Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1987 Upheaval ([-])

"The matter of Li Dingguo has caused...all problems for me." On June 1687, 6, in Yin County, the capital of Ningshao, Liu Houfei, who was inspecting the construction progress of the Shangding Railway in the field, said with a wry smile to his followers.

To be honest, this time Nanming did something like this, not only by chance, but also because of many inevitable factors.The conflict between Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang, as long as you are not a blind person, you have heard of it several times over the years.Although Sun Kewang is good at handling internal affairs and has a high prestige among the old brothers in Xiying, he is too ambitious after all. After so many years of joining Nanming, seeing that Nanming is becoming more and more ineffective, he actually wants to usurp the throne and stand on his own , This is the fundamental contradiction between him and Li Dingguo and others.

Li Dingguo believes that the foundation of the Nanming court is unstable and the national power is weak. If you don't want the country to be dusty and fall into the hands of the barbarians, you can only work together with the officials of the Nanming court and work together.Therefore, even if you don't like their behavior anymore, you have to hold your nose and endure it, and find a way to resolve the conflict. This is the best choice.

It’s just that this kind of argument is impossible to be recognized by the King of Qin’s family. Don’t forget that they are from the peasant army and have a natural hatred for Nanming’s monarchs and ministers. On the contrary, Nanming also dislikes them. use.But if the stable life is too long, people's thinking may change, and some factors such as selfish desire and ambition are mixed in, then it is not surprising that Sun Kewang has the idea of ​​self-reliance and usurping the throne.If it is done, he can be the emperor, majestic and majestic, and the party members will also confer dukes and marquises one by one, honoring the ancestors and ancestors. Everyone benefits, so why not do it?

It has to be said that Sun Kewang and others are disregarding the overall situation, because in their view, this is the overall situation!Everything they do is for the ultimate victory of their own small group, not the entire court or the world.In comparison, Li Dingguo is a bit smarter. Although his education level is similar to that of Sun Kewang and others, and his background is also similar, he undoubtedly stands at a higher height when considering issues. He will consider it from the perspective of the whole world. biggest difference.

Therefore, since many years ago, the relationship between Li and Sun has not been very good, and the relationship between the party members under him has also been alienated a lot.However, Li Dingguo's health has not been very good these years, and he spends a lot of time recuperating in a year. For this reason, he handed over a lot of positions in the court, which provided an opportunity for Sun Kewang to expand his power, otherwise things might not have come to this day this step.

But things have already happened now, and this does not depend on anyone's objective will.Li Dingguo will race against time to clean up the mess, Dashun is mobilizing supplies and troops to prepare for the invasion, and the people on the east coast are implementing the embargo measures against Dashun—whether it is useful or not, the gesture of sanctions must always be put on, otherwise in the future Wouldn't the powerful people from all walks of life in mainland China want to take people from the east coast even less seriously?How can that be!

"Captain, it has been more than two months since Sun Kewang was killed, and the matter has fully fermented. What is certain now is that Shun Kingdom has dispatched troops, and the troops are divided into two groups to attack Ming separately, swallowing Yunnan, The intentions of the three provinces of Guizhou and Guangxi are very obvious. With the huge temptation of the three provinces here, Li Laiheng will not listen to us anyway, unless we can go to Changsha to shake his foundation, but this is not in line with us. Of course, we may not have the ability to go to Changsha for the time being, hehe.” The person who spoke was Cai Shengguo, general manager of the Bank of Taiwan.

He succeeded Shao Shuguang. He was the second-generation head of this large colonial trade and financial company. He was definitely the first echelon of real power on the ground in the Far East.This time Liu Houfei was inspecting the progress of the Shangding Railway, and he was called in Ningbo to come and take a look. Who gave their family a seat on the board of directors of this railway?Compared with Cai, Nan Yimin, the representative of the Far East region of the Southern Railway Company (the director of the Jiaoyan Railway Management Committee, who is also currently in charge of the Shangding Railway) is much more low-key, although their company is the railway company. The actual operator has a veto power in the board of directors, but his confidence is still not comparable to that of Cai Shengguo, who has a strong root and controls the Bank of Taiwan.

