Chapter 212 Borneo is a good place
The attitude of the Ming officials is actually understandable. For thousands of years, China has been a state of superiority in the Celestial Kingdom, and I am the only one who is solemn, so the Chinese people will naturally deeply believe that only China and China are valuable, and no matter how big the barbarian land is, it is worthless.
Therefore, there is no need to understand abroad. If you can't live, there is no need to go abroad to make a living.
This self-esteem mentality is the enemy of Zhao Hao's opening up the Ming Dynasty's sea power era. But what's interesting is that this domestic attitude towards overseas mushrooms protects Zhao Hao to the greatest extent.
Not to mention anything else, if his military parade was placed in China, such as Poyang Lake, after the performance today, he would be sure to report his memorial to rebel tomorrow, and he would fly to the cabinet like snowflakes. Not to mention his father-in-law, even his father-in-law could not protect him... Well, how could his father-in-law be as reliable as his father-in-law?
Now, he only needs to order the group to cover up information in China and let go of the trouble overseas. Even if there are rumors and rumors, the people in the market and the officials in the court will know that they will exaggerate the rumors as rumors and laugh it off. No one will offend Zhao Hao for any rumors of catching up.
However, for the local emperors like Nanyang, the Jiangnan Group and the Coast Guard Fleet were really pressing against the mountains above their heads, making them completely recall that the father of the Celestial Dynasty was actually a strict father with serious violence.
On the one hand, dad will protect them and not allow others to bully them anymore. But if they are disobedient, dad will also be able to serve the family law. Anyway, dad has a lot of children and grandchildren, and killing one or two is nothing.
After arriving on the majestic sea power, they all became obedient babies, honestly gave up their original titles, and accepted the reality that they had become chieftains of the Ming Dynasty.
If they were a little unwilling to accept it before, then when the reviewing ship entered Brunei Bay, the slightest unwillingness disappeared.
I saw that there were densely packed Brunei Bay, and more than 300 large and medium-sized warships were parked neatly!
Those were all the coast guard warships involved in the South China Sea War. In addition to the joint fleet, the two major guard zones and the Luzon War Zone also participated in the parade!
In order to boost momentum, Zhao Hao brought in another battleship that was launched for two years. The entire parade fleet had a total of 14 battleships, 32 cruisers, 64 destroyers, 128 frigates, and 60 swordfish-style galleys.
With two review ships, they were exactly three hundred warships!
Seeing these local emperors, the queen of Peking University could not help but say, "The Zheng He fleet was not as large as that, right?"
"No." Zhao Hao looked back at the queen with a straight face and said seriously: "We just restored the size of Zheng He's fleet back then..."
As he said that, he turned around, looked at the huge fleet that could not be seen on the sea, and said in a deep voice: "This is the starting point, not the end point!"
Of course, such a large formation is not just for the sake of several local emperors in the South China Sea. On the Deputy Reviewing Ship No. 16, there are also model figures emerging in the South China Sea War; outstanding workers of the group; martyrs' families, families of combat heroes, etc., hundreds of people were also invited to parade with Zhao Hao.
The Xu Brothers Pictures also sent the strongest painters to climb onto the mast to capture the precious pictures of the parade, record them in sketches, and turn back to make full-color promotional videos to play them for the people of Luzon and Taiwan who cannot be present. They will also choose some pictures that are not too taboo to be played in Jiangnan theaters.
However, it is estimated that after Sister Ma's reviews one by one, only a few close-up scenes and close-ups of characters will be left...
But this did not affect the excitement of the painters at the moment. They were deeply infected by the atmosphere on the scene. The brushes in their hands were running like flying, faithfully recording the moment of the Ming Dynasty again!
When the two review ships slowly sailed past in front of a majestic fleet that stretched for more than ten miles. Whenever they intersected with a warship, the coast guards, who were wearing a full set of dresses and like javelins, paid tribute to the commander-in-chief under the leadership of the two chief officials.
Zhao Hao also wore his chief police officer's gown and returned the greetings frequently to the soldiers. The atmosphere was solemn and solemn.
Seeing that the coast guard officers and soldiers on each warship were all dressed in distinctive armor and as if they were still as moving as a mountain, the local emperors were frightened again. They all had an army, so they naturally knew that the military appearance and combat effectiveness were proportional.
It’s okay that the officers and soldiers on Mr. Zhao’s main battleships performed well, but it would be outrageous that all the warships were the same and uniform.
At noon, the sea inspection was over. After Mr. Zhao and all the guests landed, they inspected the Marine Corps and soldiers.
Compared to the inconvenient movement, the coast guard ships that can be formed by a random team can be used to measure the time, so the infantry can play more ways.
After Mr. Zhao and the guests climbed to the temporary reviewing stand, Wu Da, the commander of the Marine Corps, who served as the commander-in-chief of the land parade, wore a straight wool-filled police officer dress, with stars shining on his shoulders, and the enameled medals and medals on his chest reflected.
