my days with tyrants

"This method is very clever!"

Yang Feng looked at Zhao Shengjun who were marching out of Zhengyang Gate.

They were set up the same day.

It is the commanders and envoys headed by Li Jinzhong and their entourage.

Anyway, it is just to show the form in the capital, like a swearing-in teacher, the queen mother gives the banner, the officials preside over the grand tour, the masters chant scriptures and pray for blessings, and then they all put on the armor funded by the little princess, holding high the flag given by the queen mother, just like this A small team of hundreds of people showed off their military presence in the capital.Because they are all new-style armors, they still look very imposing. Under the sun, Dubulingbuling's sparkle wins the rounds of applause from the onlookers.

They also held their heads high with a sense of mission.

At this moment, it seems to them that they want to set foot on the road westward for this great empire, for the Empress Dowager, for the enlightenment of the Buddha, and for the purpose of ascending to the bliss of the Western Paradise after death.

Not that they go though.

But their hands are no different from them.

Many of them still have their traditional hairstyles.

This is actually quite normal. In the severe cold environment of Huining, if you want to avoid illness and death caused by washing your hair, it is best to shave your head bald.

All bald.

The lice couldn't hide.

No need to wash your hair.

As for leaving a small tail, I don't know the purpose of this.

But this is indeed a common custom in the cold zone. They all have to be shaved more or less, and they all have to be pigtailed more or less.

The Khitans, Mongols, and Xianbei all have this habit. Even the Japanese slaves in Huining have begun to do this at this time. Medical environment at all, always try to avoid washing your body.

Otherwise, a cold may lead to death.

But the scene in front of him is unavoidably a little weird.

"So in the original history, people like this captured the capital more than 200 years later?"

The little princess said with great interest.

"There is only trap, no attack.

Headed by the descendants of Wei Guogong, the city's civil and military officials surrendered without a fight, and then knelt outside to welcome the new master. Under the pressure of the new master, they all changed into the same hairstyle, and all the nobles in Nanjing were without exception.Moreover, except for the Chang family, all the nobles can't wait to kneel down and beg for the reward from the new master, and there is only one hard bone among the civil servants, who would rather die than shave their hair and change clothes.The Minister of Rites who took the lead in shaving his head also left an allusion of itchy scalp to later generations. When civil servants and generals gathered together to discuss countermeasures, he said that he had an itchy scalp and then went into the inner room. When he came out, he had already shaved his scalp. head.

In addition, his concubine persuaded him to die for the country and was willing to jump into the lake with him, but he sat by the lake for a long time and refused to jump.

His concubine urged.

He said the water was too cold.

The water is too cold and the scalp itches.

This is how the civil servants and military generals in this city behaved in the face of these alien invaders more than 200 years later. "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Of course, none of this will happen again.

With the development of Huining, the Jurchen system will soon be washed away by the influx of immigrants.

In fact, there are no Jurchen anymore.

At least they don’t have this name anymore. Even if they don’t use the Wei of the Ming Dynasty as their identity label, they still use the original tribal name, such as Huligai, Wuzhe, etc. They are also like this. It's just the collective name given to them by the Ming Dynasty. As for the official status of the Ming Dynasty, they are the guards.

Collectively known as Huining Zhuwei.

From Jilinwei to the north, all the way to the distant Arctic Circle.

Including Sakhalin Island, Hokkaido, but Hokkaido is very prosperous now, mainly because the whaling industry is getting more and more prosperous.

Even because the traditional fishing method is too dangerous and the effect is not good, some whaling ships in the guards have begun to use giant bed crossbows. Perhaps compared with the bed crossbow, the accuracy is not at the same level. Several bed crossbows on a whaling ship salvo, even a sperm whale can't hold it.

The most important base of the whaling industry is in Hokkaido.

As for the west, it goes all the way to the Erguna River, including the Hulunbuir Prairie, and Yuerhai is a garrison of thousands of households.

Further to the west is Yan Ran's commander.

The plunder of the Western Expedition lures them to keep moving out young and old. Whether they die outside or are unwilling to go back and turn to the Western Regions to multiply and live, the final result is to gradually evacuate their population.At the same time, they continue to immigrate to Huining through development. Even if they need to give these immigrants superior conditions, they must continue to carry out. In less than 50 years, they will be completely melted in it.

