In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, the strategic railway is being built, especially the strategic railway leading to the Mongolian steppe, the construction of this strategic railway, once the construction of this strategic railway is completed, the army of the Ming Dynasty can easily overwhelm Mongolia, and a large number of war materials can be transported to the front line.

All the provinces of the New Deal were now a vibrant scene, no longer like a pool of stagnant water as in the past, where merchants had money to make and people to do. Prices remained stable, incomes continued to rise, and people's livelihood continued to improve. The old are supported, and the young are taught.

The internal market is booming, and the export market for overseas goods is also expanding again.

Trade with the Americas doubled in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, and precious metals continued to flow to the Ming Dynasty through the export of goods. At the same time, trade with the Portuguese in Malacca City, although affected by the opening of the American route, did not drop much in trade volume.

The interests of the Ming Dynasty in North Korea continued to expand, the Ming businessmen invested on a large scale in North Korea, and the Ming capital annexed a large amount of land and mined minerals in North Korea, and the North Korean government was completely a puppet. The land enclosure movement of Daming Capital in North Korea continued, and a large number of peasants lost their land and moved to work in cities and towns.

Because of Daming Capital's investment in North Korea, there is no shortage of jobs in North Korea. Even if there are not enough jobs in the country, there are enough jobs overseas, and the Ming Dynasty needs a lot of labor to develop overseas colonies, even in the neighboring northeast of the Ming Dynasty.

North Korean laborers are paid low wages and are cost-effective.

At this time, North Korea had completely become a commercial colony of the Ming Dynasty, and this colonization was not directly plundered by force, but by continuous plundering of a country's labor and resources through trade and commercial investment. Although the Ming Dynasty continued to plunder North Korea, it was also ensuring that North Koreans would not starve to death.

As long as they are not driven to the point of starvation, it is difficult for the rebellion to succeed. What's more, Daming is so close to North Korea, and it is an external contradiction, and under the progress of military technology, there is less and less power to resist.

Therefore, the governor sent to Korea by the Ming Dynasty, when he was the 'Emperor Taishang' in Korea, also carried out a small number of reforms in Korea.

These reforms are mainly aimed at ensuring that the people at the bottom are not driven to a dead end. For example, the system of the Civil Affairs Bureau soon spread to North Korea, and North Koreans who were really forced to a dead end could go to the Civil Affairs Bureau. The Civil Affairs Bureau can give them emergency relief and arrange work for them.

Of course, these jobs are usually arranged to work overseas as laborers.

Ordinary North Korean people are not even far behind how the Ming plundered North Korea in this mode of plundering of the Ming Dynasty. On the surface, the two sides are fair trade, and North Korean goods can be sold to Daming, and Daming goods can also be sold to North Korea. But here's the thing. North Korean goods are non-technical and have very low added value. The products of Daming have high technical content and belong to high value-added goods.

This is equivalent to two people fighting, the stronger side does not let the thin side avoid the battle, and can only stand there and compete with the strong person, and the result is naturally self-evident, the weak side is bullied miserably. But when it comes to fighting on stage, what people see is that the two sides are 'playing fair'. Generally do not think about why the weaker side goes up to fight?

At the same time, the capital of the Ming Dynasty can enter North Korea without hindrance, which is completely a long-term drive. The capital of the Ming Dynasty is much stronger than the capital of the Korean merchants, and the Ming Dynasty controls the regime of North Korea, so it is possible to promulgate a lot of favorable policies in favor of the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

North Korean capital is completely competitive. can only act as the lackey capital of the Ming Dynasty, so as to preserve the rich life of the superior people. And those Korean national capitals have become the targets of the joint encirclement and suppression of Daming capital and North Korean lackey capital, and under the pressure of huge capital, there is also the North Korean government blowing a black whistle on the side. Naturally, the capital of the Korean nation is in a state of collapse.

When the penetration of capital into North Korea is getting stronger and stronger, it is equivalent to the whole of North Korea working for the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the treatment is still lower than that of the Damin workers, and many scarce resources are constantly being drained out in the environment of commercial plunder. The most obvious is that North Korean women began to have the concept of marrying to Daming to enjoy happiness, and more and more North Korean women married to Daming.

At the same time, North Korea's resources are also being lost, and resources such as forests and minerals are continuing to be lost.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty was still squeezing North Korea's demographic dividend, and shiploads of Korean laborers were transported to overseas colonies in droves to clear the wasteland. At the same time, North Korea's agriculture is also developing towards cash crops, cotton cultivation is growing, and the scale of grain cultivation is shrinking.

