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Everything is full of vitality and transformation, and the ingenuity of nature and man is striving to be new every day.
Five hundred years of new ideas were advanced, but after a thousand years they felt stale again.
The poems of Li Bai and Du Fu have been passed down through the ages and are no longer fresh to us.
Talented people emerge in every generation, and each of them leads the trend for hundreds of years.
We seek innovation and change with only one goal: to keep up with the trend of the times and not fall behind, or at least not fall too far behind.
But internationally, or between countries, there is only one eternal truth: the survival of the fittest, the law of the jungle.
What the emperor ultimately wants the people of the Ming Dynasty to understand is that they should wake up from the dream of being a great country as soon as possible and find the motivation to forge ahead from the confidence of the country's vast territory and resources.
Through newspapers, let the people know; through the designated textbooks, cultivate a new generation with new knowledge and new ideas from an early age.
Make the country strong through war, and benefit the people through expansion. People will go where there is benefit.
The great disaster is still continuing, but it can no longer stop the Ming Empire from continuing to grow stronger, expand, and forge ahead.
In addition to the Governor of Pontianak, three more lordships were added to Borneo: Sabah, Kuching, and Singkawang;
The Governor of Temasek submitted a petition to the court, requesting that Batam be designated as a lord's territory under his jurisdiction;
Malacca, shared with the Portuguese, expanded significantly thanks to the expansion of the navy and manpower, and the Ming Empire began to infiltrate Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and Pahang...
Li Dan, the Governor of Luzon, petitioned the emperor to establish lords of Mindanao, Mindoro, and Cebu. The emperor approved the request and handed it over to the Huaxia Longteng Company for discussion and resolution.
At the same time, after the emperor specifically granted Li Dan permission, he could designate an heir and recommend a lord and report to the court.
On the east coast of India, the Ming navy first took advantage of the Portuguese strongholds, then gradually infiltrated and expanded, established contact with the invading chieftain coalition forces, seized coastal ports, and thus firmly established itself.
With the army's aggressive expansion, coupled with plunder, the stable returns of war bonds made them the most popular investment among the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Fifty million ten-year bonds were issued in the nineteenth year of the Tianqi reign. Pre-orders exceeded the limit by three times, so a lottery had to be held.
As a result, the expansion of the Ming Dynasty was no longer restricted by the court's finances, but instead gained the support and sponsorship of all its people. The emperor's wish came true, and the Ming Dynasty embarked on a virtuous cycle.
The 19th year of the Tianqi reign was the most severe period of the disaster, which spread from the northwest to North China and then southward to Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces.
Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Northern Zhili, Southern Zhili... The continuation and spread of the disaster caused the population of these severely affected provinces to decrease by as much as one third.
They did not die of starvation or flee from famine. The orderly migration over the past decade has reduced the population density and eased the burden of disaster relief.
Thanks to the cultivation of cold-resistant and drought-resistant crops such as potatoes, corn, and rye, and thanks to the support from the south and overseas, society in the Central Plains has remained stable and the people have been able to live a life of food and clothing.
The population of southern provinces, such as Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, also showed a downward trend. However, the development and construction of Mekong, Hainan and Dongfan regions accelerated significantly due to population migration.
The increase in overseas territories brought the desire for population to a new level. The population of the mainland was already insufficient, so the population of the occupied areas had to be relocated and resettled elsewhere.
The attacks on Myanmar have never stopped. Together with Siam, they occupied land and seized people. A large number of Burmese were relocated to Luzon, Borneo and other places.
In overseas territories, these Burmese people will learn and use Chinese, gradually intermarry and assimilate, and after two or three generations, they will be completely integrated and become citizens of the Ming Dynasty.
Population exchanges were also underway in overseas territories such as Borneo, Luzon, and Tampa. For indigenous peoples, who lacked written language and historical heritage and were in a foreign land, the pace of assimilation or domestication would be greatly accelerated.
The taxes paid to the imperial court by overseas territories have reached more than four million, almost all of which are used to expand and maintain the navy and army.
The imperial court's finances, as well as the emperor's own money, were used exclusively to deal with the disaster. The emperor even used his own treasury to help him weather the worst of the eight years, from the 19th to the 27th year of the Tianqi reign.
In the 23rd year of the Tianqi reign, the emperor paid a large sum of money to purchase them and also added other preferential conditions. Finally, rubber seeds and cinchona seeds were obtained.
The emperor was ecstatic about this and immediately issued an edict to reward the French who presented the seeds with a large sum of money, and agreed to negotiate with the French royal family on various matters related to the cooperation agreement between the two countries.
France was nothing, the emperor's focus was on the British and the Dutch. Moreover, there were no other conditions, which made the emperor feel relieved and fortunate.
The seeds of rubber trees and cinchona trees were quickly sent to Borneo. The Governor of Pontianak, Yan Siqi, did not dare to neglect it. After receiving the secret order, he immediately set up a garden for trial planting.
These are two strategic materials, the golden goose that lays eggs for wealth and fortune; the cinchona tree is the patron saint of the Ming Dynasty's navy and army's expansion and permanent presence in Southeast Asia.
Nanyang will become prosperous because of this, and the technological development of the Ming Dynasty and the people's living standards will take off and change because of rubber.
"A war between Britain and the Netherlands will last for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years. When the dust settles and the Netherlands declines, it will be time to expel them from Asia."
"In the South Asian subcontinent, it will be Britain that will compete with our country. From now on, we must begin to make arrangements and preparations."
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