The Yinzhou Canal project was finalized by Zhu Jingyuan, so a large number of subsequent matters that required decision-making were directly transferred to Zhu Jingyuan for further processing.
The report written by Zhu Zhujin was quite detailed, and Zhu Jingyuan could see that Zhu Zhujin wanted to keep these workers.
The shopkeepers of the Huangzhuang system, unlike the officials of the Ming Dynasty, did not have term limits of three, six, or nine years.
They have the opportunity to work in one position for more than ten years.
The core of the Royal Palace of Panama is obviously the Yinzhou Canal.
But Zhu Zhujin now has one million workers, and it seems that he is not satisfied with simply operating the canal.
He wanted to start some agricultural, animal husbandry and industrial projects in Panama.
That's why he wants to keep these workers.
Zhu Jingyuan instinctively wanted to refuse.
Among these workers, they are mainly Hispanic Thais and Yin people who believe in Catholicism.
Zhu Jingyuan did not want the Taixi people to stay on his land.
Hispanics, who are Catholics, are more conservative than English and Germans.
At the same time, we also know that the Catholics in Yinzhou in history were more extreme than those in Western Europe.
Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan did not want them to stay in the Ming Dynasty's vassal country.
Even if I must stay, I can’t stay in Panama.
Panama is too important, and the main local population must be Ming people.
Otherwise, this kind of place will not be considered truly stable in the future.
Now there are only more than 200,000 Ming people in the local area, but there are millions of Taixi and Catholic Yin people in total.
The Taixi and Yin people in this world were very obedient under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming people of this era took it for granted that it would be very reasonable for 200,000 Ming people to manage one million other people.
The people of the Ming Dynasty can all work as officials and managers, leaving the Taixi and Catholic Yin people to work as low-level workers.
But Zhu Jingyuan's past life memories made Zhu Jingyuan instinctively worry about whether these people would cause various troubles in the future.
When the Ming Dynasty was strong, they probably wouldn't do anything outrageous.
But when Ming Dynasty has its own internal problems, they will probably not keep their peace.
In Zhu Jingyuan's view, if these people were left behind, they would become a stone in the tide of Ming Dynasty's current prosperity.
It will be exposed when the tide of prosperity goes down, which will give rise to various problems.
Based on the mentality of nip in the bud, Zhu Jingyuan could not allow them all to stay.
After Zhu Jingyuan thought about it carefully, he instructed his secretary to write a formal response to Zhu Dijin.
The 200,000 workers who have obtained the status of feudal nationals can stay, and all remaining foreign workers will evacuate.
In the surrounding areas of Panama, where low-level labor is needed, they can be sent there.
They are not allowed to be sent to work in factories and can only be used for outdoor engineering construction such as hydropower stations, channel dredging, and dam construction.
However, their status is no longer that of prisoner-of-war laborers, but all of them have been changed to foreign hired laborers, who are given corresponding wages and treatment.
The 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 naturalized Yin people from Xintianfu, or naturalized people from vassal vassals around the Ming Dynasty.
Try not to use Taixi and Catholic Yin people as much as possible.
Zhu Jingyuan's response was quickly sent across the ocean via telegram.
In the shopkeeper's office in Panama City, where the Panama Royal Estate Management Office is located, Zhu Dijin received a report from the secretary.
Zhu Zhujin sat at his desk and carefully read Zhu Jingyuan's telegram:
"His Highness really doesn't want these foreigners to stay, and the Laoshizi Monotheism is really worrying..."
Zhu Zhujin sighed softly, and then went to the office opposite to find the chief engineer Wang Jinpeng:
"Old Wang, His Highness's response is here."
Wang Jinpeng asked directly:
"Your Highness should not allow those Western Yi and religious Yin people to stay, right?"
Zhu Zhujin handed the telegram to Wang Jinpeng:
"Yes, we are not allowed to stay. Those who are in need of the surrounding projects can start contacting us now to make arrangements.
"Any unused surplus will be sent to Mexico..."
Wang Jinpeng read the telegram carefully, then raised his head and asked Zhu Dijin:
"Grand Shopkeeper, why don't you ask His Highness for instructions?"