The Ming Dynasty allocated the agriculture industry, which was not so efficient with individual labor, to North Korean agriculture, while the agriculture of the Ming Dynasty was responsible for producing projects with relatively high individual productivity.

Then the Ming Dynasty exported grain to North Korea, and North Korea exported cotton and other cash crops to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming were responsible for smelting minerals, while the Koreans were responsible for mining, which was also an industrial division of labor. Dirty work is outsourced, and technical links are retained locally.

The only contradiction is that the gap between the rich and the poor is very large, and a large number of scarce resources have flowed out, which makes the North Korean people a little miserable, but it is not that they can't survive, just a little tired, and the basic food and clothing are still guaranteed by the Ming Dynasty in North Korea.

In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, Japan has entered a small climax stage with the continuous development of the civil war. The Shogunate was defeated and retreated. Here, the shogunate bought military equipment from the Ming Dynasty and then launched a counteroffensive, and the plot was full of ups and downs for a while.

In such a situation, the trade between the Ming Dynasty and Japan has been in full swing.

The Tokugawa shogunate was no longer able to restrict the private trade between the local daimyo and the Ming dynasty, and the Ming goods continued to pour into Japan, plundering Japan's precious metals.

The Tsushima Domain was also taken advantage of by the Ming Dynasty, and successfully split the Tsushima Domain from Japan, established a 'Tsushima Kingdom', and was canonized by Zhu Youxiao, the gold content of this canonization is absolutely the highest, and the Tsushima Kingdom accepted the canonization, which means that the relationship with the Japanese emperor was completely severed and separated from the Japanese system.

In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty split two small kingdoms from Japan, and these independent small kingdoms all had the garrison of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had completed the strategic encirclement of Japan.

The Tokugawa shogunate was too busy to take care of itself at this time. Naturally, we are unable to take care of these problems.

Japan, which was in chaos, was no longer able to pose any threat to the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, internal turmoil also digested Japan's social contradictions.

Japan is like a time bomb, let them blow it up themselves, and they won't blow up others.

The colonial interests of the Ming in Indochina continued to grow, as Ming capital poured into the Indochina Peninsula. The scale of rice cultivation in the Indochina Peninsula continues to grow, and the commercial grain exported from the Indochina Peninsula to the Ming Dynasty in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse has grown to nearly 30 million stones, and it is still growing, and the development of the Indochina Peninsula by the Ming Dynasty is not very deep.

The countries of the Indochina Peninsula exported commercial grain, minerals and other raw materials to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty imported various industrial commodities to the Indochina Peninsula to complete the plunder. This model is not too difficult because the population of the Indochina Peninsula is not much, but it is done well, and the people of the countries in the Indochina Peninsula are not living too hard. After all, it is located in a tropical region and has abundant agricultural resources. Eating is not a problem, the weather is relatively hot, you don't need to wear many clothes, and the living is relatively simple, and you can live in a shed.

The Indochina Peninsula has become more and more important to the Ming Dynasty, because it has gradually become another granary of the Ming Dynasty. A granary with a high degree of commoditization of grain.

The colonization of the South Seas by the Ming Dynasty also continued, with the most developed islands of Luzon and Java, and the Luzon Islands being the most developed area.

Borneo has also been developed. However, the level of development is not high, and only some development has been carried out along the coast. Sumatra, on the other hand, has just been developed for two years. The degree of development is also not very high.

The degree of development is increasing with the continuous arrival of immigrants, and the production of commercial grain in the Nanyang region has begun to decline, and the agricultural side has mainly shifted to the production of cash crops, and the commercial grain only meets the needs of all parts of the Nanyang.

Sugarcane, rubber, cotton, pepper, cocoa, coffee beans, sisal, oil palm and tropical fruits continue to grow in scale of cash crops.

These cash crops have allowed Daming to obtain a stable source of industrial raw materials.

The development of Australia has not been too fast, and the number of immigrants to Australia has only just exceeded 300,000 in a few years.

But only these 300,000 people. However, because of the abundant resources, the output is constantly expanding.

A large amount of wheat produced in Australia is exported to the South Seas, Indochina Peninsula and other places to supplement the demand for wheat from the population in these regions.

