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One Man's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 76 The Colonial Era

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    The time and space of the Three Kingdoms No. 1 is now in the period of five years of Advent and three years of Shenwu, which is the Gregorian calendar year 205 used in modern time and space.  Since the beginning of this year, Xu Yue, the imperial eunuch of Imperial College, presided over the formulation of the Fengtian Yongli Daming Dao Calendar (referred to as the Tiandao Calendar). This calendar has been rapidly implemented in the territory of the Ming Empire and surrounding areas.

    The Tiandao calendar is actually the same as the Gregorian calendar, but the starting point is different. It starts from the year 200 when Li Zhe came, which is the zero year of the advent, and the following 201 years is the first year of the advent, and so on.

    Compared with the lunar calendar commonly used in the Ming Empire, the advantage of the Gregorian calendar is that it fully takes into account the astronomical significance and coordinates the earth's revolution and rotation cycles. However, in terms of moon phases and tides, as well as the earth's climate changes, it is not as useful to human beings as the lunar calendar.  production and life have become more useful.  The two calendars, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, are being implemented in parallel. For Li Zhe, the biggest advantage is that he no longer has to bother to calculate the calendar differences between the two time and space!

    This time when he came back, Li Zhe briefly took a look at the development of all aspects of the Ming Empire. Overall, it was basically running well. Of course, there were some issues with the details that were worth discussing.

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    The southernmost point of the Empire's territory, the Strait of Malacca, Port Sioux (Singapore), the new anchorage of the Empire's South Sea Fleet.

    Fleet Commander Gan Ning was chatting with his friend Su Fei.

    "Hey! It's been moldy here for several months. The senior guys in the Privy Council still haven't approved the westward expansion plan we submitted. They have nothing to do here every day except to guard those merchant ships. Really  YesHey! I feel so bored for my poor men!"

    Gan Ning's friend Su Fei, who was also the general of the South China Sea Fleet, couldn't help but feel happy after hearing Gan Ning's complaint, "Old man! You are going too far! Our South China Sea Fleet has been busy for several years.  , it¡¯s been a long time since the boys under you went ashore to smell the fishy smell. It¡¯s only been more than a month since you rested, and you can¡¯t stand it anymore.

    ¡°Then what do you want those old guys in China to do?  If you think about General Wei, the sharpest spear in the empire in the past, he had been in Chang'an for many years. His hundreds of thousands of troops were not allowed to move without permission. He could only deal with the indigenous Qiang people.  It¡¯s almost turning into a fossil!  Compared to them, I think you are contented and happy!  "

    As soon as Su Fei talked about Wei Yan, Gan Ning's face immediately turned to gloating, "Haha! That's right. The most powerful man in the world, Lord Wei, was so powerful that he controlled both the military and political circles by himself.  With hundreds of thousands of battle-hardened troops, even the cabinet is a little scared, haha! Now they can only show off their power in the Senate.

    Our navy, no matter what, is always much stronger than the army. When the army is crawling in the mountains and forests eating dirt, we have already made great progress on the sea.  Speaking of which, it was a really lucky decision for us brothers to join General Zhang on a whim back then!  "Su Fei's words made Gan Ning think of Zhang Liao involuntarily and felt a little emotional in his heart.

    "Yes! That's true, but speaking of it, General Zhang's situation is enviable. We are just expanding the territory around the empire, and others have already reached the heaven. That is really cool.  !" These two hard-working people soon turned the focus to Zhang Liao again, talking about the mysterious heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals!

    In fact, when it comes to the army and the brothers of the Imperial Navy, they used to be extremely envious, but now, they have turned into a look down with a strong sense of pride.

    In the Ming Dynasty in the third year of Shenwu, the development of the army has undergone radical changes. Because of the shift in the empire's strategic direction in recent years, the main direction of expansion has become the navy. The army has lost the support of national power and has naturally become a bit old.  It doesn¡¯t look like your uncle doesn¡¯t love you.

    To the east, north and south, the control power of the three major naval fleets has fully spanned beyond the first and second Pacific island chains, and is penetrating little by little into the central area of ????the depths of the Pacific. Behind the naval soldiers, tens of millions of square meters  Kilometers of maritime territory were incorporated into the country, countless rare treasures, and countless huge colonial profits poured into the empire's pockets through the expansion of the navy.  Relatively speaking, the army can only deal with the barbarians in the poor valleys, so it is natural that the overall morale is low.

    In the main direction of today's naval expansion, the empire's territory in the south has expanded to the Indochina Peninsula in modern time and space.  Along the way, General Cao Renzhonglang of the Zhennan Army led his army to advance southward along the Red River Basin and the Mekong River Basin; on the other side, it was under the command of Gan Ning, the commander of the South China Sea Fleet of the Ming Empire, and Xu Huang, the commander of the newly established Zhennan Army.  , jumping all the way along Hue, Hoi An, Da Nang, Long Xuan and other places, there are ports attacking the surrounding areas, and the offensive launched is blooming everywhere along the coast of Indochina Peninsula.