Zhu Dijin shook his head directly:
"We all know something about His Highness's character, and we all know that 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's 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.
Wang Jinpeng said very bachelorly at this time:
"I won't ask, my task is engineering naturalization and construction management.
"How to arrange the workers after the project is completed has nothing to do with me?
"Those are your own affairs. I will not bring trouble to His Highness."
Wang Jinpeng stood up as he spoke and went to the workbench next to him to open his engineering drawings:
"Since most of the workers have to evacuate, the middle part of the river can start to evacuate now...
“Hydropower stations are being built everywhere in Nanyinzhou, and dredging of the Mihe River and the waterways in the Great Lakes area will continue in Beiyinzhou.
"The 600,000 people we want to release will look a lot, but if they are spread out, they won't be noticeable."
Zhudi Jin sighed faintly:
"Hey, that's true. The construction period of large hydropower stations is very long. These people can still use it for several years..."
The two chatted for a while, and then began to formally plan and arrange the follow-up work.
Targetedly adjust the tasks of workers and begin to transfer redundant workers to surrounding areas.
The main ones are the construction of hydropower stations in Nanyinzhou and the repair of river channels in Beiyinzhou.
Time flows forward leisurely, and the finishing work of the Yinzhou Canal project is gradually completed.
Zhu Zhujin and Wang Jinpeng's accounting and management were very successful. By the end of June of the 10th year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty, the Yinzhou Canal was finally completed.
Hundreds of thousands of workers who have not obtained Panamanian national status 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 had obtained the status of the vassal state of Panama were left, cultivating the fields on both sides of the canal and continuing to work on the construction sites in Panama City.
Together with Wang Jinpeng, Zhu Zhujin held a grand completion ceremony in front of the tens of thousands of Ming and foreign workers remaining on the site.
While reporting to the Ming Emperor and the central court, it was also spread throughout the world via radio waves.
From the Ming Dynasty to the West, various types of newspapers rushed to report the news very quickly after receiving the news.
Some Spanish newspapers regarded this incident as a sign that mankind had finally conquered the ocean.
The West Sea Canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Little Western Ocean directly in the northern hemisphere.
The Yinzhou Canal directly connects the Daming Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the northern hemisphere.
The oceans of the Northern Hemisphere, where the core of human civilization lies, are finally connected.
The people of Ming Dynasty also reached a new level of morale.
However, Zhu Jingyuan himself didn't pay much attention to this matter.
The information Zhu Jingyuan handles every day is mainly about the area he is responsible for.
In the west and north of the Ming Dynasty, the construction of major cities in outer vassals such as Xianbei, Kazakhstan, Khiva, and Persia has been fully launched.
A large number of rural and small town populations are rapidly converging into several major cities.
The general education examination certificate system and ticket purchase restriction system are being developed in an orderly manner.
Two royal trading companies, sea and land, jointly funded and built by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the royal families of various countries in Thailand and Spain have been officially established.
Railway lines in countries that are already very close to each other are also being connected at an accelerated pace.
It is expected that by the end of this year, railway services across the entire Shenou continent will officially start operating.
At the same time, after almost a year of construction and preparation, the development of the Qiu Ming Oil Field in the Xianbei Principality is finally on track.
Two major oil-producing areas have been discovered and are entering the production ramp-up stage.
With Zhu Jingyuan's support, the construction of an oil pipeline from the Qiu Ming Oil Field to the northwest region of Ming Dynasty has also begun.
Production has also started at Lucia's Volga-Urals field.
On this side of the border between Lucia and the Ming Xianbei Principality, the exploration team did discover the possibility of oil and gas resources.
However, the actual mining effect is very poor, and the oil wells drilled so far have not been able to recover their costs.
Zhu Jingyuan had expected this. In order to prevent Lucia from becoming overly resentful, he was investing in the construction of a petrochemical plant in the free trade zone on the border between the two countries.
Prepare to use the oil developed by Daming and Lucia as raw materials to produce various plastics and rayon.
In addition, textile factories were built to produce clothing from synthetic fibers.
