Chapter 198: Support
After the start of the Liaodong War, Xiao Tianjian personally sat in Beijing, paying attention to the war in the north that was related to the future of Liaodong and even China, and at the same time, the newly established maritime trade group company in the south also began to develop rapidly.
Through the monopoly of overseas trade, the profit of the group is very considerable, and the goods after the unification of export prices have made all parties obtain greater profits, and the most unhappy thing is probably the Dutch and Spaniards and even the Portuguese and even the British, the unification of China and the establishment of the maritime trade group company, although they have been allowed to trade with them, but it has greatly increased the price of goods, so that they have paid a great price.
Both the Dutch and the Spaniards protested, but it was clear that their protests were ineffective, and the Great and Chinese Dynasties would not heed their clamor at all.
Moreover, the development of the navy is also very rapid, in addition to the original Nanjing Shipyard, Ningbo Shipyard, with the pacification of the south, the shipyards along the coast of Dazhong, North Korea have developed extremely rapidly in the past two years, and large shipyards have sprung up in the coastal areas like mushrooms after a rain, these shipyards have both official shipyards and a large number of non-governmental people to invest in the construction of factories, so that China's shipbuilding industry, which has been seriously shrinking, seems to have been rejuvenated overnight, and a large number of sea ships have been built by shipyards around the country and put into operation.
These ships have a large number of fishing boats, but also many large cargo ships, and Xiao Tianjian also deliberately guided shipyards around the country to imitate Western-style sailing ships, or guided shipwrights from all over the country to find ways to combine the advantages of Chinese and Western-style sailing ships to build new ships that combine Chinese and Western sailboats, so as to change the backward situation of Chinese-made sailboats.
The navy also benefited greatly from this, in addition to the delivery of one plywood ship after another, they also recruited more and more sailors, and in addition to them, even the maritime trading group company also purchased many new galleons to put into operation, and the maritime trade along the entire coast of China began to flourish.
After the navy swelled up in strength, it began to cruise on the sea, and the islands dotted along the coast have become the focus of the navy's patrols, and groups of pirates have been exterminated by the navy, which has also made groups of pirates see that in the future, the days when they still want to rely on plundering and plundering as before at sea are gone, so many pirates have no choice but to land, either honestly surrender and accept resettlement and return to farming, or they are selected to serve in the navy as soldiers. Or go to the maritime group to recruit as a sailor, and after a year, the piracy that has plagued the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years along the coast has been controlled to a large extent.
The development of sea trade, but also for the rapid development of the DPRK brought huge returns, a large number of material exports, in addition to bringing back huge profits to the people, but also let the customs of the DPRK obtain a large number of tariffs, the maritime trade group is to make a lot of money, as the largest shareholder of the DPRK court, naturally is the most profitable, this year, the profits obtained by the sea trade alone, basically met the cost of the war in Liaodong.
If this were not the case, the Great China and North Korea would brazenly launch such a large-scale battle in Liaodong, I am afraid that the country would have been declared bankrupt that year, which is also the confidence of Xiao Tianjian to dare to mobilize so many materials and troops to devote to the Liaodong battlefield.
Another advantage is that with the development of maritime trade, at the same time led to the development of many local economies, the most favorite Chinese products of Westerners are raw silk, silk, porcelain, tea, lacquerware, paper and other products, with the rapid development of maritime trade in the past two years, the output of export products around the country has been driven.
The silk industry has driven the silkworm breeding industry, and also led to the development of the silk reeling industry and the textile industry, and a large number of textile workshops have been set up by businessmen, absorbing a lot of textile workers and silkworm breeding farmers, and improving the lives of many people.
And porcelain, tea and other industries have also begun to develop substantially, in the past they had to secretly do smuggling business, at every turn but also by the government hindered and all kinds of exploitation, now the Great China and North Korea to implement a new customs and taxation system, as long as they pay taxes, and obey the management of the Haimao Group, and foreigners also want their products, they can continue to produce and supply to the Haimao Group for export.
In this way, it has also absorbed a considerable amount of idle human resources, which has played a very good role in stabilizing the society, so that the displaced people in many places have been resettled, and they can eat together, as long as they have food and clothing, the common people will naturally not want to risk losing their heads to become thieves, so that the chaos in various places will gradually stabilize.
In addition, the armies in various parts of the interior are also strengthening the elimination of small bandits in various places, and groups of thieves who are wandering in the localities are becoming more and more difficult to survive under the joint encirclement and suppression of the army and the people, and there are constantly small groups of bandits who have been exterminated by the large and medium army, and in addition, the local government has posted notices informing the thieves in various places to surrender immediately, and they can be resettled without blame for the past, so some of the thieves who have been displaced from the thieves have gone out of the mountains and forests and surrendered to the government, so that the bandits in various places on the land have gradually decreased a lot. In the fourth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, only the big battlefield of Liaodong remained.
