Yuan Huang was very clear about the shortcomings of the Daming Dynasty's current system. Therefore, he had suggested to Xiao Ruxun more than once to establish a military school. However, Xiao Ruxun looked at the population and the number of troops under his command and smiled. He just looked at Yuan Huang. Yuan Huang looked at Myanmar's population statistics and couldn't help but smile.
A million people. In a situation where the land was sparsely populated, it was already difficult to develop it. What was the point of establishing a military school? Slow down!
However, it wasn't that it wasn't good. On the contrary, it was a very necessary move. It had already been included in Xiao Ruxun's plan. However, the most important mainstream in Myanmar was still construction, not the Great Leap Forward.
30,000 troops and the existing officers were more or less enough for the current needs. When more troops were really needed, then these could be discussed.
As for the army's training and combat effectiveness, maintaining it was also very important. Even the most elite troops would find it difficult to maintain combat effectiveness if they didn't fight. However, Xiao Ruxun had a way.
He spent a lot of time expanding the navy. Then, in the name of the Daming Navy, he accepted many requests from merchants from small countries in Southeast Asia. He sent out the navy to suppress pirates or to escort those merchant ships. From the beginning of the 24th year of Wanli until now, the escort mission had been carried out for almost two years.
In these two years, the Ming Army had no less than 100 confrontations with pirates on the seas of Southeast Asia. A total of more than 30,000 troops had been sent out. Basically, every soldier had participated in a naval battle with pirates at least once, establishing an illustrious reputation in the South China Sea.
After three major operations to suppress pirates at sea, three of the more ferocious and famous pirate fleets in the South China Sea were destroyed by the Ming Army's navy. Under the overwhelming artillery fire of the Ming Army, the entire sea was cleared, and the sea merchants rejoiced.
Until now, there were still pirates, but there were no organized large-scale pirate groups. Basically, when pirates saw a ship with the words "Ming" or "Xiao" on the ship, they would retreat and not dare to approach.
Daming's reputation continued to be maintained in Nanyang, and his influence grew with each passing day.
However, in terms of land warfare, Xiao Ruxun did not have any good targets to train his troops on. He could only use training to make up for the lack of actual combat experience. The main reason was that the previous battle was too fierce, so much so that the Ming Army could not find any opponents who dared to resist on this piece of land. All of them surrendered and did not dare to resist at all. Without resistance, naturally, there would be no war. Xiao Ruxun could only pull the troops out to take turns to fight on the sea in order to maintain combat effectiveness and combat intuition.
Yuan Huang single-handedly grasped all the government affairs of Myanmar and served as the director of the government affairs office of Marquis Zhennan's Mansion set up by Xiao Ruxun. He was in charge of the government affairs of the eight cities under the jurisdiction of the government affairs office.
In order to better develop Myanmar, Xiao Ruxun set up the government affairs office two years ago, which included the eight cities where the Han people currently resided, and let Yuan Huang be in charge of the unified management. Because there was no appointment from the court, there was no official division of states and counties, and more importantly, there was no need to set up states and counties. The Han people only resided in the areas around the eight cities, and the rest of the vast areas were still uninhabited, so it was impossible to establish political power.
Therefore, the eight cities were simply the basic administrative units. Each city had a mayor and two deputy mayors. The configuration was similar to Daming's county government, but the name was different, so as to avoid the minefield and not let people gossip about it. Yuan Huang was in charge of the eight mayors, and all the administrative orders were issued by Yuan Huang, and the eight mayors were responsible for the implementation. Moreover, Yuan Huang was also assigned the authority to directly command the police force, which could be considered as handing over the command of the 5,000 policemen and Chen Xie to Yuan Huang.
I have the military power?
This was Yuan Huang's initial thought.
Then, he declined — I don't have the military power, I'm just a civil official.
Xiao Ruxun then explained — You are the person I trust the most, so I am very relieved to hand over the police force to you. Most importantly, the police force is not part of the army, it is equivalent to the government's bailiffs, but it is more standardized and unified. In terms of combat power, it is not far from the regular army, and if there is an emergency, it is good to use it as the army.
Most importantly, the police are responsible for maintaining the city's security. At the current embryonic stage of development, it is the time when the police are needed to maintain the security. The police are not responsible for fighting, and strictly speaking, they are not part of the army, so they do not have the military power.
Yuan Huang was very grateful, and he took over the command of the police force.
The eight mayors and sixteen deputy mayors were all naturalized officials from various small countries. They had practical experience, and after passing Xiao Ruxun's assessment, they took up the position. They attached great importance to the position of mayor, but in reality, it was the first step for them to return to Daming.
Many officials from small countries in Southeast Asia who came to Burma Town had the same view. They did not have any official titles, and if they were not in Burma Town, they would not be able to become official officials anywhere in Daming. Now, although they were officials under the Marquis Zhennan's Mansion on the surface, their actual power was no different from that of official officials.
If they could hold on to the Marquis Zhennan's Mansion, they would definitely have a good development in the future — this was their common wish.
As the ruler of more than a million citizens and 35,000 troops, Xiao Ruxun's daily tasks were also relatively busy. Other than some necessary development plans with Yuan Huang, his main task was to bring the guards around the eight cities, to the periphery and inside, to supervise the training of the army, to observe the law enforcement of the police force, to inspect the administration of the mayor and deputy mayor, and to gain a deeper understanding of the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the social ladder.
Knowing that the people were very satisfied with their lives in Burma Town, and that they could live a life of their dreams without starvation, Xiao Ruxun was very happy.
The people really did not ask for much. The most basic thing was that as long as there was land to eat, they would work honestly and diligently. The land under the control of the Burmese natives could not produce much food, but under the hands of the people, they could produce dozens of times more food. It was so much that they could not believe it. Corn and rice were piled up in every farmer's house, and it was almost impossible to store them.
For this reason, Xiao Ruxun also suggested that the farmers raise some poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and so on. He also introduced a batch of poultry from the mainland of Daming and distributed them to the farmers, so that they could use the extra food to raise these poultry, so that they could enrich their dining table and enrich the products of Burma.
Under the full care of Xiao Ruxun, the agriculture of Burma developed rapidly. With only a few hundred thousand people working, the food output almost reached the level of some of the less populated provinces in Daming. It could completely meet the needs of all the people, and the extra could be used to raise livestock. This was a dream that they could not even dream of in their hometown.
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