The French fleet left Manila, and Li Ming, Song Tao and others also left Manila by plane. During this time, in addition to being responsible for the reception of the French merchant fleet, Li Ming also presided over the work of the Nanyang Management Committee and the Ceylon Committee.

Zhou Billy is also busy every day in order to prepare for the Nanyang Development Company. Fan Wencheng, who was transferred by the Ministry of Intelligence, also immediately entered the role when he came to Nanyang, and this big traitor is now full of energy.

He was originally assigned to work in the general office of the Far Eastern Nationalities Committee, but the employees of the company treated him very badly, so that he had no strength, but he couldn't do it.

This time it finally came into use, and since Billy Zhou had a deep conversation with him, he recognized the shape clearly. He also instantly understood the nature of his work, which was nothing more than helping the Far East do some dirty work.

He quickly put himself in the right position and knew the direction of his future work. It's a perfect fit for him. And in the future, it seems that he will preside over the work of this Nanyang Development Company. So the big traitor is now full of energy, and he devotes himself to work every day.

For the work of Nanyang Development Company, Li Ming did not participate, there was Zhou Billy in charge of the direction, and the specific work was presided over by Fan Wencheng, both of whom were capable people in this area, so Li Ming was very relieved.

Li Ming's main work in Nanyang was to inspect various localities, inspect the defense of various localities, and inspect the construction of various control areas in the Far East. Although the Far East has just taken control of the South Seas, the construction work in various places has been basically completed.

After all, the inland areas of the islands of the South Seas are still in the hands of the local kings and sultans, and the local indigenous population is large, ignorant and barbaric. The main focus of the Far East was also on infrastructure construction and large-scale migration in Liaodong. There is simply not that much appetite to digest the islands of the South Seas.

Moreover, the Nanyang Development Company has just been established, and now it cannot play a role, and the Far East can only occupy various key positions in Nanyang. The establishment of bases and defense areas will only wait for the work of the Nanyang Development Company to be carried out, and then the work will be carried out slowly. At present, the Far East only controls the sea control of the South Seas, and the powerful fleet of Guò intimidates the kings and sultans of the South Seas.

Ever since the Far East slaughtered the kingdom of Madaran, the kings and sultans of the South Seas have been terrified of the Far East. However, in the past year, the Far East has not continued to penetrate deep into the interior of the islands of the South Seas. This also relieved the kings and sultans of all parts of the South Seas. I thought that the Far East, like the Netherlands and other countries, was only building a commercial port here, and had no territorial ambitions.

Indonesia in the 17th century consisted of more than 3,000 large and small islands, which were divided and divided in the mid-17th century. The main Islamic feudal kingdoms on the archipelago are: Mataram in East Java, Banten in West Java, Aceh in Sumatra and Goa in Sulawesi. On islands such as Kalimantan, there are still remnants of Hindu kingdoms.

The Maluku archipelago is home to valuable spices (pepper, cardamom, cloves, etc.) that have long been coveted by European colonizers in the East and European markets. In order to monopolize the spice trade, the Portuguese were the first to invade Indonesia. In 1511 he forcibly occupied the island of Ambon.

From 1599 to 1601, the Dutch organized more than a dozen expeditions to Indonesia to search for spices. At one time, there were many companies dealing in oriental goods. There is fierce competition with each other. In 1602, the Dutch Parliament passed a resolution to unite the companies into a large corporation called the United East India Company, or East India Company for short. The company has a collective capital of Rp 2.5 million, and is granted a charter by the National Assembly, which has the right to wage war and sign treaties in the name of the National Assembly. Occupy land, build artillery forts, etc.

In 1619, a war broke out between the Dutch and English colonists over Jakarta. As a result, the British office was destroyed, the city was reduced to ashes, and the Dutch occupied Jakarta. In 1621, Jakarta was renamed Batavia and became the base camp for the Dutch invasion of Indonesia and other Asian countries. From then on, the focus of the Dutch colonists' aggression shifted to the island of Java. They adopted a "divide and rule" policy towards the mighty kingdoms of Mataram and Banten, constantly instigating the two kingdoms to fight each other. to weaken their power.

