Dominate the Country

That night, Chen Ming felt dizzy, and his face was exhausted. He forwarded Bao Zhidao's report to the cabinet in the morning, and the cabinet gave a very clear answer in the afternoon - approval. In the minds of the current cabinet ministers, the bank's interest rate cut is like adding fuel to the fire and icing on the cake for the current development, with only benefits and no harm.

But Chen Ming is definitely not that simple. In the end, Chen Ming, who had many concerns about the economy and finance, pressed this proposal, "maintaining stability"!

The current growth rate of China's fiscal and tax revenue is not slower than last year, which shows that the development situation is still very impressive. In this case, don't easily touch, adjust or influence it, let this development trend naturally continue to move forward and drive the annual revenue of the country.

The relatives and dignitaries of Chen Han don't understand what GDP is. Their only understanding of the economy - a very direct understanding, is to look at the amount of tax collection. If tax revenue is growing rapidly, then the economy must be growing rapidly; vice versa.

"Inflation? Deflation?"

The cabinet ministers were also dizzy. As Chinese people of this era, they have absolutely no knowledge of these two terms. But they did get some dry goods from Chen Ming. Chen Ming will declare gold and silver bars as illegal currency before the New Year, and prohibit the direct circulation of any non-metallic gold and silver in the market.

Chen Ming wants to issue paper money. He thinks that Chen Han's credibility is enough to launch paper money at this time, to influence and change society little by little. At that time, he will abolish the gold and silver certificate issuance rights of various banks, and will also set up a central bank. The right to issue paper money is exclusively enjoyed by the central bank!

Time, the time for issuing paper money, will be after he ascends the throne next year!

So in this case, will the adjustment of bank interest rates "really" cause a series of waves?

All the people in the entire cabinet have no idea about this issue. Naturally, if the prince says it may affect it, then it may really affect it. The prince is afraid that his "grand plan" will be affected, so what decision should he make? Maintain stability!

After all, no one dares to push for a reduction in bank interest rates at the risk of touching the "prince's grand plan". They didn't understand a lot of what the prince said, but since they didn't understand, who dared to say that it really didn't matter?

Chen Ming returned to his bedroom with a buzzing head and lay down directly.

He decided that in the future, he would just watch and not talk about the banking industry as much as possible, because he really didn't understand it. Fortunately, the financial order and strength of Europeans in this era were also quite fragile. According to some of the situations Newton said, although many banks in Europe have great influence and strength, they are all within their own country. Except for a few banks, they even have difficulty "going abroad". Moreover, the inconvenience of information transportation has greatly affected the enthusiasm of banks to expand outward.

China still has at least 50 years to develop its own financial order.

Li Xiaomei pressed the acupuncture points on Chen Ming's head with both hands. She didn't move at all about "inflation" and "deflation". All she could do now was to gently press the acupuncture points on Chen Ming to make Chen Ming feel more comfortable.

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Just as Chen Ming was lying on the bed enjoying the massage and brain freeze, a fleet sent by the Fu Han Army Nanyang Navy arrived in Penang.

This was another action of the Fu Han Army Nanyang Navy after many days of silence. They reached an agreement with Kedah Sultan Abdul Halim to protect the Kedah Sultanate from the invasion of Siam, but the Kedah Sultan wanted to hand over Penang and the province of Seberang Perai across a narrow strait to China.

This will become a naval base of the Fu Han Army Navy.

The Outer Northeast in July is as cold as late autumn, and Penang in July is still hot.

Zhang Li, Qiu Zhaojin and Ma Fuchun, three Chinese and their families, looked forward to the fleet flying the Fu Han Army battle flag approaching Penang little by little. They couldn't stop their tears from flowing.

There are only 55 people in the whole Penang, and Chinese account for half of them, which is actually their three families. Since moving to this small island thirty years ago, the three families have reproduced two generations in Penang.

On weekdays, they make a living by fishing. Qiu Zhaojin is a blacksmith, Zhang Li is a teacher, and Ma Fuchun can make charcoal. But these are side jobs. In order to make a living, they still catch big fish the most.