He ran to the reviewing stand, saluted Zhao Hao, and said loudly in a breathtaking voice: "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the parade troops have been assembled, please instruct!"
"Start the review!" Zhao Hao said in a deep voice after returning the gift.
"Yes!" Wu Da stood attentively, stepped back, turned around and ordered loudly: "The model is in place!"
With his order, 60 carefully selected parade model soldiers carried silver lights, and their bayonets were kicking into the venue with snow-like rifles, kicking the prelude to the land parade.
The 60 model soldiers formed a staircase and separated to both sides of the reviewing stand, swinging their arms, kicking their legs, and landing, with accuracy and no error. The heels of the military boots hit the newly laid concrete floor of the parade playground, and it was neat and uniform without any noise.
From the entry to the last model completing the last move, there was no mistake at all.
After the model soldiers stood in place, the eight trumpeters blew the coast guard assembly call and the parade began.
As the drum beats were sounded with distinct rhythms, the parade square arrays, led by the flag bearer and the parade head, walked towards the reviewing stand in neat steps, taking standard squares.
When you see the officers and soldiers in the square formation, whether they look horizontally and vertically or obliquely, they are all straight and not confused. The 81 feet in the square formation rise and fall together, and each step is like a ruler, so you can still maintain such a perfect formation while you move.
The people who had never seen the military parade on the stage were all so surprised that they couldn't stop. Some people might not have felt the military parade before, but the infantry phalanx shocked everyone. The rumbling sound of steps seemed to step on people's hearts, bringing them a strong sense of oppression.
When the square array passed through the reviewing stand, the square array leader was able to draw out a sharp command knife and roared at the same time: "Salute!"
The officers and soldiers changed their steps together, and at the same time they changed hands to change hands on the Longqing rifle on their shoulders, and raised the frost-shining bayonet to perform the gun ceremony.
The suddenly rising bayonet reflected the sunlight onto the reviewing stand, making many viewers unable to open their eyes, which made people frightened.
After the parade, artillery shooting was held.
There were shellings on the sea and on the land. In order to achieve better program results, the director team couldn't help but add information in advance.
However, the parade warships fired volleys at the sea, and thousands of shells instantly shattered a fleet of target ships. The scene of one in ten is enough to make the local emperors unforgettable for their entire lives.
Then there was the prisoner offering ceremony, which still opened the eyes of the local emperors.
These are a total of 100,000 prisoners!
Among them, 80,000 prisoners in Brunei City survived two months of quarantine and quarantine, and only more than 70,000 survived.
There are also the last three thousand prisoners who survived Cebu City.
And more than 14,000 red-haired ghosts captured last year... They initially captured 19,000, and 17,000 were left after quarantine. After hard labor in the Biyao gold mine, more than 3,000 died in less than a year...
So it is not that Indian miners have fragile lives, but that the red-haired ghosts don’t treat them as human beings. Now if they don’t treat red-haired ghosts as human beings, they will die so much that their mothers don’t recognize them.
Zhao Hao brought these Spanish people who were sentenced to lifelong hard labor to Brunei, one to let the local emperors and the representatives who watched the ceremony take a good look. The coast guard and the red-haired ghost really fought a cruel decisive battle, but in the end, in order to avoid losses, he adopted the tactic of siege but not attacking.
Secondly, the most dangerous work in the Biyao Gold Mine has been completed, and regular miners should be hired in the future. Only in this way can the mine improve efficiency and produce more gold, and not be ruined by a group of prisoners...
In Borneo, a large amount of labor is urgently needed to carry out the hard preparations before immigration, such as land reclamation, road construction, burning grass, logging, etc., and the early mortality rate is even as high as one-third.
In the Nanyang area covered with primeval forests and swamps, these tasks have to be piled up with human lives, and there is no other way.
In another time and space, the Dutch and British colonists recruited overseas Chinese in Fujian and Guangdong to reclaim land and used the lives of the Han people to turn Southeast Asia into a livable place.
This time, Zhao Hao used the life of the red-haired ghost to fill the pit, and he would report it back to the next, and there was nothing to feel guilty about.
Borneo is also worth living. It is as big as seven Luzon Islands, with gentle terrain, abundant rainfall, rivers, tropical rainforests cover almost the entire island, and the soil is still volcanic ash.
Although the acidic volcanic ash soil in Borneo is much worse than the basic volcanic ash soil in Luzon and Java, it is still a rare and high-quality soil, and it is also a virgin land. The difficulty of farming is far less than that of the land that has been cultivated for thousands of years in the Ming Dynasty and has long been barren.
In addition, Borneo's rich hydraulic resources can not only be used to irrigate rice, but also install water conservancy machines such as water wheel-driven spinning machines, looms, rice mills, etc.
Chapter completed!