I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Cheng Shijie naturally would not believe what the Dutch said, not even a word. Regarding the conflict between the two sides, Cheng Shijie had already predicted that if, like history, the Ming Dynasty regretfully missed the Age of Discovery, it would begin to lag behind Europa, and the distance would further widen during the Industrial Revolution.

However, in this time and space, because of the existence of Cheng Shijie, a butterfly from another world, Nanyang has basically become the inland sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, and Sumatra has become the maritime checkpoint of the Ming Dynasty. All ships going to the Ming Dynasty will be accepted in Sumatra. After inspection, only after obtaining a navigation permit in Sumatra were they allowed to attack the Daming Sea.

All over the world, the Ming Dynasty's sovereignty over the South China Sea has been recognized. Whether it is the Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish, the name of the South China Sea is not on their maps, but it is called the China Sea.

The scope of the China Sea is also different from that of the South China Sea in later generations. The area is divided into the Banda Sea in the south, the Luzon Sea (Philippines) and the Kyushu Sea in the east. Of course, the Bohai Sea is clearly marked on the Ming Dynasty's nautical chart. , Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, these four seas have become the inland seas of the Ming Dynasty.

Even using the maritime law of later generations, it can still be determined that this is the inland sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, because in addition to the two native provinces of Beijing and thirteen provinces, the Ming Dynasty also established three additional management committees: Danyuan, Luzon, and Lin'an (Annan).

As the power of the Ming Dynasty becomes stronger and stronger, the sea is so big. When the Ming Dynasty has more than [-] large ships of [-] tons and more than [-] ocean-going ships of more than [-] tons, conflicts with the Europeans are inevitable. .

Cheng Shijie has already had a countermeasure for Europa to unite to deal with the Ming Dynasty. Since it is unavoidable, he should strike first.

Today's Ming Dynasty has formed a virtuous cycle. Their support for war is very high, because war can bring the dividends of war to almost all people. Farmers get more land, businessmen get more resources, officials get more official positions, and soldiers get more military honors.

The Ming Dynasty's external expansion has benefited all the people. Just like in the Annan Metropolitan Government, the original dense tropical rain forest was conquered, and the price of wood plummeted. At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also obtained a large amount of land and mineral resources. At least so far, Yunnan The Management Committee already has access to the sea.

When Catherine told Cheng Shijie that the Netherlands was organizing a European anti-Ming alliance, Cheng Shijie said calmly: "It's okay if they unite and deal with it together when the time comes!"

This is not Cheng Shijie's bragging. The current Royal Navy is almost three times the size of the Spanish Armada, the most powerful fleet in Europe. Of course, three times the number does not include a large number of armed merchant ships. If, like Europe, the armed merchant ships They were also temporarily mobilized as warships to participate in combat operations.

Then the Ming Dynasty could organize more than [-] warships and armed merchant ships at one time. Even if Great Britain, the Netherlands, France and Spain were added together, the number would still be far less than that of the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, the power and range of Ming's warship artillery far exceed that of Europe.

Catherine looked surprised: "Your Majesty the Emperor, there is an old saying in your Ming Dynasty, which is that no matter how big a country is, if it is warlike, it will perish. You really know how to brag!"

"Do I call this bragging?"

Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "This is called honesty!"

Catherine was actually a little envious of the Ming Dynasty, especially the population of the Ming Dynasty. After the Ming Dynasty occupied Luzon, it did not colonize Luzon like Spain. Instead, it claimed a large number of people in Luzon and abolished the ban on concubines for common people. Provisions.

In the Ming Dynasty, common people were only allowed to have concubines under one condition, that is, if they were over forty years old and the first wife had not given birth to a boy, they were allowed to have a concubine to spread incense.

Now the people of Ming Dynasty are allowed to have concubines, but there are certain restrictions on the number. Ordinary people are allowed to have three concubines before the age of thirty, and four concubines after the age of forty.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are actually very smart. Taking concubines can not only extend the incense, but also increase the free labor force. The most bizarre one is Shi Jingshan of Songjiang Prefecture. He was originally a textile businessman, but as a businessman , must pay wages to his workers, Shi Jingshan is also a ruthless person, he recruited more than [-] female workers, a large number of whom were bought Japanese and Luzon natives.

He took all these female workers as concubines. The concubines did not receive wages, but only took care of the food. He could save a lot of wages, reduce labor production costs, and the company achieved great development.

In addition to the large number of Ming merchants taking in concubines, there were also farmers taking in concubines. There was no other way. There was too much land per capita and it was impossible to grow it. It would take time for Huoniu machinery to be truly popularized.

