Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 86 Give King Zhu Ming a Little Shock of the Qing Dynasty

War is cruel.

War is also an accelerating pump for human progress.

Compared with history.

The current Qianlong is quite progressive.

He not only began to seek progress in weapons and equipment, but also began to actively contact Europe.

Although this kind of contact was strictly limited to high-level exchanges by Qianlong, it was forbidden for non-governmental Han people to have the opportunity to contact the outside world.

However, Qianlong himself knew that this kind of prohibition was useless-there were more than 800 million Han people in Guangdong who were not under his control, and this was a place he could not control for the time being.

Now the Han people have obtained the best muskets and artillery in the world.

The Qing Dynasty can't do without progress.

If you don't make progress, you will die.

Today's new army of coatings is part of that progress.

Now the coat march looks pretty good.

Groups of line infantry carrying flintlock guns walked out of a very neat formation.

Accompanying the queue were large-caliber mortars and sub-cannons mounted on four-wheeled carriages.

Mortars were placed at the back of the queue.

The sub-cannons are on both sides, and can fire shotguns to form crossfire.

In front of the line of infantry are skirmishers imitating the tactics of the Ming army's skirmishers.

However, these stragglers are elite archers selected from the Eight Banners Jianrui Battalion-in Fukan'an's view, shooting arrows with the archers of the Eight Banners Jianrui Battalion can also play a role in harassing the enemy's array.

The elite level of archers who can draw a strong bow is definitely not inferior to the skirmishers of the Ming army.

On the side of the infantry formation is the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Cavalry is the biggest weakness of the Ming army.

Fukang'an believes that the cavalry will play a decisive role in future battles with the Ming army.

Boom boom boom.

With the firing of mortars.

Head-sized wooden butt shells were thrown from behind the infantry line.

It fell more than 200 steps away.

Immediately there was a dull explosion.

For added power, these bloomers are also filled with iron spikes for increased fragmentation damage.

After the "mortar" has finished firing.

Fan Baoyi in the infantry line began to get nervous.

Because the next step is three hits.

That is, the front row shoots, the rear row loads, and after the front row finishes shooting, the rear row shoots forward over the front row.

By taking turns shooting alternately in this way, the horizontal team can shoot while moving forward.

It sounds easy.

But it is quite difficult to do.

It's easy to get it wrong.

Especially when I'm nervous.

He fired before the stick was drawn out.

Then he would have to be pulled out and whipped.

Moreover, this flintlock gun is not very easy to use, and there is a certain probability that it will not fire.

If you shoot the gun alone, it is easy to find out whether it is on fire or not.

But if it is in the military formation.

It's going to be a volley.

At that time, there will be booming sounds from left and right, and sometimes you don't even know if you are on fire or not.

If it is reloaded without ignition, it is easy to cause a bombing accident
As far as Fan Coating knew, several of them were injured or even died due to the explosion.

So the training of this coated new army is really not easy.

Not to mention the dangers of training, it is also extremely hard.

A little bit of incompetence is a whip that hits the head and covers the face.

Moreover, the Eight Banners men who are military officers are not very good-tempered (how can they have a good temper when they are so strictly controlled).

But Fan Baoyi was happy in his heart.

Because there are not many places in the Coating Army, it is not easy for me to get in.

After all, it was done in the Baoyi Army, but it can raise the flag.

Fan Baoyi was born as a domestic servant of Jiexiu Fan's family.

It is Jiexiu Fan, one of the eight great masters in Shanxi.

Back then, he helped the Qing Dynasty enter the customs and made great contributions.

However, over the past few decades, Jiexiu Fan's family background has begun to decline.

This Jiexiu Fan was originally a copper mine and salt seller.

By the time of Qianlong, the copper mines were exhausted, and the salt industry run by the Fan family was in a downturn due to various reasons.

In the 48th year of Qianlong (1783), the Qing court abolished Fan's family because of "the loss was deepening day by day, and even the miscarriage of transportation and classes in the previous year, and the arrears of official payments" and "the loss reached as much as 60 million taels". The official position of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Households and other yamen ordered the brothers Fan Qingji to be interrogated strictly and the family property was seized.

At this point, the imperial merchant Fan family finally ended its prominent official and business history.

Without the status of an official and a businessman, Jiexiu Fan has become history.

The servants scattered around the house.

In this way, Fan Baoyi lost Fan Weinu's job in Jiexiu.

But he was lucky.

Now I can't give Jiexiu Fan Dangnu, but I have successfully entered the Baoyi Army and served as a slave to the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

The fake coating is now the real coating.

Fan Baoyi, who has been promoted in class, is full of motivation, and he is waiting to be rewarded for his meritorious service, raise the flag to naturalize, and become a glorious master of the Eight Banners.

