Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 281 Ryukyu Mutation
The winter of 1795 came quietly.

The entire Northland was frozen at this time.

Under severe cold.

Immigration work in the Northeast also had to be suspended.

Well, before winter comes.

The Ming court had just shipped a large amount of rice to the northern cities by sea.

Refugees from all over the country were also organized to work on big projects—that is, to raise the dams of the Yellow River.

The Chinese have been doing this job for thousands of years.

Perhaps it has been doing this since the time when Dayu controlled the water—so now the riverbed of the Yellow River is higher than all the buildings in Luoyang City.

After the sediment of the Yellow River passes through the Loess Plateau and enters the Central Plains, it is deposited as the water flow slows down.

And in order to take good care of this old mother who is not so tempered and loses her temper at every turn.

As long as China is in the era of great unification, it will inevitably organize and manage the Yellow River, raise and strengthen the dams.

Therefore, those Central Plains refugees who lost everything during the war don’t have to worry about having nothing to do now. They work on the Yellow River to get paid and then go to buy rice to feed their families—in order to feed so many victims, the Ming court issued a full He borrowed 800 million Ming Yuan's national debt, employed more than 70 people, and controlled the Yellow River in Henan and Shandong provinces.

The practice of raising the embankment is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

But now there is no way for the Ming court to cure the root cause—let alone the present, even later generations dare not say that there is a solution to the problem of the Yellow River.

Now the Ming court employs more than 70 disaster victims to provide relief with work.

During this period of time, it was the only thing in the newspaper that could deal with the war against Russia.

Of course, the focus of the report is that His Majesty the Emperor is diligent in government and loves the people. He can't sleep at night, anxious about the needs of the victims, thinking about the needs of the victims, and personally end up borrowing money from the rich men in the south. Several concubines and concubines of the family also pawned jewelry, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was only four years old, also donated his lucky money and the like—in short, the whole family of the emperor cared about the disaster victims in the north.

on newspaper.

The image of the Zhu family's royal family can almost approach the direction of saints.

However, it is different from the image in the newspaper.

In fact, Emperor Zhu didn't care much about the disaster victims in the Central Plains - the Ming court just paid for it, and now the Ming court is implementing a system of "officials go to the countryside, and scholars become officials".

This bureaucratic system has been stabbed from top to bottom.

Sprinkle a lot of money.

This brand new bureaucratic system, which is still functioning well, can complete the work of helping the victims-corruption is of course indispensable, but for a bureaucratic system, corruption is hard to avoid, but as long as the financial system does not collapse, this The bureaucracy can keep turning.

Let alone the Ming Dynasty now.

Just how many strange emperors in the previous Ming Dynasty ignored the government at all. As long as they can collect taxes from the local government, isn't the bureaucratic system working well?

The demise of the former Ming Dynasty was firstly caused by the war in the north which led to the complete collapse of the financial system of the Ming Dynasty.
At this moment, Zhu Daohua, son of the Great Ming Dynasty, is sitting in the Palace of Qinzheng in Yuanmingyuan, Northern Capital.

The other civil and military officials were divided into two rows, and they also sat on the side. Officials from the emperor's attendant room distributed documents to the officials, and everyone looked at them with frowning eyes.

A little older people like Luo Fangbo and Gu Song even used reading glasses produced by Jiangning Glasses Factory.

Although it is ice and snow outside the main hall.

But it is quite warm inside the hall.

A fire path was buried under the main hall, there are copper pipes around the walls of the main hall, and hot water vapor comes out, which not only warms the whole hall, but also makes the air in the hall much humid—— Most of the great emperor Zhu Daohua and his important ministers are from Guangdong and Hunan, and they are not very used to the dry winter in the north.

In the newspapers, there is a lot of content about the disaster in the north.

But in this hall.

The news you read is not about the disaster in the north.

It was the news of the war against Russia, and a sudden news from Japan.

The news of the complete victory in the war against Russia has been sent back to Beidu.

Fighting more with less, and riding with foot, 407 casualties, 3976 enemies were killed, 2892 were captured, and the wounded did not count.

In addition, the Russian army fell behind and disappeared in the Gobi grassland during the escape.

In this battle, the Russian army dispatched [-] troops, and only a little over [-] returned.

It is definitely an unprecedented victory.

But soon, the Russian army took the initiative to contact the high-level Ming army.

And the Crown Prince of the Russian Empire, Paul Petrovich, also wrote a letter to Emperor Zhu.

The letter is in French.

Emperor Zhu was shocked when he saw it.

In the letter, the Czar Petrovich, who was killed by his son's coup in history, actually stated in the letter that he would negotiate with the Ming Empire, and in the letter guaranteed the end of the expansion of the Russian Empire in the East.

And he is just the crown prince of Tsarist Russia, can he make such a guarantee?
The other piece of news came quite suddenly.

First of all, the New Spanish fleet, which had never been seen before, suddenly appeared in Ryukyu, and had a fierce battle with the Japanese Satsuma clan who occupied Ryukyu, and finally occupied Ryukyu Island.

Although the royal family of the Ryukyu Kingdom is now running up and down in the central capital, they hope to become the Ming dynasty again, and ask the Ming Dynasty to come forward to expel the Japanese Satsuma domain.

But the current Emperor Zhu doesn't value the false name of the suzerain vassal.

Compared to maintaining good relations with Japan.

It is obviously not in the interests of Daming to fight against a powerful Japanese vassal for the sake of a Ryukyu - if Ming wants to open up North America, Japan's port is the most important springboard.

Although the relationship between the Edo shogunate and the local powerful vassals was not very harmonious.

However, the eldest daughter of Shimadzu Shigego, the former lord of Satsuma, Konoe Miko married the contemporary Tokugawa family patriarch Tokugawa Iezai as the main wife, so Shimadzu Shigeho, who is only 50 years old this year, has the right to Great influence of the Edo Shogunate.

Therefore, the Ryukyu royal family knelt down in front of the Zhongdu Palace over and over again, but they were all kindly persuaded by the officials of the Ming Dynasty to return.

Japan is a very special country in the current Eastern international order.

on the one hand.

Japan did not surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

In theory, its ruler is still the 119th emperor and Emperor Nikoge, who is called the "emperor".

But the actual power of the country was in the hands of the shogunate.

at the same time.

The Edo shogunate was also deeply influenced and supported by the Ming court, and was almost regarded by many powerful vassals as "not ministers of the emperor, but eagle dogs of the Ming Dynasty!"

Even through the concubine Tokugawa Manji, the Ming court was able to recruit samurai from Japan for foreign wars.

Especially after completing the conquest of Borneo.

Daimyoko has decided to continue to expand the Japanese Samurai Legion.

Expand from the current 3 to [-].

The target of the battle also began to move towards Java Island, Guinea Island, and even the Australian mainland further south.

after all.

For Da Mingzi.

The cost of using the regular army of the Ming army is a bit high, and the cost is a bit high.

On the contrary, these Japanese samurai are more qualified. Cannon fodder for colonial development.

What's more, Zhu Daohua, the son of heaven, still has a little thought of consuming the lives of the Japanese elite.

And now.
Spain's New Spain fleet suddenly appeared in Ryukyu after disappearing for almost a year.

Some major changes have occurred in the already delicate tripartite relationship between Ming, Japan and Ryukyu.

Did Emperor Zhu really have no ambitions for Ryukyu and let Samofan occupy Ryukyu?
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