Not just to them.

Other commanders are also fine. Let Qi Bin promote it in Fusang later, and let Yida and other chieftains also participate. After all, they all believe in Buddhism.

Promote Buddhism!
This is their glory.

Maybe there will be temples all over the grasslands of Eastern Europe in the future!

It is still very exciting to imagine the scene where the Slavs were forced to chant sutras with Buddhist scriptures. Besides, they would also like this kind of life, after all, they were originally serfdom.

"By the way, has your brother arrived in Bengang?"

Yang Feng asked the little princess.

The King of Liao has officially started his southward expansion and controlled the commander of the Ryukyu capital as the King of Liao...

The commander of the capital includes Ryukyu, and a certain island has been going south to include Luzon, but it is just a sign at present, but there is a commander of the capital, temporarily stationed in Ryukyu, anyway, it is also a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, and it is just a government office in Ryukyu.Then when Zheng He was in Fujian, he led the fleet to set up a base in Bengang. At this time, some gentry in Fujian were already planting sugar cane there. After all, there is limited arable land in Fujian, but there is a large area of ​​reclaimable plains opposite them, with fertile land and sufficient water sources.In addition, Cantonese businessmen have a hunting ground in Tainan, mainly hunting deer there, and by the way, hunting whaling nearby. Cantonese gentry are always very sensitive about making money. let's move.

They are indeed Jianwen Dynasty.

But the whale does not distinguish between the Jianwen dynasty or the queen.

The other thing is that the guys who dig the guano have a supply station in the chicken coop.

These guano diggers were sailors. Zhu Yuanzhang built a total of more than 20 ships, and then threw a group of exiles over. This work can only be done by exiles, after all, it is too hard.Bird droppings are poisonous. In fact, even transporting bird droppings is very bitter. In the era of bird droppings, American sailors transporting bird droppings couldn't last 15 minutes in the cargo hold. It was normal for them to get nosebleeds or temporarily go blind.In short, these unlucky exiles are becoming the cornerstone of the agricultural prosperity of Ming Dynasty. They are responsible for digging. Once the ship is full, the navy will drive away. The southeast wind season goes straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the north wind season rides the Kuroshio to the north. Ryukyu, even the country of Wa, and then turn downwind to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The little princess's dung pill factory is in Taicang.

There it is processed along with soybeans brought back from the north.

The latter has to squeeze the oil first.

While it is true that soybean oil is not eaten in the south, it is used in canneries along the coast.

From Liaodong to Fujian, canning factories along the coast use this cheap oil to fry fish and then boil them until they are finally put into different containers according to the storage period.The highest-end ones are of course tin-plated tin cans, which are military ration cans transported to the north, and the closest ones are earthen cans, which can last for half a month anyway.

Doesn't matter if it's expired.

It's fine if you can't eat people.

The people in the inland mountainous areas all take it as gifts. After all, it is heavy in oil, salt, sugar and spices, no matter what it is, the inland people like it.

The crocks are also recycled.

There are also medium-distance porcelain jars and glass jars. The glass industry has been prosperous for a long time, and now seven years have passed, and glassware has long been popularized.

It is the prosperity of this series of industries that makes the coast of Daming truly a granary.

Liaodong Bay, Tanggu, Shandong Peninsula, Zhoushan, and Fujian all have a large canned food industry, and if you want to do this, you can get a loan from the bank. The latter also provides technical support, including supporting industries. Of course, the bank also controls it. Money circulates, and while they make money, the banks also control them.

In Zhoushan during the fishing season, there are even 10,000+ people working there, killing fish, making cans, and canning. It also drives the steel industry and the tin plating industry.The latter even affected the tin mining industry in Yunnan. This is why the Mu family, although they prefer Jianwen, still do not want to blatantly defect to the Jianwen Dynasty. They have already relied heavily on the economic system controlled by Yang Feng.This is also the reason why the Zhejiang gentry became more and more passive in confronting Yang Feng. Everyone is busy making money, so who cares about eradicating traitors for the country? Is it important to eradicate traitors for the country or to make money?Look at how smart the Fujian gentry are, they will not turn against Yang, and the Fujian civil servants headed by Zhang Xianzong are still working honestly for the court, and then they are developing to the opposite side while partnering with Guangdong gentry to engage in trade, and the good days of making money are getting better and better. livelier.