As a result, many farmers chose to take concubines and fight against the crowds.

Seeing Cheng Shijie so confident, Catherine also vaguely knew the true strength of the Ming Dynasty. She was not optimistic about the Dutch. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Netherlands was a flaw. Not to mention the entire Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Luzon and Annan would not be able to survive in a year. It would give birth to a population of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This is incomparable to the Dutch, just like Venice. Their warships are obviously more advanced and more powerful than the Ottomans, but they have no choice in the face of the Ottoman Empire with more than [-] million people.

Very outstanding people died under the Ottomans' massive offensive. They all wanted to kill the thieves, but they were unable to save their lives.

Although the Dutch are very strong, compared with the Ming Dynasty, they are just the difference between children and adults. As for the whole of Europe, Catherine is also not optimistic about it. Just like a child, if you recruit a group of children to fight with a strong adult, the result is certain. , no matter how many children there are, they cannot be rivals of adults.

Ming stood still and let the Dutch fight. They couldn't shake Ming in the slightest. However, once Ming took action, one punch was enough to destroy the Dutch country.

"I heard that you also sent troops to conquer the Mughal Empire?"

Catherine received the news that Li Zhixiang led the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force and the Mughal Empire broke out in a major battle with more than [-] troops in Delhi. The Mughal Raja Khan mobilized an army of [-] troops and collected more than [-] warships. The ship, boasting an army of [-], was heading towards Bengal in a mighty manner.

This army gathered most of the elites of the Mughal Dynasty, with [-] fierce Sikh cavalry, [-] Ranjaloqi cavalry, more than [-] long archers, and more than [-] A war elephant and [-] cannons purchased from the Dutch for a lot of money. In addition, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom also gathered more than [-] people to participate in the war in the name of mercenaries.

Li Zhixiang led more than [-] warships, a marine brigade, and the heavy infantry battalion of the Yecheng Fleet. The marine force did not exceed [-] troops. Ordinarily, although the Mughal Empire's army is very weak, it has such a huge advantage and should be able to win. It's just a pity that nearly [-] troops marched toward the port of Bangladesh. The Ming army retreated to the port, backed by Port, and a decisive battle with the Mughal Empire army.

There are also people who are not optimistic about the Mughal Empire's army, but they believe that even if they want to win in the Ming Dynasty, it will take several months, or even half a year.

But the problem was that this battle lasted only two hours. When the Mughal army arrived at the Port of Bangladesh with more than [-] people, more than [-] Ming warships, thousands of artillery pieces and hundreds of rocket launchers opened fire on the Mughal army. .

All the more than [-] large ships that Raja Khan had finally put together were sent to the bottom of the sea, and not a single plank was left for him. The army troops were directly killed and injured, with more than [-] people.

More than two-thirds of these casualties were actually caused by themselves. More than [-] war elephants were frightened crazy at the first moment of the bombardment. These more than [-] war elephants rushed towards the Mughal army crazily. Go, the Mughal army, unable to escape, collapses instantly.

The number of surviving cavalry of the Ming Expeditionary Army was also too small, less than [-], otherwise Raja Khan would not even have a chance to escape. The Ming army took the opportunity to launch a massive counterattack and launched an overwhelming charge against the Mughal army.

The morale of the Mughal army had been shaken and could not withstand such an attack. It was like a burst of urine. Countless soldiers trampled on each other, or were divided and surrounded by the Ming army and became the target of slaughter. The Port of Bengal turned into a sea of ​​blood. …

After three days, the Battle of Bengal finally came to an end. The corpses of [-] Mughal troops were piled into a bloody hill. The Ming army found the corpse of the commander of the Mughal troops and hung him upside down from head to foot in the highest pile of corpses. as a show off. Li Zhixiang recruited a large number of civilians and dug seven mass graves to bury all the corpses.

After the war, this battlefield was given an eerie name, Ten Thousand Bone Mountains.

This was the most tragic defeat of the Mughal Dynasty since its founding. It was more of a massacre than a battle. Raja Khan and the [-] troops around him were finished. They were completely finished. Including the emperor and a large number of civil servants and generals, more than [-] people were turned into corpses, more than [-] people were injured, and they were not dead soon. There were still [-] people. Many people were captured, and only a few thousand survived. After this battle, almost all the elite soldiers of the Mughal Dynasty were wiped out, and the whole of India was shocked!

The city of Delhi was captured and the royal family and officials surrendered, which meant that the Mughal Dynasty came to an end. This result shocked most people.

