There are about 2,000 indigenous people around Bocheng. With the exception of one sect, the observance retains the personal freedom of the others. After the expansion of private domains, the Order had to make some changes to the Guards.

The process of feudal lords is also the process of the Senate throwing the pot. Originally, the consuls, the cabinet, and the governors and county guards in various places had their own guards and guards of honor. Of course, the other people's guards only had a few or a dozen people, and only the orderly guards were a field force.

In the past, the government paid for part of the military salaries. After the partition, the Senate announced that it would no longer recognize this part of the obligation, that the nobles' private soldiers would be their own responsibility, and that when the Senate was called, the lords were obliged to send troops according to the size of their territory.

The defence of the aristocratic private domains of Perth, Sungai and Penang was organised by Kedah, and several cities on the border and along the coast were to receive support and auxiliaries from the interior. The field army retained an unreconstituted battalion in Kedah, with companies of 60 men in each of the three cities. The battalion headquarters and the remaining two companies were stationed in Kedah.

The Bay of Bengal is full of pirates, and although the small states founded by the Salen and Sanwip no longer exist, there is still a large maritime presence on the island of Tianga, 20 miles south of Chittagong. This group of semi-independent pirates, with the Portuguese at its core, was nominally subservient to the Buddhist kingdom of Arakan. The pirates generally did not touch the British and Dutch, and they often invaded Bengal to capture slaves. Ten miles outside of Dhaka would not be safe.

In addition to the Portuguese, there were countless small groups of pirates in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. These people are potential threats, and Kedah's current defenses are deployed against pirate invasions.

If Kedah is fully developed, even the annual income of agriculture and forestry will not be less than 200,000 taels, but it is not possible to do so now, and the army and immigrants can only be slowly replenished.

After obtaining the fief, Shou Ling first retired some veterans of the Guards and placed them in Bocheng. Gu Shan stayed in Taiwan, Cai Yuanding was in Leizhou, and Tiqi was in Houjiang Mansion, and their prospects in the officer sequence were promising. The guards around Shou Order are no longer organized according to ethnicity and creed, everyone is mixed together, and the leader of the guard is still Lin Chuyong.

Some of the elder brothers also got their fiefs from the Senate, and they all chose the land around Bocheng.

Whether or not they got the fiefdom of the Senate, the order carved out a piece of their own territory. Too rich to say, there is no problem in being a chic small and medium-sized landlord after all the reclamation. Given that most of the soldiers lived in the cities, they were neither familiar with nor interested in managing the cultivated land. After soliciting the opinions of the majority, the right to use the cultivated land was separated from the ownership, and the company system was adopted, with each person taking his own land as a shareholder, and the raised land was handed over to the Chinese to manage, adopting a tropical plantation model that was more suitable for the South Seas.

The development of Lingjiawei Island began with shipbuilding, and of course warships could not be built, mainly fishing boats of several tens of tons and single-deck sloops.

Bago was a seafaring power before it was destroyed by Burma, and the Mon were excellent sailors who had a great influence in the Andaman Sea. The Order placed a number of Mon people in the territory, who would provide a route into the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

Shou Xiang doesn't have much living expenses, and he doesn't care about the family's money, it's the property brought by his wife, and she has the final say.

The production of the territory was taken out by him to raise soldiers. After a simple calculation, according to the annual income of 36 taels of silver, and responsible for the soldiers' uniforms, food and ammunition, the income from Bocheng, Lingjiawei Island and other assets can support about 250 people. If Bozhou is fully developed, of course, it will not only support these people, but like other territories, it can only be slowly enriched.

The conquest of Kedah terrified the several sultanates at the southern tip of the peninsula, and the consequence was that they became closer to the Dutch, which was exactly what Malacca needed.

With the mediation of the Dutch, Jincheng signed a peace treaty with the sultans of the peninsula. The nations recognized the occupation of Kedah by Kim Shing, and Kim Cheng promised not to expand further to the south.

Further southward expansion would threaten the Strait of Malacca, and for the powers controlling the strait, Jincheng's current southern border was the limit of their psychological tolerance. As for the north, since it was the territory of its ally Siam, the Golden City could only stop at the existing borders.

It is regrettable to see that unless there is a major change in the situation in the strait, the expansion of the mainland may only end there.

The Senate was not dissatisfied, as it had 30,000 square kilometers of territory, something that pirates and exiled Asian peoples had never imagined a few years earlier.

The area controlled by Taipei Prefecture is also almost to the limit, and most of the area there is mountainous, and further development can only go into the mountains. The mountain basin around Sun Moon Lake is a good choice.

Now the only area where massive expansion can be carried out on land is only Houjiang Province. Originally, the area directly controlled by Lin Tongwen was less than 10,000 square kilometers, and thousands of Ming troops joined, making the manpower there more abundant than before.

According to the secret documents of the Office of Order, the medium-term goal of the province of Hou Giang would be to gradually take control of Phu Quoc Island and later Sihanoukville Bay, turning Chenla into a landlocked country once and for all.

Expansion in Houjiang Province was not suitable for large-scale warfare, and it relied on Chinese immigrants to trace the Mekong River and its tributaries upstream, slowly developing and encroaching on the areas under actual control. With the ability of the Chinese in agriculture, they will soon be able to dominate economically. If it is roughly measured by the natural boundary between the Shui Zhenla people and the core area of Zhenla, Houjiang Province can also have 30,000 square kilometers.

Taken together, these territories are close to the size of Portugal proper. What Jincheng had to do was to further enrich the population, reclaim wasteland, cut down forests, and dig mines. It will take a long time to develop, and even if there is no war, there is a lot to do in the country. There are opportunities to get rich everywhere, and there is no need to worry about creating a group of degenerate and unproductive rentiers.

