Thundered.

On the train to Nanxiong State.

The Great Tomorrow was a little dissatisfied with the speed of the train.

It looks like a lot of momentum, but in fact, even the horses can't outrun.

However, the biggest advantage of steam locomotives is their strong traction.

Therefore, this kind of train can carry a lot of goods at one time, which is relatively the most advanced means of transportation at present.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, there have been two railways built at the same time, that is, the western artery connecting Guangzhou, Changsha and Wuchang, and the eastern artery connecting Guangzhou, Nanchang and Yingtianfu.

The only problem is that large-scale infrastructure construction is too expensive.

If the financial reform of the Ming and Yuan Dynasty paper money had not been completed, Zhu Daohua would not even think about it.

But now, with the money printing press in hand, this massive investment in infrastructure has become the locomotive of the economy.

However, the problem is that the money printed out can not be operated in society, but flows to the purchase of land and real estate market, which drives the price of land and real estate to rise, and instead leads to the setback of the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, the temptation to invest in real estate is just too great.

However, fortunately, the private capital of the Ming Dynasty is sufficient now, and because Emperor Zhu himself does not know much about finance, the financial policy of the Ming Dynasty basically tends to be conservative, and he is very cautious about the behavior of starting the money printing machine to print money.

It's all too careful.

Therefore, there is no great stride forward in the construction of infrastructure such as railway investment, and now it is only very conservative to formulate a railway plan with Wuchang, Yingtianfu and Guangzhou as the core within ten years.

And most of them are not allocated financially, but to absorb private funds as much as possible, after all, the Ming Dynasty is a freak of feudal monarchy mixed with part of capitalism.

Railways are not built for social welfare, but for making money.

And this railway line from Guangzhou to Nanxiongzhou has become a demonstration line, which is to let the big guys in Guangdong see the benefits of the railway.

At this time on this train.

The Cantonese bigwigs, who were absolutely loyal to Emperor Zhu, were not dissatisfied with the speed of the train like Emperor Zhu, but were shocked and surprised.

This railway was originally a side road, built temporarily to support the Jiangxi battlefield, and it was not a very solid line.

Now, it has been strengthened on the basis of the original line, and the roadbed has been tamped, making this line a two-way railway line that can pass heavy haul trains, and it will also be diverted in Nanxiongzhou in the future, with one side facing the northwest and the other extending to the northeast.

"It's really amazing, the goods pulled by this train are at least the amount of thousands of carriages!"

"With this train, it will not be difficult for goods to pass through the world in Kyushu in the future."

"There must be something to be made, this train is much faster than a ship, and there are too few places in the world that can carry big ships after all."

"It's not just about transporting goods, it's not bad to transport people, in the past, from Guangzhou to Wuchang and Yingtianfu, if ordinary people walked, they had to walk for a month or two, but now if there is a railway, you can get there in two or three days, and it is much safer."

"Yes, yes, it's too expensive to go for a few months, if there is railway transportation, it won't be so difficult to go to Yingtianfu."

In the train of carriages, the local tyrants in Guangdong talked a lot.

It's no wonder that the local tyrants of Guangdong are interested in this train.

No way.

In the past, when Guangdong scholars wanted to go to Nanjing for the exam, they had to leave two or three months in advance.

I was lucky to go to Nanjing.

If you want to go to Beijing.

That's a year in advance.

It's a long way to go, and you might come across a robber who wants you to eat some wonton noodles or bench noodles.

In addition, the current Pearl River Delta has begun to look like a "world factory" in later generations.

A large number of factories produce goods that also need a market and need to be supported by the transportation of goods.

Before that.

If you want to transport goods on a large scale, you can only transport them along the oceans, rivers and rivers.

And now, with this railway, can't you go anywhere in the world?

And it is a real cargo to the world.

On this train.

The invitees are all local tyrants in Guangdong.

There are also members of the Guangdong Council and the Guangzhou Government Council.

as well as several important ministers of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Luo Jiangong, the governor of the Strait Governor's Office, who returned to Guangzhou from the Strait Governor's Mansion to report on the war in the Indian Ocean.

"Your Majesty, the Indian Ocean Fleet has won a great victory, and now our army has taken control of the Indian Ocean and signed a treaty with the Maratha country, and the Indian market has been reopened." Luo Jiangong said.

"The next thing is the war on Indian land, now the Britons are definitely not willing to lose, they have gathered troops on land, and spent a lot of money to recruit 30,000 new mercenaries, counting their original 50,000 Indian indigenous mercenaries, and then counting 15,000 lobster soldiers transferred from Britain itself, now Britain's Indian colonies have 85,000 army forces in the South Asian subcontinent!"