    Not only Jiaozhi and RinanCounties were captured one by one, and vast areas such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in modern time and space were also conquered one by one by the Ming army. The local primitive indigenous people were completely defeated in the face of the offensive of flintlock guns, incendiary bombs, landmines, and grenades. Many times they were facing the enemy.  Facing the army of the terrifying god who could thunder and set fire, they basically surrendered immediately upon meeting them. There were countless native tribesmen who were willing to serve as slaves of the "god".

    The flames of war of the imperial army have been extended to the Gulf of Thailand in modern time and space!  Of course, it is no longer called the Gulf of Thailand, it is called Gan Ning Bay.

    Speaking of this, I have to mention the rookie of the Imperial Navy, formerly a native of Bajun, Yizhou, and now the commander-in-chief of the South China Sea Fleet. After taking over the command baton of the South China Sea Fleet from Zhang Liao, this guy immediately broke out.  The astonishing combat power almost immediately became the new tip of the spear of the Imperial Navy. He led the South China Sea Fleet on the road of southward expansion. He was brave and adept at fighting and destroyed countless countries. He also pioneered the leapfrog tactic of the Imperial Marine Corps.  It has greatly increased the expansion speed of the empire and can be called a new generation of generals in the imperial navy!

    It¡¯s just that this guy is both smart and brave when fighting, but he is really a bit weird. He likes to be new and unconventional, and he often does things that cause headaches to the big guys in the Imperial Privy Council.

    When the exploration team of the Imperial Fleet first discovered the area near the Gulf of Thailand, because the local area was full of indigenous people and communication was difficult, the Imperial Army surveyors needed to identify the area with a name.  After this guy heard about it, he shamelessly tried to persuade the surveyor to put the name of Ganning Bay on the imperial surveying map with the price of two bottles of wine.

    After that, the empire's series of conquest plans were successful, and the Gulf of Thailand was incorporated into the country. Ganning Bay became the official name of this sea area, which is much larger than the Bohai Sea. And the name of this guy Ganning is obvious.  This scoundrel's actions will soon be spread throughout the ages!

    As soon as this move came out, there was an immediate uproar!

    The generals and soldiers of the Imperial Navy suddenly discovered another value in the career of the Imperial Navy in Gan Ning's move!  That is to desperately conquer and explore. Through this kind of efforts, the ordinary soldiers of the empire can also achieve the goal that countless sages of ancient China could not achieve in the past - to mark their names on this vast planet in the form of place names.  above history.  This kind of action greatly aroused the imperial people's sense of honor and desire to conquer. In just a few months, it became a well-established rule among the empire's southward conquest army.

    After realizing the potential impact of this trend on the morale of the Imperial Army and the endless benefits that could be obtained from it, the Imperial Privy Council had already prepared to punish Gan Ning for his arbitrary behavior.  The decision had to end in vain, and the name Ganning Bay was officially spread in a grand and official manner!

    Subsequently, it is not surprising that a series of strange place names appeared, such as Zhang Sangang, Li Sijiao, etc. The most direct consequence is that Malacca is a well-known important hub connecting the two oceans in modern time and space.  The name of Singapore at the exit of the strait in the time and space of the Three Kingdoms became an extremely simple Suport. It was named after Su Fei, Gan Ning's friend and an important general of the South China Sea Fleet.

    Nowadays, Nanyang in the time and space of the Three Kingdoms has completely become the hinterland of the Imperial Navy, and Sugang has become the anchorage of the South China Sea Fleet, the spear of the Imperial Navy that always maintains its vision of conquest (Jia Xu, Imperial Privy Council Lieutenant)!

    The indigenous people in the surrounding areas of the Atlantic Ocean have sadly turned into cheap labor slaves under the iron heel of the empire. With the expansion of the empire's industrial civilization, these guys who still adhere to the living habits of primitive society are violently coerced.  Sex jumps to the slave age.

    Tens of thousands of hectares of rubber, sugar cane, spices, and honeysuckle replaced the primitive jungle. The plantation economy began to take root in this vast area. Thousands of imperial residents held flintlock guns in their hands and grenades on their backs.  Imperial-grade home-made incendiary bombs were used to deal with the extremely stubborn equatorial rainforest. Under the burning of the jungle fires, large tracts of mines and fertile fields were opened up, starting a vigorous craze for imperial citizens to go to Southeast Asia to pan for gold!

    Of course, the expansion of the empire's citizens was accompanied by a substantial expansion of the empire's industrial capital. Thousands of steam engines and sailboats traveled back and forth between the empire's mainland and Southeast Asia, and hundreds of ports played a role in the large-scale machine industry.  This action also directly promoted another major expansion of the empire's seaports and shipbuilding industry.

    The various histories of explorers and colonists derived from this directly created a large number of bizarre social phenomena, the vigorous development of the first wave of outward-oriented civilization in the early empire, passion and conquest, exploration and expansion, and the definition of barbarism.  , the interpretation of civilization spreads the chaos of an entire era.

    Historically known as the colonial era!  (Not yet??To be continued.  If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.  )
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