Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 225 Go to Liaobei, to the Western Regions, to Southeast Asia, to America.

"Don't let Qianlong run away!!"

"Forward! Forward!"

"Catch Qianlong and destroy the Tartars!"

On the road to the north of Zhaozhou Mansion.

The Daming Guards Regiment carrying the dragon flag of the Great Ming Son Regiment is rolling forward.

Chen Huacheng, the platoon leader of the 7rd Battalion and [-]th Company of the [-]th Brigade of the Dragoons of the Ming Army, shouted slogans and rode his horse back and forth in his platoon, urging the big guys to keep up with the marching queue.

Chen Huacheng's heart was burning.

After this battle, Ming Dynasty will rule the world!
And he will become the hero who dominates the world!

With my current military exploits, I can be rewarded with 120 mu of paddy fields, and at the same time be granted a title!
A title that can be passed on to posterity.

Thinking of this, Chen Hua became more motivated.

Because the enemy in the Central Plains battlefield is only the Eight Banners of the 10,000+ National People's Congress of the Qing court.

There are not many opportunities for meritorious service.

Every soldier of the Ming army was full of energy and confidence, as if the 10,000+ cavalry of the Qing army were wiped out in a blink of an eye, and they were completely vulnerable.

Every soldier held his head high, with a proud expression on his face.

Because they know.

I am the most capable army in the world.

They defeated the Taiping and Taiguo not long ago. The Ming Dynasty completely owned the territory south of Zhili. The 10,000+ Eight Banners army is here!

Although it shows that the number of people in the army is relatively small.

But from Da Tianzi to every private leader of the Ming army, they are full of confidence in this battle.

Because they are too well-deserved Heavenly Soldiers!
With a mere 7000 people, the 10,000+ elite of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were defeated.

Now Emperor Zhu has 7000 troops under his command.

There are eight army brigades with 4 people on the side of Army Minister Zhao Dashuai, and there are also eight army brigades with 4 people on the Liaodong Corps. Of course, there are still sporadic battles in the north of Liaodong, so this time only [-] people can be dispatched to enter the customs. .

But even so.

The total strength of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing court this time also reached [-].

This is an unprecedentedly powerful corps of Ming Dynasty.

The Ming army was less than [-], and it was invincible.

Now the Ming Dynasty has dispatched almost [-] troops.

Coupled with the 10,000+ civilians recruited in the north, there are more than 20 people in total.

But now Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty led a cuirassier brigade, three dragoon brigades, and the first brigade of the Ming Army that everyone had horses despite not having a dragoon number. Each of the artillery battalions has its own separate supply battalion, equipped with a large number of carriages, mules and horses.

At this time, such a mule-horse army was rolling forward, marching northward at a speed of fifty miles a day, and gradually advancing the battle line to the direction of Shuntianfu.

It was already mid-February.

The frozen land in the northern country also began to thaw, and the snow melted. After the soldiers trampled on it, the land turned into a piece of mud.

At this time Zhu Daohua was also in the army, riding a big maroon horse, wearing a gray uniform and a square hat on his head, his eyes swept across the plain of Yanyun, and his face became solemn.

Honestly.

Zhu Daohua was relieved about Qianlong's retreat—because the General Staff of the Great Marshal's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty had been worried about one thing, that is, if the Qing army continued to Henan, if they broke the Yellow River embankment, even though it was at this time In winter, the flow of water is not large, but the main channel of the Yellow River has long been suspended above the ground. If the Yellow River carrying so much silt washes down, Daming will not be hurt by it, but the whole of Henan, Southwest Shandong, and Huaibei will change. It has become a yellow flood zone.

When the time comes, there will be countless casualties among the people, and there will be refugees everywhere without a fixed place. I don't know how many people will die of freezing or starving to death.

But even if the Yellow River embankment was safe and sound, Zhu Daohua still felt a little heavy on what he saw along the way north.

In fact, it is nothing more than one word: poor.

Or to use a more revolutionary word to describe it: abject poverty.

The North China Plain is undoubtedly one of the great plains with the strongest population carrying capacity in the world.

Although the Yellow River, the mother river, has bad temper sometimes.

But on the whole, it is really because of the existence of this river that the settled agricultural civilization here can emerge, develop, survive, and multiply.

But at this moment.

After thousands of years of great development.

The problem of land salinization in the North China Plain is becoming more and more serious, but the terrible thing is that the population density here has not decreased at all!

Since ancient times, it has been one of the most densely populated areas in the world.

The per capita area of ​​arable land does not exceed two acres—and two acres of land in the North China Great Plain, which is already full of warehouses and holes, is not enough to feed a few people.

This way.

The villages and people I saw made people cry.

Every commoner is as thin as a stick, and the skeleton on the face can be clearly seen. There is no food at all. When you enter some villages for meals, you can find sweet potato leaves mixed with something unknown on the stove of every villager. mixture.

Everywhere you go, you see the numb faces of severely malnourished people.

These are poor people who have nothing left.

Now the rations have also been taken away by the Qing army, and there are still several months before the autumn harvest.

It is conceivable that if the Ming court did not allocate food for disaster relief, tens of thousands of people would starve to death in Henan and Yanyun during the four years of the restoration.

