Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 169 The wrath of the Emperor Guangfu, encroached on Liaodong.

The warm wind in June caresses both sides of the river.

The southeast monsoon originating from the Pacific Ocean blows all the way from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the central capital of Yingtianfu.

While bringing abundant rainfall, it also heralded the prelude to the scorching summer to the land of China.

The Capital of the Great Ming Dynasty became more and more prosperous.

Liangjiang and Jiangxi are contiguous areas with dense water networks.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, which was supposed to be a land of fish and rice, has now converted most of the fields into capitalized farms.

Due to the strong demand for raw materials in the textile mills in Jiangnan.

These farmlands have usually become intercropping fields for mulberry leaves, cotton and beans.

Within a year.

Mulberry is planted for one year, and cotton and beans are planted in rotation for one season respectively. In winter, the fields are turned over, and mulberry branches are planted in the cotton and bean rotation area, and the original mulberry area is rotated again.

Under the premise of the emergence of large-scale employment farms.

Many people who were originally in the countryside began to pour into some big cities.

Urbanization brought about by industrialization began to appear, and the influx of people into cities also brought an almost inexhaustible supply of cheap labor to industrialization.

In such a large-scale industrial production mode.

The traditional agrarian economy of men farming and women weaving has been greatly impacted.

At least for now, spinning at home is a loss-making business.

The efficiency of the manual spinning wheel is too low and the cost is too high. It is far inferior to the cotton cloth in Guangdong and Liangjiang that are currently on the market, and the quality is even worse.

at the same time.

The Nanyang market monopolized by Daming also supported the cotton textile industry in Guangdong and Liangjiang.

Daming has embarked on a fast track of industrialization driven by the steam engine.

For the Ming emperor Zhu Daohua at this time.

The battle situation in the Central Plains battlefield and the Indian market issue are almost equally important issues.

In the cabinet today, His Majesty the Emperor lost his temper very rarely.

"What's going on? It's been almost three months since Sun Shiyi went to Batam, why hasn't there been any movement?"

this time.

The cabinet dispatched clippers to the south almost every day, urging the coalition forces of the princes and princes to march.

Because these past few months.

Flights to India have all but ceased.

Greatly affected Daming's export economy.

Not only cotton cloth, but also tea, silk, porcelain, and garlic medicine, which are some of Ming's key export products, are now overstocked. Due to the active privateer wars in the Indian Ocean, merchant ships from various countries dare not pass through the dangerous Bay of Bengal.

And the letters urging Sun Shiyi to send troops to India as soon as possible are also one after another.

However, Sun Shiyi always stopped his troops in Malacca, delaying on the grounds of "insufficient armaments" and "raising military expenses".

The Emperor Guangfu, who has always been very good-tempered, also lost his temper.

The two prime ministers in the cabinet also frowned.

It is indeed a bit difficult to control the actions of the foreign vassals.

Moreover, the date set by the Generalissimo's Office is to establish a stronghold in the Bangladesh area before August.

According to the military order, Sun Shiyi did not violate the order.

But the reason why the Generalissimo's Mansion gave such loose conditions at the beginning was because of the consideration of fighting thousands of miles away, which gave enough freedom to the front line.

But who would have thought.

So Sun Shiyi hesitated when he arrived at the Straits Governor's Mansion, and never took a step towards India?

"Decree, let Sun Shiyi set off immediately!"

Zhu Daohua took a deep breath and said.

"It's outrageous! The army has been staying in Liao Nei for almost four months. What is the meaning of the Strait? Does Sun Shiyi not want to go to India? Go and tell Sun Shiyi that if he doesn't want to be the commander-in-chief of the coalition of Indian princes, then Just change people and let Yang Yuchun do it!"

Zhu Daohua said coldly.

He was really impatient, and it was rare for him to say such heavy words.

The founding emperor lost his temper, making all the cabinet ministers afraid to show their anger.

Sun Shiyi doesn't want to go to India anymore?
Where does he want to go?

Do you want to occupy the island in Nanyang as king?
Everyone knew that Sun Shiyi didn't have the courage.

But the emperor had spoken out.

If Sun Shiyi didn't lead the troops to set off, he would have committed a big taboo.

Fortunately, this is the good-tempered Emperor Guangfu.

If this is the Emperor Taizu, hehe, I am afraid that what is going out now is not the imperial decree, but the shackles of the Jinyiwei.

Fortunately, at this time, the veteran who had followed Zhu Daohua when he was in his infancy, Gu Song, the right prime minister, spoke up.

"Your Majesty, the British government will lead tens of thousands of troops to India. It is understandable to be cautious, and he also reported that he has recently hired thousands of pirates as privateers to retaliate against the privateering policy of the British Indian authorities. In order not to kill the coast map and waterway map of the Bangladesh area, the tens of thousands of troops are ready to stand in India."

Gu Song said.

That's why in the new dynasty, the dignified prime minister dared to speak like this for the foreign vassal who led the troops.

everybody knows.

My own Emperor Guangfu is very polite.

He will never do "indecent" things.

In other words.

As long as the ministers are not "indecent".

So what to say, what to do, there is not much danger.

There is a "Li" to regulate rules and order.

Everyone is safe.

Emperor Guangfu probably wouldn't do the scene of killing heroes like Emperor Taizu.

What he emphasized was the sanctity of Li.

I will never be that person who breaks the etiquette and breaks the rules.

same.

The ministers below also know.

Although this "Li" says that their power will not be like the officials of the former Qing Dynasty, there is a lot of room for misconduct and many constraints.

But the same.

Their lives and property safety are all protected by the Rites.

On the one hand, "Li" is a constraint.

But on the other hand.

