Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 635 Confused
Qiaogangfu, a city at the mouth of the Housatonic River, is an unremarkable city in Hongwu Province, Ming Dynasty.Because the Housatonic River is the dividing line between the North American overseas territory of Ming Dynasty and the British New England colony, the British colony and the Ming colony are across the river. At that time, the Ming people felt that it would be very reliable to build a town in such a border area. The small town prospered.

However, 20 years later, Qiaogang Mansion has been far behind by Junan, Philadelphia, Baimao, Huaxing, etc., and the permanent residents of the Qiaogang City District have not exceeded 3.There is indeed some trade here, but considering that their neighbor New England is too poor, the trade volume is not much at all.New England relatively controlled the import of things from the North American overseas territories of Ming Dynasty, and the British, who still believed in mercantilism, regarded importing goods from the North American overseas territories to sell in New England as a very serious crime.

But also because of this, many Ming people and New Englanders began to smuggle.Because the two places are so close, you can make a lot of money just by transporting the goods to the other side by boat, so both the Ming people on this side of the river and the New Englanders on the other side of the river regard it as a good thing. Business.

Governor Bu'an came to Qiaogang Mansion for inspection, not to look at the local economy, but to prepare for the next quelling of the New England Rebellion.

Yue Shenglong looked at Bu'an and looked at the other side of the river, and told Bu'an: "Governor, in fact, some of the core people of the 'independent faction', several of them are big smugglers in New England, and even have snake heads. The reason why they hope to make New England independent is ultimately a matter of interests. Imagine if there is no border between Hongwu Province and Massachusetts, then this river will become an ordinary river, and cars and trains can easily cross the bridge without any problems and sell our products locally without any problems. Then for the smuggling syndicates, their interests don’t exist. So they must oppose our integration of both sides.”

Bu An sighed, and said: "To tell you the truth, I haven't figured out until today, what kind of nerves did those independent factions make wrong, or their brains are not working well, and I think there is a way out for confronting Da Ming with me. of?"

This is actually something that all the geopolitical observers of Daming, including His Majesty the Emperor himself, can't understand from Jun'an Mansion all the way to the capital. How come some people really feel that they can resist Daming and goug out a piece of flesh from Daming.

During the war against Spain 20 years ago, the Ming Dynasty also encountered resistance from the Spanish American colonies, and the resistance in some places was very intense.But Daming put down these rebels very easily, they should be killed, and the rest were packaged and sent to Mexico.Not only that, Bu'an, the North American overseas consulate of Ming Dynasty, will support the original Aztecs in Mexico to make trouble with the local colonial government on a daily basis. There have been several very large-scale racial vendettas over the years. In a serious case, tens of thousands of people were killed, and many people even wanted to escape to live in the South American United Xuanwei led by Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention the Americas, Ming has too many colonies, and in almost any of the colonies, there has basically been a little bit of this kind of trouble.But Daming's wrists were flexible and there were many tricks, and they were all done slowly.Taking the Nanyang region as an example, the local aborigines had conflicts with the Ming Xuanwei Department almost every day, and even led to battles involving thousands of people, but in the end these things disappeared, and those who participated in the rebellion People also disappeared.

Later, Nanyang completely turned into a Chinese society, and the social structure of the local aborigines collapsed, and they had to enter the Chinese society to live with the Chinese, and finally calmed down completely.

Yue Shenglong tentatively answered Bu An's question: "I think it's because we don't have enough publicity... In our traditional culture, we generally prefer to publicize the scene of the Ming Empire convincing people with virtue, or we like to say how much we To be reasonable, I am afraid that we will fall into a situation where we can only speak with our fists."

Bu'an interface: "In short, we understand that people are people who want face."

Yue Shenglong nodded: "So, maybe those guys in New England feel that they can be shameless with us."

"Ah...! That makes sense."

Bu An didn't show any expression of sudden realization, and he said again: "According to the military covenant of the Confederacy of the Empire, the British army is now under the command of my Ming North American Command. It's quite miserable to see Howe and the group. The militia lost even their nest, and they lacked weapons in Hartford. Didn’t we just replace a batch of ordnance at the beginning of the year? Let’s send them a batch. Aren’t they at the battalion level? Not much."

General comfort envoys and envoys, the highest administrative officials in the colonies, do not have the power to appoint the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.What they can use is the vassal army, but the troop dispatch agreement still needs to be signed by the local military headquarters, and they cannot be mobilized alone.However, the highest colonial officials such as the Governor of North America and the Governor of Australia are different. They are members of the local command and can guide and dispatch the colonial army.It can be said that the power of the governor of overseas territories is enormous, not only able to govern government affairs, but also to mobilize the local Ming regular army.

The greater the natural power, the greater the supervision it receives.The current two governors of Daming are all talents recruited by Bai Mingxiu from the system, and they absolutely obey Bai Mingxiu's instructions.Moreover, the Privy Council of the Empire, which directly represented the will of the emperor, had stationed personnel in North America and Australia. Once the governor's military transfer did not conform to the emperor's opinion, they would immediately suspend the transfer and military orders.

Yue Shenglong nodded: "I understand."

In fact, although the Ming army in North America is small in scale and has a wide garrison area, only about one brigade of troops can be deployed in Hongwu Province.However, their equipment is exceptionally powerful. After the big change at the beginning of the year, the North American Ming Army even replaced their original semi-automatic rifles with M17 automatic rifles.This M17 is nothing but an AK-47 rifle using intermediate power ammunition.

Because of the small size of the Ming army in North America, the more firepower they received, the more priority they received. Therefore, they were one of the first troops to fully replace the standard assault rifles.

The 636th Brigade under Yue Shenglong is still a mechanized unit, equipped with a full set of pseudo T-34 tanks and full tracked armored vehicles.In this way they can gallop across the vast and uninhabited colony.

Now, however, their enemies are nothing more than a group of militias.

(End of this chapter)