Although the three families who came to Penang also intermarried with the natives on the island, they were more "interconnected" with each other. They all thought that they would spend their lives in a daze, and never thought that they would see a large fleet of Chinese ships coming here when they were old.

Zhang Li burst into tears. Since leaving his hometown, he has never expected to see the local accent. Penang is a very isolated place. If the Fu Han army who landed last time had not told him in detail about the changes in the mainland, he would still have a braid now.

With the arrival of the fleet, the first batch of at least 500 immigrants and five labor reform teams of about the same number were successively sent to the shore by small boats from the sea ship. The local natives have never seen so many people at once.

Since the Fu Han Army has already seized this place, the first thing they have to do is to build cities and artillery forts to deeply root themselves in this land.

Seberang Perai, which is only separated from Penang by a small strait, is also the territory of the Fu Han Army. This place is not large in area, but has relatively good port construction conditions and controls the northern part of the Strait of Malacca. Compared with the Malacca City in the hands of the Dutch, it is naturally at a disadvantage, but time is on Chen Han's side.

When Penang is completely built up, it will be the biggest threat to Malacca to a certain extent.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the established strategy of the Dutch. In 1641 AD, after the Sea Coachman defeated Portugal in its heyday, it was not interested in developing Malacca into a trade center because their main business was Batavia.

But with the sudden entry of the Fu Han Army into Penang, the Dutch in Batavia will definitely quickly start the road to return to Malacca. But just like the "return to Asia-Pacific" rebalancing of the old Americans in the previous life, it is easier said than done.

Malacca has been abandoned by the Dutch for more than a hundred years, and the A'Famosa Castle is in ruins. Although the Dutch built the St. John's Castle a few years ago, some of the guns on the fort were all aimed at the inland rather than the open sea, because at this time the main threat to the Dutch was not from the ocean, but from the inland behind.

And it is easy to restore a castle in a place, but what about the economy? After the Dutch restored the armaments of Malacca, they did it purely to keep an eye on the Chinese fleet in Penang? The price it paid was too high, such a high price that even the Dutch East India Company could not afford.

But no matter how the Dutch reacted, the sudden attack of the Fu Han Army on Penang would attract the attention of all Europeans, not to mention that Penang was not the destination of the Nanyang Navy at all, their destination was the Andaman Islands.

They did not really deploy troops and naval forces there. Instead, they installed a few boundary markers to show that this place belonged to China, that simple. Otherwise, not only would the Dutch be furious, but now Ceylon [Sri Lanka] is still ruled by the Dutch, and even the British would have great opinions.

It is a bit too close to India.

And everything the Fu Han Army Nanyang Navy is doing now is under the banner of dealing with Myanmar. At that time, Wang Mang of Myanmar killed his brother and established himself, and did not dare to fight against Wu Sangui's army. He immediately launched the curse of water disaster, which can be said to be one of the culprits of the death of Emperor Yongli. Since Chen Han is the land of the Han people, it is only natural for him to seek revenge on Myanmar. Even though the Toungoo Dynasty was destroyed by the current Konbaung Dynasty, it did not delay Chen Han from looking for trouble with Myanmar.

Is it a bit unreasonable? But so what. Pull down the hat on your head, and everything will be fine.

In Chen Ming's previous life, Myanmar took a lot of advantage from China. Shan State was basically Chinese land, and Myanmar inherited the British legacy, just like the southern Tibet occupied by India, which was all John Bull's fault. However, due to various considerations in the early days of the founding of the Red Dynasty and the subsequent changes in the international situation, Shan State was eventually legally incorporated into Myanmar. As a result, it is still buzzing in the 21st century.

July 20th, dusk.

A Chinese merchant ship with a red flag quietly slid into the port terminal of Palembang. Palembang is not as prosperous as it was a few years ago. Dozens of local boats are huddled at the berths, and there are no more people on the shore. The Dutch colonial government officials and soldiers who used to be arrogant on the dock are nowhere to be seen. Only colonial soldiers who chat and yawn come to replace them. It seems that this important town that has been run by the Dutch for more than a hundred years has been forgotten by them.

