With food in his hands and no panic in his heart, this is the best portrayal of Zhu Youxiao's current situation. Next year, the output of commercial grain in the northeast region will increase by a large margin, and the cultivated land that Taiwan can develop will basically be developed, and the output of commercial grain will also increase.

The development of Luzon and Jawa Island can also export commercial grain for the Ming Dynasty.

The scale of state-owned capital development in Australia will also be expanded next year, but it will take a few years to export commercial grain to the mainland on a large scale.

At this time, the Khmer Phnom Penh Dynasty sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and Zhu Youxiao asked the Ministry of Rites to receive it, and the next morning the envoy of the Phnom Penh Dynasty presented the Phnom Penh Dynasty King's tribute form.

Zhu Youxiao read the tribute of the Phnom Penh Dynasty, and immediately issued an order to reward the wealth and silk brocade, the value of which was much higher than the tribute paid by the Khmer.

This is a courtesy exchange between countries, naturally don't be so stingy, after all, the Ming Dynasty, as a **** country, always has the bearing of a **** country.

Of course, the reward is not given in vain. Zhu Youxiao immediately decided to return to Khmer to negotiate with Khmer on trade and development.

The Khmer Phnom Penh Dynasty was the most deferential to the Ming Dynasty among the countries of the Indochina Peninsula, and Zhu Youxiao did not have the idea of invading the Khmer by force, but decided to cooperate with the Khmer to peacefully exploit the Khmer's resources.

As long as the Phnom Penh dynasty is willing to open its market and accept investment from Ming capital in agriculture, mining and other fields within its borders, the Ming dynasty can list the Phnom Penh dynasty as a protectorate.

This is a kind of cooperation, that is, both parties make the cake bigger, and both sides can reap the benefits. Of course, the Ming Dynasty will gain greater benefits, because the Ming Dynasty wants to export high-tech goods to the Khmer. Higher added value. And the two sides through cooperation. The Khmer can produce more agricultural and mineral products. These are all products with no added value.

With the cooperation of the two sides, the Ming had commercial interests in the Khmer, and the Ming would also provide armed protection to the Khmer from external invasion.

It was a commercial colonial model that was later developed in the United States after World War II. Previously, Europeans had used the model of military colonization to plunder externally.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty could completely adopt the commercial colonization model after World War II, because the Ming Dynasty had the largest commoditized economy of this era, and it surpassed the Europeans in manufacturing by a large margin.

At this time, the Europeans could not use this model for foreign colonization, because European countries did not have such a complete range of goods.

Europeans at this time. In fact, there are few advantageous commodities at all.

After the Industrial Revolution of the British, the dominant commodities were nothing more than cotton, steel, and coal, and before the Opium War, they could not even compete with China in normal trade, and in the end they could only export opium to China in large quantities.

At this time, the commoditized economy of the Ming Dynasty was much more thorough than that of the Qing Dynasty, and there were many bulk advantageous commodities. Cotton, raw silk, porcelain, tea, and a variety of steel, glassware, and a variety of household items.

At this time, the production capacity of many commodities was already very strong. Therefore, it is necessary to continuously expand the market, and there are only two ways to expand the market, one is the expansion of the internal market. New Deal reforms are needed to consolidate resources. So that ordinary people can have something to do and money to make, so that they can consume these goods.

The other is the expansion of the external market, and the market will not be very large until the external market is developed. For example, a few years ago, when North Korea and the Ming Dynasty had a full-scale trade, the trade volume was relatively low at the beginning. However, with the continuous investment of the capital of the Ming Dynasty in North Korea and the development of various resources, the trade volume is increasing year by year.

Although the Khmer was also trading with the Ming Dynasty at this time, the market was not fully opened, and there were still a lot of resources that had not been developed.

The Khmer was slow to develop these resources because the Khmer lacked both technology and capital. If Daming capital can enter the Khmer, it can bring capital and technology, thereby increasing the speed of resource development.

At the same time that the Khmer envoy came to Daming, the Siamese envoy also arrived half a month later. There are still a lot of official exchanges between the Ming and Siam, and the king of Siam was afraid of making the Ming unhappy before, and the Ming is now expanding everywhere in the South Seas, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly sent envoys to pay tribute.

Since Siam bowed his head and admitted his mistake, it was natural to show some sincerity, and Zhu Youxiao also rewarded some wealth and brocade, and then returned to Siam in the same way, and also negotiated with Siam in accordance with the model of cooperative development.

In fact, negotiations with the Khmer and Siam are more like making demands. Did the Khmer and Siam dare to refuse? Obviously, it could not be refused, because the military power of the Ming Dynasty had already been deployed to the doorsteps of the Khmer and Siam.

Pifu is not guilty of his crimes, does not develop the resources of the Indochina Peninsula, and does not export commercial grain for the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will have a hard time.

Although the Ming Dynasty could develop Nanyang and Australia to obtain commercial grain, there were only so many laborers, and if there was a little more labor in agriculture, there would be less labor in industry, construction, and the military.

Indochina not only has a large number of agricultural resources, but also a lot of labor. If these labor forces are well organized, they will be able to produce a large amount of commercial grain, and the Ming Dynasty will be able to reduce labor input in agriculture and use more labor force in the development of industry and military affairs.

As expected, after the Ming delegation arrived in Khmer and Siam, the negotiations went relatively smoothly. With the support of the Royal Navy, neither the Khmer nor Siam dared to refuse the demands of the Ming Dynasty.

Daming asked them to open the market, they opened up, let them open the capital investment channel, and they also opened up. At the same time, the Ming garrisons in Khmer and Siam also talked about.

The purpose of the garrison was mainly to protect the security of the Ming capital in Khmer and Siam, and the Ming Dynasty would also set up embassies in Khmer and Siam to maintain communication with the Khmer Phnom Penh Dynasty and the Ayutthaya Dynasty of Siam.

A series of terms were signed, and Ming commodities could be exported to Khmer and Siam unimpeded, and at the same time, agriculture, forestry, minerals, fisheries and other resources could be developed in Khmer and Siam.

After the terms were signed, the capital of the state-owned consortium of the Ming Dynasty poured into the Khmer and Siam, and began to exploit the resources of rice fields, forestry, minerals, and fisheries in the Khmer and Siamese hired labor. The main development is still rice fields, and the rice production conditions in Siam and Khmer are very good.

Siam's arable land resources reached more than 300 million mu, and Siam's population at this time was only about 6 million, and there were large tracts of arable land that were not developed because they simply did not use that much arable land. So it's still forests everywhere or something.

As the Ming Dynasty brought Siam into the commodity economy market, a large number of resources will be gradually developed.

The Khmer has a small area of arable land, but it has nearly 100 million acres, and a large area of land is located in the alluvial plain of the Mekong River, which is as suitable for rice cultivation as Siam. (To be continued.) )