What Nan Yimin cares about now is actually not the war between Shun and Ming, which is thousands of miles away, it is something that big shots think about, not a technocrat like him.What Nan Yimin is most concerned about is whether the construction funds of the Shangding Railway will be embezzled.That is, will Captain Liu of the Southern Pioneering Team use this money as military expenses when the finances are not very ample, and go to Guangdong, Guangxi, and even Huguang to make troubles, because the war between Shun and Ming is completely sudden for everyone? Unexpectedly, there is no contingency fund to deal with this situation in the budget (even if there is, it is not enough at all, and it is not an order of magnitude at all).Under such circumstances, the large sum of money raised for the construction of the Shangding Railway seems to have become a sweet pastry that can be used at will, and Liu Houfei led everyone to inspect the construction progress of the Shangding Railway at this sensitive moment. It's hard to say what kind of stance to make, so Nan Yimin is actually quite nervous now, but there is nothing he can do.

"It is impossible to take Changsha to fight. Dashun has more than 20 troops, the penetration rate of firearms is extremely high, and the war experience is even much richer than ours. How to fight? How much will it cost? What's more, after fighting, The relationship has deteriorated, how will we get along with each other in the future?" Liu Houfei's words are actually very straightforward, the constraints on Dashun are still not strong enough for the people on the east coast, and even the bottom line is very vague, so that they were rejected by the gang of monarchs and ministers in Changsha. It is depressing enough to test the bottom line step by step and lead the way by the nose-Li Laiheng's group, after all, came out of the flames of war, and they danced on the wire with great proficiency. The people on the east coast dare not send troops without you, and even the navy that helped Dashun along the Han River and the Yangtze River will not withdraw. It is really clear what the people on the east coast are thinking.

Now Liu Houfei is facing such an embarrassing situation.He found that he could not use military means to sanction the Li Shun regime. He could only impose some trade embargoes. The social and economic operation of the country is not smooth, and the level of productivity declines, which in turn affects the national strength.

But the question is, will Shunguo pay for this level of punishment?Or, can they feel pain?Everyone who knows the actual situation is probably not so optimistic——

First of all, the most harmful thing to Shun country should be exchanges and assistance in the military field.For so many years, the East Coast Republic has always been the center of Dashun’s military system in heavy artillery, metal armor, engineering equipment, special medicines, artillery sighting and measuring devices, weapon maintenance tools, military bayonets and war horses (including horses). most important suppliers.A large amount of military supplies produced by people on the east coast in Yangma Island, Jeju Island, and Sakhalin Island flowed into the Dashun army system through Madang Fortress and Baling County, helping them establish a relatively modern armed force .And once the people on the east coast choose to run out of stock, then Dashun is actually unable to replenish—at least it cannot replenish on a large scale, because its localization level is very low, and its technology and production management are flawed—once the inventory is exhausted, short-to-medium term Judging from the fact that the combat effectiveness of the army will drop a bit, there is no doubt about it.

In addition, people from the East Coast also regularly help Dashun cultivate qualified troops with a modern war vision, and provide some other information exchanges (such as war materials of European countries in the past hundred years, etc., compiled and published by the Ministry of War), If this aspect is broken, the damage to the modern warfare literacy of Shunguo officers will not be small, but it may not be obvious in the short term.

All in all, sanctions in the military field should be the most powerful weapon for people on the east coast.If Shunguo can withstand the pressure, Liu Houfei and even Liao Degong from Yantai really have no good solution.And can Li Laiheng in Changsha withstand the pressure?

Judging from the current facts, yes, that's right, Li Laiheng is determined to withstand the pressure, regardless of it, and devote himself to cutting Ming, so as to increase the thickness of his country and solve the worries of the past decades.The aid of the Dongan people and the Nanming territory are at both ends of the scale. Now it seems that the territory is more important, and it is so much more important that Changsha turned a deaf ear to the urgent warnings given by the Dongan people and focused on urging troops to move south.

Of course, the people on the east coast will not be used to them. Since you chose to go south to Faming, you must bear the price.At present, not only the military trade between the two countries has been completely stopped, but military exchanges have also been completely interrupted. The young officers of the Shun Army who are studying in the Army Camp School on the East Coast have packed their luggage and embarked on the journey home.Even the army intelligence officials at the military liaison stations in several front-line cities in Shunguo on the east coast were notified to pack up all the documents and files and return to Ningbo.

