Indeed, as Emperor Yang said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

All the same, no one is different in front of him.

The Dutch were powerless to fight against the Ming Dynasty, let alone Portugal, which was a grade lower than the Netherlands.

At this time, the entire colonial focus had been put on Brazil, and because of the discovery of gold mines and the cultivation of crops such as coffee and rubber, the Portuguese, who were enthusiastic about the New World, did not have the ability or courage to fight against the Ming Dynasty, let alone fight a hopeless war in Mozambique, and their little navy could not even cross the Cape of Good Hope, and the small fleet of the Bright Army in the port of Orient, beating the Portuguese navy was the same as playing, and the word battle could not be used, only beaten.

Therefore, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Daming proposed to buy Mozambique, the Portuguese minister in Daming also readily agreed.

Of course, the price is a bit higher.

Fifteen million dragon dollars.

Emperor Yang was also very satisfied with their cheerfulness, so the price was also agreed by Yang Feng, after all, the slave and ivory trade there was very prosperous every year, which could bring a lot of tax revenue every year, and it was also an important agricultural area in Africa, although modern Mozambique was extremely poor, it could not be denied that the richness of the land there was also amazing. More importantly, both ivory and slaves there are mainly consumed by the Ming Dynasty, almost all the slaves in East Africa are exported to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is also the world's largest ivory consumer, every year countless African statues fall under the guns of hunters, and then are pulled out of their tusks and sent to the Ming Dynasty, turning into a variety of handicrafts and daily necessities to fill those rich families.

The elephants in the Ming Dynasty are loyal elephants because their ancestors served as elephant soldiers for Li Dingguo back then, so they are protected to a certain extent, not to mention that they are not allowed to hunt, at least there is an annual quota, so that African ivory has become the main source.

However, Mozambique still has a small problem to solve.

"Your Majesty, the Portuguese there don't want to move back to Europe, they all have their own industries there, but when they go back to Europe, they have nothing, Portugal itself is a poor place, all relying on foreign colonization, and because Portugal is the main member of the anti-French alliance in the War for the Spanish Throne, Louis is also eyeing them, the Spanish army is on the border, there may be war at any time, the Portuguese in Mozambique are afraid of going back and being pushed to the battlefield as cannon fodder, so they ask to stay and join the Ming as subjects."

Liang Cheng said.

"It's not impossible to be our Ming subjects, this can be regarded as their Muwanghua, which is also their sincerity, but to be a Ming subject must be converted to Wanghua, otherwise they will not be protected by the laws of the Ming Dynasty."

Yang Feng said.

Now the Ming Dynasty no longer recognizes any religion except Buddhism, Taoism as a member of the Holy Religion of course, needless to say, although Buddhism is accommodated, but the bald people must strictly abide by the rules and precepts, not allowed to own private property, not allowed to be close to women, and not allowed to drink wine and eat meat, in short, all bald heads must strictly abide by the strictest rules and precepts, not to mention killing, even if a mosquito bites a big bag in summer, it can not be shot to death, otherwise once it is reported, it will be whipped.

What's wrong with mosquitoes, mosquitoes are also living creatures.

At present, the unity of Buddhist affairs is under the jurisdiction of Yingtian's Da Bao En Temple, which is similar to the nature of the general altar of Buddhism, and the presiding officer of Da Bao En Temple is the former head of Jinyiwei, and it is also the only master of Yinian who is in charge of Jinyiwei......

Well, that's the brocade rudder.

Then the Da Bao En Temple stationed in all the temples of the country to supervise the bald people's observance of the Qing rules and precepts.

Once there is a person who violates the precepts, immediately ask for the Dharma whip, and after the whip is smoked, then expelled from the Buddha's door, of course, if the premise is not to death, Master Yinian has zero tolerance for these false believers and will not tolerate it, and go all out to purify the Buddha's door.

However, for those who sincerely believe, Emperor Yang is still more respectful, and sometimes he occasionally meets the real bald head, after all, if he can scrupulously abide by all the rules and precepts and only know how to do good and chant Buddha, such a bald head is also quite respectable, anyway, such a bald head will definitely not pose any threat, if they can really lead the believers, especially those believers in the subject country, to be obedient, and regard all the sufferings of time as practice, then it is also beneficial for the Ming Dynasty to maintain colonial rule.

As for the relationship with the Holy Religion......

