Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 371 The People Don’t Thank the Emperor

In the New World, almost every collective farmer will become the same person as Xu Aju after living here for a year.

Life here is rich in substance, but also dangerous.

Wealth can only be obtained by those who are willing to give up.

Xu Fugui's life will remain in the New World forever.

At this time, an officer of the Ming army invited by Li Zhongyi was instructing the Li family brothers how to use firearms.

"Here in the New World, horses are very important. If you don't know how to ride horses, you will suffer a lot. And there is no shortage of food here, but this place is dangerous. All these wealth are exchanged at the risk of your life."

The officer spoke with a northern Jiangsu accent, and his name was Liang Yousheng.

He joined the army during the Battle of Liaodong and became a platoon leader for his meritorious service.

According to himself.

His family used to eat water transport.

One of the million water workers.

Although not very rich.

But it is always much better than a tenant family like Xu Fugui, at least there is no need to worry about food and clothing.

It was a passable day.

It's a pity.

Such days came to an end with the arrival of Emperor Zhu.

The navy of the Ming Dynasty was powerful, and various large-scale shipping ships traveled between the north and the south.

The load capacity is large, the cost is low, and there are no worries about safety.Faster.

Therefore, sea transport soon replaced water transport and became the main mode of freight between the north and the south.

A large amount of rice from Borneo, Java Island, and the Red River Delta arrived at Tianjin Port by sea ship, and then transported by rail to major cities across the Central Plains, under the impact of southern rice.

Now there are not many grain growers on the land in various parts of the Central Plains - it is a loss to grow grain.

Various economic crops occupy the arable land in the Central Plains.

And in this case.

Millions of waterworkers will naturally lose their jobs—the freight function of the canal has been replaced, leaving only the much smaller passenger transport function. It's better than the sea.

Where have all the unemployed water workers gone?

In addition to the lucky ones like Liang Yousheng, who can be regarded as fighting for the right position on the cusp of the times.

Another part was unlucky enough to be buried in the Qing Dynasty.

And most of them.

It became the householder who went to the Northeast and the New World.

Liang Youliu also chose to come to Jinshan with the army, because here, military households can get at least [-] mu of additional military land—these fields are in the New World, not in the Han area, and the military land in the Han area is not either. It will be cancelled, and unlike Shoto Field, it is completely private.

But the same.

The price he paid was 20 years of service in the Ming army.

"There are still 17 years. 17 years!" Liang Youliu smiled wryly, "By that time, he will be a little old man, and I don't know if he will survive until then."

Wouldn't I also stay in a place like Jinshan for 17 years?

The Li family brothers looked at each other.

They're not sure either.

I thought it was a good place, but now it seems that wealth is not so easy to get.

If they had known it earlier, they would have stayed in Sichuan, and the three brothers had divided up the old man's land.

Although it is not a big family after the land is divided, it is better than dying in this place.

"You can retire anytime!"

At this time, Zhang Jin, the battalion commander of the Ming army who came to inspect, heard Liang Youliu complaining, and said, "Just hand over the land."

Liang Youliu laughed and said, "Then I'll be loyal to the emperor for 20 years. Battalion Commander, if I die, you have to help me take care of my wife and children."

"I will definitely take care of your wife. As for your son, if you die, you will be a hero of the Ming Dynasty. Orphans of heroes can go to the juvenile military academy to study. The emperor pays for everything. After graduation, you will be an officer directly. Don't worry."

"That won't work. My son is going to study and take the exam for scholar."

"Bah, are you still a scholar?" Zhang Jin spat, "Can your elm head give birth to a scholar?"

"Hahaha"

The surrounding Ming army officers and soldiers laughed together.

Liang Yousheng blushed, and Ai Ai didn't know what to say.

"It's not clear to you"

The camp was full of joy.

Just now.

An officer asked: "Battle Commander, we have been out for a day, why haven't we noticed any movement, do you think those Bai Yi can be hooked out?"

"Who knows? Regardless of this, they will be killed when they come. If they don't come or not, they will have a hard time this winter. There are hundreds of these people. If there is no food, half of them will die in winter! I guess they will come out to fight Take it."

"They might go and grab the native tribes."

"Maybe, anyway, this place is like this, either you kill me or I kill you."