In addition to the sanctions in the military field, the East Coast people also waved the big stick of sanctions in the economic field!When the relationship was friendly back then, many businessmen from Ningbo made major investments in Jiangxi, mainly in the four major categories of tobacco, tea, silk, and porcelain. At this time, they were also interviewed by Yin County to prohibit them from continuing to expand local investment. .If there is a year to sell the assets in hand, sell them as soon as possible, and not sell to businessmen in Ningshao, Denglai and other places, but only to local people. To put it bluntly, you must withdraw your capital as soon as you can.

In addition, the Southern Pioneering Team and the Bank of Taiwan also established some roasted tea factories, rice mills, and textile factories in Jiangxi and Hunan provinces.Although they are all semi-mechanized production lines, to be honest, it is not a small technological progress for Shunguo, not to mention the introduction of advanced management and financial systems, which has greatly improved the overall industrial level of Shunguo.

Take the egg powder factory located in Jiangxi as an example. It uses the production technology designed by the east bank, and the production line is completely customized in Sakhalin Island. The production efficiency is very high, and the monthly profit is as much as 6 yuan. At the same time as the Anningshao and Denglai areas, a large part of it was even sold to the Shunjun system.This factory, excluding all kinds of unreasonable taxes and apportionments, can earn a profit of more than 50 yuan a year, which is really amazing.

There are many such companies.They mostly use the relatively abundant agricultural products and mineral resources in Jiangxi, Hunan and other places for deep processing, and then sell them back to the control area on the east bank. Because the relationship between hiring workers and purchasing raw materials has greatly prospered the local market, which has a lot of positive economic significance.

This time, Liu Houfei and Liao Degong had already agreed that they would withdraw their capital if they could, and they would never expand their production scale if they could not.Let Li Laiheng from Changsha also feel what it feels like to not have enough money in his pocket.Sending more than 10 troops to attack the Ming Dynasty at every turn, isn't it very capable?Now I want to teach you that [-] people are eating horse chews from outsiders, and they also need to buy gunpowder, medicine, bullets and other supplies. The cost is not a small amount. It depends on how long you can last!

Of course, the people on the east coast did not forget to take a political offensive against Shunguo.The envoys they sent have been lingering in the mansions of King Wentai Lu, Fujian Zheng Jing, and Guangdong Erli for a long time now. Even the local government of Nanming in Guangxi has been lobbied by Guangdong businessmen or officials entrusted by the east bank. Tell them to insist on fighting and delay the Shun army's actions as much as possible. The people on the east bank will definitely take action later, and they will never let their family property be taken away by the Shun army.In short, it is to do everything possible to fool around, to buy time and create opportunities for the actions of the East Coast Army in Lianzhou, Wuzhou and other places.

"All in all, regardless of whether Shunguo listens to us or not—well, they really won't listen—we have to use all kinds of sanctions this time, so that people in Shunguo can experience the unforgettable feeling of being deprived of food. Some People don't feel pain, and it's useless to just reason with them. Only a hard slap can wake them up. Now, we want to give Li Laiheng a hard slap, so that he can understand the power of his court. Who gave him asylum?" After inspecting a section of the route, everyone rested in a tea shed, and Liu Houfei said to them.

Everyone who heard his words had different expressions.Everyone is old in the world. Although Captain Liu said this with high spirits, the real situation may not be what he said.This Shunguo Li Laiheng got slapped in the face this time, but so what?When they take over the three provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou, and then turn around and admit their mistakes, will you accept it or not?You know, at that time, they were already the largest unshakable military and political group in southern China. If you don't deal with them, who else will you deal with?Therefore, the sanctions of this meeting will make the Shun country's economy difficult for a few years, and the common people will be exploited by the government even more, and it will be able to recover slowly in the future.But this is not the case in Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. If this opportunity is missed, God knows when the next time will be.Li Laiheng is not stupid, of course he knows how to choose!

It was really helpless to break the update yesterday. I had a cold and fever of 39 degrees. Until today, I feel weak all over. I hurriedly typed out a chapter, forgive me.

(End of this chapter)