Palembang is located in the south of Sumatra Island. More than 90% of the local indigenous people believe in Islam. The city is located on the inner side of the swamp area, across the lower reaches of the Musi River. The soil and water are fertile. It was the birthplace of the Srivijaya Kingdom, a powerful country in Southeast Asia, a thousand years ago. It has been a prosperous place on Sumatra Island since ancient times.

However, with the constant flow of local Chinese in the past two years, the city is like a jar of dead water that cannot be blown by the wind, and it smells stronger day by day.

A large number of Chinese migrated to Borneo, Singapore or Sulu. The Chinese who left were not only from Palembang, but also from Batavia, Surabaya, Medan, Pekanbaru, Semarang, Bandung and Pangkalpinang, etc. All the important cities in the Dutch East Indies, including many Chinese in Luzon, all fled to Singapore, Pontianak, or Sulu.

How many people would be willing to be dogs in Luzon, Java and Sumatra when they can hold their heads high in Pontianak, Sulu and Singapore?

It’s not that they really transferred all their property, but at least many people left. Compared with the unhappiness and resentment of the foreigners, these migrated Chinese and wealthy families valued the Chinese nationality they would get more.

This is Chinese nationality, you can't get it just because you want to. If you want to get the nationality certificate safely, at least you should not look like a "bastard" in appearance, and provide direct evidence that both parents are Chinese; and if there are some minor flaws in appearance, you need to go back and get your family tree, or find five people to guarantee him with their reputation, to ensure that his father's lineage is Chinese.

This set of procedures is not troublesome, just set up some levels, and when you pass those levels and get the nationality, you can even feel a sense of pride when you think about it.

After all, no matter what it is, things that can only be obtained through hard work always feel better than those that are given away for free.

Those families who have been passed down in Nanyang for hundreds of years, and no one knows which family started, invited the family tree from the ancestral hall with great fanfare, and then a family of at least hundreds of men and women, young and old, and at most thousands of people, got nationality together, and knelt down facing north, shouting: "The whole world is the king's land, and all the people are the king's subjects. Long live the emperor, long live, long live the emperor", the uncontrollable excitement can make people burst into tears.

But this kind of "big scene" is still rare. There are even some families that are tied to the Spaniards and Portugal and can't jump down, so they naturally don't know the infinite emotion of the Nanyang Chinese when they see the words printed on the international certificate: No matter where you are in the world, the powerful motherland is behind you! !

How many days can the scum of the Qing Dynasty jump around in the northwest and northeast? The Fu Han Army will soon be able to sweep the world, and then the huge China will be able to launch a strategy against Nanyang immediately without rest. The strength of the Spanish and Dutch in Nanyang is too weak.

The future of China belongs to the entire earth. Those who are either helpless or self-righteous cannot imagine how much they will lose in the future.

Turning back to Palembang, as the third largest commercial port in the entire Dutch East Indies, Palembang was originally an extremely prosperous city. But in addition to trade, the local economy of this place also consists of local plantations.

In terms of creating wealth value, one Chinese is more powerful than ten lazy natives, but now many Chinese who are buried in the land have a better and more wonderful place to go, Pontianak. Borneo is also a fertile land, pepper, coconut, sugarcane, everything that is available in Palembang is available there, and it is absolutely safe.

The Fu Han Army has not landed in Pontianak on the surface, but the local Chinese security team that has been trained has a total of 2,000 people, each equipped with the best muskets and bayonets, and a total of 24 cannons. This is a powerful force that can sweep the entire Borneo. And who of the instructors and officers is not from the Fu Han Army?

There were many Chinese groups and mining companies in the area, but they were as docile as rabbits in front of the Fu Han Army. After having a backer, these people looked down on the clerks sent to Borneo by the Dutch before the security team was fully trained. There was no respect at all!

After the Sulu War, the "dignity" accumulated by the Dutch and the Spanish in the hearts of the Chinese for one or two hundred years was gone.

After the pilot had a simple negotiation with the colonial army leader at the dock, a pure-blooded Westerner, a carriage that had been waiting outside the dock was soon driven in.

The sun fell below the horizon, and the sky soon darkened. When the carriage drove to the depths of a street with Chinese-style buildings, it was completely dark. The carriage stopped in front of a large house. The gate was a little shabby, and two big red lanterns were hung high, illuminating the gate.

