With the erection of the telegraph line, Zhao Yan also became busy in Zhaojiapu, dealing with a bunch of problems reported by local officials every day.

Either there's a riot here, or something is wrong there.

Some local officials even reported to Zhao Jiabao about big things, and Zhao Yan had to ask the telegraph operator to reply one by one, but it was obviously not a way to go on like this.

So Zhao Yan divided the government affairs into several parts, and the cases reported by the local government were handed over to the courts, the internal affairs issues were handed over to Zhang Buyun to deal with, and the military issues were handed over to Mao Yuanyi.

What they are taught to deal with is small, and if they encounter a big event, they still have to submit it to Zhao Yan to make a decision. The commercial dispatch is in charge of Zhao Quan.

And all the reported treatment plans have to be submitted to Zhao Yan for review every day.

With such a division of labor, the efficiency is really much higher. Zhao Yan only needs to look at how to deal with it every day, if there is nothing serious, just correct it from time to time.

"My lord, Lu Xiangsheng reported that the Dzungar Ministry attacked our army in mid-May, but was blown up by a mine and fled, and asked to enter the Dzungar Department." Mao Yuanyi came to report with the battle report.

"Dzungar Ministry, where did Lu Xiangsheng hit?" Zhao Yan asked.

"The fight has reached the scheduled stopping position, and now the Dzungar Department is the only tribe in Moxi that has not been resolved." Mao Yuanyi replied.

"So, after fighting the Dzungar Ministry, it borders the Kazakh Khanate?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Yes."

The Dzungar tribe is a tribe that has risen in Moxi, and Lu Xiangsheng fought several battles with the Dzungars last year, breaking the Dzungar tribe and sweeping the Dzungar tribe to pieces with a huge force.

It's just that the Dzungar Ministry retreated to the border of the Kazakh Khanate, which is not strong at present, and has passed its peak, and does not dare to expel the Dzungaria.

"Then depending on the life, to fight or not to fight?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Moxi is a long way to go, and the supply transportation is inconvenient. Even if you don't fight, you will have to consume food, and now the Mongolian tribes are already complaining. It is better to let them storm into the Kazakh Khanate to solve the supply problem. Mao Yuanyi said.

This solution to the supply problem is naturally to shoot the cattle and sheep of the Kazakh Khanate, and the war in Moxi has always been supplied by the Mongols, and at the same time, the food problem is solved by looting.

Mongolia's population of 2 million was swept away, and only more than 1 million remained, and these tribes had to supply nearly 150,000 troops.

It was obviously unrealistic to transport military rations from the mainland to the front, and the mainland was only responsible for the supply of supplies such as artillery shells and gunpowder.

"Then let's fight! Completely pull out the nail of the Dzungar Ministry, and then let them go to the Kazakh Khanate to fight the autumn wind, but don't push forward, the supply line is already too long. Zhao Yan said, "Let the construction team step up the construction of the railway." ”

As soon as Zhao Yan made up his mind, he quickly shot a telegram, and the telegraph line only led to Shaanxi, so the Shaanxi side immediately sent it out after receiving this order.

In fact, it is not necessary to build a railway in order to continue to move forward.

As long as the equipment is upgraded, or Moxi is managed well, and supplies can be provided to the front line, it can continue to move forward.

However, the Ordnance Bureau is not yet large enough to mass-produce new weapons, and it will be a few months before it can be done.

At present, the production of rifles per month is only 200, the production of machine guns per month is only five, and the production of new artillery is now only 20 per month. However, the Ordnance Bureau has a foundation after all, and it is just to change the previous production capacity, but this will also take time.

A new military reform has arrived.

However, this reform is that after being equipped with new weapons, the number of personnel has been reduced, and the combat effectiveness has been improved, so it is natural that a unit does not need so many people.

At the end of June, a clipper ship returned from the Americas and brought back the war situation in Central America.

The war in Central America was over, and the California colony succeeded in annexing Central America to the Spaniards.

"Very good, Central America is in hand, and there will be no shortage of silver in the future." Zhao Yanxi smiled, and the capture of Central America was undoubtedly the capture of a silver treasury.

"I don't know if South Africa has been captured, if South Africa is captured, it will be equivalent to having a treasury." Zhao Yanxin thought again.

