Chapter 221: Attack on Malacca
Yuzhang County, northeast of Poyang County, Changnan.
The word Changnan is relatively few people know, but the word Jingdezhen is a word that every Chinese person, even people from other countries, are familiar with.
As early as a few years ago, Yang Xi had already bought the entire Changnan.
At this time, the porcelain of Changnan has been developed for a long time and is famous, but it is not mature. Two years ago, Yang Xi set up a small city here called Jingdecheng.
The people who run Jingdecheng are some graduates of the School of Economics, and Yang Xi has them bring more advanced technology to teach members from all over Jingdecheng to make technical improvements and transport porcelain.
In order to develop porcelain, Yang Xi specially approved the railway track to lead a branch line here, and Jingdecheng could develop rapidly.
The reason why Jingdecheng's porcelain quality is good is because the soil quality of Changnan is good, whether it is celadon and white porcelain, or the combination of the advantages of two kinds of porcelain, it is invincible in the world. Qingbai porcelain is crystal moist, has the reputation of fake jade, and later even exported to Europe in large quantities.
After Yang Xi couldn't take over the torch of this era by himself, he abandoned these excellent things, and even came to Jingdecheng to guide the work in person as he did at this time, and the accompanying Wang Mastiff received him personally.
In fact, Yang Xi wanted to advertise for Jingdecheng, so that the next issue of the newspaper really reported that Jingdecheng porcelain was in full swing.
Of course, at present, only some foreign families and county residents of Chenhe District are qualified to use this kind of porcelain.
In September, the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce had two major events, the first was conscription, and the second was Dong Cai's return to Jiangxia.
The Yangtze River fleet traveled to India, but this time it returned, but it was a few months faster than the last time, which surprised Yang Xi.
Dong Cai walked into Yang Xi's office with a solemn expression.
"Sit! Brother Dong, how is it, how did you gain from this trip? Yang Xi poured homemade tea for Dong Cai.
Dong Cai said: "Don't say it, this is my report on this trip, you can see for yourself!" Dong Cai handed over a large book.
Yang Xi took it, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.
"These things have happened a few months ago, that is, now the Amir Great, should have defeated the Kushan Empire, or has already been defeated."
Dong Cai said: "It's possible, but everywhere our fleet goes, production is very backward, most of them are only to provide armaments, and I heard that there are no big ships." ”
Yang Xi said: "Not necessarily, as long as Amir receives the news of your fleet entering, it is estimated that he will start building big ships immediately, don't think that only I know shipbuilding in this world, and there are many unknown things, you don't know." Okay, wait until I take a closer look at your voyage diary before making a decision. ”
After Dong Cai left, Yang Xi began to think carefully that Amir was taking the road of empire, conquering first, and then turning back to shape, which was diametrically opposed to himself.
Taking this kind of path, the territory developed rapidly in the early stage, and it cannot be said that it is worse than himself, within a few years, it is impossible to pose a threat to himself, and it is difficult to say when he completely conquers the Kushan Empire.
Yang Xi decided to prepare one step earlier, so he drew a map.
"Amir wants to enter East Asia, there are only two ways to go, one is to go to Central Asia, the rest of the empire is here, and the desert Gobi is thousands of miles, come to China, the combat power and supplies, all have been exhausted, unless he is put to rest.
The second way is to take the coast of India, through the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca in the south of Sumatra, and then north into Jiaozhou.
Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, sparsely populated, now primeval forests, more than a thousand years later*, only in Vietnam, many people have died, let alone at this time.
Yang Xi stopped his finger in the Strait of Malacca, where there is a small island, according to Dong Cai's description, at this time there were only tens of thousands of aborigines, two tribes, and this place will be called Singapore in the future.
This island is stuck in the middle of the strait, only more than 30 kilometers away from the peninsula extending from the northern mainland, surrounded by several islands, across the strait.
The northern peninsula was later Malaysia, and the southern peninsula belonged to Indonesia.
"I'm sorry, I've decided, I'm afraid there will be no three countries in the future, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, the truth is so cruel."
Yang Xi said that he would do it, and on the second day, it was reported that Yang Xiaoyu of the Ministry of Ordnance Industry was the second master of the dock, and the two of them joined forces to build ships, and the Yangtze River and other giant ships, fifty ships, must be directly installed with bombardment guns. Yang Xiao also had to make another 100 bombardment cannons to defend the port and bombard the invading ships.
It is expected to take a year to complete, and with Yang Xi's current production capacity, if Amir starts building ships now, he will not be able to catch up, which needs to be accumulated.
After arranging this matter, Yang Xi passed on the editor-in-chief Cai Yan, that is, his wife Cai Wenji, to meet him in the office on official business. It is also rumored that Yang Shao, the head of the internal affairs of Chenhan, are all relatives.
"Yang Shao, Cai Yan, I want to organize an immigration group, move 50,000 people to an overseas island, and need 50,000 workers and craftsmen, with a full number of construction engineers, in that area, to establish three port cities, Yang Shao, you make specific arrangements, Cai Yan, you are responsible for newspaper publicity. Also, not only that, but the county newspapers of each county should also devote enough space to publicize this matter, and anyone who joins immigrants and remote builders will get many policy benefits, and I will give you the details later. ”
The next issue of the newspaper, the newspaper of the Quanchenhe District and the county newspaper, the headline was this, and the people were curious, so they discussed that the advantage of immigration is that they can get a free ferry ticket to return to the mainland every three years, and after six years, they can return to live in the mainland, and within six years, they do not need to pay taxes on business activities in those three major cities. The agricultural population, the population of aquaculture, can obtain land free of charge, and factories can obtain factory buildings free of charge.
Some people of insight, as well as members of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, saw the opportunity contained in this and spread the word about it, but the specific implementation time has not yet been decided.
Yang Xi doesn't know how many people will participate in immigration by next year, and there will definitely be construction, and sending it over is that it is quite difficult to immigrate, so you can retreat to the next best thing, and it is okay to do it in batches.
The current growth of the entrance of the Chenhe control area can be described as terrifying, with a population base of more than 10 million, about more than 2 million households, even if every two households increase their population by one a year, there are more than one million people a year.
Of the more than 10 million people, 70 percent were born after Yang Xi came here, and the quality of the population is excellent, and all of them have undergone training, which is equivalent to the rural level more than 1,000 years later.
By the end of the year, the number of immigrants who had signed up had reached more than 30,000, which was a very small proportion and was too far away.
Registration is ongoing.
In September's conscription, Yang Xi directly relaxed the quota to 30,000, and surprisingly, this time 10,000 female soldiers were recruited. But this conscription, the newspaper said that he would serve as a guard on a distant island.
But this can not stop the enthusiasm of Chenhe people to join the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, now men and women are equal, the number of women has also increased, the number of men and women combined, more than 60,000, Yang Xi is assessed as usual.
Jingzhou, due to the attack of the Chenhe Chamber of Commerce, has also quietly undergone some changes.
Liu Bei was fighting against Cao Jun on the one hand, but he was secretly planning something to Zhuge Liang.