It's cool to have both sides!

Traitor?

The Zhu family?

It's about my bird!

That is the Zhu family's country, not the country of the Fujian gentry.

Besides, isn't it the Zhu family now?The queen is not from the Zhu family anymore?At least before she got married, she was still the Zhu family, and since she was still the Zhu family, it was still the Zhu family.

We are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and we will not lose our courtship.

The queen is also the emperor.

The boats that brought back the guano were filled with grain and cans in Taicang and Zhoushan, and then went south along the coastline to Fuzhou, waiting for the wind direction to go straight to the chicken coop, where they unloaded supplies and waited in line for loading on the ship.

As for the supplies to Guano Island, there are special schooners.

The guano transporters are all giant blessing ships, which can hold hundreds of tons, and must depend on wind direction and ocean currents. They will wait in the chicken coop. The guano island is filled with one ship, and the chicken coop is empty. The sailors transported You can watch those native girls happily in the chicken coop, but the prisoners on the island are drinking stinky fresh water, eating canned food that may have expired, and digging bird droppings bitterly.

Then I fantasized that I could live to the end of my sentence.

So at this time, the chicken coop has become a very prosperous seaport.

"It should be here, but not many of his guards are willing to follow. After all, even if he goes south to open up Luzon, there is not much money. Unlike the fourth brother, it has been proved that there are enough benefits. His guards are more willing to stay in Guangning. After all Guangning has already established various industries. This time, there are less than 3000 people who followed him to Bengang, and at this time there were already Cantonese businessmen in Luzon. In the past, even if we went to Bengang, they would probably be in charge of those Fujianese in the next few years. They are willing to follow my brother, and with my brother’s elite, they can snatch more land from the natives to plant sugarcane.”

said the little princess.

The way of King Liao was blocked by Guangdong merchants.

The latter has already begun to establish a commercial presence in Luzon.

And the He family also has a share.

The King of Liao wants to intervene at this time, and He Di may not give face. He has the navy of the Jianwen Dynasty in his hands, and even has four battleships. Unless Zheng He's fleet goes south to fight him, he will be in the south of the strait. It is invincible.

"Then let him play there first.

In addition, tell him that there are good ship materials in the mountains over there, so he can cut wood to build ships first, and the warships built with those woods are no worse than Guangdong iron wood, and can even be used to build giant warships.In addition, he can also make camphor there, which is also available, as well as sulfur. There are also sulfur mines there, in fact, there are also gold mines, chicken coops and coal mines. In short, there are many good things there.And he can really cut out the cypress from the mountains. The court wants as much as he cuts. That thing is a good material for building warships.

In addition, he wants to run Nanyang, rather than selling spices, it is better to dig bird droppings.

The small islands to the east of Luzon are all piled with guano. As long as he can control these guano islands, his descendants will be rich in the world in the next few hundred years. "

Yang Feng said.

This is the truth.

Before the invention of synthetic ammonia technology, guano was the cornerstone of agriculture.

All countries depend on it.

There is no other source of fertilizer that comes close.

Soybeans are not as good as soybeans. Soybeans have high nitrogen content in bean cakes only because the root bacteria have the ability to fix nitrogen. But this high is only compared with other fertilizers. It is much worse than struvite, which is directly higher. An order of magnitude, the nitrogen content of bean cake is a few percent, and Peruvian struvite is more than ten percent, not to mention that phosphorus and potassium are all higher than bean cake.

The main reason why Yang Feng made dung pills instead of guano directly was to develop Huining.

It is of course better to use bird droppings directly.

Of course, there is also the fact that the output is too small.

After all, the reserves on a small island in the East China Sea can't last long at all, and can only be used as an additive to enhance the bean cake.

but……

If you can dig Nauru, it will be different.

With the guano islands in the Southwest Pacific Ocean in hand, the Liaowang family can really maintain their wealth for hundreds of years. After all, synthetic ammonia is still a long way off.

As for now, let him chop cypress, smelt camphor, pan for gold, and mine sulfur!
It happened to be a large battleship for Zheng He to sail to the West. His schooners were fast, but they were not suitable for giant battleships. To build a giant sail battleship, they had to have square sails, but this required high-quality wood.

Juniper is the best choice.