With the establishment of the telegram line, Zhao Yan became busy in Zhaojiabao, and he had to deal with a lot of issues reported by local officials every day.

Either there is a riot here or something wrong there.

Some local officials even reported the big things to Zhaojiabao, so Zhao Yan had to ask the telegrapher to reply one by one, but this was obviously not a solution.

So Zhao Yan divided the government affairs into several parts, and the cases reported by the local government were handed over to the court, internal affairs were handed over to Zhang Buyun, and military issues were handed over to Mao Yuanyi.

What they teach them to deal with is small, and if they encounter big things, they still have to submit them to Zhao Yan to make decisions. Zhao Quan is responsible for the business scheduling.

All reported processing plans must be submitted to Zhao Yan for review every day.

With such a division of labor, the efficiency is indeed much higher. Zhao Yan just needs to see how to deal with it every day. If there is no big deal, he will just correct it from time to time.

"Lord, Lu Xiangsheng replied that the Junggar tribe attacked our army in mid-May, but was bombarded by landmines and fled in a panic and requested to attack the Junggar tribe." Mao Yuanyi came to report with the war report.

"Where has Lu Xiangsheng fought in the Junggar tribe?" Zhao Yan asked.

"I have reached the predetermined stop position. Now the Junggar tribe is the only tribe in the western desert that has not been resolved." Mao Yuanyi replied.

"So, after fighting the Junggar tribe, it borders the Kazakh Khanate?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Yes."

The Junggar tribe was a tribe that rose in the western desert. Lu Xiangsheng fought several battles with the Junggar last year, defeating the Junggar tribe and sweeping the Junggar tribe with his huge force.

However, the Junggar tribe retreated to the border of the Kazakh Khanate. The Kazakh Khanate is currently not strong in its national strength and has passed its peak period. He dared not expel the Junggar.

"Then Yi Zhisheng see, whether to fight or not?" Zhao Yan asked.

"The journey in the west of the Mo River is long and the supply transportation is inconvenient. Even if you don't fight, you will have to consume food. Now the Mongolian tribes are complaining. It's better to let them rush into the Kazakh Khanate to solve the supply problem." Mao Yuanyi said.

This solution to the supply problem is naturally to shoot the cattle and sheep of the Kazakh Khanate. The war in the western desert has always been provided by the Mongols, and at the same time, it also relies on looting to solve the food problem.

Mongolia's population was swept away by this, leaving only one million. These tribes were naturally complaining about the need to provide supplies to nearly 150,000 troops.

It is obviously unrealistic to transport military rations from the local area to the front line. The local area is only responsible for the supply of supplies such as shells and gunpowder.

"Then let's fight! Remove the nail of the Junggar tribe completely and let them go to the Kazakh Khanate to fight the autumn wind, but don't push forward any more. The supply line is too long." Zhao Yan said, "Let the construction team speed up the railway construction."

Zhao Yan decided to shoot a telegram soon, and the telegram line was only taken to Shaanxi, so Shaanxi immediately sent it out after receiving this instruction.

In fact, it is not necessary to build the railway before it can continue to move forward.

As long as the equipment is updated, or the western Mo River is well managed and the supply can be provided to the front line, we can continue to move forward.

However, the Military Weapons Bureau is not as large as the scale of mass production of new weapons, and it will take a few more months.

The monthly production of rifles is only 200, the monthly production of machine guns is only 5, and the output of new artillery is only 20 per month. However, the Military Intelligence Bureau has a foundation after all, and it is just to change the previous production capacity, but it also takes time.

New military reforms are here again.

This reform is to reduce the organization after equipping new weapons and improve combat effectiveness, so a unit naturally does not need so many people.

At the end of June, a flying scissor ship came back from America and brought back the battle situation in Central America.

The Central American war was over, and the California colonies successfully annexed the Spanish Central America.

"Very good, Central America is in hand, and there will be no shortage of silver in the future." Zhao Yan smiled happily. The capture of Central America was undoubtedly a bank of silver.

