Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 333 Jinshan, what a name!
A raging war ended anticlimactically.

Arthur Wellesley, who returned to Calcutta in desperation, became the one who took the blame for this war.

His position as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India was sacked.

And to be called back to London to report on his duties.

Port in Calcutta.

An armed merchant ship was ready.

"The sun and moon flag of the Ming Empire and the pass issued by them are prepared on board, so there shouldn't be any problem."

Richard Wellesley said rather helplessly.

When did the British Empire need to be so low-key, even its own colonial officials did not dare to take a warship in a big way when they wanted to return to London.

Uh.

In fact, the British Empire has no maritime power in the Indian Ocean.

All the warships they could float to sea have been destroyed.

Except for some ships that have obtained the Ming Empire's Indian Ocean pass, the entire British Indian Governor's Palace cannot send any large ships to the Indian Ocean.

So after so many years of hard work, they managed to recruit [-] lobster soldiers from London through various means.

"The Chinese army is terrible. We must let the guys in London know this. If we don't carry out deep military reforms, Britain will be left behind by the times."

Arthur stood on the plank road in the port, staring at the ships coming and going in Calcutta Port and said.

"Maybe we can seek reconciliation with the Chinese and buy time."

"Reconciliation? Are they willing?"

"It depends on people." Arthur said, spreading his hands, "We can only try. We can't defeat them on the battlefield now. Fortunately, they are far away from Europe."

As he spoke, Arthur looked at several large boxes in front of him.

They are equipped with the Daming Guangfu two-year-style rifled gun, four-inch rifled howitzer, and steel-cased mortar.At the same time, there is also a box of new gunpowder that I don't know where.

Richard looked at the weapons and said: 'These are the weapons with which the Chinese beat us. '

"That's right! We must also have these things." Arthur said, "Steam engines, metallurgical industry, chemical industry, the joint progress of these industries can produce these weapons on a large scale. The military revolution triggered by these things will profoundly affect the whole world.”

"The future army belongs to the era when firepower is king, and the future navy belongs to the era of armored ships!"

"Britain can only have a future if it has these things."

As the ship sailed away, Arthur's words lingered in Richard's mind.

Whether Britain can have a future, he is not sure.

But he knows very well that it is not certain whether his Indian Governor's Mansion can have a future.

"Your Majesty, the war in India has come to an end, and the battle for the waterway of the Ganges should not start until early next year."

Zhongdu, the emperor's northern city palace.

Reporting to the emperor is the new left minister Peng Jun.

The former prime minister, Luo Fangbo, has retired, and now he is the president of the Daming Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Recently, he is sorting out teaching materials to teach officials from all over the country how to develop industry and commerce.

But now the right minister is Gu Song, and the left minister is Peng Jun.

One is the prime minister and the other is the deputy prime minister.

In short, the Ming court is still in harmony now.

Although the last time the conflict between the old and the new in the Imperial Palace of Zhongdu gave birth to the predecessors of the two main political parties of the future Ming Dynasty.

They are the new intellectual class representing the new learning, and the revitalization party of the new bourgeoisie.

And the gentleman party representing the old literati and landlord class.

One Radical and one Conservative.

This structure is quite stable.

But now, neither the Revitalization Party nor the Gentleman Party has been able to enter the room, and it is only spread among young new students and scholars.

At present, the Cantonese Party and the Xiangdang Party, which are divided into regions, occupy the mainstream in the imperial court-but this structure of reporting groups based on regions will disintegrate sooner or later in the future.

Therefore, apart from maintaining a balance, Emperor Zhu would basically not interfere too much with the reporting of the United Nations Party by the officials under his command.

There are no factions in this party, so there are all kinds of strange things.

It is human nature to report to each other.

"The British Governor's Office of India sent envoys to China to seek peace. They are willing to recognize the territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty, and they will not even care about the life and death of the Mughal Empire."

"It's just a stopgap measure." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.

"Ignore the Indian side for now, and recall Yang Yuchun and Luo Dingfang at the same time, and the Indian side should not fight any more."

All the vassals are now busy digesting the territory. Although Sun Shiyi is very active in marching into the Ganges, the other vassals are not very enthusiastic about it.

Emperor Zhu did not intend to directly force the vassals to obey Sun Shiyi's orders.

It is not bad that the Indian feudal clans can occupy such a large territory now.

Now in front of Emperor Zhu is a nautical chart.

Depart from Shanghai, replenish in Tokyo Bay, then head north, take the ocean current and float all the way to a natural good port named "Peanut Tun" by the adventurers sent by Ming Dynasty.

If you return, you will go south, and there is a westward ocean current near the Tropic of Cancer in the south.

Emperor Zhu carefully looked at the map of Huashengtun.

“Isn’t this Vancouver?”

A burst of joy appeared on Emperor Zhu's face.

"Baochen, Zheng Yi and Zhou Jihai can be said to have made great contributions. I summoned the two of them, and I will personally confer titles on them!!"

This is knighted?
Peng Jun was taken aback for a moment. He looked at the map in front of Emperor Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, there are quite a lot of good ports in this place, but I don't know what the weather is like? Can you cultivate land?"

"Yes! Of course!"

Emperor Zhu said affirmatively.

This is Vancouver. The climate is considered the best in the North American continent. It is the forestry center of later generations of Canada. However, this place can actually cultivate a large amount of excellent arable land. It is only because Canada has too few people that such a good site actually What a waste to plant trees.

And if you go, it only takes [-] days to arrive in Vancouver from Shanghai Port.

A Daifu boat can carry 120 people and cargo. If there are [-] Daifu boats, one round trip takes [-] days.

That is to send 3 people there in one hundred days!

That's [-] a year.

Ten years is 60 million!
Emperor Zhu was counting with his fingers.

Ten years, 60
Still a little too little.

Emperor Zhu thought for a while, and said, "It's better to attract more folk immigrants to this place. The name of this place is not good, and it's not attractive enough."

"Your Majesty, this Peanut Village is really not grand enough." Peng Jun nodded and said.

"Then change the name. This island is called Treasure Island, and this port is called Jinshan Port. When a city is built in the future, it will be called Jinshan City!! There is a big gold mine in this place! By the way, let the newspaper publish it, just say Those who went to Jinshan all picked up gold!"

There is indeed a big gold mine in Vancouver, but Emperor Zhu doesn't know where it is.
"Gold Mountain."

Peng Jun was taken aback.

“Not a bad name”

(End of this chapter)