If the Lucians cause serious trouble in the future, some factories that do not involve key technologies will be merged into the joint venture.
At the same time, Lucia actually began to have doubts.
When the news of the completion of the Yinzhou Canal spread around the world, Emperor Nicholas of Lucia read the news in the newspaper and once again thought of the border free trade zone and oil development business in cooperation with the Ming Dynasty.
Nicholas frowned and considered for a while, and became a little uncontrollably irritable, so he called Wedemeyer over.
Asking again a question that has been asked several times:
"Is there really no oil on the border between Daming and Lucia, on the Daming side of the Ural region?"
Wedemeyer has also been asked several times, and now he is a little irritable:
"Even if Your Majesty asks this, I can only say, but I can't say it's not at all.
“At least a little bit has been dug up so far, but none of it is worthy of continued development.
"But let's face it, that little bit of oil won't cover the cost of drilling. It's just a waste of money."
Nicholas said very tangledly:
“However, all of us know that the Prince of Food is also known as the Prince of Oil.
“The places he specifically circled are places that are very rich in oil.
“The Persian Gulf and the Oil Lake are both masterpieces of Prince Dashi, and now there is the Qiu Ming Oil Field in Xianbei Kingdom.
“So is there a possibility that Prince Dashi knows where there is oil, and he definitely knows where there is no oil.
“Deliberately asking to cooperate with us in developing the Volga-Urals oil and gas area, we must also ask for a proportional distribution of profits.
“It’s hard to believe that he didn’t know there wasn’t much oil there before signing on.
"If he knew there wasn't much oil there, he was deliberately defrauding us of our oil resources and revenues...
"Should we protest to Ming Dynasty? Demand modification of the cooperation agreement?"
Wedemeyer hesitated for a moment:
“I don’t think there’s any need to be so anxious. In the oil exploration industry, half a year is actually not a long time.
“Oil was indeed discovered in Daming, but the amount was too small, so we have to continue to observe.
"My suggestion is to continue waiting for half a year. By the end of the year, if Daming still has not discovered enough oil resources, we should propose a modification to the agreement."
When Wedemeyer said this, Nicholas became a little worried again:
"Will Daming accept it? Will Daming become angry?"
Wedemeyer said:
"I think it shouldn't be the case. As long as we don't have to terminate the cooperation office directly, otherwise Daming will not fall out.
"We should have the opportunity to be compensated under some other conditions."
Nicholas does not dare to confront Daming now, so he has nothing to say now:
"Then just wait..."
Time passes, and the end of the Ankang decade is coming soon.
Zhu Jingyuan began to summarize what he had done in the past two years and briefly summarize himself.
Just after the European New Year, Zhu Jingyuan received a personal telegram from French Crown Prince Charles.
"My most sincere friend, I tell you now that I will officially succeed to the throne on February 2, the 11th year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty.
"At that time, I will hold a grand naval review in France.
"I very much look forward to you being able to come to the celebrations and ship reviews with Ming Dynasty's warships.
“Of course, I wouldn’t mind if my best friend is too busy to come in person.
"Your truest friend, Louis Charles of France."
Zhu Jingyuan breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw this brief telegram.
"This guy Charles has finally decided to officially take over the throne. Why don't you continue to suffer with your father?"
"But if you hold this ship review and let the Ming Dynasty's battleships go, it might take the spotlight!
"The Ming Dynasty's 60,000-ton battleship will be commissioned at the end of this year, so it is just right to attend next year's ceremony.
"But looking at it from another angle, I arranged for the Ming Dynasty's largest warship to pass by to give you a platform for your identity.
"So it should be deliberately high and grand...
"Besides, I was originally planning to go to various countries in Europe and the West after the completion of the 60,000-ton warship.
"Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to go in person, so I can only arrange for my secretary to go."
Zhu Jingyuan didn't care what Charles thought, his arrangements were simple.
Directly arrange two 60,000-ton battleships, four 40,000-ton battleships, and one cruiser.
Take the main battleships that are larger than France's entire naval fleet to participate.
Visit the countries in Europe and the West, and take a look at the actual situation of the new warships in the countries.
(End of chapter)
