Chapter 1038: Our Ming Dynasty has its own national conditions (Second update, please subscribe)
China is the root!
The root of all Chinese people!
When he was young, Zhu Zhenwen had heard about Hua Xia from his mother more than once. That was the Hua Xia described by his father to her, and even their love began there.
It is for this reason that Zhu Zhenwen had his own imagination of China when he was very young.
He had imagined the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the towering city walls of Nanjing, and the glazed towers of Nanjing in Andersen's fairy tales. Although he had never been to China, he had already had his imaginations about China.
Elizabeth said with a smile as she stood beside her husband.
"If Jiangnan is so good, we can go there to have a look in the future. We can even build a palace here now. Then, this will be our Jiangnan."
Elizabeth smiled at her husband. She was also an extremely beautiful girl, 1.75 meters tall, only half a head shorter than Zhu Zhenwen. Her tall and slender figure was definitely not inferior to anyone else. Although she didn't look like a little bird standing next to her husband, they were a perfect match.
Then she turned her head and looked at the wetland, smiling:
"But, dear, since the oil company has discovered oil fields in the north of Basra, we can also try it here. After all, it's not too far from Basra."
At the beginning of the year, after drilling hundreds of wells, Mingfa Oil Company finally struck oil in Basra. Although Elizabeth, who came from a noble family, had never worried about money, as a married woman, she certainly had to consider their family.
"You mean starting an oil company?"
Holding his wife's slender waist, Zhu Zhenwen shook his head.
"There are 300,000 Babylonians living here. In order to better rule this place, we must immigrate as many people as possible here. Only in this way can this land always belong to the Ming Dynasty."
Babylonians is the name currently used by France and the Ming Dynasty to refer to the indigenous people of Mesopotamia. In order to better rule this land, French anthropologists made a retro distinction between the so-called "Myanmar people" - after all, during the Roman rule, the locals were called Babylonians.
"So, we need to turn this swamp into fertile farmland and turn this place into the Jiangnan of the Middle East."
"It would be nice to turn this swamp into farmland, but unfortunately there is no oil here..."
Elizabeth sighed with some regret. At this moment, she didn't know that this swampland was the largest oil field in southern Iraq in another world.
In fact, according to Emperor Zhu's plan, this swampland will be the granary of the Ming Dynasty in the Middle East in the next few decades. It is not only a granary, but also a population gathering place. The land has value when there are people. Without the arrival of 500,000 or 600,000 immigrants, how can this land truly become a part of the Ming Dynasty?
Although the oil industry will absorb millions of immigrants in the future, before that, the population must be stabilized through agriculture, and the land must be turned into "Ming Dynasty's land" rather than the so-called "local people's land" through agriculture.
"Trust me. In the near future, there will certainly be more than just farmland here!"
They both smiled at each other as they spoke.
"I believe this place will become the Jiangnan you mentioned..."
Looking at her husband beside her, pressing her right hand gently on her belly, Elizabeth, who was already pregnant, had another thought in her mind again - maybe it's time to find a lover for her husband.
Although Elizabeth was reluctant to share her husband with another woman in her heart, everyone knew that this was inevitable - the Ming Dynasty had its own national conditions.
Polygamy is a Chinese tradition. Although due to certain restrictions, Emperor Zhu had only one queen, Charlotte, but he still had more than a dozen lovers... Her mother-in-law was the emperor's lover.
Although he did not have the title of a prince, as the eldest son he was still the eldest son of the royal family. In the Ming Dynasty, men like him were destined to not marry only one wife, unless his wife was a princess - Elizabeth had such an awareness when she married Zhu Zhenwen.
Her mother-in-law had told her this very clearly.
"It's getting late. We should go back to Kuwait City."
Zhu Zhenwen took another look at the swamp and said.
"Let's rest early today. Tomorrow, I have to take a naval ship to India."
"India?"
Looking at her husband, Elizabeth frowned.
"Is it because of the dispute between the Pirate Coast and the British...will there be a war?"
The so-called "Pirate Coast" refers to Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, Dubai, etc., which is the United Arab Emirates in another world. The pirate chieftains in that area were attacked by the British as early as 1820 and became a British protectorate. In the past, no country would care about these small countries on the edge of the desert coast, and the so-called "Trussier Oman" composed of small countries was dispensable.
But the arrival of the Ming Dynasty changed everything, especially... Governor Zhu himself was also very interested in those places.
"It doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a war. The so-called protection of the British is actually to pay them tens of thousands of pounds every year to stop them from going out to sea to rob merchant ships and protect commercial routes. I used to help the British save money and build relationships. After all, including Oman, it was all managed by the Governor-General of British India."
Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
The British Empire also paid protection fees!
Although the British East India Company sent fleets to destroy coastal fortresses in Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, Dubai and other places as early as 1819, in exchange for the cooperation of those chiefs, they still paid them several thousand pounds of "protection fees" every year to ensure the smooth operation of the route from India to Egypt.
"Do you need me to go with you?"
Elizabeth said as she looked at her husband with a smile.
"I've never been to India."
"Your body is not fit for long voyages."
Zhu Zhenwen looked at his wife's belly, then shook his head and said,
"If we have the chance in the future, we can go to India together. For now, I'd better go there alone."
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The next morning, Zhu Zhenwen boarded the Navy's "Yongning" training ship and set off for Mumbai. Under the scorching sun of the Persian Gulf, the dark-skinned sailors and trainee officers were training according to commands.
Zhu Zhenwen, who was on the bridge, watched them silently. Occasionally, he could hear some sailors talking about Mumbai and India. It seemed that everyone was full of expectations for this exotic foreign land.
Perhaps this is why the navy has always been so popular - their ocean voyages allow them to see the world...
(End of this chapter)
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