Zhang Jin shrugged.

Zhang Jin was right.

For the white adventurers who approached the Jinshan Governor's Mansion.

Looting the Ming army's grain transportation team is a double-winner.

Of course.

Things are not easy to accomplish.

But the white colonists of this era were not citizens of developed countries that were nourished by the favorable material conditions of later generations.

They are very hardworking now.

"Kill! Kill these Ming people!"

"Rush! Rush up!"

"Their muskets fire too fast, rushing up to fight melee!!!"

A group of Britons with Cockney accents emerged from the woods.

They chanted slogans, which meant they were not afraid of death.

These were adventurers from England who were part of the world colonial imperial system of the British Empire.

When a group of white men rushed out of the woods with muskets.

What greeted them were the bullets of the Ming army.

In front of the terrifying rate of fire of the rear-loading guns, these hungry white colonists looked like devils who rushed out of the hungry ghost hell.

But the bullet is fair game.

Whether they are devils or not.

Every time a bullet passes, it is the fate of being thrown to the ground.

After leaving behind more than 200 bodies, the white adventurers retreated.

"Clean up the battlefield!"

Zhang Jin did not order the pursuit either.

In fact, the harassment of these Europeans has little effect on the Jinshan Governor's Mansion, and even has certain benefits-they can make the immigrant farmers more capable of fighting.

But this way.
A banker who is especially capable of fighting.

Of course, it's not easy to manage.

Or
I don't dare to care anymore.

But this is a matter for the Governor's Mansion of Jinshan.

Zhang Jin doesn't care about this.

He just fights.

Hereafter it will be the fiefdom of the second prince.

If you do a good job here, maybe you can be a general under the second prince who has been named the Golden King.

Now the positions above the Ming army are almost occupied.

The above-mentioned brigade commanders and army commanders are still very young.

For example, Lieutenant General Luo Dingshan is only 30 years old this year.

Lieutenant General Yang Yuchun, 32 years old.

Now the high-level members of the Ming army are basically a group of officers in their 30s who are in their prime.

And the Ming army is unlikely to carry out large-scale military expansion.

Therefore, the hope of middle-level military officers like Zhang Jin to be promoted has to fall on the feudal kingdoms of the princes.

The Ming army did not expand its army.

But the army of Fengguo will definitely expand to a certain extent.

"This is the end?"

The Li brothers were a little unbelievable.

"What else do you want?"

'It's too easy'

"It's easy now because we have a battalion escort. And they don't have breech-loading guns. When they do have breech-loading guns...it's going to be difficult."

"That's for later."

People were discussing.

"Your Majesty, the Korean Corps has invaded Pyongyang, and the puppet king of North Korea, Li Ying, is nowhere to be found."

On the ironclad battleship Daming.

Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty stood on the deck, and Gong Zhuman, the commander of Jinyiwei, was reporting next to him.

The battle in Jinshan Governor's Mansion is going on almost all the time.

In Emperor Zhu's view.

The lives of these low-level people and soldiers are just a cold data recorded in the book.

The blood and tears of Li Zhongyi and others are not worth mentioning to the Ming court.

In Emperor Zhu's view.

Scrambling for new continents is a math problem.

The annual immigration to the New World plus the birth rate of the original immigrants is the growth rate of the Han population in the New World.

The process of competing for the New World is also very simple to say, that is, to make the Han Chinese the main race in the New World as much as possible!
Now a future war is brewing in the New World.

And just beside the Ming Empire.

A large-scale war has broken out.

Two divisions of the Korean Corps and more than [-] infantry crossed the Yalu River a month ago.

Although the North Korean Biechao Army, which has received the support of the North Korean Liangban Haohu and Europe, is much stronger than the original North Korean official army in terms of combat effectiveness.

At least it has reached the level of the previous Eight Banners Coated Army.

But compared with the Korean Corps composed of elites drawn from the Liaodong Corps.

That's still a little bit of a big deal.

The North Korean Corps has not focused on occupying the territory since it entered the North, but stared at the main force of the Biechao army!

After several consecutive battles.

Most of the main force of the [-] Biechuan army was wiped out.

When the Korean Corps approached Pyongyang City.

King Li Ying of Joseon had only [-] imperial guards left as far as he could get.

