This was simply the ideal life in one's dreams. However, for Xiao Ruxun, he still felt that the rate of population growth was too slow. After all, they were overseas, and other than the residents of the coastal provinces, the mainland residents generally lacked the thought and willingness to migrate to other places. Not to mention other places like Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan, there were less than 10,000 immigrants from these three provinces over the past few years.
Myanmar could support more than a million people. In fact, less than 20% of Myanmar had been developed in the past few years. There was still a lot of potential to be discovered!
Of course, the officials would not care about these things. Even if they knew, they would not help Xiao Ruxun. Anyway, they just treated this place as a garbage disposal station, always throwing garbage that they thought was useless to Myanmar Town.
However, Xiao Ruxun had already planned Myanmar. The southern commercial area, the central agricultural area, and the northern mountainous military area.
The southern coastal area was mainly responsible for commerce. Several urban clusters with Yangon as the center were mainly responsible for commerce and trade. Since the first year, a large number of ships from the West and Southeast Asia came here to do business. This year, Daming merchants also came here through Siam to do business.
The vast agricultural area in the central region was mainly responsible for agricultural production. With Bogu City as the center, the urban agglomeration had the largest population and the largest production area. It was rich in food crops such as rice and corn. The extremely high yield and the basic rule of three harvests a year had long made the food rich. Xiao Ruxun had already contacted several small countries that were short of food and started the food export business.
As for the northern mountainous area, it was a military area that civilians could not reach. It completely belonged to Xiao Ruxun. Inside it, there were secrets that Xiao Ruxun had hidden for a long time.
Artillery production workshops, flintlock production workshops, other military equipment production areas, potato planting areas, tea planting areas, mining areas, and so on. This vast and inaccessible mountainous area was generally regarded as a land of death. However, in this land of death, Xiao Ruxun had spent millions of taels of silver to establish a very complete production system.
It was basically the responsibility of the army and previously captured prisoners of war. 50,000 prisoners of war and 5,000 soldiers would be responsible for this area. The prisoners were mainly responsible for mining. After the iron and copper mines were mined, they were directly transported to the military workshop to be refined into raw materials for the production of military equipment. It did not require much transportation costs.
Xiao Ruxun recruited skilled craftsmen from the mainland of Daming, Southeast Asian countries, and the West to live here. Every day, they provided a large amount of high-quality military equipment for Xiao Ruxun's army.
The planting of potatoes belonged to the military camp. The army stationed here obtained a large amount of food through the winter planting of potatoes. The rich ones were sent to the central agricultural area and transported to the southern commercial area. As for the tea leaves, they were given to the tea farmers from all over the country. Through field testing and experimental planting, Xiao Ruxun circled out a large area of the mountainous area as a tea planting area to produce high-quality tea leaves. He traded them with the Western merchants who came to Yangon to do business and earned a large amount of money.
The most attractive thing about Daming was silk, tea, and porcelain. In the past, they had to take a detour through Malacca to reach Daming. However, now that Myanmar had become the territory of Daming, the news that they could directly connect to the Indian Ocean without taking a detour to buy goods from China spread throughout the Western merchant circle in a very short period of time.
As a result, starting from the second half of the 23rd year of Wanli, merchant ships from Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands arrived at Yangon port.
They bought tea, silk, and simple porcelain that were cheaper than the mainland of China. There were also many local specialties from Southeast Asian countries. Due to the distance factor, they all used this place as the terminal of their business operations, hoping to buy enough goods here.
After the merchants from various countries learned that the Western merchants used Yangon port as the terminal, they also flocked to Yangon port with their own goods to do business with the Western merchants here.
Under the witness of Daming, they paid taxes and then made transactions. The Ming Dynasty Army was responsible for protecting their safety, and the officials of Daming were responsible for protecting their rights and interests. Any cheating would not be tolerated by the ruler of this land, the Marquis. His army and officials maintained the extremely fast daily pace of life in Yangon port with extremely high efficiency.
Not all the people in charge of these things were soldiers. Xiao Ruxun also had his own civil official system, but it had to be said that 90% of them were not scholars from Daming, but Siamese and a few small Southeast Asian countries. The King of Siam appointed a large number of Chinese as officials, and most of these officials left Siam to work for Marquis Zhennan in Myanmar town. There were few Chinese officials in other small Southeast Asian countries, but it was not that there were none. Because they missed their motherland, they resolutely left here and chose to work for Marquis Xiao.
These people who had no place to retreat but had practical political experience made Xiao Ruxun smile. It had to be said that in terms of practical ability, these people were many times better than those nerds. Those scholars who read too much to their brains first had to observe the politics before they went out to be officials, and then they were sent out to be officials. When they were sent out to be officials, they had to give them the Way of Being an Official written by Emperor Taizu to prevent those county officials who were sent out from being fooled by local bullies.
Some nerds were fooled, and it didn't matter how many times they followed the Taizu's will. Some nerds were passionate about changing the poor situation of the local area, but they often didn't care about reality. They made a great leap forward like the Great Leap Forward of the Ming Dynasty, making a mess of the local area. Then, when the time came, the nerds patted their butts and left, leaving the confused farmers behind. Looking at the messy land, they wanted to cry but had no tears.
Even if you gave this kind of people to Xiao Ruxun, Xiao Ruxun would not dare to use them.
Thanks to their not coming, Xiao Ruxun was fortunate enough to get a group of practical talents with guaranteed loyalty. They had accumulated experience in politics and herdsmen in various countries. They had no fame and were not accepted by Daming, but they were accepted by Xiao Ruxun. From then on, they were branded with the brand of Marquis Zhennan, which could never be removed.
Of course, they naturally did not want to remove it. It was definitely better to be an official in Daming than to be an official in those small countries.
They were conscientious, very diligent, and cherished their current status very much. They did not dare to disobey any of the prohibitions proposed by Xiao Ruxun. Those in charge of commerce did not dare to communicate with businessmen, and those in charge of agriculture did not dare to not accompany farmers to do research in the fields. As for those in charge of the northern commercial district, they were absolutely trusted officials, so Xiao Ruxun was absolutely assured.
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