The stalls built in the capital city are getting bigger and bigger, and relying on the Sulu people to travel thousands of miles to transport that bit of volcanic ash is a drop in the bucket.

The ash trade between Jincheng and the Sulu lasted only 2 years, and was replaced by the nearby Sumatra ash after the trade was opened.

Sumatra is dotted with dense volcanoes and is full of high-quality ash. With a voyage of more than 500 nautical miles, merchant ships can run several times a year. After opening the Andaman Sea, the voyage to Aceh was shortened to more than 100 nautical miles.

Many long-distance merchant ships do a short business while waiting for the monsoon, carrying Sumatran volcanic ash. More than 5,000 tonnes of ash enter the port each year, and as the population grows, the trade in volcanic ash tends to increase further, making it possible for several state capitals facing the South China Sea to build quickly.

The expansion of the country also led to a consequence, with the Senate and citizens being extremely dissatisfied with the current name of the country and the name of the capital city. When the name of the country was first decided, Shou Xian consulted all the members for their opinions, and they mentioned everything.

There are not many reliable suggestions, and they are all very controversial, quarreling for the name of the country, and there have been several fights. At that time, he had no choice but to use the most vulgar name to temporarily top it, does everyone love gold. Everyone accepted it after a while.

Now that the territory of the country is larger, all aspects have gradually become formalized, the grass platform team has become a bureaucratic yamen, and the original name of the city-state is obviously out of date, and the proposal to change the official name of the country has been put forward to the Senate.

Perhaps it was because the past few years had been really tired, and when Lynch brought the Senate proposal to a cabinet meeting, Shou Xuan found that this time it was actually not controversial.

"Pacific Federation." Shou Xuan had heard of this suggestion, and it seemed inappropriate to carry such a large name in the current country, but he did not expect to be approved by 90% of the elders.

Marmont put down his pipe, "We are an alliance of soldiers, merchants, and farmers. The Chinese trade for us in the South China Sea, the Mon trade for us in the Andaman Sea, the Chenla and Siamese work for us, and we have many other small peoples. The senators felt that the Federation was quite appropriate. ”

Shou Xuan nodded, and swiped his name on the country name proposal. This kind of thing, the Senate will be decided, there is no need to dwell on it.

Next is the name of the capital, "Asterism." ”

Since the national flag is the star bird and the Southern Cross constellation is the symbol of the country, it is fitting that the capital is called Star City.

The order was signed again.

The name of the country is only an introduction, and the change of the name of the country is accompanied by a change in the form of government.

The Senate, that is, the Senate, this is the same word. The Senate does not have universal suffrage, and according to the original statute, it is a House of Nobles. The change and re-election of the senators was decided by the Senate itself. In some clans, this is even a hereditary position, from father to son or from brother to brother. Out of respect for their customs, the Senate generally did not interfere.

The number of senators remained the same, and after the expansion of the country, it was clear that the legislature had only the senate.

Checks and balances of power are one thing, and the federation needs to divide more classes to maintain people's motivation to climb upwards. As a result, city councils were formed in each state capital, and between the city council and the House of Lords, a lower house was formed. Members of the House of Commons are elected, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

Under the current national conditions, the House of Commons has become the key to maintaining national unity. The House of Lords is dead, and it is difficult to stand out in it unless there is great merit. For the newly arrived immigrants of all races, the House of Commons is their goal.

The Order of Commons links the setup of the House of Commons to the ongoing reform of the Army and Navy. There is no racial discrimination in the Federation, and all free people are equal. But political power is different, the old way of the old and the new way of the new, from the day the name of the country was changed and the House of Commons was convened, a distinction was made between citizens who had the right to vote and to be elected and ordinary freemen.

Only citizens have the right to vote, and citizens also have the duty to defend the country.

Under the federal government, for most people, citizenship is earned by joining the military and completing their service. In the present situation, it is inappropriate to give the right to vote, the right to determine the future of the country, to those who do not know anything, who only know how to follow the trend, and who lack the foresight and sufficient experience, which is like handing over a loaded cannon to an immature child, and only those retired soldiers and citizens who have contributed to the country and have a high quality have the right to decide the future of the country.

Compared to the Navy, it is easier to enlist in the Army and get the right to vote. Since the Orderly is determined to tilt its resources toward the Navy in the second term, the Army will inevitably have to do a certain amount of compression.

The number of the army remained at 3,000, which is not much changed from before. However, only 1,000 of them were retained with the same high salaries as before, mainly concentrated in officers, non-commissioned officers, cavalry and artillery commanders of all ranks, while the capital retained a mobile battalion of 500 men composed entirely of professional soldiers. The remaining 2,000 people are made up of conscripts of all nationalities who join the army, and the conscripts are required to serve for three years before being discharged at the end of the term. After completing the compulsory military service, you get the right to vote. And to get the right to be elected, you need to make a greater contribution.

Officers and non-commissioned officers are promoted in rank regardless of the size of the field unit, and officers and non-commissioned officers rotate between organs, units, and academies to participate in training or lectures.

The Senate made a slight change to the proposal for order. In addition to military service, those who have completed a certain amount of tax can also get the right to vote. Money is as critical as a sword, and Shou Xian looked at it and added a 0 to the tax amount.

The draft election method also has some subdivisions, and there are differences in the election thresholds between local councillors and lower councillors. For craftsmen, scholars, teachers, doctors, and other technicians, there were also ways in which they gained political power. However, that number will not be large, and more than half of the parliaments at all levels will be veterans.

In the actual operation, the draft will definitely encounter some situations that are not expected in the office, and will be further revised and improved in the future according to feedback. For the time being, the Senate retains the right to interpret and revise the draft elections.

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The form of government is basically what Haile Rhein envisioned in Starship Paratroopers, with slight modifications.