So it is understandable that Li Ying ran away directly.

"I don't know where to go. Did someone pick me up?"

Emperor Zhu said.

"Yes, it may be the British who did the work. The British have secret connections with powerful feudal clans in some places in Japan. Your Majesty, do you want it?"

Gong Zhuman made a gesture of cutting his throat.

Take the power of the Ming Dynasty in Japan now.

It is easy to punish a few Japanese feudal lords.

"No need, it's just a bunch of bereaved dogs, and it's not appropriate to cause more trouble in Japan." Emperor Zhu said with a wave of his hand.

North Korea.

Although there are some local feudal lords in Japan who are reluctant to submit to the rule of the Ming Empire.

But that's just emotional reluctance.

in actual interests.

No Japanese feudal lord would stand up and openly oppose Ming.

First of all.

Japan, like North Korea, has been incorporated into the Greater China system.

Became a member of the Chinese vassals.

Economically, it has become a part of the Eastern World, the Celestial Dynasty system of Greater China.

If the Ming Empire is the sun, then these small countries around it are the planets of the sun. They cannot break away from the sun's gravitational force, and can only revolve around the sun.

There are no tariffs between countries, and the Greater China region is a huge customs union area, which means.

No matter how emotionally unacceptable the local feudal lords in Japan are.

Japan will be violently pulled into the economic cycle of Greater China.

This cannot be changed by manpower - unless Japan establishes its own tariff system, but the Ming Empire obviously will not give them this opportunity.

Second.

It is Japan that has begun to form the South American Expeditionary Force.

Emperor Zhu was very generous and directly took out a piece of South America and distributed it to the vassal states that followed the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of such huge interests.

People in Japan are not allowed to stand up against Emperor Zhu and Ming Dynasty.

Emotion belongs to emotion.

Some Japanese feudal lords disagreed with the fact that the emperor was abolished, and Emperor Zhu could understand it.

But the real benefits lie here.

It is equivalent to the Ming Empire using a territory the size of Argentina as a bride price to marry this beautiful girl from Japan.

Uh.
Although this piece of land needs Japan to send troops to fight it down.

But without the blessing of the Ming Empire.

Japan simply does not have the strength of this expedition to Argentina!

Therefore, from the perspective of Japan, this matter is the grace of the Son of Heaven.

They welcomed Zhu Yixin, the sixth son of Emperor Da Ming, as the king of Japan.

Ming Dynasty rewarded Argentina to Japan.

Such an exchange of interests, at least most Japanese are satisfied.

A small number of dissatisfied people can't make any big waves.

"Let Luo Dingshan take down the whole of North Korea, temporarily appoint Luo Dingshan as the governor of North Korea, and then conduct the Korean imperial examination as soon as possible. Since Li Ying has already run away, he will not go to Busan." Emperor Zhu looked up to the south, "The fleet turned around, Go to Shanghai!"

"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to Shanghai to explain it first?"

"No, I also want to take a look. A real Shanghai, look at this legendary hell!" Zhu Daohua said with a sigh.

A hell under his rule.

"Your Majesty, Shanghai is not a hell. You have made great achievements in recreating China." Gong Zhuman didn't finish.

Emperor Zhu waved his hands again and again.

"Okay, okay, don't do it if you don't know how to flatter. I know it well. Zhuman, you say. We have done these things, will people in future generations thank us?"

"It will definitely. You have surpassed the Han and Tang Dynasties. Now all this is only temporary. The future Ming Dynasty will usher in a glorious and prosperous age!" Gong Zhuman said with certainty.

"But right now, many people are definitely complaining about me. That's right, forcing tens of millions of people to leave their homes and become farmers of collective farms, this kind of resentment is really not small!" Emperor Zhu said while supporting the side of the boat.

He knows that his rule has not brought much improvement in the lives of the suffering Chinese people, at least in his opinion.

Now tens of millions of people are blaming themselves, but their descendants will definitely thank themselves, right?
People in the future will be grateful to me...

Emperor Zhu thought, they will build countless statues and monuments for themselves, they will portray themselves as a hero and savior in history books, they will print their heads on banknotes, and they will forget that their ancestors were on their own How much has he suffered under the rule of...

(End of this chapter)