This summer, the corn was also ripe.

Due to the increase in the scale of breeding in the northern provinces, the area of corn cultivation has also increased significantly, and many of them are agricultural companies that use corn as fodder. The corn yield was not too high in this year, and this thing was introduced into the Ming Dynasty during the Jiajing period, and the planting area in the Ming Dynasty was already very large, and almost all provinces had it.

After harvesting, the yield of corn in the experimental field reached 630 kilograms per mu, and the yield was once again against the sky, although it was half the highest yield in later generations.

The progress of agricultural technology gave Zhu Youxiao the confidence to develop industry on a large scale at this time. These new agricultural technologies have begun to enter the popularization stage in full swing.

The number of railway construction workers has exceeded one million in the summer of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and the number of workers involved in the construction is increasing by two or three hundred thousand every month.

In order to build these railways, a lot of manpower and material resources were deployed. A large number of rails and sleepers were transported to the construction site, and after the workers had laid the roadbed, they were laid on them.

The entire railway line was built quickly.

Before the autumn harvest, the railway can be repaired to Heilongjiang in the northeast, and the grain harvested in the summer in Liaodong has begun to be transported to the capital by railway.

The railway to Zhangjiakou is also about to be completed, and the difficulty of building this railway is the largest among the currently built railway lines, but under the power of new explosives, it successfully defeated the natural terrain and built the railway to Zhangjiakou.

The railway to Zhangjiakou will also be cultivated in the grassland Mingtong area. As long as the railway is built, it is the territory that the Ming can firmly control.

Even if the Mongols in the Ming region wanted to rebel, they had no chance. Over the years. The Mongols in the Ming region had a good life. There is labor to pay. There is also a harvest, the Mongols are willing to live such a small life, and the imperial court is naturally happy to see it.

The grassland can be stable, can produce grassland economic raw materials, and the grassland will not be over-exploited and degraded, as long as these points can be guaranteed, it will be successful. If they want to rebel, the imperial court can quickly transfer troops to suppress it by railroad at any time. And now these Mongolian herdsmen have their own pastures and yurts, cattle and sheep, and they only rebel after their brains were kicked by donkeys.

Snow disasters are still a major problem on the grasslands. However, with the railway, it was easier for the imperial court to provide disaster relief, and the railway could run in the snow, unless the snow was too heavy.

As for whether the Mongols occupied the steppes or not, this does not matter. The Mongols were destined to be a soy sauce nation in the future, and as long as they were included in the rule of the Ming Dynasty, it was impossible to split out.

This railway, which was built to the grassland, will also be an important communication line for Zhu Youxiao to launch the war against Mongolia.

The railway trunk line to the Western Regions is estimated to be completed after the spring of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and this progress has made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied.

The main railway line in Kannai was built at a rapid pace. Because there is no shortage of workers in the Guannai, the main railway line has been laid in Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan in the summer of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse. It's all connected to Beijing.

The next step is to continue to connect these railways to form a dense rail network. In this era when there are no cars, the only way to improve the efficiency of transportation by land is to rely on railways.

The surveying and construction of the feeder railways is in full swing, and the railways bring great benefits to both factory owners and farmers, and it is the factory owners who benefit the most, which means that their goods can be sold to further markets.

A large number of railway construction activities have made the northern economy not so cold in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, but the economy has indeed begun to cool down and cool down, and the impetuous social atmosphere has begun to slowly precipitate.

By contrast, the southern provinces were more depressed, and a large number of people began to emigrate or move to their native New Deal areas to make a living.

The metallurgical industry is almost completely finished, and in the textile industry, the private textile industry is basically finished. However, in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the first state-owned textile factory was built in the Songjiang Prefecture area, and then the state-owned textile factories began to blossom all over Songjiang Prefecture.

Although the southern provinces have not begun to reform, the state-owned capital consortium has begun to transfer light industry to some areas in the south.

First of all, the southern provinces are more suitable for the development of light industry, and at the same time, with the large influx of state-owned enterprises into the southern market, they also have the confidence to transfer their industries to the south.

Some female textile workers returned to work, but the textile mills could not provide too many jobs, and before the thorough reform, it was impossible for the imperial court to carry out large-scale construction in the southern provinces.

The relocation of factories to the south still could not change the depression in the southern market.

