Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 160
Bai Mingxiu wanted to conquer Annan, but even Guo Zhiqi, who was humiliated by Annan, objected very much.Guo Zhiqi also thought that Annan was disrespectful and treacherous, but Daming's current number one enemy was still Man Qing, and it was really not a blessing that Bai Mingxiu had another secondary enemy behind him.

In the end, Bai Mingxiu was happy and said: "You have to assure the cabinet. The main way to deal with Annan is coercion, and there is no need for a large labor force. I intend to send a thousand troops, several warships, and several envoys to Jiaozhou (Hanoi) , Bai Mingxiu called the chief secretary of Jiaozhi), reprimanded Li Chao, and corrected my great tomorrow Chao Zhengshuo."

When Guo Zhiqi heard this, he nodded frequently: "Your Highness's intentions are very kind. Annan's wolf has been ambitious for a long time, and he was even more obedient to the Qing Dynasty before. This warning is what it should be."

Guo Zhiqi didn't think there was anything wrong with it. The vassals who betrayed the suzerain should be threatened like this.After all, now that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties do not border Annan, Annan should be afraid.Guo Zhiqi thinks it is feasible to occupy the moral high ground, intimidate with a small number of troops, and ask for some compensation by the way.

How did he know that Bai Mingxiu is a master who can turn one dollar into a million flowers and 100 people into a million troops? Now everything in Annan is in chaos. Zheng and Ruan have been fighting for many years, and neither can do anything to the other.The Zheng family began to focus on the remnants of the Gaoping regime of the Mo Dynasty in the north, while the Ruan family also looked south, eyeing the Champa Kingdom.Both forces aim to strengthen themselves and then turn around to destroy the enemy.

Bai Mingxiu, on the other hand, was refreshing, and he was going to send a regiment of troops to see what he could do.It is impossible for him to ask the army not to disturb the people when he is abroad, so he wants to send troops there to destroy all Lord Zheng's horses first, and then if the recruiting goes well, he will continue to govern the vast Honghe Plain area; if there is still civil resistance, then Bai Mingxiu will not Ambiguous, just pull a group of forces to take refuge, use the barbarians to control the barbarians, and attack the resisting forces with a strong wall to cut off any source.

Regarding the Houli Dynasty (the sphere of influence of Lord Zheng), Bai Mingxiu easily listed four major crimes: first, abandoning the suzerain state and seeking refuge in the Qing Dynasty; second, repeatedly committing border violations and coveting the land of China; (Netherlands); fourth, he treated the righteous and betrayed Guo Zhiqi and others to the Qing Dynasty.

Bai Mingxiu was overjoyed, and directly spent some goldfinger coins to exchange for a regiment of mercenaries, and even bought new boats, ready to send them directly to Annan to fight.

This decision of His Royal Highness did not make the subordinates object. In fact, after fully recognizing the strength of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army at this stage, people already believed that the new Ming Dynasty led by Bai Mingxiu was already very capable and would come to compete with the Qing Dynasty again.The total strength of the Ming army has reached 17, and it was unexpected for many people to be able to grow so rapidly in less than a year.

Even in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army simply did not have the ability to maintain a force of nearly 20. There is a huge demand for a series of war materials such as gunpowder and equipment.

Take Murima and Hong Chengchou's campaign in Hunan as an example. Before these two court officials arrived in Hunan, Bai Mingxiu had already sent troops into Guangxi to start the southwest campaign with Li Dingguo's division.By the time Bai Mingxiu returned to Guangdong after fighting for several months, the Huguang Qing army hadn't even been fully in place, part of the soldiers' salary hadn't been paid, and several troops hadn't been dispatched yet.

And if we look at the actual situation, Bai Mingxiu can't even gather enough food and grass for the Ming army's 17 people, but His Royal Highness is a 24K pure gold man.He has a surplus of gold finger coins, and buys what he lacks.Although the system stuck him and prevented him from being promoted, he couldn't upgrade all the way to the level of weapons and technology trees of World War II in the Electric Age.However, Bai Mingxiu was able to buy all kinds of materials in the discounted version of the steam era. Whether it was food or equipment, he bought them like crazy. He even created two strategic grain reserve bases in Sichuan and Guangdong in the southwestern region where food is scarce. Enough to consume it for two years.

To be honest, the quality of the food sold to him by the system was really not good. Bai Mingxiu had eaten it himself, and it was old food, but soldiers these days are quite satisfied with a bite of food, not to mention delicious rice.Another preparation of His Royal Highness is to promote agricultural cooperatives on a large scale, and widely plant high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, and even replace rice with high-yield varieties.

When Bai Mingxiu's army returned to Guangdong, they were stopped by local people.

Guo Zhiqi was sitting in the carriage, and he was very worried when he heard that some people stopped the army.Guo Tianxuan, Guo Zhiqi's son, hurriedly asked, "How can there be people blocking the army? Could there be some grievance?"

Guo Zhiqi said to his son, "How is that possible? There are tens of thousands of troops. When ordinary people have the courage to stop the army, even if they have grievances, they should express their feelings to the government."

Speaking of which, Guo Zhiqi opened the curtain of the carriage, and saw that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the front carriage got off the carriage and walked to the front of the team, accompanied by the deputy commander of the female brocade guard.

Guo Zhiqi also got out of the car quickly, wanting to find out.

When he came to the head of the team, he found that the people from all over the country were full of joy, dressed in red and green, and even beating gongs and drums. Some people were carrying roasted suckling pigs, and the first few elders were holding plump ears of rice. Everyone bowed on both sides of the road and kowtowed to the prince one after another.

"His Royal Highness is a thousand years old! Thanks to the grace of His Highness, we have combined cooperatives to promote water conservancy, donated fairy seeds, and distributed fairy fertilizers. Today, twelve villages in my township have abundant grain. Special auspicious offerings to Your Highness!"

In ancient times, rice with many ears was generally regarded as auspicious. If you find it, you must report it to the court, and it is regarded as heaven's encouragement to the ruler.What the old man offered was a double-eared rice plant twice the size of an ordinary rice plant.

Bai Mingxiu took the rice, but asked with a smile: "Old man, how much is your mu yield this season?"

The old man replied respectfully: "It's all thanks to the teacher sent by His Highness. In our village, every field newly planted with new methods has an average yield of 5 shi per mu, and the highest field is close to 7 shi! I don’t believe it either. Originally everyone joined the commune to grow rice, but many people didn’t believe in the new method and new planting method. The fields they kept for themselves were still planted with the original seeds and the original method, and the result was only about 2 shi. It's incomparable, many people regret it!"

Bai Mingxiu also smiled and said, "Five stones, about 5 catties per mu. Actually, this yield still needs to be improved."

He directly brought the super rice variety bred by Yuan Shengren, who was praised by countless people in the later generations, and the chemical fertilizer produced by Guangzhou Prefecture was also supplied here. Doubled, the farmers were infinitely happy.Now, the momentum of agricultural cooperatives will be irresistible.

(End of this chapter)