The steps were also cleaned up. Cai Shaowu respectfully asked a man who arrived with him to get off the carriage. The man was not too old, and his shiny head reflected the red light of the lantern.

He was a monk.

Fan Wei looked at the magnificent mansion in front of him, which was no less magnificent than the mansions he had seen in Shandong. Cai Shaowu's ancestor was a Kapitan, and he was indeed a wealthy Chinese family in Palembang.

"Master, please come in quickly."

There was no Buddhism in Palembang at all. Since the introduction of Lulu, the Buddhist countries that originally ruled Java and Sumatra have been transformed into the Star and Moon Kingdom in just a hundred years. Until now, the natives of the Dutch East Indies have not known about Buddhism for hundreds of years. The local natives all believe in Lulu, and the only people who know what Buddhism is are the Han people. But the Han people are few in number and poor, and the Dutch are biased, so that the Han people dare not build Buddhist temples openly except for worshipping Buddha statues in their own homes.

Although the area where the Cai family is located is a Chinese area, there are many natives who work as slaves and servants in each family. Especially with the large number of Chinese moving out, many abandoned houses were occupied by local natives. Cai Shaowu knew that Fan Wei had a special identity. Fan Wei's ultimate goal was not Palembang, but Penang, which had just been occupied by the Fu Han Army. It was close to Siam and Myanmar, and both Siam and Myanmar were Buddhist countries.

So Fan Wei didn't need to attract attention in Palembang immediately.

Fan Wei put his hands together with Cai Shaowu and walked into the door of the Fan family. As a rebellious monk, it was difficult for outsiders to know how much respect and piety Fan Wei had for the Buddha. But he was very happy to embark on the current path. He had spread Buddhism among the Chinese in Pontianak before, and now he was going to the more dangerous Penang. It was difficult for outsiders to see him as a pure monk.

He also had his own awareness in his heart.

Cai Shaowu returned to his home in Palembang after more than half a year. He didn't feel happy or familiar in his heart, but instead felt strange and alienated. "Cai Hong, go tell the people below how many people are willing to go to Pontianak."

Since the Cai family has decided to abandon everything in Palembang, the last remnant of this family in Palembang is better off gone.

"Second Master, the Lin family sent someone to send a message, please give me some face tomorrow?"

The kitchen prepared a set of vegetarian meals, the taste of which certainly could not compare with the vegetarian meals inherited from famous temples in China, but the host and the guests were very happy. At this time, Cai Hong, the housekeeper who stayed in the Cai Mansion in Palembang, walked in with a message.

A sneer appeared on Cai Shaowu's face, "Lin Chunde? Let him go." Paralyzed, the Cai family wanted to live in Palembang and under the hands of the Dutch. For an old dog like the Lin family, no matter how disgusted the Cai family was, Be imaginative and conciliatory. But what about now? The Cai family has all moved to Pontianak. Although there are still many plantations left in Sumatra, so what? Do the Dutch dare to touch it for no reason? Are the Cai family’s nationality certificates fake? Do you think China’s prestige in Southeast Asia is false?

Fan Wei also put down his chopsticks, "Lin Chunde? Are you a descendant of Lin Chu?"

"That's the thief's third son. I really wish I could kill their entire family right now."

Fan Wei also had a cold murderous intent on his face, "Just wait and see. The time is almost up..."

The Lin Chu family is a family that His Highness the Crown Prince has personally decided to kill without mercy. None of them will survive! Otherwise, how can we atone for the endless sins on our body?

"Huh, now I know I'm afraid. When the battle of Sulu was not yet concluded, Lin Chunde had a different face." Cai Shaowu will never forget the way Lin Chunde held up the cross and said "Amen Amen" to God. The cubs of those who have forgotten their ancestors must also be the rats who have forgotten their ancestors.

Lin Chu is a dog, and his four sons and two sons-in-law are also dogs. "It's not that the time has not come yet." The time to kill the dog is only a few days away! There are only a few days left for revenge. The blood of Hongxi cannot be shed in vain.