Especially in the densely populated areas of the Yangtze River Basin, the rural natural economy has begun to collapse on a large scale under the impact of the commoditized economy.

However, the exploitation of the internal market is not for the purpose of plunder, and those peasants and workers who have gone bankrupt can still emigrate through channels such as the Civil Affairs Bureau.

In terms of foreign trade, the trade situation in the Indochina Peninsula has basically stabilized. The defeat of Annam greatly shocked Siam (Thailand), which at the behest of the Ming Dynasty progressively opened up the commodity market and capital investment. At the same time, Siam and Burma both formally signed suzerainty agreements with the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, it was clear that Siam and Myanmar were the suzerainty states, but there were no clear regulations. It's just that the relationship between tribute and reward, the specific obligations, responsibilities, and how to do business are not specified.

After the signing of this suzerainty agreement, Siam and Burma, under the hegemony of the Ming Dynasty, could only obediently open their commodity markets and capital investment.

Merchants of the Ming Dynasty could go to the Indochina Peninsula to do business unimpeded, and commodities could also be sold to all parts of the Indochina Peninsula through the mode of trading houses and indigenous compradors, and purchase raw materials and specialties from all parts of the Indochina Peninsula.

The state-owned capital consortium of the Ming Dynasty has directly begun to invest in the Indochina Peninsula, and the commercial grain here has become more and more important to the Ming Dynasty, especially in the northern provinces after the reform, the land enclosure movement is very high, and a large number of peasants have left the land to invest in industrial construction. More external food imports are needed.

As for the southern provinces of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the scale of raw material cultivation is even larger. This is the only industry in the southern provinces that has not been hit, but because of the development of industry, the market is better than before.

As long as it's cotton, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it. As long as it is raw silk, it is also not worried about selling. The demand for silk in the local market has been expanding with the development, and the demand for silk in the overseas market has also expanded with the increase in the scale of overseas trade. Only the sugar industry has been hit harder, with the cost of sugar in Taiwan and Nanyang being lower than in traditional home regions, and the market price is also lower. The quality is also better, and it is well received by the market.

In the whole of East Asia, only the Ming Dynasty has a commercial cane sugar industry, and these commercial cane sugar are exported to the Indochina Peninsula, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Africa, the Middle East, and India.

India has its own sugar industry, but the price is higher than that of Daming. However, Daming did not export a large amount of these cane sugar to India and other countries, because the speed of overseas development is relatively fast, maritime transportation is a bit worse, and local goods have grown a lot with the development of the industrial revolution.

The trade with India was not very smooth, especially after the expansion of the Ming Dynasty's textile exports to India in the 12th year of the Apocalypse, India simply banned the import of Ming textiles. But India has not banned the export of raw materials. At the same time, in terms of luxury goods, etc. The maharajas and nobles of the Indians were willing to buy it.

The trade between the two sides is still beneficial to Daming, with high value-added goods in exchange for low-value-added industrial raw materials, but it is more difficult for bulk commodities to hit the Indian market in large quantities.

The trade with the Middle East is almost the same, but the Middle East people are not too rich these years, and the productivity of Africans is even lower.

The Ming Dynasty has not yet begun to carry out any overseas colonization in the Middle East and South Africa, but in the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, colonial activities began.

The target of this colonization campaign was South Africa, where Zhu knew there was a lot of gold and diamonds. Diamonds are not so popular in Daming, this year Daming has not been influenced by Western culture, for diamonds, although there is a certain market, but not to the extent that it is necessary, so the price is not so high.

However, diamonds have industrial uses, and this resource is also very important.

Of course, gold is more important, the Ming Dynasty occupied this place first, and in the future, it can be mined on a large scale, and the gold reserves in South Africa are the richest in the world, which is richer than the South America occupied by the current plate duck. When the time comes, with enough gold, Da Ming can play the gold standard directly.

Of course, gold mining is gold mining, and the plan to rule India has not been abandoned by Zhu Youxiao. The Mongols can rule India, but the Ming Dynasty can't be Mao?

Jin Yiwei began to follow the trading houses in India, began to collect various political and military intelligence in India, and began to selectively contact some local princely families.