"Eighty-five thousand total troops, but the Indians don't have to worry, as long as they can defeat the fifteen thousand lobster soldiers, this South Asian subcontinent will be controlled by the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Daohua said.

His words made several ministers present look at each other.

Emperor Zhu's undisguised contempt for local Indian mercenaries made them think that the emperor was not. It's too underestimated.

"Your Majesty, there are also some ethnic groups that can fight in India, especially the cavalry, under the command of the Britons, there are Gurkha cavalry, Punjabi cavalry, Sikh cavalry, Bengali light cavalry, the total strength of the cavalry army has reached more than 30,000, and the cavalry force of the British side only relies on one or two brigades of dragoons, and the enemy must not be underestimated."

Luo Fangbo stroked his beard and said.

Zhu Daohua couldn't help but nod when he heard this: "It's because I am a little underestimated by the enemy, India is thousands of miles away, how to fight, the decision should all be sent to the front line." ”

Zhu Daohua thought for a while and said: "You can set up an organization to manage the war on the Indian side and the division of the feudal states, the cabinet should shoot people, and the Indian feudal alliance army will also send some people, and the matter will be discussed and communicated before it is handled, and there should be no things that hinder each other." ”

On the Indian side, with the British's fleet crushed, the only struggle they could make was on land.

And the Ming Dynasty, who controls the sea, is almost invincible, not to mention that Emperor Zhu really feels that the combat effectiveness of Indian mercenaries is questionable.

Of course, this is some of the bad influences that later generations brought to Boss Zhu.

Maybe the people of India are very brave and good at fighting in this era?

But then again.

The Ming court would not interfere with the system implemented by the feudal domains.

In other words, a vassal like Sun Shiyi needs to build his own national system.

When the time comes, the Indian vassals can also recruit natives as soldiers.

Daming's phased goal in India has been completed, and this large market with a population of almost 200 million has become Daming's exclusive market.

What is the total population of the world now?

The total is less than 900 million.

Now the population of Daming is more than 200 million, and if the Han land is taken, it will reach 300 million.

The world's 900 million people, there are 500 million market is monopolized by the Ming Dynasty, there is such a vast market, the rapid development of the Ming Dynasty industrialization can continue to develop at a high speed for decades!

The high fiscal revenues brought by commercial taxes and industrialization could also support the Ming Dynasty's conquests everywhere.

It's just that the territory is too small.

You have to keep trying.

Come to think of it.

Zhu Daohua shifted his mind from India to Nanyang.

Now the Ming Dynasty has two major strongholds in Nanyang, one is the Strait Governor's Palace, and the other is Borneo.

At the same time, he did not accept the request of some Nanyang Sultanates to claim the title of vassal - according to Li, it is not casual to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

You have to go through the assessment and meet certain conditions - unless you get the special permission of the Great Tomorrow.

The Governor's Office of the Straits controls the Straits of Malacca.

And in Borneo, skirmishes take place almost every day.

Through the war, Lan Phong Province continued to expand its territory to the north and east through military cantonments, and now it has basically occupied most of Borneo.

"There are now Dutch and Spanish colonies in the South Seas, the Dutch have lost their value, and there is no need for the Governor of Batavia on the island of Java to exist."

Zhu Daohua said.

There were a large number of Chinese plantations in the vicinity of Batavia, which were compromises that the Dutch had to make after the Dutch East India Company and the Ming Dynasty had to divide the battle between the Dutch East India Company and the Ming Dynasty, and after this year's development, there are now Chinese plantations all around Batavia.

The fertile volcanic soil of Java is very fertile land for farming.

In the future, there will be a population of 100 million people on this small island.

Such a land, the Chinese are definitely interested.

"The Dutch joined the British-led anti-Ming alliance, which means that their previous contract with the Ming has been nullified, and the military cantonment on the island of Java will be drawn to form an army brigade to drive the Dutch out of Batavia!"

Zhu Daohua pointed to Batavia on the map of the South Seas and said.

This is not difficult to do, and there is no need for the Ming to send troops, because the plantations on the island of Java are all armed plantations, and every Chinese young man is armed with a flintlock pistol.

Give a place in an army brigade.

I don't know how many young people on Java Island rushed to join the army.

And the Dutch also knew that their Batavia colony was unlikely to remain for long.

As a result, no troops were added to Batavia, and even people were withdrawn from Batavia, and the Dutch had a small colony in India - but now it seems that not only would they not be able to keep Batavia, but the Indian colonies would soon be lost.

After deciding what happened on the island of Java.

Zhu Daohua's gaze looked to the north of the map, north of Borneo. Luzon!

(End of chapter)