Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1026

[Chapter 1018 String of Pearls Strategy]

Qingzhou.

One month after Lei Ming left for Australia, the first battle report was finally sent to Xiao Ming.

Just as he expected, the battle went smoothly. The British army was vulnerable to the machine guns that swept across the line tactics.

“Your Majesty, Lei Ming’s capture of Australia is a great achievement, but it would be a bit inappropriate to privately allocate Australian land to his generals.”

Fiji looked serious in the imperial study. The cabinet has been planning Australia’s land these days, and now Lei Ming The sudden intervention made him a little unhappy.

Pang Yukun sneered, “Mr. Fei Ge’s eyes seemed a little bad. The battle report clearly stated that it was for the emperor to review. How could it be private? On the contrary, Mr. Fei Ge wanted to send Australia to Australia before the war was decided. Isn’t it right to leave high-quality land to our own people? “

That’s nonsense!” Fiji choked and became furious.

“That’s enough!”

Xiao Ming was originally in a good mood, but the quarrel between the two suddenly made him a little unhappy. There were too many people who wanted to divide the cake after the victory, and maintaining a relatively fair distribution was better than war for him as an emperor. Even more difficult things.

Glancing at the two of them coldly, he continued: “Australia is just the first battle in the colonial war. Next, North America, South America, Siberia, Southeast Asia, and Africa will all have our interests. There will be a lot of land in the future, and you will eventually be too lazy to do so.” Why are you so anxious? So the top priority is not your small calculations, but the empire’s current big plans. “

After that, Xiao Ming threw a document in front of the two of them, “This is the merit method I drafted in January. , From now on, whether officials, common people, or generals perform meritorious service, they will receive merit points according to the actual situation. People with meritorious deeds who want to obtain colonial land can exchange merit points for them. The geographical location and land area are different. The merit points required for the quality of the land are different. If you don’t have the merit points, you can get real money in exchange for the land.”

Pang Yukun and Fiji were stunned for a moment, then they picked up the document and glanced at it. There are more than 30 pages in the document, which lists in detail the number of merits that can be obtained by different merits. At the same time, both domestic land and colonial land are clearly marked with the number of merits and dragon coins.

In addition, the property in the colony is also included. Simply put, with the launch of this meritorious order, the officials’ right to allocate land will be officially taken back, and everything will be done in accordance with the regulations.

The punishment for violating the merit law is also very cruel, ranging from imprisonment in severe cases to exile in Siberia.

Pang Yukun and Fiji’s expressions changed, and both of them felt a chill in their hearts. In his opinion, Xiao Ming was an important step in strengthening the rule of law. Perhaps the chaos in the country during this period had reached an unbearable level for him.

“The important events of the country should be treated with heavy ceremony! Once the law of merit is revealed, there will be no objection to the distribution of this land.” Fiji bowed and said.

Xiao Ming nodded. In this era when human civilization has just begun and people’s hearts are still barbaric, severe criminal laws must be used to regulate personal behavior.

“So the reply to Lei Ming this time is this meritorious service law. Under the meritorious service law, he can allocate land to his generals according to the meritorious service law, and we also need someone to migrate here to achieve complete control of Australia. , after you go back, you will officially promulgate the Merit Law and open up the rights to redeem Australian land to the public, “Xiao Ming said calmly.

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Pang Yukun and Fiji said at the same time.

After dealing with the matter, Xiao Ming asked the two of them to go back. As for the slave bill that Lei Ming had temporarily promulgated in Wales, he did not discuss it.

Perhaps there will be madonnas who accuse him of this behavior in the contemporary era, but it is only the eighteenth century, and human beings have not struggled out of the wilderness of civilization for a long time. Barbarism is still synonymous with this era, and slavery in Europe is reaching its peak. , this kind of indifferent kindness will only lead to laughter.

What’s more, even during World War II, there was basically no difference between prisoners and slaves, they were just called by different high-sounding names.

After seeing the two off, Cui Shangan, who was waiting outside the royal study, came in. When he received the battle report, he asked Cui Shangan to come over.

“Your Majesty.” Cui Shangan looked cautious. Xiao Ming was a little unhappy because of the quarrel between the two pavilion elders just now. He didn’t want to get into trouble now.

Looking at Cui Shangan, Xiao Ming said, “I asked you to come here today for a very important matter. Now that Australia has been conquered, the empire’s Nanyang strategy has made a good start, but it is still far from the empire’s current needs. Nowadays, Britain’s ability to sail in all the seas in the world relies not only on sailing battleships, but the most important thing is its ports.”

Coming to the map, Xiao Ming pointed to a series of marked Britain on the world map from Britain to America, Africa, and then to Asia. The port said; “You see, this is the basis for Britain to maintain its maritime hegemony and economic interests. Without these ports, they would not be able to invest military power at all.”

“Does the emperor mean that we also want to build our ports?” Cui Shangxin There is a calculation in the middle.

“Yes, we want to destroy European ports and build our own ports at the same time. As long as we control the ports, the world’s economic hegemony will be in our hands. I call this strategy the String of Pearls Plan. It took Europe two hundred years. I hope that the results we have just achieved can be realized in a short time.” Xiao Ming said solemnly.

With the development of the empire’s industry, the market needed has become larger and larger. A Goryeo or a Japanese country simply cannot meet the current domestic market demand.

If the next market cannot be found, the empire’s industry will gradually shrink due to lack of profits.

Therefore, he now continues to export goods to Southeast Asia, India, the Ottomans, America, Africa, and even Europe to earn profits.

But contrary to this wish was the news brought by the Dutch three days before.

The impact of the breakdown of negotiations with Britain and France was that the British and French missions ordered the coastal colonial trading ports to be closed to the Chinese Empire on their way back, and no longer allowed any merchant ships and warships from the Chinese Empire to dock.

If the mission returns to Europe, Britain and France are likely to jointly pressure the Netherlands to make decisions that are unfavorable to the Chinese Empire.

Because of this news from Rhodes, he made up his mind to launch this string of pearls strategy to break Europe’s arrogance.

However, it is not easy to realize this plan. After all, there is only one way to realize this plan, and that is to project troops around the world to occupy European colonies.

Cui Shangan nodded and said: “If this is the case, we need to increase investment in the navy and build an invincible fleet across the sea.”

(End of Chapter)