After the Far East drove out the Dutch, it only destroyed the Sultanate of Madaram who was trying to attack the Far East, and then did not take an aggressive offensive against the Sultanates of the South Seas like the Dutch, but only took over several small Sudanese states in the Moluccas, which the Dutch occupied in those years, and Ambon, Denadi, Didory, and Banda Islands, which were already rich in spices.

And after the Far East came to the South Seas. It also took the initiative to trade with Nanyang countries, and also helped them sell the goods of Nanyang countries to Europe, the Middle East, Daming and other places, which greatly promoted the economic development of Nanyang.

Therefore, the countries of the South Seas are no longer as wary of the Far East as they were at the beginning, at least the Far East is much more moderate than the Western colonizers such as the Netherlands and Portugal. Although the Far East destroyed the kingdom of Madalan, it was Madaran Sultan Agung who gathered a large army to attack Batavia, and he was looking for his own death.

In the more than a year since the Far East came to the South Seas, the countries of the South Seas have also tried their best to make friends with the Far East, hoping that the Far East can live in peace with them. Little did they know that the Far East's final goal was to swallow the South Seas in one gulp.

Li Ming finished his tour in the South Seas and took a ship to Colombo, Ceylon, where the current work of the Ceylon Management Committee is relatively simple. Mainly to receive the port strongholds of Western colonizers on the southern coast of India.

The land system of the Mughal Empire in India still retains some remnants of the village community system, but it has changed compared to the past. The lands conquered by the Mughals in India are collectively known as "halisa", which means direct state territory or treasury land. The halisa was divided into three parts, namely the feudal domains directly under the king, the non-hereditary domains of Zajidar, and the hereditary domains of Chamindar.

The feudal domains directly under the king accounted for about one-eighth of the country's arable land, concentrated in the Delhi and Agra regions. Most of the empire's lands were given to the nobility as military fiefs according to their military exploits, called "Zajidar".

From the 16th century to the middle of the 17th century, the Zajir was the basic form of private ownership of Mughal land. At the beginning of the 17th century, Zajir accounted for about 70% of the country's arable land. In India, indigenous tribal chiefs and Hindu maharajas, who were not under the direct rule of the empire but were subject to the empire, as well as tax-bearing landowners in areas under the direct rule of the empire, were called "chamindar", meaning "landholders".

The Mughal dynasty focused on holding on to a few rich areas, and the Muslim rulers eventually let themselves go unchecked in the face of a proliferation of independent princely states. But even those days could not last long, because the external situation began to change heavily. Western merchant ships have frequented the Indian Ocean and have gained control of many ports.

Since the beginning of the 16th century, colonial robbers from Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, France and other countries have invaded this ancient civilization in the East and carried out colonial plunder. In particular, since the establishment of the East India Company in 1600, Britain has continued to expand its colonial power in India.

They colluded with the independent princely states of India to establish commercial ports and strongholds in the southern coastal areas of India. Europeans were more modest when they first came to India, because they didn't know what was going on, and the huge India at least seemed to be strong, not as vulnerable as the Native Americans. But over time, the weakness of the Mughal dynasty was exposed.

Faced with such a weak empire, Europeans no longer had to hide and suppress their ambitions for expansion. In order to obtain greater economic benefits, the East India Companies began to instigate trouble and expand their colonies, causing the decline of the Mughal Empire to accelerate.

The current center of gravity of the Far East is Liaodong, so it is also adopting the strategy of Western colonizers towards India, establishing good relations with the princes of the princely states in southern India, as well as Hindu and Islamic monks, smoothly receiving the heritage of the Western colonizers, and trading with the independent feudal princely states of various parts of India, and gaining the support of the independent princely states of various parts of India, which can be regarded as gaining a foothold on the southern coast of India. (To be continued......)

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