However, since Central America has been conquered, it must be well managed, and the Tebi is in terms of gold and silver mining.

Soon Zhao Yan ordered the establishment of the Central Continent Province, which was later the Mexican region, but it was larger than Mexico, and these areas were not fully controlled, but the Spaniards had withdrawn from these regions, and the only areas that were not controlled were native.

At the same time, the province of Nanzhou was established, which was bounded by Argentina and Chile.

Then Zhao Yan sent three governors, one was the governor of California, one was the governor of Central Continent, and the other was the governor of Nanzhou, and at the same time appointed Liu Yuan as the governor of the Americas.

Hermes-Epitek in California has moved so many people this year, and the number of Hermes-Epitek has reached more than 400,000, and California will become a region dominated by Hermes-Epitek.

Zhongzhou Province is an area where there are no Han people, but it needs to vigorously develop the gold mining industry, and the governor of Zhongzhou Province must pay more attention to the gold mining industry. At the same time, Middle-earth must also dig canals to open up access to the east coast.

The Panama Canal, this is a relatively huge project, but no matter how huge it is, it is not as big as China's Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

However, Central America does not have such a foundation as the Ming Dynasty, so the construction of the Panama Canal is destined to be a long-distance run, anyway, this canal is to be repaired, how much can be repaired at present, anyway, it is to use indigenous people as labor, who and how many people Zhao Yan does not care.

Nanzhou Province is relatively simple, that is, there are no Hermes-Epitek and no resources that are too conspicuous. However, the Argentine region will be the next region to migrate. The governor of the province of Nanzhou had to settle the settlers and at the same time exploit the saltpeter and copper mines of Chile.

Ships bound for the Americas also largely returned in June.

The wharves of the port of Qingdao were busy, and the fleet that was trading in the Americas brought back a lot of goods, but most of them were gold, silver, jewelry, and raw materials.

Westerners really don't have any goods that the Ming can look up to.

Basically, there are no advantageous industries, but the rubber in the hands of the Portuguese sells very well, and basically as long as there is, the merchant ships from Daming will buy the rubber even at a high price.

Rubber became an important commodity, with the Portuguese occupying the largest areas of Brazil and the Spanish occupying Peruvian regions.

Seeing that rubber was so profitable, the two countries began to look for rubber trees everywhere, and planted rubber trees in Central America, and let the indigenous people tap rubber every day.

Rubber production is much higher this year, and in the first stage of the return voyage in June, the merchant ships to the Americas have brought back more than 80 tons of rubber.

Rubber is now an important material, 80 tons of rubber transported back to Daming, is to solve the urgent need of rubber shortage, with this batch of rubber, can make many steam engines, some factories assembly line production is also possible.

The value of the gold, silver and jewels brought back by these trading ships reached more than 30 million taels, and the value of those raw materials was less, but there were tens of millions of taels.

After returning to the port of Qingdao, the clippers loaded their cargo again and headed for India.

Trade in the Americas came to a temporary halt, and these government-run merchant ships naturally went to India, where the market was vast and the Europeans were also trading.

Among the goods shipped to India, cotton cloth is the most important commodity, after all, everyone needs to wear clothes, and there are many other goods.

All advantageous products must be dumped in India.

At this time, India was very rich, and Westerners did not open the door to India at all, and it was a huge market that made people drool.

In the first half of the year, the good news of Nanyang was also continuous, and the expansion of merchant houses in Nanyang was very fast, and merchant halls were established on all islands of Nanyang.

These merchants were responsible for trading with the monkeys by dumping cotton and other goods on them in exchange for precious metals.

At the same time as the trade, the various Han settlements in the South Seas continued to expand outward, and as long as they continued to expand, those South Sea monkeys would lose their foothold and become history completely.

And on the Indochina Peninsula, the merchant houses also developed rapidly.

In the first half of the year, the First Fleet successfully captured a port in Siam (Thailand) and once again established a merchant house to trade with the Siamese.

Siam is arguably the largest power in Indochina, and the most powerful militarily is Siam, which has an artillery corps trained for them by the Portuguese.

