Daming 1805

Chapter 456 Conquering the Ocean
The project of the Yinzhou Canal was finalized by Zhu Jingyuan, so a large number of follow-up matters that required decision-making were also directly transferred to Zhu Jingyuan for further processing.

The report written by Zhu Dijin was quite detailed, and Zhu Jingyuan could tell that Zhu Dijin wanted to keep these workers.

The treasurer of the Huangzhuang system, unlike the officials of the Ming court, has no term limit of three, six, or nine years.

They have the opportunity to work in a position for more than ten years.

The core of Panama Huangzhuang is obviously the Yinzhou Canal.

But now that Zhu Dijin has 100 million workers, he doesn't seem to be satisfied with simply operating the canal.

He wants to do some farming and industrial projects in Panama.

That's why he wants to keep these workers.

Zhu Jingyuan instinctively wanted to refuse.

Among these workers are mainly Hispanic Thais and Yin people who believed in Catholicism.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want the Taixi people to stay on his land.

Hispanics who are Catholics are more conservative than British and Germans.

At the same time, I also know that the Catholics in Yinzhou in history were more extreme than those in Taixi.

So Zhu Jingyuan didn't want them to stay in Daming's vassal country.

Even if you must stay, you cannot stay in Panama.

Panama is too important a place, the main population of the place must be Ming people.

Otherwise, this kind of place will not be truly stable in the future.

Now there are only more than 20 Daming people in the local area, but there are millions of Taixi people and Catholic Yin people in total.

The Taixi people and Yin people in this world behaved very obediently under the rule of Ming Dynasty.

The people of Ming Dynasty in this era take it for granted that it is very reasonable for 20 people of Ming Dynasty to manage 100 million other people.

All Ming people can be officials and managers, and Taixi people and Catholic Yin people can be low-level laborers.

But Zhu Jingyuan's past life memories made Zhu Jingyuan instinctively worried whether these people would cause all kinds of troubles in the future.

When Ming Dynasty was strong, they shouldn't do anything out of the ordinary.

But when Daming's own internal problems arise, they probably won't be able to keep their own place.

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, if these people are left behind, they will become a stone under the tide of prosperity in the Ming Dynasty.

When the tide of prosperity falls, it will be exposed, which will lead to various problems.

Based on the mentality of taking precautions before they happen, it is impossible for Zhu Jingyuan to allow them all to stay.

After careful consideration, Zhu Jingyuan instructed his secretary to write a formal response to Zhu Dijin.

The 20 laborers who have obtained the national status of the vassal state can stay, and the remaining foreign laborers are all evacuated.

In the surrounding areas of Panama, where low-level labor is needed, they can be dispersed and arranged.

It is not allowed to be sent to work in factories, and can only be used for outdoor construction such as hydropower stations, channel dredging, and dam construction.

However, their identities are no longer prisoners of war laborers, but all have been changed to foreign hired laborers, and they are given corresponding wages and treatment.

All laborers who could not be arranged were sent to Spanish Mexico in the north.

If the Panama region wants to develop its own industry and needs more labor, it can hire the naturalized Yin people from Xintianfu, or the naturalized people from the vassal vassals around the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

Avoid using Taixi and Catholic Yin whenever possible.

Zhu Jingyuan's response was quickly sent across the ocean by telegram.

In the office of the treasurer in Panama City, where the Panama Huangzhuang Management Office is located, Zhu Dijin received the secretary's report.

Zhu Dijin sat at his desk and carefully read Zhu Jingyuan's telegram:

"Your Highness really doesn't want these foreigners to stay, and that Raoshizi monotheism is really worrying..."

Zhu Dijin sighed softly, then went to the opposite office to find the chief engineer Wang Jinpeng:
"Old Wang, His Highness's response has come."

Wang Jinpeng asked directly:
"Your Highness shouldn't let those Xiyi and religious Yin people stay?"

Zhu Dijin handed the telegram to Wang Jinpeng:
"Yes, you are not allowed to stay, and those who are in need of projects around you can start to contact and arrange now.

"All the rest that can't be used up will be given to Mexico..."

Wang Jinpeng read the telegram carefully, then raised his head and asked Zhu Dijin:
"Boss, do you stop asking His Highness for instructions?"

