In the Maulanian Military Port, tens of thousands of people are busy on the beach.

In the Ming Dynasty's tribute system, all countries' trade was settled through silver dollars.

For the tribute country, if you want to buy Ming Dynasty goods, you must first obtain silver dollars.

This silver dollar is not qualified to be issued by various countries, only the Bank of the Ming Empire can issue silver dollars.

If countries want to do business with the Ming Dynasty and purchase many products from the Ming Dynasty, they first need to earn silver dollars.

At present, if countries want to obtain silver dollars from the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, they sell domestic production raw materials and export grain, wood, fruit and other products to the Ming Dynasty.

These raw materials for production are relatively cheap, and there are not many silver dollars that can be earned in trade, and it is difficult to meet the consumption of silver dollars needed by countries to import goods from the Ming Dynasty.

In order to ensure the prosperity of the vassal states, the Ming Dynasty sometimes needed to strategically achieve the trade deficit and allow the vassal states to reserve more foreign exchange to maintain the development of the entire trade system.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the trade system is maintained, the settlement status of silver dollars in trade will be still.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could directly issue more paper silver dollars to buy and buy from vassal states to achieve the purpose of exploiting vassal states.

Of course, as a just and responsible major country, the issuance of silver dollars is directly linked to silver, and there is no phenomenon of over-issuance.

At this time, Zhao Ming led a group of people to stand by the military port for inspection.

A large group of civilians were surrounding the beach, repairing the seawall and building a pier.

On the mountain at the entrance of the bay, someone carried stones to build a coastal defense fort.

Zhao Ming looked at the military port that had already begun to take shape in just two months, and couldn't help but exclaim: "The Ministry of Works is progressing very quickly!"

Song Yingxing, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Works who was in charge of the project, said: "This is allocated by the imperial court, and the King of Siam is working hard."

Zhao Ming laughed, "The King of Siam wants to make more silver dollars and save some foreign exchange!"

Zhao Ming looked at the military port with a beginning of outline and was quite satisfied. Wu Sangui thought that the supply from the Ming Dynasty needed to be transported from Jiangnan or Guangzhou. In fact, in addition to some weapons, the Ming Dynasty could directly spend money to purchase food and other materials from Siam, Zhenla and other countries.

Over the years, Jiangnan region has grown a lot of economic crops such as cotton and mulberry seedlings. The grain-producing areas of the Ming Dynasty have long been transferred to Huguang and Nanyang colonization areas.

At this time, Zhao Ming looked at the construction situation and asked, "Are there any difficulties now? When will the military port be opened?"

Song Yingsheng said: "Reporting to the Regent, the military port can be opened now, but the shipyard lacks wood for shipbuilding and repairing ships. It will take some time to repair the damaged warships."

Zhao Ming looked at the warship parked on the boat platform and was waiting for repair, and knew that repairing the timber of the ship would take two to three years to special treatment.

Maulammian had no shipbuilding industry before, so the wood for restoring ships had to be delivered nearby from the Yanpingfan Shipyard in Borneo, Nanyang.

Zhao Ming nodded slightly, "I hope that once the wood arrives, the warships must be repaired as soon as possible so that the fleet can go out to sea and raid the Zhou army's sea supply line."

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When Zhao Ming inspected the Maudanian Military Port, in the primeval forests in northern Myanmar, tens of thousands of local people and Han people were pushing wheelbarrows, carrying poles and hoes, and building the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

At this time, in front of the road, giant trees were cut down by soldiers, then dismembered by civilians and moved to the side of the road.

Wheelbarrows loaded with trucks poured the earth and rocks on the road. Groups of men, in groups of four, tied a piece of wooden pier with ropes, shouted horns, leaned back and pulled up the wooden pier, then loosened it to solidify the road.

Two months passed, and the Ming Dynasty mobilized 100,000 people to build the road to Mubang and penetrated deep into Dongshuo.

Li Dingguo's forward, Xibo City, built a stronghold in the Nandu River, blocking the Dongxu people's harassment of the road construction team.

The rapid progress of the Ming army in northern Myanmar shocked the Dongshuo King Baimang, who was in Awa, but he did not expect that the Ming army would move so quickly that even the mountains in northern Myanmar could not stop the Ming army's attack.

Bai Mang was full of confidence in the primeval forests in northern Myanmar. There was no road to walk in the mountains, and it was difficult for the army to pass through, so it would definitely be able to block the Ming army's attack.

But the people of Dongxu did not expect that there was no road in the mountains, so the Ming Dynasty built a road by itself.

The Ming Dynasty was so cruel that Bai Mang was very scared and could only ask Wu Sangui for help, hoping that Zhou and Britain would send elite troops to support him.

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News about Maudan and northern Myanmar soon reached Yangon.

In the camp of Zhou army in Yangon, Wu Sangui stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back, and behind him were a group of Zhou generals gathered.

The Zhou army was connected to Myanmar and had the convenience of shipping, so Wu Sangui felt a little difficult to maintain more than 100,000 troops.

During the Ming Dynasty, the expedition to Dongzhao was thousands of miles away from the sea and the mountains and steep land were actually maintained. It not only maintained the military's supply, but also had spare energy to carry out projects.

This was completely beyond Wu Sangui's expectations.

Most people are so tampering with this, just like the Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, who had long dragged down the country and the people rose up, but Zhao Ming made it very exciting.

This made Wu Sangui very puzzled deep in his heart. Just change Zhao Zamao.

Hong Chengchou looked at Wu Sangui's back, and said in a deep voice: "From the news collected, from a few years ago, Zhao Zamao has been repairing the official road in the Ming Dynasty. The roads in Yunnan and Guizhou have been built in the past few years. Because the roads are smooth, the materials from Huguang and Guangdong are easier to enter Yunnan and Guizhou than before, so he can support more than 100,000 people to enter Dongxu to build the road. As for the establishment of a military port in Maotanmian, it was mainly due to the efforts of various vassals in the South China Sea. Zhao Zamao did not recruit many civilians from the Ming Dynasty."

Wu Sangui turned around, "Those vassals are willing to be coolies for Zhao Zamao. Can they bear it with their national strength?"

Wu Sangui was a little confused. In the past, the vassals were thinking about how to pay tribute and take advantage of the Ming Dynasty, but now they are competing to be hardworking for the Ming Dynasty and rush to be dogs.

Hong Chengchou said: "According to my understanding, Zhao Zamao gave them a large amount of silver bills, Siam, Zhenla and other countries, all rushing to make Zhao Zamao's military port, and save a lot of silver bills to trade with the Ming Dynasty!"

Wu Sangui couldn't stand his heart, so he waved his hand and interrupted it in a deep voice: "It won't work if this continues. If the military port is built, the Ming Dynasty warships are restored, and the new fleet arrives, it will threaten my sea supplies again. If the road in the north of Dongzhao is built by the Ming Dynasty, then the continuous Ming army can follow the road and enter Dongzhao. The situation will be extremely unfavorable to us!"
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