Although India has been conquered countless times, this is the first time it has been conquered in such a short period of time. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have no intention of annexing the entire India. After destroying the city of Delhi, they returned to Bengal with the loot and returned a leaderless land to the Indians.

There are certainly many people who are determined to take revenge, but the vast majority of Indian princes find that the throne seems more attractive than defeating the Ming Army...

So the civil war broke out.

Catherine asked curiously: "You have wiped out the main elite troops of the Mughals. Why don't you pursue the victory and occupy the entire Mughals? You don't look like a short-sighted person. Why did you give up such a favorable opportunity and just plunder Delhi?" Just retreat?"

Cheng Shijie sighed: "I also want to occupy it in one fell swoop. The problem is that I only have a few people in my hands, but they have tens of millions of people. What's the difference between throwing such a small number of people in and dripping soy sauce into the sea? We can only occupy Bangladesh first, and go to Bangladesh has a large number of immigrants, and we will gradually expand after the immigrants have established a foothold!"

The Ming Dynasty actually has many problems now. First of all, after the territory expanded, there were no people left. In the past, the Ming Dynasty had more people and less land, and there was not enough land for farming. During the Chongzhen Dynasty, the per capita land was less than five acres.

Now the per capita land in Ming Dynasty exceeds [-] acres. If the per capita land in Liaodong is more than [-] acres, the per capita land in Dayuan and Luzon exceeds [-] acres. And they are all high-quality land. If you include Telin, Tianshan, and Hanhai, the land there can be measured in thousands of acres.

Because there are fewer people and more land, it is becoming more and more difficult to immigrate.

Catherine was startled: "What you want is not to conquer the Moguls and make them vassals, but to completely occupy this land and turn it into the homeland of your countrymen!?"

Cheng Shijie said seriously: "Yes, our ancestors have always done this. Otherwise, where do you think our territory, which is twice the size of Western Europe, came from?"

Catherine was speechless for a moment.

In a broad sense, Western Europe includes all countries except Russia and the Balkan Peninsula, with a total area of ​​about [-] million square kilometers. In this [-] million square kilometers of land, there are hundreds of ethnic groups and thousands of languages. There are dozens of language families.

China, which is twice as big as Western Europe, has only about fifty ethnic groups, many of which were forced to make up the number, and there is only one mainstream language family.

Experts often lament that China's geographical location is too closed, and there is no external pressure, which leads China to rest on its laurels and give a fuck about it. If there is a nation in Western Europe that wipes out or assimilates all other nations, it will occupy all the land it can. Occupied, there is still external pressure!

There were so many ethnic groups living on the land of China. There were Dongyi, Xuyi, and Huaiyi in Shandong, Chidi and Baidi in Shanxi, Donghu, Linhu, and Loufan in Hebei, and Qiang, Xiongnu, and Yiqu in Shaanxi. , there are Jingman and Baiyue in Huguang and Jiangnan, Ba people, Shu people, and Bo people in Sichuan, and Yelang people in Guizhou.

There are also Xianbei, Turks, Jie people, Di people, Mongols, Jurchens, Khitan people, Huli Gai people who invaded by taking advantage of the civil strife in China... The number of ethnic groups that have appeared on the land of China is countless, but China's The area is getting bigger and bigger. Even if the world is in chaos, there has never been a situation like Europe with so many small countries. Why?

No matter how terrible the war was, this land was finally unified instead of being divided into dozens of small countries. Why? I'm afraid Europeans can't even figure it out even if they think about it.

However, Catherine vaguely knew that wherever the Ming Dynasty expanded, it would become the permanent territory of the Ming Dynasty. No matter what kind of nation lived on that land or what kind of country had been established, in the end not even the dregs would be left. , there is only one group of people left: the Ming people, who are mainly Han people.

Cheng Shijie's conquest was not plunder, occupation, or slavery, but ultimately turning the entire South Asian subcontinent into the permanent territory of the Ming Dynasty, making the Ming people the masters of this continent!

What a terrible appetite, Catherine shuddered just thinking about it.

PS: I'm very sorry. Lao Cheng has been having health problems recently. His fasting blood sugar is [-]. Because his blood sugar is too high, he often feels drowsy and falls asleep for a second. In fact, this is coma. People who are familiar with Lao Cheng know that sometimes , I was still chatting one second, and fell asleep the next second. This happened again yesterday. When I woke up, it was already half past four. My health is getting worse and worse, and I may no longer be able to work in this industry, or I may stop updating forever one day. I will continue to persevere until the end, and strive to give everyone a finished story. Also, this is from yesterday, and there will be more at night. (End of chapter)