This is very simple, just count the big bag as one of the gods in the fairy world, and it is also a small god, and the gossip is still a small god who has a bad relationship with Emperor Yang in the fairy world, so that Buddhism has become a branch of the Holy Religion, and it also explains the reason why Emperor Yang does not like to see the temple, and now he is the representative of the fairy world stationed in the world, so naturally it is inevitable that some personal feelings will be mixed sometimes.

But all other religions are heretical.

These religious believers are not regarded as the subjects of the Ming Dynasty, even if they are subjects, and their lives and property are not protected by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, if they are foreigners, that is, citizens of the country recognized by the Ming Dynasty, this is protected by diplomatic law, but if the Portuguese in Mozambique refuse to leave, and it is impossible to convert to the Holy Religion or Buddhism, then they will not be protected by the laws of the Ming Dynasty, nor will they be protected by diplomatic law, that is, they are no different from the black slaves who are constantly being caught in the jungle.

So......

"They are willing to convert all of them to the Holy Religion."

Liang Cheng said.

"Then that's fine, it will be directly set up as a frontier province, and they will all be counted as Ming subjects, let them tear down the church and burn the scriptures themselves, and then they will be counted as Ming subjects."

Yang Feng said.

There are two kinds of provinces in the Ming Dynasty, one is a simple province, this is the local government itself to elect local officials, just to select candidates and then interviewed by Emperor Yang himself, before the interview to the county level, but now it has become an interview to the government level, the governors of the provinces were directly appointed by the emperor, but now the governors of the provinces are also candidates selected by the local inspectorate, and then enter Beijing by the emperor for an interview, this system after nearly 20 years of operation, basically can be said to be happy.

The gentry were satisfied.

Because the people's deputies must be them or their agents, they will certainly not be able to get votes and propaganda without money, and the magistrates are just their managers.

** We are satisfied, because literate adult men have the right to vote, if the gentry have a bad reputation, they don't have to elect, this session of people's representatives can't do it, they can't be satisfied, then the next term they simply elect the opponent of this session. And the election is supervised by the Holy Shrine, the Cabinet, and the Jinyi Guard, there must be fraud, but there is certainly no serious fraud, and those who really want to be found out of election fraud, from the participants to the supervisors, are all exiled to Beihai, and the mastermind is directly on the rope, because this is the crime of deception, and it is a great rebellion, and it is an extrajudicial mercy to be dissatisfied.

Of course, the emperor is more satisfied.

What a load of work he has to make!

The other is the frontier province, which belongs to the newly opened territory, where the people and the people live together, these places are directly under the central government, directly governed by the cabinet, and officials at all levels are directly appointed by the ministry, of course, once the number of people in the border province reaches 60 percent, then it can be transformed into an ordinary province, so the most important job of the people of the border province is to live and live, and at the same time try to fool their relatives and friends in these places.

At present, the number of ordinary provinces and frontier provinces in the Ming Dynasty is basically half each.

From north to south, ordinary provinces include Beihai, Heishui, Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Lianghu, Liangjiang, Anhui, Fujian and Zhejiang, Liangguang and Yunnan-Guichuan. The frontier provinces include Anbei, Beiting, Shannan, Qinghai, Xikang, Jinghai, Luzon, Champong, Zhennan, East and West Jinzhou, Guiyi and Yemen, Tianfang and Basra, and the colonies of Colombo and the coast of India, plus South Africa, which has not yet been named by Emperor Yang, nor has Mozambique. In addition, there is actually only one Jinshan City, Yongping Province, Antarctic Province, which has only a few military posts and scientific research stations, and Changning Province, which also has only one small city, that is, New Zealand, a total of 19 frontier provinces and 21 ordinary provinces, these 40 provinces constitute the direct territory of the Ming Empire.

The rest is the subject state.

From north to south, there are 17 vassal states of Goryeo, Ryukyu, Annam, Laos, Chenla, Siam, Brunei, Sulu, Burma, Aceh, Bangladesh, Assam, Ceylon, Egypt and Tibet.

Of course, this is at the level of the county king.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty also has a total of one hundred and seven foreign feudal lords, including those messy small city lords in Nepal, these are also subject countries, but they are all princes and barons, anyway, as long as they submit to the Ming Dynasty and are willing to convert to the Holy Religion, they can all get the title, and then their external security is responsible for the Ming Dynasty, and internally they like to toss how they want, but they must give the Ming commercial privileges and extraterritoriality and garrison rights.

Of course, whether to stay or not is another matter.