However, this combat power was not enough, and after the port was captured, the two sides quickly reached an agreement to use the port as a place for trade between the two sides.

The majesty of the Ming Empire is not something that the Siamese are willing to offend. The Khmer (Cambodia) is not as good as it is, but in Indochina, the attitude is relatively moderate, and it only asks for trade.

In contrast, Burma's attitude is more tough, and the First Fleet is still fighting Burma, but the South Sea side is relatively nervous. The war between the two sides on the Malay Peninsula was not over for a while.

Cochin, on the other hand, is expanding westward.

To deal with the situation in the Indochina Peninsula, Zhao Yan plans to swallow the entire peninsula with Jiaozhi's forces, but it will take some time.

With the establishment of various merchant houses, the demand for trade also increased, and a large number of goods could be dumped in both the South Seas and the Indochina Peninsula.

And after crossing the Strait of Malacca, entering the Indian Ocean. The trade market was much larger, India had a vast market, and the Europeans had many merchant ships in the Indian Ocean.

There have been reports of increased supply of goods from various merchant houses, but it is only the largest on the Indian side.

After a period of contact, Indian businessmen soon found that it was very profitable to do business with the Ming Dynasty, because the prices of the Ming goods were low and the quality was high, so they sold well.

The government-run merchant ships could not stop for a moment, constantly transporting goods to their destinations. Where private merchant ships are not allowed to go, there are government-run merchant ships that are responsible.

The number of privately owned merchant ships has grown considerably this year, to more than 1,000 vessels, and the number of cargo ships transported offshore has reached more than 3,000.

The Shandong factory can be described as the operation of processing and adding points, and the business is so easy to do that it is simply produced without worrying about sales.

As far as the current market is concerned, the biggest market is still Daming. The market in Daming is the largest, and the most profitable is also the local market in Daming.

This market has a population of 200 million, how is it not profitable?

However, compared with the sum of foreign markets, the Ministry of Commerce is still operating well in overseas markets, because there are many precious metals in overseas markets and there are no competitors.

There are many competitors in the local market, and precious metals are less than GDP, not to mention that commodities are not so rare in the local market.

A glass mirror can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver in the overseas market, but it is naturally not so high in the local market, and the price of the glass mirror has now fallen below one tael of silver.

Because of the emergence of competitors, three manufacturers of glass mirrors have appeared in Shandong this year, Zhao Quan knew the news and planned to block it, but was stopped by Zhao Yan.

The glass mirror is not a thing with too high a technical surname, it is enough for this thing to monopolize it for so many years, and if it continues to monopolize it, it will hinder the rotation of the earth.

To sum up, Zhao Quan believes that the Ministry of Commerce needs to monopolize more high-end luxury goods, and Zhao Quan, who is unwilling to lose the monopoly of glass mirrors, is actively looking for other luxury goods that can be monopolized.

The market in Daming mainly relied on taxes to increase fiscal revenue, and it was privately run factories that made money, and goods could not be sold at jaw-dropping prices.

In addition to the areas that private individuals are allowed to touch, overseas markets may trade with countries that may threaten the security of the Ming Dynasty with government-run merchant ships transporting goods.

In areas where private merchant ships are allowed to get involved, taxes are also relatively high.

The commodity trade in Daming does not belong to the category of dumping, because this is a whole, which can only be said to be an industry adjustment.

Because the funds are still circulating in Daming, even the unemployed groups due to the impact of Shandong's commodities can find jobs under the arrangement of Shandong's political axe.

In overseas markets, for example, under the continuous dumping of goods from the Ming Dynasty, the unemployment rate is now rising, and a large number of farmers are bankrupt as a result, and the society has become unstable.

The Ming Dynasty is a different phenomenon, although some people are unemployed due to Shandong's industrial expansion, they can quickly find a job, or even a better job than before.

This is a matter of opportunity, Daming siphoned other people's money and used it to develop his own country, while other countries could not develop without money.

The precious metals have been lost home, because gold and silver are becoming more and more valuable, and the prices of raw materials are getting lower and lower, and countries with precious metals buy these raw materials before they take them out, and then dump them, and squeeze back the money to buy raw materials, and as a result, they are squeezed more and more dry, and the more they are squeezed, the poorer they are.

