Ming Empire

Chapter 295 Don't Worry

Cao Yue trusted Cao Bianjiao very much. He believed that his cousin would be able to lead an army to defeat the crippled Jiannu.

After Dorgon, Duduo, and Azig brothers led the remnant army out of the pass, although they tried to rectify military affairs through various methods and tried to maintain the unity and strength of the so-called Qing Dynasty, the Koreans and Mongols rebelled one after another, and other tribes rebelled. It is also centrifugal, the strength of the so-called "Manchu Qing" is like a cliff falling.

Now the tribes and troops that the Dorgon brothers can control are only more than [-]. You must know that this is all people including the old, weak, sick and disabled. Excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled women, the number of people who can really mount a horse and fight is no more than a dozen Ten thousand.When Jiannu was in its heyday, there was no way to defeat the Ming army equipped with a large number of firearms. Now that the sun is setting, let alone hope to defeat the better equipped Ming guards.

As long as Cao Bianjiao is not careless, this Northern Expedition will completely solve the matter of building slaves, that is a certainty.Cao Yue also believed that the battle-tested Cao Bianjiao would not be careless.

In fact, Cao Yue really wanted to personally lead the army to conquer Jiannu and complete the mission of erasing Jiannu from the earth by himself, but Cao Bianjiao competed with him for this task, and now he is accompanied by a lot of beauties. Reluctant to leave, due to various factors, I finally decided to hand over the arduous task to Cao Bianjiao, and let myself sit back and enjoy my life in Nanjing, enjoy life, and plan things well.

Cao Yue was not at ease to let the red lady lead the army to conquer the bandits, but this lady was very persistent, saying that she would kill or capture Li Zicheng herself to avenge Li Yan.She also explained to Cao Yue that doing this does not mean that she still misses Li Yan. Her current feelings are all on Cao Yue. Let Cao Yue not misunderstand. She just fulfilled a wish and avenged Li Yan. Everything between the rocks.

Cao Yue also fulfilled Hong Niangzi's wish, but he was afraid that she might make a mistake, so he asked several experienced generals to be her deputy to assist her in the expedition.

Although Hong Niangzi has not officially become Cao Yue's concubine, almost everyone does not know that this legendary woman is already Cao Yue's woman. In order to marry Cao Yue, she is willing to give up everything else.Cao Yue's woman, even if she is a little less senior and less capable, no one dares to underestimate her, including Liu Rushi, Chen Yuanyuan, and Dong Xiaowan. Cao Jie and Gao Jie also dare not have any Unconvinced, he obeyed the order obediently, and followed Hong Niangzi to conquer the rebellion.

Cao Yue didn't worry too much about fighting on two fronts. The equipment of today's Ming Guards is very different from that of the rogues and Jiannu. In comparison, in terms of overall combat effectiveness, he is definitely better than the bandits and slaves, so he is not worried that the two-front battle will weaken his strength and cause chaos.

In the two-front battle, in fact, not many troops were used. Cao Yue still had a lot of mobile forces in his hands. He was also planning to take care of Zhang Xianzhong, who was living in Sichuan, when the battle was in full swing.

Of course, Cao Yue didn't have any careless thoughts. In order for the battle to go smoothly, he personally took care of the needs of the war, and he did his best to transport the ordnance, food and other things needed by the soldiers in front.His request to Hong Niangzi and Cao Bianjiao is that as long as they can win the war, they will sacrifice less soldiers of the Ming Guards, no matter how much weapons and food they consume.

The money seized from Beijing is enough for Cao Yue to toss for several years, and he also believes that with the implementation of a series of reforms, Daming's treasury revenue will increase rapidly, and his family's income will also increase in a blowout.

Today's Cao family seems to be the most prestigious and most promising family in Ming Dynasty. As Cao Yue's position in the court is further stabilized, the prestige, status and property of the Cao family will only increase.

With money in hand, he can do things a lot more capriciously. Cao Yue invested a lot of gold and silver in military manufacturing and paid high salaries to those technicians.High investment will inevitably lead to high output. The speed of development of Daming's military industry has exceeded Cao Yue's imagination.With the hard work of western technicians and the almost desperate research of local scientific and technological workers, nitrate-based drugs have also been preliminarily developed and will soon be put into production.

This new type of explosive was developed based on the theory provided by Cao Yue. In fact, in chemical research, if the principle is known and the research direction is correct, the results will come out soon.

The ancient scientific and technological workers spent a lot of energy to find out the true meaning of science before they got to the door, but if you know the principle, it is very simple to make.

Although Cao Yue is not a chemist, he stayed in the army for many years in later generations. He is more or less familiar with explosives, and the performance and principles of many weapons are also clear. Naturally, it is not surprising that China's technological level is developing rapidly.

Under the personal leadership of Cao Yue, the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty was officially established, with Cao Yue as the honorary president, Song Yingxing as the president, and Fang Yizhi and a European named Descartes as the vice presidents.

Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi are the top personnel in the scientific and technological talents of the Ming Dynasty, and Cao Yue seems to have heard of Descartes' name in his later life, but he doesn't know what kind of person he is.This character spent a lot of energy and money through other Europeans to invite him to Daming.Later, Cao Yue understood that this person had extremely high attainments in mathematics and physics, and he was a very rare talent, so Cao Yue gave him great importance.

There are already a lot of talents dug from Europe, at least two hundred in number.As long as there are well-known scholars in Europe, Cao Yue will let his agents Tang Ruowang and Konstantin spend their energy digging, no matter the cost.It cost Cao Yue at least tens of millions of taels of silver to dig these people. After these people came to Ming Dynasty, Cao Yue gave them a superior life.Of course, the treatment enjoyed by local scientific and technological personnel is also very high, even higher than that of officials.The people who preside over the affairs of the Academy of Sciences and manage foreigners are all Han Chinese. To put it bluntly, these scholars from the West are technicians hired with high salaries. They earn a lot of income by contributing their talents and learning.

In recruiting so many foreigners, Tang Ruowang, a well-known foreigner who had held important positions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in history, and Konstantin, the leader of the mercenary army next to Cao Yue, played a major role. The attitude of Corporal Yue Lixian and the high salary he gave also made these foreigners who are ambitious and able to show their talents to the world feel that when they meet Bole, most of them devote themselves to their work with great enthusiasm and try their best to produce results Come, repay Cao Yue for his kindness.

With the efforts of these scientific and technological personnel and Cao Yue's efforts, the national power of Daming is developing at a high speed, and many novelty gadgets are accidentally tossed out.

(End of this chapter)