In addition, they have to pay tribute every year, and Emperor Yang does not need their native products, just discount them directly, which is regarded as the protection fee they pay.

These provinces, frontier provinces, and vassal states, together constitute this huge empire, from the distant Americas in the east to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the west, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean in the north to Antarctica in the south, the territory area covers almost one-third of the earth's landmass, turning the two oceans into a de facto inland sea, and the establishment of this super empire has only taken less than 20 years, and this expansion rate is indeed unprecedented.

Obviously, this huge empire could not satisfy His Majesty the Emperor, and the army of the Ming Dynasty was still expanding his territory all over the world.

South Africa and Mozambique were quickly named Zhaonan Province and Suiyuan Province, as for the area of the territory, Emperor Yang drew a line on the map, anyway, he often played this kind of map to open the territory, but the line he drew on the map was God's will, so roughly the territory of South Africa and Mozambique in later generations officially became the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, he did not consult the aborigines there for the demarcation of the border, and the poor black people there suddenly became the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but they are not residents, and they are neither subjects, nor are they nationals, they are just a group of people who are not protected by the law......

I don't know what it is.

Their fate has been doomed, and they will dedicate their lives to the construction of the Ming Dynasty.

Whether they want to or not.

Countless Ming slave traders began to pour into the two provinces with their hired thugs from those subject countries, armed with all kinds of weapons, and then wantonly destroyed the homes of the aborigines, tied them up with ropes, and after performing the necessary operations, quickly loaded them onto transport ships and sent them to all parts of the country, so that they could die in those railway sites, mines and blood and tear factories.

The price of Ming slaves has finally come down.

Of course, those blacks must have rebelled, but ......

"Is there any point in resisting?"

Xu Wen, commander of the first battalion of the third brigade of the Daming Marine Corps, said with a cigarette in his mouth.

In front of him were countless Zulu warriors, armed with spears and machetes, wearing all kinds of bird feathers on their heads, and their faces were painted with terrifying colors, like a herd of wildebeest that had gone crazy on the move, killing them with a majestic momentum, the total number would not be less than 10,000, although they did not have war horses, but the scene of so many warriors charging was still quite scary.

But it's scary.

Because next to Xu Wen, the four latest machine guns of the first team of the brigade machine gun sentry assigned to him were erected outside the trench.

And a thousand officers and soldiers under his command are also lying in the trenches, and what they are sticking out of their hands is also the latest weapon, a new generation of rifles that use metal cartridge casings to set bullets, but it is not the thirteenth Taibao used by the Jinyiwei special service team, but the standard rifle of the infantry, according to the equipment number of the Ming Dynasty, it should be called a four-type rifle, one is a flintlock rifled gun, the second is a fire cap rifled gun, and the third is a firing pin gun, and the fourth type ......

Four-way then it's time for Mauser.

"Fire!"

Xu Wen pointed forward with the saber in his hand and roared.

As the four machine gunners pressed the trigger, the firing pins in the four machine guns hit the primer of the bullet at the same time, and the ignited propellant suddenly turned into a high-temperature air mass, pushing the bullet to rotate and fly out along the barrel at the same time, pushing the reentry spring to quickly retreat, and the reentry spring that retreated to the limit then pushed the firing pin forward, pushing the second bullet into the chamber and hitting the primer at the same time, the second round of firing was completed, and the same action continued to reciprocate in a very short time, and the bullets continued to shoot out one after another, and the four machine guns turned into killing machines in a strange roar.

The Zulu warriors' charge came to an abrupt end.

Even the Ming soldiers in the trenches were stupid, they looked in disbelief at the muzzles of the flames around them, at the enemies on the opposite side who fell one by one like mowing grass, and they even forgot to shoot.

"Fire!"

Xu Wen came to his senses in an instant, hurriedly spit out his cigarette and shouted.

Only then did those soldiers wake up, and then they pulled the trigger one after another, in the whistling sound of bullets, they quickly pulled the bolt, the case hook quickly threw out the cartridge case, and then the spring at the bottom of the tubular bomb bay in the butt pushed the bullet forward into the chamber, those soldiers quickly pushed the bullet on the chamber and closed the chamber and pulled the trigger, and in the blink of an eye, the second round of gunfire rang out, and in the sound of constantly pushing and pulling the bolt, the bullet was also constantly shooting out at a speed of a few seconds.

Mauser 1871/84.

Nine sons Mauser.

A new generation of rifles for the Ming army. (To be continued.) )