In the whole of Asia, the only one who can escape the pressure of the Shandong political axe is estimated to be the Ryukyu country, the Ryukyu country has a small population, and there is nothing to look at, and the Ryukyu country at this time maintains a good relationship with the Shandong political axe. North Korea and Cochin were ruthlessly wiped out, and Tufan was wiped out to the point that there was no scum left.

The Ryukyu Kingdom was obviously also very knowledgeable, and learned from the Ming Dynasty to set up a cabinet and hand over the power, and the cabinet members were Shandong officials.

It was also annexed in disguise, but the king of the Ryukyus still retained the title of king, and 20% of the Ryukyus' tax revenue was used for royal expenses.

Shandong officials and merchant ships continue to be sent from Shandong, and a well-established colonial system is being established in East Asia, which, if established, will expand China's territory several times. Trade has also taken off, with the number of people doing business in the sea doubling this year and rising.

Today's Shandong political axe reverses the attitude of prohibiting merchants from going to sea in previous dynasties, and instead encourages merchants to go to the sea to do business, but there are still certain restrictions.

The nautical technical school can be said to be one of the most popular technical schools, and sailors who graduate from the nautical technical school are bound to find a job, and the pay is not low. At the same time, after being trained, they are also responsible for acting as the eyes and ears of Shandong's political axe, supervising businessmen for tax evasion.

This year, the volume of maritime trade has increased significantly, and the factories in Shandong have also passed the tax holiday, and the armed police forces in all provinces have collected commercial taxes, and at the same time, the salt in Shandong dominates the world this year.

Although there will be no large-scale wars this year, the income will certainly not be low.

…… Su Buheng marched with his fleet to South Africa in April, and reached the Cape of Good Hope in May, where they encountered the Dutch.

On that day, Su Buheng directly bombarded the stronghold set up by the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, and 1,500 soldiers landed ashore under the cover of artillery fire. The Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope didn't expect that the navy of the Ming Dynasty would appear here, and didn't the two sides negotiate peace?

There were no warnings, no excuses. In an age when truth was within cannon range, there was no need for excuses.

Su Buheng bombarded the Dutch stronghold for two days, and finally blasted open the Dutch stronghold, and under the cover of artillery, the soldiers of the Nanyang Infantry Brigade captured the Dutch stronghold at the Cape of Good Hope that day.

The Dutch were well established, with black wheat fields and patches of vegetables to supply passing Dutch ships.

After the fall of the Dutch stronghold, these developed things also fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, which saved the First Fleet the effort of construction.

Occupying the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, the gold troops who came with the fleet began to explore for gold.

The general said there was a lot of gold here, and there must be a lot of gold here. The Gold Force began to explore inland into South Africa, where gold was not evident.

It was only in the 19th century that Europeans discovered that South Africa had a lot of gold, and not much attention had been paid to the region before.

…… And in Zhaojiabao, a major moment has come.

At a fruitful moment, 160,000 primary school students graduated, and on the day of graduation, all of these students came to Zhaojiabao.

Zhao Yan and a group of high-level personnel attended the graduation ceremony as usual.

160,000 people graduated this year, nearly 120,000 of whom have reached the age requirement and can work after training, and 40,000 continue to study.

Now Zhao Yan is no longer calling, and directly forces the surname to intercept people according to their age, and those who are intercepted can freely choose whether to become teachers, doctors, or civil servants.

It's all iron rice bowls! Isn't that a stinky fart enough? As for those who go on to higher education, they are all young, and these children are not yet old enough to come out and work.

However, nearly half of those who graduated this year were recruited by the Administration Department.

60,000 civil servants, what is the concept, a civil servant is 3 yuan a month, 36 yuan a year, plus 50 yuan in benefits, 3 million yuan a year needs to be spent.

Zhao Yan can afford 3 million yuan, but the number of people is really scary.

The recruitment of so many civil servants is naturally to prepare for the administration of the whole Ming Dynasty, and these personnel will be sent to the training class for training for half a year. During this half-year period, the training course will teach them a variety of administrative experiences and the correct administrative methods.

After the training of this batch of civil servants, Zhao Yan can be regarded as having endured, as for education, let's slow down for a while!

(To be continued)