"I don't know if South Africa has captured it. If South Africa captures it, it will be like a vault." Zhao Yanxin thought again.

However, since Central America has been captured, it must be managed well, and Tebi is in the field of gold and silver mining.

Soon Zhao Yan ordered the establishment of Zhongzhou Province, which is the Mexican region in later generations, but it is larger than Mexico. These areas are not fully controlled, but the Spaniards have withdrawn from these areas, and there are only indigenous areas that are not controlled.

At the same time, Nanzhou Province was established, and the scope of Nanzhou Province is Argentina and Chile.

Then Zhao Yan sent three governors, one was the governor of California, one was the governor of Central China, and the other was the governor of Nanzhou, and at the same time appointed Liu Yuan as the governor of America.

So many Han people in the California area have moved here this year, and the number of Han people has exceeded 400,000. California will become a region dominated by Han people.

Zhongzhou Province is a region where there are no Han people but need to vigorously develop gold mining industry. The governor of Zhongzhou Province must be more careful in gold mining industry. At the same time, Zhongzhou Province must also dig canals to open up a channel to the east coast.

The Panama Canal is a relatively large project, but no matter how large it is, it is not as good as the Grand Canal of China.

However, Central America does not have the foundation like the Ming Dynasty, so building the Panama Canal is destined to be a long-distance run. Anyway, this canal needs to be built, so how much can it be built is now. Anyway, it is the natives who are used as labor force, so Zhao Yan doesn’t care about who is the number of people.

Nanzhou Province is relatively simple, that is, there are no Han people and no obvious resources. However, the Argentina region will be the next area for immigration. The governor of Nanzhou Province must resettle the immigrants and mine Chile's saltpeter and copper mines at the same time.

Ships heading to the Americas trade basically returned in June.

The terminals of Qingdao Port were busy. This time, the fleets heading to the Americas trade brought back many cargo, but most of them were gold, silver, jewelry and raw materials.

Westerners really have no goods that the Ming Dynasty can appreciate.

There is basically no advantageous industry, but the rubber in the hands of the Portuguese sells very well. Basically, as long as there are merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty will buy those rubbers at high prices.

Rubber became an important commodity, with the Portuguese occupying the most Brazilian areas and the Spanish occupied Peru areas.

Seeing that rubber profits were so high, the two countries began to look for rubber trees everywhere and planted rubber trees in Central America, allowing natives to cut rubber every day.

Rubber production has been much higher this year. At the climax of June's return, merchant ships heading to the Americas transported back a total of more than 80 tons of rubber.

Rubber is now an important material. Eighty tons of rubber are transported back to the Ming Dynasty, which has solved the urgent need for insufficient rubber. With this batch of rubber, many steam engines can be made, and assembly line production in some factories is also possible.

The value of gold, silver and jewelry brought back by these trading ships is more than 30 million taels, while the value of those raw materials is less, but there are also tens of million taels.

After returning to Qingdao Port, these clippers were loaded with goods again and heading towards India.

Trade in the Americas has temporarily stopped, so these official merchant ships naturally went to India. India has a vast market, and Europeans also trade there.

Among the goods shipped to India, cotton is the main product. After all, everyone needs to wear clothes and there are many other products.

All advantageous products must be dumped in India.

India was very rich at this time, and Westerners did not open the country of India at all, and it was a huge market that made people drool.

In the first half of the year, Nanyang also reported good news, and the expansion of shopping malls in Nanyang was very fast, and shopping malls were established on all islands in Nanyang.

These shops are responsible for trade with Nanyang monkeys, and the way to trade is to dump cotton and other goods to them and exchange the precious metals in their hands.

While trade, various Han people's settlements in Nanyang continued to expand outward. As long as they continued to expand, those monkeys in Nanyang would lose their foothold and become completely history.

On the Indochina Peninsula, shopping malls are also developing very quickly.

The First Fleet successfully captured a port in Siam (Thailand) in the first half of the year, and established a shopping mall again to trade with the Siamese people.