A slave who does not want to be a master is not a good slave.

I don't want to be the coating of the Eight Banners, and of course it is not a good coating.

And Lord Qianlong, who now owns [-] good coats, also showed a smile on his face.

"Okay, it's a bit of a look! The army is rigorous, and the guns are sharp! Such a rigorous elite is enough for Guangdong!"

Qianlong, who was watching the military training in the distance from the watchtower of the barracks, said with a smile.

During this period of time, good news continued for the Qing Dynasty.

First of all, a small civil unrest caused by the bandits of the White Lotus Sect in Hubei was quickly suppressed by Huguang.

Secondly, there was a small-scale battle with the Ming army at the Ganzhou Daying camp, and the results this time were not so ugly.

Although the casualty ratio is still not very good, it is much better than before, and it is even possible to fight back and forth.

Then there is the Packed Army.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs successfully produced a vehicle-mounted mortar named "Thunder Cannon" and a [-]-jin long-barreled cannon named "General Jingyuan Cannon", both of which fired wooden shells.

Wooden shells were manufactured with the help of British and French artisans.

Now there are thunder cannons nearby, and general Jingyuan cannons far away.

Another [-] wrapped troops were trained.

Coupled with the absolute cavalry advantage that the Qing Dynasty already possessed.

This time, if he fights with Suiming again.

Certainly not so passive.

"Heshen, the Ministry of Internal Affairs must hurry up to manufacture guns and gunpowder! I estimate that there will be a big battle with Niming this winter!"

Qianlong put down the telescope in his hand and said.

He Shen who was accompanying him hurriedly said: "Don't worry, your majesty, the servant will keep an eye on the people below and hurry up to prepare."

"The Thunder Cannon and General Jingyuan Cannon are good, but they consume too much gunpowder. After this battle, they will burn money."

Qianlong said with some distress.

Don't talk about war.

It also costs money to train.

"Fortunately, we have the help of the British and French allies. Otherwise, based on the cost of producing gunpowder in the past... this kind of battle is really unaffordable."

Fukang'an on the side shook his head and said.

"The money that should be spent still needs to be spent. As long as you can wipe out Ni Ming and regain Guangdong, it is worth spending tens of millions of taels of silver."

Of course it was worth it.

Guangdong is a small cow that can provide the Qing Dynasty with a small amount of 1000 million silver every year.

Not to mention tens of millions of taels of silver.

Just a few hundred million.

Then you have to smash it down!

If you don't have money, you will suffer the people, and if you let the Han people be patient, you will have money.

talking.

Qianlong has already stepped off the high platform.

With the support of several eunuchs, he rode on a docile mare.

Slowly rode past the coated new army who had already lined up and waited for Qianlong's inspection.

Coating newcomers are clearly ready.

When Qianlong came on horseback.

They shouted together.

"Protect the Great Qing, destroy the Nemesis!"

"Protect the Great Qing, destroy the Nemesis!"

The neat shouts made Qianlong feel the rare joy of this year.

For such elites, [-] is still a little less.

But it is already usable, enough to block Niming in Guangdong.

Wait for another [-] pack army.

Form one hundred thousand coated troops.

Until then.

Why is the sorrow against the Ming Dynasty immortal?

It is now August.

After the autumn harvest in September.

The coated new army can go south along the inner core to supplement the Ganzhou camp.

Winter begins in October, and the weather in Guangdong is dry, which is suitable for combat.

At that time, we can try to take back Nanxiong Prefecture.

Put a knife on the top of Suiming's head.

Let him sleepless at night, and the army and the people are frightened.

There is only one province of Guangdong against Ming Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were Jiangnan, Huguang, Sichuan, the Central Plains, Manchuria, and Inner and Outer Mongolia.

However, in the Qing Dynasty, there were Ming emperors and famous generals, the place was stable, and the sea and rivers were clear.

No sign of doom.

This is to use the power of the world to attack a corner of Guangdong.

How can there be no reason for invincibility!

Just when the smug Emperor Qianlong was inspecting his treasured army.

King Zhu Ming of the Ming Dynasty also walked at the foot of Lianhua Mountain in Panyu County, Guangzhou Prefecture.

Accompanying him are Queen Luo Xiangmei, who completed the production two months ago, and Luo Fangbo, the right prime minister of the cabinet.

Luo Xiangmei gave birth to a son two months ago, named Zhu Yichi.

The successor of Ming feudalism has a candidate.

And according to Zhu Daohua's idea, the emperor's succession system still chooses the relatively stable and conservative eldest son to inherit.

In Zhu Daohua's vision of the Ming system in the future.