Zhu Dijin shook her head directly:
"We all know His Highness's character, we all know His Highness doesn't like to use Xiyi.

"It is really thankless to deliberately apply to continue using Xiyi when His Highness has already made arrangements.

"If you don't have any concerns, you can apply by yourself. It is impossible for me to ask again."

The two have been working together for more than five years and are already very familiar with each other.

At this time, Wang Jinpeng said in a particularly bachelor way:

"I won't ask, my task is engineering naturalization and construction management.

"It has nothing to do with me how to arrange the workers after the project is completed?
"Those are your own business, I will not touch His Highness's bad luck."

As Wang Jinpeng said, he stood up and went to the workbench next to him to open his engineering drawings:

"Since most of the laborers have to evacuate, the middle part of the river can be evacuated now...

"Hydropower stations are being built everywhere in South Yinzhou, and North Yinzhou will continue to dredge the waterways of the Mi River and the Great Lakes.

"The 60 people we are going to release look like a lot, and it will not be conspicuous if they are scattered."

Zhu Dijin sighed faintly:

"Hey, it's true, the construction period of large hydropower stations is very long, and these people can still use them for several years..."

The two chatted for a while, and then began to formally plan and arrange the follow-up work.

Adjust the tasks of the workers in a targeted manner, and start to transfer the redundant workers to the surrounding areas.

It is mainly the construction of hydropower stations in South Yinzhou and the repair of rivers in North Yinzhou.

Time flows forward unhurriedly, and the finishing work of the Yinzhou Canal project has been completed one after another.

Zhu Dijin and Wang Jinpeng's accounting and management were very successful. By the end of June in the tenth year of Daming Ankang, the Yinzhou Canal was finally fully completed.

Hundreds of thousands of workers who did not obtain national status in Panama have now been sent out one after another.

The two sides of the canal, which had been busy for five years, finally became completely quiet.

Only the workers who have obtained the status of the Panama region are left, farming in the fields on both sides of the canal, and continuing to work on the construction site in Panama City.

Together with Wang Jinpeng, Zhu Dijin held a grand completion ceremony in front of the remaining tens of thousands of Ming and foreign laborers on site.

While reporting to the Ming emperor and the central court, it was also broadcast all over the world through radio waves.

From Daming to Taixi, after receiving the news, various types of newspapers rushed to report it very quickly.

Some Western newspapers regarded this incident as a sign that mankind finally completely conquered the ocean.

The West Sea Canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Little Atlantic Ocean directly in the northern hemisphere.

The Yinzhou Canal connects the Daming Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean directly in the northern hemisphere.

The oceans in the northern hemisphere, where the core of human civilization is located, are finally connected.

At the same time, the morale of the Ming people has reached a new level.

But Zhu Jingyuan himself didn't pay much attention to this matter.

The information that Zhu Jingyuan deals with every day is mainly the affairs of this area that he is in charge of.

In the west and north of Ming Dynasty, the construction of major cities in foreign domains such as Xianbei, Kazakh, Khiva, and Persia has been fully rolled out.

A large number of rural populations and small town populations are rapidly converging into several major cities.

The General Education Examination Certificate System and Ticket Purchase Restriction System are being carried out in an orderly manner.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the royal families of Thailand and Western countries jointly funded and jointly established two royal trading companies, sea and land, which have been formally established.

The railway lines of countries that are already very close are also speeding up the connection.

It is estimated that by the end of this year, the railways across the entire Shenou continent will officially start running.

At the same time, after almost a year of construction and preparations, the development of the Xianbei Principality's Qiumen Oilfield is finally on the right track.

Two major oil-producing areas have been discovered and are entering the stage of production ramp-up.

With Zhu Jingyuan's support, the construction of the oil pipeline from the Qiumen Oilfield to the northwest of Daming has also begun.

Lucia's Volga-Ural field has also started production.

On this side of the border between Lucia and the Great Ming Xianbei Principality, the exploration team has indeed discovered the possibility of oil and gas resources.

However, the actual production effect is very poor, and the oil wells drilled so far cannot recover the cost.

Zhu Jingyuan had expected this for a long time. In order to prevent Lucia's mentality from being too resentful, he is investing in the construction of a petrochemical plant in the free trade zone on the border between the two countries.