Another thing to mention is the use of troops in Yunnan, under the auspices of Li Xuanzhu, mobilized 20,000 elites of Sichuan and Yunnan into northern Burma, launched a war against the Kingdom of Burma, the king of Burma tried to resist at first, but their indigenous army met the large Chinese army, when even if it was a mess, a year down, the expeditionary force continued to penetrate deep into northern Burma, Li Xuanzhu according to Xiao Tianjian's requirements for him, did not dare to drive straight in, but adopted a steady strategy, captured a place, and established a walled fort, And immigrated from Yunnan and Sichuan to these places to farm, and it was clear that they had no intention of going back.
Therefore, in the past year, the expeditionary force sent by Li Xuanzhu went hundreds of miles deep into northern Burma, and attacked the southern part of the Kingdom of Burma step by step, and Burma also fell into panic.
For this reason, some people in the Burmese royal group proposed to hand over the Yongli Emperor to the Dazhong Dynasty in exchange for the withdrawal of troops from the Dazhong Dynasty, and at the same time proclaim themselves to the Dazhong Dynasty, accept the canonization of the Dazhong Dynasty, and become a vassal state of the Dazhong Dynasty in the future, in exchange for the peace of their Burmese Kingdom in the future.
However, the Burmese king refused to give in, and there was already a momentum in the country, with members of the royal family trying to secretly kill the current Burmese king, and the Burmese kingdom could fall into a civil war at any time.
Emperor Yongli is said to be very unhappy in Myanmar now, confined in a small place by the Burmese army, nominally for protection, but in essence it is equivalent to being imprisoned, eating and drinking is also very little, and even can't eat enough, in short, the kingdom of Myanmar is now also because of the Yongli matter, began to have civil strife, it is estimated that it will not take long to solve this matter.
After Xiao Tianjian learned the news, he immediately ordered the personnel of the Special Intelligence Department to find a way to infiltrate the Kingdom of Burma, contact those who tried to rebel, and ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to allocate a special fund to the Special Intelligence Department to provide the opponents of the current Burmese king, that is, the younger brother of the Burmese king, so that they could expand their power and carry out the rebellion in the next step.
This kind of thing has long been used as a means in later countries, and it has long been used badly, and in this era, Dazhong and North Korea are considered a superpower in the world, Xiao Tianjian certainly does not want to see a government hostile to China in surrounding countries, and the current king of Burma is obviously a sympathizer of the former Ming, so he is also the enemy of Dazhong and North Korea, which is completely inconsistent with the future interests of Dazhong and North Korea, so it is necessary to eliminate it.
But Xiao Tianjian is also very clear that it is not yet the time when he can use all his troops, and it is impossible for the Dazhong Army to send more, and the terrain of Myanmar is complex, there are many mountains and forests, and it is unrealistic to completely destroy the Kingdom of Myanmar by force at least in a short period of time, even if the Burmese king can be solved by force, the Dazhong Dynasty may have to invest at least 100,000 troops into Burma, whether it is manpower or material resources, the Dazhong Dynasty cannot afford it at the moment.
Therefore, he decided to adopt the method of later generations, let the enemy fight among themselves, and secretly support an opponent of the Burmese king, let them overthrow the current Burmese king, and raise a new pro-China Burmese king, which is in the practical interests of the current Great and Chinese Dynasty.
In addition, now that the maritime power of the DPRK is booming, Xiao Tianjian's appetite is not just satisfied with expanding exports, his next purpose is to promote the maritime power of the DPRK to develop in a farther direction, the recent target, of course, he also chose India, and now in India, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the British have all intervened, and the DPRK wants to make a place in India in the future, and Myanmar is very important here, at least you can build a port in Myanmar first, as a bridgehead for the next step into IndiaTherefore, it is better to send troops to destroy Burma at the moment, and it is better to first establish a pro-China regime in Burma, which is more in line with the future interests of China, China and the DPRK.
For Xiao Tianjian's idea, the cabinet ministers also think it is a good idea, now because Yongli has a large army against Burma, obviously the cabinet ministers are very worried, afraid that Xiao Tianjian will do such an irrational thing in anger, and now Xiao Tianjian proposed to secretly support the younger brother of the king of Myanmar to fight for power, which is obviously much less than the cost of fighting a big war, so the household department did not say a word, and allocated 200,000 dragon coins to let the special intelligence department be responsible for this matter, and at the same time ordered Zheng Zhilong of the Haimao Group to send two new large plywood ships, Travelled by sea to Myanmar to help the Special Intelligence Unit carry out this mission.