He doesn't need a talented heir.

Because being talented roughly means tossing, and Zhu Daohua plans to finish the tossing in his own generation.

And Luo Xiangmei after giving birth.

Shi Xianggu is also pregnant.

So after confinement, Luo Xiangmei followed Zhu Daohua all over Guangdong.

He had just inspected the horse farm in Qiongzhou Prefecture and the training of the No.11 Brigade of the Ming Army, and then returned to Guangdong by boat.

The reason why the [-]th Brigade of the Ming Army was placed in Qiongzhou Prefecture was because the [-]th Brigade was the only cavalry brigade.

The population of Qiongzhou Prefecture is relatively small, with a population of about 100 million. There is also a large area of ​​undeveloped land, and there are also a large number of flat areas, which are suitable for large-scale horse farms and cavalry training.

Now the horse farm in Qiongzhou Prefecture is still in the selection and breeding stage, which is to use the horse breeds brought back from the west and the Mongolian horses bought from North Korea, Japan and other countries to cross breed.

War horses are not yet available.

But this does not mean that the cavalry of the Ming army can't do it.

Due to the trade between the East and the West, China has a huge trade surplus-China's export commodities, including tea, porcelain, silk, etc., are basically in a monopoly position in the market.

And China basically does not need any commodity imports.

The direct consequence of this is that a large amount of silver flows into China and stays in China permanently.

But now the Ming Palace still has goods that need to be imported in the international market - such as war horses.

This allowed businessmen from Western Fanhai to see business opportunities.

Rather than sending silver directly to China, they hoped to ship batches of commodities—historically, opium.

Now no Western businessman dares to transport opium to open the door of China.

And the Ming Palace needs war horses.

As a result, many Western businessmen discovered a business opportunity.

It means sailing from Europe, loaded with goods, unloading the goods in India, and then buying Indian local fine-bred war-eared horses to Batam Island. After selling the war horses to the Ming Palace, they then bought tea, porcelain, lacquerware, Silk etc. returned to Europe.

Form a large triangle of trade.

through international trade.

Daming saved a batch of war horses enough to support a cavalry brigade for training.

The Eleventh Cavalry Brigade was established accordingly.

Of course, these cavalry were not trained according to the Mongolian light cavalry - King Zhu Ming did not have talents who understood this aspect.

So I took the training code of the European shock cavalry and used it after a little improvement.

In this regard, Zhu Daohua chose to believe in Napoleon—Napoleon believed that cavalry did not need too many skills, and Mongolian cavalry who needed archery and hand-to-hand combat, Napoleon believed that it was completely useless in the current battlefield.

Cavalrymen only need to do one thing well: impact!

Therefore, the cavalry of the Ming Army is completely a shock cavalry.

Equipped with breastplate, lance, and machete.

Take the road of lining up in a dense queue.

And after having a usable cavalry.

The Ming army had the capital to plot north of Guangdong.

As for attacking the Central Plains.

That would require at least [-] to [-] riders.

The goal of the next stage is to take Jiangnan and Huguang.

Preparations in this area are already in full swing, including training the army and preparing enough local administrative officials.

At the foot of Lotus Mountain at this time.

Most of the surrounding farmland has been harvested.

However, Luo Fangbo, who followed Zhu Daohua, looked worried.

"Your Majesty, after the autumn harvest this year, there have been many tenant evictions. Many landlords took back their farmland and hired people to grow sugar cane and garlic."

Luo Fangbo said.

Drive tenants.

It has been an unethical thing in all dynasties.

But now it is all over Guangdong.

There have been a lot of evictions this fall.

The reason is also very simple.

Due to the industrial guidance of the Ming Palace and the life-saving water, it was put into mass production.

The sugar industry and the pharmaceutical industry have both been greatly developed.

This has pushed up the prices of cash crops such as sugar cane and garlic.

On the other hand, a large amount of cheap rice from Annan and Lanfang flooded into Guangdong, causing the price of rice to drop again and again.

This caused many landlords who previously mainly gave their arable land to tenants to cultivate and collect rice rent to lose money-the land tax in Daming is not a tax in kind, but has to be paid in Ming Yuan.

No one does a losing business.

Therefore, many landlords began to drive out tenant farmers, preparing to switch to cash crops.

since this time.

Conflicts and group incidents occurred endlessly because of the expulsion of tenants.

It is the most troublesome thing for the two prime ministers in the cabinet at present.

Expulsion of tenants has been very politically incorrect in all dynasties.

But our King Zhu Ming doesn't seem to care much about the expulsion of tenants.
　The first one is asking for a recommendation ticket, a monthly ticket, and a reward

　　
　
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