Siam can be said to be the most powerful country in the Indochina Peninsula, and the strongest military power is Siam. They have the artillery team trained by the Portuguese.

However, this combat effectiveness is not enough. After the port was captured, the two sides quickly reached an agreement to use the port as the place for trade between the two sides.

The majesty of the Ming Empire was not something the Siamese were willing to offend. The Khmer (Cambodia) was not as good as the footsteps, but on the Indochina Peninsula, the attitude was relatively mild and only required trade.

In contrast, Myanmar's attitude is relatively tough. The First Fleet is still fighting against Myanmar, but the troops in the South China Sea are relatively tight. The war between the two sides on the Malay Peninsula has not yet ended.

On the other hand, Jiaozhi is expanding westward.

To deal with the situation on the Indochina Peninsula, Zhao Yan planned to use Jiaozhi's troops to swallow the entire peninsula, but it would take some time.

With the establishment of various commercial halls, trade demand has also increased, and a large amount of goods can be dumped in both Nanyang and Indochina Peninsula.

After passing the Strait of Malacca and entering the Indian Ocean, the trading market became even bigger. India has a vast market, and Europeans also had many merchant ships in the Indian Ocean.

All shopping malls have reported increasing the supply of goods, which is only the largest in India.

After a period of contact, Indian merchants quickly found that it was very profitable to do business in the Ming Dynasty, because the Ming Dynasty's products were cheap and of high quality, so they sold well.

The official merchant ships could not stop for a moment and kept transporting goods to their destinations. Those places where private merchant ships were not allowed to go, were responsible for official merchant ships.

The number of private merchant ships has increased significantly this year, with the number of them increasing to more than 3,000 ships transported offshore have reached more than 3,000.

The Shandong factory can be said to be a processing operation. The business is so easy to do, so you don’t have to worry about sales if you produce it.

As for the market you are in control now, the largest market is the Ming Dynasty. The largest market is the Ming Dynasty, and the highest profit is the local market.

This market has a population of 200 million, so how much profit is not large?

But as the total of the foreign markets, the Commercial Department is still easy to operate in overseas markets because there are many precious metals in the overseas market and there are no competitors.

There are many competitors in the local market, and precious metals are less expensive than GDP, not to mention that commodities are not so rare in the local market.

A glass mirror can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver in the overseas market, but it is naturally not that high in the local area. The price of glass mirrors has now fallen below one tael of silver.

Because competitors appeared, there were three manufacturers in Shandong that produced glass mirrors this year. Zhao Quan first learned about this news and planned to ban it, but was stopped by Zhao Yan.

Glass mirrors are not something that has a high technical name. It has been enough for so many years. If they continue to monopolize the earth, it will hinder the rotation of the earth.

In summary, Zhao Quan believes that the commercial department needs to monopolize more high-end luxury goods. Zhao Quan, who is unwilling to lose the monopoly of glass mirrors, is actively looking for other luxury goods that can be monopolized.

The market in the Ming Dynasty mainly relies on tax revenue to increase fiscal revenue, and the money is made by privately operated factories, and the goods cannot be sold at jaw-dropping prices.

In addition to privately allowed areas to be involved in overseas markets, there are government-run merchant ships to transport goods to trade with countries that may threaten the security of the Ming Dynasty.

The taxes are also relatively high in areas where private merchant ships are allowed to be involved.

Commodity trade within the Ming Dynasty does not fall into the category of dumping, because this is a whole, and can only be said to be an industry adjustment.

Because funds are still circulating in the Ming Dynasty, even the unemployed group is unable to find a job under the arrangement of Shandong's political axe.

Overseas markets are different. For example, Japan, under the continuous dumping of goods in the Ming Dynasty, the unemployment rate is now rising, and a large number of farmers are bankrupt and society becomes turbulent.

The Ming Dynasty was another phenomenon. Although some people were unemployed due to the industrial expansion in Shandong, they could quickly find a job, or even a better job than before.

This is a matter of opportunity. The Ming Dynasty took away other people's money and used it to develop its own country, but other countries could not develop without money.
To be continued...