Isn't it the protection of everyone?

According to Zhu Daohua's words.

It cannot protect the "Li" of the minister, nor can it protect the royal family.

Only everyone can benefit from the rules of "Li".

Only in this way can the sanctity of the "Li" be guaranteed, so that the "Li" of the Ming Dynasty can truly be like the "Zhou Li" and become a code of conduct that everyone from the emperor to the nobles, to the officials, to the common people is willing to abide by and agree with. .

So although Gu Song spoke for Sun Shiyi.

However, he did not violate the etiquette, but expressed his opinion on the Indian war as the right prime minister, which was completely public.

Even if Emperor Guangfu was angry, he couldn't blame You Cheng for it.

Zhu Daohua frowned.

"India must advance as soon as possible. The Royal Industry Promotion Association of Ming Dynasty has already hoarded too much cotton cloth."

It turned out that Boss Zhu was so anxious that it was related to his own business.

Because the Indian market has been completely closed for months.

In order to keep some of the domestic production capacity from shutting down, Zhu Daohua's Industry Promotion Association paid out of his own pocket during this period and contracted a lot of cotton cloth production capacity. Now they are hoarding in Strait Freestyle City, waiting to go overseas for trade. ,

It can be said that every day the Indian market is closed, every day the course of the Indian Ocean is blocked.

Boss Zhu is about to lose money for a day.

And there is another reason.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has already left Tongguan.

And has completely occupied Shanzhou.

The Qing army retreated all the way from Hongguan, Lingbao, and Shanshiguan, and did not engage in large-scale battles with the Taiping army, and had already driven all the people along the way back into Luoyang in the east in advance.

At the same time, after the Taiping Army entered Henan Province, they relied on Xin'an City to fortify, and the armies of the two sides confronted each other in Henan.

According to Jin Yiwei's information.

Fukang'an, the commander of the Qing army's green flag soldiers, adopted the policy of "strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, and lengthening the front".

The intention is to prevent the Taiping Army from gaining relief through coercion operations by fortifying the wall and clearing the field, forcing the Taiping Army to drag a long supply line to fight.

The withdrawal of the Qing army all the way was already planned.

Regarding this point, it is impossible for the Taiping Army to be ignorant of this, so after entering the Henan Mansion, the Taiping Army stationed troops at Que Gate and confronted the Qing Army across the Jian River.

At the same time, food and grass were mobilized from Guanzhong, and troops were escorted.

Judging from the current situation.

There will be a very likely battle between the two sides on the banks of the Jianhe River.

Because the Qing army sent a large number of cavalry to harass the supply line of the Taiping Army, the cost of food supplies for the Taiping Army was extremely high.

With the wealth in Guanzhong, it is difficult to support an army of [-] to fight abroad for a long time.

therefore.

There are only two roads left before the Taiping Army.

Or, return to Tongguan.

Either break the Qing army in front of you, enter the Henan government, occupy Luoyang, and then use Luoyang as the base to engulf Henan province, go north to attack Beijing, and realize the original plan when the Taiping army left Tongguan: engulfing millions of people, it will Attack Beijing City!

"Now that the Central Plains is about to go to war, Nanyang asked Sun Shiyi to hurry up and set off as soon as possible to deal with the main fleet of the British. The Indian Ocean Fleet needs to be deployed to the Bay of Bengal as soon as possible to ensure the safety of the trade routes!"

Zhu Daohua took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

'Next, I want to focus my energy on the battle of the Central Plains. It remains to be seen how much combat power the Taiping Army has, and whether Fukang'an's green flag soldiers can withstand it. Don't let the Taiping Army be like Li Zicheng All the way into Beijing. '

Siege the city of Beijing.

This is an extremely political move.

If Ming had allowed the Taiping Army to capture Beijing, instead of recovering the Central Plains by himself and expel the Manchus.

This was a big blow to the prestige of Emperor Guangfu.

So now the seven or eight brigades deployed in Jiangbei are already making intensive preparations, and in Liaodong, the Ming army's actions have also begun to increase.

After the occupation of Changshan Island.

They went around Bohai Bay again, occupied Changxing Island, and stationed troops on Changxing Island.

A month ago, the Liaodong Front Army sent two brigades to land on the Liaodong Peninsula and stormed Ninghai.

The Qing army in Ninghai is quite tenacious. After all, this is Shengjing, the place where the Qing court thrived.

However, it took thirteen days for the Ming army to finally capture Ninghai, and then the Ming army moved south along the narrow Jinzhou area and occupied the area of ​​​​the later Dalian City. After conquering the local aborigines and taking control of Lushunkou, a large number of ocean-going ships can dock at Lushunkou.

After more than half a year of hard work.

It is no longer difficult for the Ming Dynasty to carry out large-scale military settlements in Liaodong, or even directly send large troops to carry out large-scale landings in Liaodong.

However, Qianlong seemed to be able to hold his breath.

Even though the Ming army has begun to expand its military base in Liaodong on a large scale, it has even begun to tentatively attack Gaizhou.

But neither the Beijing court nor General Shengjing of the Qing court responded.

He showed amazing endurance to the provocations of the Ming army.

Since the Qing army did not dare to fight, it was the Ming army's next goal to go north along the Liaodong Peninsula, completely occupy Liaodong, close the Liaoxi Corridor, and cut off the connection between the Qing court and Liaobei.

War is like that.

I have always made progress and adjusted when I encountered setbacks.

Now it is progressing smoothly in Liaodong, and Daming has also strengthened its investment in Liaodong. Now that the Central Plains war has started.

The General Staff of the Generalissimo's Mansion has already started planning to occupy the entire territory of Liaodong
(End of this chapter)