The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 3 Daming can't perish!
Zhu Linming looked to the north thoughtfully, and the confusion after coming to this world began to gradually disappear.

"Since you can't escape, why not give it a go and end this disaster!" Zhu Linmi's eyes became firm, "Even though the Qing army is extremely powerful at this time, I know the direction of history, and there are technologies beyond this era. Coupled with the identity of the royal family, the outcome is still unknown!"

He thought of the Opium War, Sino-Japanese War, Eight-Power Allied Forces in his previous life... Scenes of humiliating history emerged in his mind.If the defeat of the Manchu Qing allowed the Ming Dynasty to continue, a China ruled by the Han, these tragic histories would probably not have happened!

Historically, the Qing court has always ignored or even obstructed the development of science and technology.Only when technology stagnates can their riding and shooting always have an advantage, which is convenient for suppressing the resistance of the Han people.

Since then, the scientific and technological gap between China and the West has widened. It was not until after a century of humiliation that the Chinese began to catch up with the West with difficulty, and only the Chinese themselves knew the price.

In fact, Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the seventeenth century was not far behind Europe in terms of science and technology, and it was very likely to transform into modern science in time. Especially with the guidance of a modern person like myself, the industrial revolution might not even reach the Europeans.

If, everything can be restarted... Since I have the opportunity to make it all happen again...

Zhu Linmi was silent for a long time, then suddenly clenched her fists tightly, and said a few words from between her teeth, "Da Ming, you can't die, you won't die!"

Now that he decided to do a big fight, he quickly put aside all other thoughts and began to concentrate on thinking about ways to save Daming.

"In troubled times, military power is the decisive factor." He thought, "and war is nothing more than three elements—money, people, and weapons."

Thinking of this, Zhu Linmei sighed. Daming is the worst in these three aspects. Otherwise, with its huge size, how could it be destroyed by Houjin with a population of only a few hundred thousand.

First of all, the tax policy in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely unreasonable—the gentry class did not pay taxes.As a result, a large number of landlords and wealthy businessmen relied on the names of gentry to evade taxation, resulting in almost all the pressure of taxation falling on the owner farmers.

Due to the raging wars, the imperial court continued to increase tax rates to pay military expenses, and finally the heavy taxation caused a large number of farmers to go bankrupt.The bankruptcy of the peasants brought about the collapse of the court's tax revenue and the bankruptcy of the government's finances.

Secondly, the guard system of the Ming army is equivalent to the "farming reclamation corps", and its combat effectiveness is mediocre. In addition, the officers continued to seize the soldiers' land. The "farming reclamation" was gone, but they still had to go to the front line to fight desperately.The impoverished troops inevitably suffered from low morale and extremely bad military discipline. They were almost defeated in battle, but they were more fierce than the bandits and the Qing army when they robbed the common people.

Although the imperial court also actively adopted the recruitment system later, the poor finances could not pay military salaries at all.Serious underpayment led to frequent mutiny, robbery, and surrender of recruited soldiers, which were even worse than guard soldiers.

Finally, in terms of weapons, Daming also produced a lot of advanced weapons by learning from Europe and innovating by himself.However, the conservative thinking of the officials, coupled with the fact that the imperial court had no money to build new equipment due to poverty, led to a large number of Ming troops still fighting with the Huomen guns of the last century.

For these long-standing disadvantages, Zhu Linmi, a latecomer, naturally has a lot of countermeasures.

Such as finances.In fact, Ming Dynasty was not poor, but the wealth was concentrated in the hands of gentry and wealthy merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.Just reform the tax system to make them pay some taxes, and the government's finances will soon recover.

In addition, Ming's foreign trade volume is extremely astonishing. If the maritime ban can be abolished to encourage foreign trade, the trade surplus with Japan alone will be enough to support the war against Qing.Moreover, the Qing court could only watch and drool in this regard, because China's foreign trade ports were concentrated in Fujian and Guangdong, and these two provinces were still in the hands of Daming.

So as long as the strategy is correct, the Qing court can be brought down in 30 to [-] years by fighting the economy alone!

Naturally, the army must first abolish the guard system, and then implement the military service system of modern countries, supplemented by a modern training system to create a new army.

The Eight Banners Army seems invincible now, but it is still an old-fashioned army under the feudal system.In terms of morale, discipline, combat skills, etc., it is absolutely impossible to compare with a modern army armed with discipline and honor.

Zhu Linmei remembers seeing a set of data before: In feudal era wars, if the death rate of either side’s army reached 10%, it would basically collapse.By the time of World War II, the breakdown threshold for modernized armies had risen to 30%.The People's Liberation Army, which emphasizes discipline, has repeatedly killed 90% of its soldiers on the Korean battlefield without collapsing.It is conceivable how broken the US military on the opposite side was when they saw this kind of enemy.

You must know that in the era of front-mounted muskets, more than [-]% of the casualties in wars occurred when they were chased and killed by the enemy after the collapse.In other words, whoever crashes first is finished.In this regard, the modern army has an overwhelming advantage over the feudal army!

The equipment aspect is even less of a problem. Although due to the limitation of the current processing level, Zhu Linmi cannot produce aircraft and tanks, but it is definitely not a big problem to realize the weapon system of the Napoleon era.

As long as this is achieved, and the army with poor training uses weapons with poor quality, Zhu Linmei has absolute confidence in driving the Manchus back to their hometowns!Oh no, their hometown is also from Daming!
However, it is easier said than done, and there are many difficulties in all aspects to implement these ideas.

If you want to reform bad governance, you need power and influence.If you want to reform the military service system, you must have military power.To equip new weapons, you must first invest a lot of money in it. The training of craftsmen and the construction of a production system are also indispensable.

For the time being, he doesn't have any of these.

Meals have to be eaten one bite at a time, and things have to be dealt with one by one, Zhu Linmi sighed, "Let's start with small things first."

"It's always possible to develop new weapons and equipment at the moment." He first thought of this field that can be solved purely by technology, "The place where Ming makes weapons seems to be called the Military Weapons Bureau."

Only then did he realize that this body did not have this place in its original memory.

"Qiao Qian, where is the Weapons Bureau?"

"It's in the southern outskirts of the city. Do you want it?"

"Take me to the Weapons Bureau." Zhu Linmi said, pulling Qiao Qian up to leave.

"Military Bureau? Master, that's more than 20 miles away! I'm going to prepare the car!" Qiao Qian was quite surprised. In the future Fujing, the prince will spend almost all day studying in the palace, and even if he goes out, he will find someone to sing. Poetry and Fu, going to the Weapons Bureau at this time? !But he was thinking in his heart, but he didn't dare to say more.

The carriage was going very slowly, Zhu Linmi wished to sweep a shared bicycle and ride it, it was probably faster than this!

Along the way, he carefully sorted out the resources he could use, combined with the current situation in Daming, how to realize his plan step by step, and the outline of a blueprint gradually appeared in his mind.

(End of this chapter)