Pastures in Australia are starting to produce wool, and the scale is considerable. At the same time, the coastal mining industry also produces a lot of copper ore. The ore is smelted in Australia, and the copper is then shipped back to Australia.

The colonization model of the Ming Dynasty to Australia was not to develop industry, but to develop industry appropriately. The copper content of copper ore is very low, and it is not cost-effective to transport these ores back, and it takes up too much space.

The idea of the Ming Dynasty trying to obtain copper resources from South America was also shattered in this year, the population of the colony of Banya was not enough, the copper smelting technology was poor, and there was not so much copper ore to be shipped back to the mainland, and the problem of insufficient high-quality copper ore resources has always been a major problem that plagued the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Daming is not without copper mines, but the mining cost is a bit high, so that the price of copper has been a bit high.

However, Australia's main colonial interests are agriculture, animal husbandry, and mining, and the smelting industry is very small and accounts for a small proportion. At present, ore transportation is still a relatively big problem, and Daming's maritime transportation capacity has not yet reached the extent that it can transport ore back in large quantities, so it has not fully developed various minerals for the time being.

Only when steamships are used on a large scale will the Ming Dynasty have the ability to include many lower-priced commodities in the list of maritime trade.

Otherwise, only when there is really nothing to ship, will those less valuable commodities be shipped back to the mainland.

New Zealand, not far from Australia, is the Taoyuan country at this time, and the number of immigrants is larger than Australia, and the population quickly exceeded 400,000.

Animal husbandry is the fastest growing industry in Taoyuan country, in order to protect the pasture, many planting projects have policy constraints, food can only rely on imports, what ginger, onions, garlic, vegetables, fruits can be planted, but it is limited to meet local needs. The animal husbandry industry in Taoyuan country has developed rapidly, and the output of raw materials such as wool, sheepskin, beef, and cowhide has continued to rise.

Zhu Youzhen is also far away from political struggles in Taoyuan Country, or he is excluded from the circle of political struggles, and Zhu Youzhen is really not at ease with this younger brother.

Zhu Youzhen has a fairly leisurely life in Taoyuan Country, anyway, he can go everywhere on the island, and he has a large ranch, and his income is also good, and he can enjoy what he should enjoy. The only thing that is not very comfortable is that the military and political power on the island is still controlled by his eldest brother, the emperor.

In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, the telegram was also laid to his Taoyuan country, and suddenly he had no power, and officials reported any problems to the mainland.

The so-called Taoyuan Country is nothing but Taoyuan Province.

The officials were sent from the mainland, and the army was also sent from the mainland, and he Zhu Youzhen was thousands of miles away from the mainland, and he had no great political ambitions in this life.

There is really no difference between Taoyuan and Taoyuan Province, the bank lends money to Taoyuan Province for development, which is equivalent to the central government first supporting the development of local provinces, as for when the money will be repaid, it depends on whether the local provinces are developing well or not, and if they develop well, then they will collect taxes from here to support backward provinces, and this tax is to repay the money!

However, Zhu Youzhen's life is also free, which is much better than being locked up in a small city. And with the continuous expansion of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of commodities are also enriched, at least in terms of enjoyment, Zhu Youxiao is worthy of this minister, as for Zhu Youxiao is not satisfied, it is not Zhu Youxiao who cares.

With the development of science and technology, the division of labor among people has become more and more detailed, and the local economic division of labor has become more and more detailed, and local rebellion has become more and more impossible.

Therefore, the subversion of the regime is basically a central coup d'état, or a defeat in a foreign war, and the emperor becomes the scapegoat, and the regime will be overthrown.

Zhu Youzhen was sent far away, and basically he didn't need to worry about any rebellion, because he had no conditions for rebellion at all, and his material life was guaranteed, and Zhu Youxiao didn't have to worry about too many other things.

Taoyuan country animal husbandry is developing rapidly, and the people who immigrate here are rich in per capita resources, and the climate here is very mild all year round, so it is indeed like coming to a paradise. As for the government! It is the same as the local New Deal system, where you pay taxes if you have income, and you don't pay taxes if you don't have income, and there are also safeguards for the basic right to subsistence.

Overseas interests continued to expand in the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, and many people opened up their dreams in the barren land overseas, sweating and dedicating their strength.

These overseas resources are also rapidly improving the livelihood of the local people in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Youxiao continues to tinker with his black technology - heavy machine gun in the capital! (To be continued.) )