large area of land at the junction of Liangguang and Annan to grow food, and because the land here is fertile and the climate is suitable for growing rice, Shen Youlong also deliberately encouraged some refugees to go.
I have to say that this is absolutely impossible to happen in the original history, in history the Ming Dynasty also recovered Annam, but because of the tight finances, so finally gave up, but now with the Australian method is really good, to solve the problem of refugees in the two vast parts.
It's just that the current domestic situation in Annan is also unstable, and there are many Ming people living there in the towns close to the Ming Dynasty, and the exchanges between the two places are also very frequent, so they naturally chose to acquiesce.
This acquiescence to Shen Youlong's promotion plan has a great effect, as long as the other party has no objection, then Shen Youlong will continue to advance, and Zhou Yang has acted as his main think tank in this.
Zhou Yang told him not to look at the Portuguese in Macau, but the people actually occupied a large piece of land, and they used colonies all over the world, and the combined territory was larger than that of the Ming Dynasty, and they relied on this method to expand.
The Dutch after him also expanded in this way, and finally ascended to the position of overlord, the Ming Dynasty put the land in front of him and did not want it, isn't it stupid, not to mention that it is a special period now, the court was overwhelmed by the peasant army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was not much time to manage the south, which gave Shen Youlong a lot of autonomy.
If Shen Youlong has the intention of becoming the king of his own self, Australia will definitely support it, after all, it is much better to support a person with the same political views as himself than to ask for those with different political views from himself.
It's just that Shen Youlong is interested in expansion, but he really doesn't have this kind of idea about becoming a king, maybe the Annan devouring plan is mainly to solve the refugee problem.
After all, Australians can immigrate a lot of refugees, but there are also many people who don't want to go, so it always needs to be arranged, otherwise it will definitely be bad to stay here.
Located in the Governor's Palace in Hong Kong, Yang Yuzhou took a secret letter and handed it to Zhou Yang, which had just been received and sent from Liangguang.
There have always been secret correspondence between Shen Youlong and Zhou Yang, and some issues between the two sides communicated by writing letters are no longer a secret matter for Yang Yuzhou, so they should discuss the refugee issue at this time.
Now there are more and more people, if there are too many immigrants in the direction of Annan, it may cause some opposition, and there may be war, but there can be no war at this time, this is Shen Youlong's idea.
It doesn't matter if you immigrate to Annan, but you still have to take precautions, you can let Shen Youlong pay attention to the movements over there, after all, Annan's current domestic turmoil is also a good opportunity for Daming.
After reading the letter, Zhou Yang gave his own comments.
To continue to devour Annan, this plan has been approved by the Executive Committee, after all, in the future, the Southern Ming Dynasty must also have a certain strategic depth, once Nanjing is lost, it will definitely retreat in the direction of Liangguang, this retreat so many people, it is impossible to squeeze in such a small piece of land in Liangguang, with Annan Southeast Asia generation is different.
It is equivalent to the strategic depth of the Southern Ming Dynasty that the court can withdraw to fight a protracted war with the Manchus, but if Shen Youlong wants to gain a firm foothold here, he will definitely need the support of Australia.
Without the support of the Australians, he would definitely not dare to be too aggressive, otherwise he would not be able to bear the responsibility of too many casualties.
But now that he has tried the benefits that this place has brought to Liangguang, he will definitely continue to expand, this is certain, after all, Zhou Yang also analyzed the current situation for him and told him that if there is Annan's benefit to Daming. (To be continued.) )