For those princely states, as long as the Ming Dynasty gives them the confidence of victory, what does it matter if they defect in battle for the sake of interests, anyway, they will only change a central power at that time, they are the same local tyrants, and they still enjoy the benefits of ruling.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing the other side will win all battles, Indians are relatively unfamiliar with the Ming Dynasty, especially the merchant ships that go to India to trade are the Ming state-owned merchant fleet, and will not reveal too much information about the Ming Dynasty to India, but the Ming trading house is to the coastal cities of India to trade with the Indians.

In the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, the strategic goal of opening up the Indian market formulated by Zhu Youxiao had been sent to Gao Bangzuo, commander of the Nanyang Military Region.

Zhu Youxiao's decision was to first open the Indian market and bleed India, so as to control the scale of the war. When the blood of India is almost gone, further wars will be waged against the Mughals.

After receiving the order, Gao Bangzuo simply asked India to expand the scale of trade, but the result was naturally rejected by the Mughal dynasty in India.

After the refusal, the news came back in the summer of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse. As soon as the Hanoi War ended, Gao Bangzo pulled out the machine guns of the Ming army in Hanoi, and asked for a million rounds of machine gun ammunition from the mainland, and then sent more than 10,000 soldiers, escorted by twelve battleships, brazenly entered the Henghe River valley, and carried out a landing, and then attacked the city all the way, along the Ganges River all the way to the capital of the Mughal Dynasty.

The Ming army was extremely well-equipped, and along the way, the princely armies were defeated.

Every time the Ming army captured a city, it only robbed the property of the Indian government, but it did not infringe on those ordinary Indians, and it was not allowed to rape women, arson and the like. So much so that those cities occupied by the Ming army basically did not resist.

The place where the Ming army landed is the later Bangladesh, which is the estuary of the Ganges River basin, the Ganges River flows through a quarter of India's territory, and it is also the main river basin of the Ming Dynasty's current trade with India.

In this era, with the Mongols ruling India, the Middle East religion was introduced, so India was in a state of religious mixture, and the conflict between Hinduism and ****** religion was more serious, but it was not divided into three countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh and India as in later generations.

India at this time was even bigger than India in later generations.

The sudden occupation of the lower Ganges River in India by the Ming army and the defeat of several princely states caused a great shock to the Mughal Empire.

In order to deal with the invasion of the Ming army, the Mughal Dynasty immediately assembled an army and directly pulled out an army of more than 300,000 people, and slaughtered in the direction of the lower reaches of the Ganges River.

At this time, the Ming army was raiding the house.

After defeating the princely states in the later Bangladesh region, he directly copied these princely states for thousands of years, and the harvest was extremely rich.

At this time, India had not yet been colonized. India is also an agricultural country, commodities have been exported for a long time, and gold, silver and jewelry have been flowing into India in a steady stream, and they have been concentrated in the hands of these princely families. Robbing the Indian people is too low-level, and robbing these princely families is the real oil and water.

After all, the money in the hands of the Indian people can be obtained through commodity trade, and the money in the hands of these princely states is not so easy to get.

After the war, because he had occupied a lot of territory, Gao Bangzuo sent 20,000 marines from the South Seas to land in India to control the occupied areas, and personally went to India to investigate.

After arriving in India, Gao Bangzuo saw the extremely unfair Indian caste system, those who lived at the bottom of the society were extremely miserable, and the whole society was full of oppression and slavery.

Immediately, Gao Bangzuo threw away the shame of playing the invader 108,000 miles away, and directly sent it to Zhu Youxiao, putting forward an idea similar to 'liberating the Indian people'.

For Gao Bangzuo, this idea is a bit sincere, as a Confucian literati, seeing that there is such an unfair social system in this world, and the dividends of this system are actually a group of Indian princely nobles who have no humanistic connotation and humane feelings, it is better to let the Ming Dynasty rule the country and eliminate this extremely unfair class oppression in India.

When the telegram was sent to the capital and the song was delivered to Zhu Youxiao's hands, Zhu Youxiao directly clapped his hands after reading the content.

How can we forget the weapon of human rights, India's biggest weakness is the lack of humanitarianism and class oppression!

As long as this banner is held high and the discipline of the army is restricted, the Ming Dynasty will not call it an invasion of India, but a liberation of the Indian people.

In this way, isn't it famous to become a teacher?

As for whether the Indian caste system is really to be eliminated, it will be considered later according to the actual situation. If the cost is too great, then divide the area on a small scale to engage in face engineering. (To be continued.) )