It is planned to use the oil jointly developed by Daming and Lucia as a raw material to produce various plastics and rayon.

In addition, textile factories were built to produce clothing from synthetic fibers.

If the Lucia people make a lot of noise in the future, they will merge some factories that do not involve key technologies into the name of the joint venture company.

At the same time, Lucia has actually begun to suspect.

When the news of the completion of the Yinzhou Canal spread all over the world, Emperor Lucia Nicholas looked at the news in the newspaper, and once again thought of the border free trade zone and oil development business in cooperation with Ming Dynasty.

Nicholas frowned and considered for a while, feeling a little irritable, so he called Wedemeyer over.

Again a question that has been asked several times already:

"Will there really be no oil on the border between Daming and Lucia, on the side of Daming in the Ural region?"

Wedemeyer has also been asked several times, and is now a little grumpy:

"Even if His Majesty asks that, I can only say, not that there is nothing at all.

"At least a little bit has been dug up so far, but none of them are worth continuing to develop.

"But let's say there is, that little oil doesn't cover the cost of drilling at all. It's a waste of money."

Nicholas said very tangled:
"However, all of us know that the Prince of Food is also known as the Prince of Oil.

"The places he specially circled are all very oil-rich places.

"The Persian Gulf and Oil Lake are both masterpieces of Prince Dashi, and now there is the Qiumen Oilfield in Xianbei Kingdom.

"So is there a possibility that Prince Dashi knows where there is oil, and he must also know where there is no oil.

"Deliberately asked to cooperate with us in the development of the Volga-Ural oil and gas region, and also required to distribute the proceeds in proportion.

"It's hard to believe that he didn't know there wasn't much oil on the ground before he signed.

"If he knows there's not much oil there, he's deliberately defrauding us of our oil resources and revenue...

"Should we protest to Daming? Ask to revise the cooperation agreement?"

Wedemeyer hesitated for a moment:

"I don't think there is any need to be so anxious. In the oil exploration industry, half a year is really not a long time.

"Oil has indeed been discovered in Daming, but the amount is too small, so we have to continue to observe.

"My suggestion is to continue to wait for half a year. By the end of the year, Daming still has not found enough oil resources. We should propose an amendment to the agreement."

When Wedemeyer said this, Nicholas was a little worried again:
"Will Daming accept it? Will Daming become angry?"

Wedemeyer said:

"I don't think so, as long as we don't have to terminate the cooperation department directly, otherwise Daming shouldn't turn his face.

"We should have the opportunity to get some additional conditions to compensate."

Nicholas does not dare to confront Da Ming now, so he has nothing to say now:
"Then just wait..."

Time passed, and the end of Ankang Ten Years was coming soon.

Zhu Jingyuan began to summarize what he had done in the past two years and a simple self-summarization.

Not long after the Western New Year, Zhu Jingyuan received a private telegram from the French Crown Prince Charles.

"My most sincere friend, I will tell you now that I will officially succeed to the throne on February 11, the [-]th year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty.

"I will then hold a grand naval review in France.

"I am very much looking forward to your being able to participate in the celebration and ship review ceremony with Ming's warships.

"Of course, I don't mind if my best friend is too busy to come in person.

"Your most sincere friend, Louis Charles of France."

When Zhu Jingyuan saw this brief telegram, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"This fellow Charles has finally decided to formally succeed to the throne, and Bi will continue to suffer with your father."
"However, if you engage in this ship review and let Da Ming's warships go, it may be overwhelming!
"Da Ming's [-]-ton battleship has already entered service at the end of this year, and it is just right to attend the ceremony next year.

"However, if you look at it from another angle, I arranged for Da Ming's largest warship to go there, and I also gave you a platform for your identity.

"So it should be deliberately high and grand...

"Besides, I originally planned to go directly to the countries of Thailand and the West after the completion of the [-]-ton warship.

"Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to go. I can only arrange for my secretary to go."

Regardless of what Shire thinks, Zhu Jingyuan's arrangements are very simple.

Directly arrange two [-]-ton battleships, with four [-]-ton battleships, plus a cruiser.

Take the main battleship larger than the size of France's entire naval fleet to participate.

Go to the Western countries to visit, and by the way, also see the actual situation of the new warships in the Western countries.

(End of this chapter)