Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 507

The rapid economic development of Ming Dynasty has made many people rich, and after all, 10 taels of silver is not much money for a family that has already entered the middle class. If you can obtain a large piece of land, it will definitely be a particularly good thing.Therefore, after the sales of Ouxia Railway Bonds started, there was an immediate craze, and they even had to come up with policies such as ID card purchase restrictions.

With the funds, it will be easy to handle.Daming is now setting up civil engineering companies all over the place. Almost every city is a large construction site, and there are constructions promoted by the country, provinces, and governments everywhere, from residential buildings to roads and docks. It seems very busy.

The Ossia Railway is still not a complete Eurasian land bridge, because it is obviously impossible for the European section to spend time and effort to communicate with so many countries, and the conditions are not yet ripe. The Ming Dynasty has not yet arrived to promote European peace and help build This consciousness of the railway.

However, the existing Haizhou-Azov section has a total length of nearly 8000 kilometers, which is twice the length of the American Pacific Railway, which is known as the seventh industrial miracle in history.In the plan of the Ministry of Communications of the Cabinet and the Railway Corporation, the construction of the Osha Railway will be officially started in 1666 and it will take 4 years to open to traffic.Because most of the Longhai Line has been built, it is expected to be completely open to traffic by the end of next year. The main construction of the Oxya Railway is the section from Lanzhou to Azov.

Bai Mingxiu is not sure whether there will be a westward movement similar to the one in American history, but judging from the current boom in railway bonds and people's thirst for western land, it has obviously stimulated some people.Two months later, books such as "How to Survive in the Great West", "Guide to the Safeguards", and "Easily Identifying Mineral Deposits" appeared as hot sellers.

However, before people spontaneously went to the west, Bai Mingxiu had spared no expense (finger coins) to recruit millions of garrison troops to go to the west, from Mobei Province all the way to Anxi Xuanweisi and Volga Xuanweisi, as long as the conditions are better , The Garrison Corps has already taken root there.

And the Northwest Army Corps led by Su Shuhuan, who had been away from his homeland for many years, finally began to be transferred back to the mainland from the front line. The Ministry of War has dispatched new soldiers to Volga for garrison.The Ministry of War has specially established the Eastern European Military Region, which not only manages about 30 men and women of the local garrison regiment, but also manages two regular army divisions.

The Volga Xuanwei Division is the territory of Ming Dynasty west of the Ural Mountains-Ural River, east of the Volga River-Don River, and north of the Caucasus Mountains. Its territory is long and large, but its population is not large.The Russians who originally lived in this area were either almost slaughtered by Feyangu, or were taken by Xiqing to their territory west of the Volga River, and now basically only rely on the garrison troops to fill them.

Bai Mingxiu was not completely relieved of Fei Yanggu, the "Emperor Qianlong" of the Western Qing Dynasty, so he would still garrison the army in Volga.But fortunately, the Garrison Corps itself is half-production and half-military. The conditions of the South Russian grasslands are good, and agriculture and animal husbandry can be developed, and there are also many mineral deposits in this area. After the railway is built, it can be continuously transported to the inland resource.

Daming watched Xiqing's actions coldly, which to a certain extent fueled their courage.Cheng Lin's raid on the Cossack Emirate also achieved great success.The Cossack chief Palov Teteria finally led the Cossacks to surrender to Xiqing, and Feiyangu finally divided the Cossacks equally among the Eight Banners.After joining the Eight Banners of the Guards, the Cossacks followed Cheng Lin to attack Ukraine on the right bank. Cheng Lin led his army to defeat the main force of the Polish army in Lviv, forcing Poland to admit that the Western Qing Dynasty occupied the entire Ukraine.

Cheng Lin also further sent troops to wipe out the Crimean Khanate, which was already lingering.This naturally caused dissatisfaction with Ottoman Turkey, the suzerain of the Crimean Khanate, but the Turks were still busy fighting with the Austrians and did not care.

The troops led by Mu Zhan, another general of the Qing army, also repelled the Polish army in Belarus, and finally stabilized the territory of the Western Qing Dynasty.

Fei Yanggu was not too immersed in the joy of defeating neighboring countries and building a great empire in Moscow.Because he realized that he was not the first to do so.

There were many ethnic groups that were driven out of East Asia by the Han Chinese—the Huns and the Western Turks. These ethnic groups had migrated westward and finally came to Europe, becoming a nightmare for Europeans and managing a multi-ethnic country.

Feyangu does not want to disappear into the dust of history like the empires of these nations, so he must work hard to govern.

It is true that he still has some relatively capable talents in his hands, such as his prime minister, Wen He, who is very clever.

"...Your Majesty, we have resettled 200 million people in Ukraine and started building farms and pastures. From next year, we can expect a stable and large amount of food and agricultural products. In terms of industry and mining, Donetsk University We started mining coal fields, and the miners are mainly Russians. We have successively built new factories around Mojing, mainly steel, machinery, military and other factories. We have engineers and technology, but we need to train a large number of industrial workers, and the workers come from There are still some obstacles for different ethnic groups to communicate with our technical engineers. However, within three years, we will be able to realize a complete supply chain of guns and arm more than 20 new troops."

After Fei Yanggu heard this, he couldn't help but beam with joy, and said, "Good! Very good! Minister Wen has the great talent to manage the world and govern the country. I have Wen to help me, as if I have God's help!"

Wen He was very humble. He thanked Fei Yanggu for his praise, and he said: "Your Majesty, although our country has been established and stabilized in the Qing Dynasty, our pace of external expansion cannot be stopped. In our army, there are already a large number of Alien races. We have no religion to unite them. All we can rely on is interests. We need a lot of military procurement to generate this demand when we develop industry. War can bring us demand and provide us with Bring wealth. Only by continuing wars and development can we shorten the gap with the Ming Dynasty, which has a vast land, rich resources and a large population, as much as possible.”

Wen He's theory has actually been put forward by some scholars in later generations, and it is considered "war capitalism".Scholars believe that the main reason why the early industrial revolution developed in Europe and Britain was precisely because of the impetus of war.Because of the war, there is a large demand for textiles, machinery, and weapons. In order to meet this demand, it is necessary to innovate technology, carry out large-scale production, and squeeze labor.These products boosted military victories, and military victories brought more resources, which further promoted the demand for war, forming a positive cycle.

For Xiqing, if it stops and peacefully engages in production, there will be no future for industrialization.So mildly and aggressively put forward war capitalism to help Xiqing advance.

Under this kind of war capitalism, the laborers must be poor and miserable, but Feiyangcu will not care, and this country will not mind.They just need to be strong to prevent the old events of being wiped out by Da Ming from happening again.

(End of this chapter)