Compare with here.

The poor in Jiangnan and Guangdong seem to have come out of heaven.

If they are so nakedly poor and have a large population, there will definitely be problems in the future.

The military advisor Tao Biquan was also beside Zhu Daohua. Seeing Emperor Zhu's expression, he said, "Your Majesty, Qianlong already intends to flee north. After this battle, the chaos in the Central Plains will subside. As long as we live together with the people, we will be able to recover. The top priority now It is to transport rice from Annan and Lanfang to relieve the victims, as long as the common people have a stutter, they will definitely get better in the future."

"Military Master, do you really think that it's enough just to pass the level in front of you?"

Tao Biquan was taken aback when he heard this.

He knew that Emperor Zhu was actually not a "benevolent monarch" who loved the people like a son.

He will not be disturbed by the famine that is about to appear.

On the one hand, of course, it is because the Ming Dynasty now has enough ability to transport food to the Central Plains.

Now the land in Jiangnan and Guangdong has been replanted with various cash crops, and even the landowners in Jiangxi and Hunan have stopped growing rice.

But the Ming Dynasty now has sea transportation, and rice can be shipped from Annan, Borneo, and Java Island.

The population reduction plan of the Ming Dynasty in Borneo and Java was very successful, and the originally dense indigenous population rarely appeared in the settlement areas of the Ming Dynasty in Borneo and Java.

Today it is an important rice production base in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is possible for the Ming Dynasty to temporarily support the people in the war-torn areas of the Central Plains.

But after that?
"Your Majesty, hasn't it been like this since ancient times? After the war and the people's livelihood, the country will become prosperous again."

Tao Biquan found it difficult to understand what Emperor Zhu was thinking.

This has been the case since ancient times, conquering the world and sitting in the world.

Live with the people, less toss.

Couldn't this throne sit securely for two or 300 years?
Zhu Daohua looked at Tao Biquan.

The military adviser himself is a representative of the Sanxiang School. The Sanxiang School pays attention to economical use, so it doesn't have so many ideological burdens, but even so, it is still difficult for him to understand that when Zhu Daohua insists on not solving it in the country, It is necessary to be distracted from India, Southeast Asia, and even America on the other side of the ocean.

This is too much trouble.

Since ancient times, there has never been an emperor who can make troubles like Emperor Zhu.

It's nothing more than a big fight here in the Central Plains. India also supported tens of thousands of troops to fight the British. The navy also surrounded Manila and was threatening the Spaniards.

Fight everywhere, make enemies everywhere.

It was absolutely militaristic before it was released.

But now in Daming.

In particular, those Guangdong businessmen were absolutely loyal to Emperor Zhu, who contributed money and effort to support Emperor Zhu's foreign wars.

This burden is not on the peasants.

But for Tao Biquan, a traditional scholar-bureaucrat.

Haiyan, Heqing, and peace in the world are the ideals of Confucianism after all.

Emperor Zhu's hot-tempered style was still criticized by Confucian scholars.

"Yes, after all, they will be able to prosper. However, after all, the common people have no food, no clothes, high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, and are half-starved. After all, they can live on. It can be suppressed, I have a strong army, and I control the ocean, so I am not afraid that I will not have money to support the army." Zhu Daohua said with a sigh.

"However, what I am worried about is not the present, but the future. Now I have [-] million people, and these [-] million people are crowded in this small Han land. If the [-] million people multiply into [-] million or [-] million in the future, what will happen to such a crowded population?"

"How could this be so many."

Tao Biquan's expression turned ugly.

"Now the land in the pass can accommodate [-] million people is already the limit, if there is more."

"Any more will starve to death, right?" Emperor Zhu said with a sneer, "So my Ming Dynasty will be a poor empire, and it will be poor from generation to generation."

Emperor Zhu lowered his voice: "Now that the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty is here, I am naturally not afraid, but if I am a hundred years later, I am afraid that there will be a second and third Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soon."

"What does the emperor mean?" Tao Biquan asked with a frown.

"That's why we Han people can't all stay in the narrow eighteen provinces of the Han land. The territory of the eighteen provinces in the customs has been enfeoffed and opened up in the Zhou Dynasty to the unification of the Qin and Han Dynasties. It has been almost 2000 years now, and we haven't expanded much in 2000. The basic disk, the future generations will really lose the face of their ancestors."

"Your Majesty, pioneering is easier said than done."

"It was not easy before, but it's different now!" Zhu Daohua said, "Now we have big ships, guns and cannons, and we even have steamships!"

"So large-scale immigration is feasible. The American land can easily support another [-] million people. How can such a good land be monopolized by the Europeans!"

"Our generation can't just lie in our comfort zone and ignore the affairs of the world! Every strong man of the Han family in this generation must take up arms to fight, to develop, to colonize, and to create a bright future for future generations. !"

Tao Biquan sighed inwardly when he heard this.

Come on.

If you run into such an emperor, the common people will consider themselves unlucky.

The emperor will definitely have to struggle for decades, and the people under him will definitely have a hard time living in peace.
Go to Northern Liaoning, to the Western Regions, to Southeast Asia, to the Americas.

This is really an unprecedented era
(End of this chapter)