Dominate the Country

A new batch of reinforcements for the North American Expeditionary Force is already being formed. This batch of people is not small in number. Because of the long distance between the two sides and the inconvenience of logistical supply, the Grand Governor's Office has always strictly controlled the strength of the North American Expeditionary Force.

The minimum requirement of the Grand Governor's Office is to ensure sufficient materials for the troops, which is also Chen Ming's consistent thought. A troop that does not meet the logistical supply guarantee is a troop that cannot fully exert its combat effectiveness. Chen Ming never thought that his army could be compared with the red army in the original time and space. He agreed with a point of view that a well-supplied army, even if the number of troops is small, is better than an army with a large number of troops but insufficient supplies.

The North American Expeditionary Force had already set up its own military factories early on, sulfur, saltpeter, bullets, shells casting, etc., self-generated blood, and they also knew that this was the main basis for their troops to increase little by little.

Unless the court abolished its entire ocean transport like in the first year to maintain the transport capacity on the North American route, the military supplies that the mainland can bring to North America are limited, because most of the ships are used to transport immigrants and their production and living materials. There is not much transport capacity left for the army.

Now Chen Ming is excited to form a new wave of reinforcements, because the self-hematopoietic function of the North American part has become greater. They bought four old ships from the Mexicans at a high price. The latter set out from Mexico, crossed the dangerous Caribbean Sea, and then sailed across South America, detoured from the dangerous Strait of Magellan to the west coast, and then followed the Peruvian cold current all the way north, and then crossed Mexico, and then came to the hands of Chen Han's expeditionary army.

The voyage of thousands of miles across half of the American continent cost the expeditionary army several times the value of the ship itself, but it was worth it.

These four ships greatly enhanced the North American Expeditionary Force's own transportation capacity. The expeditionary fleet can carry more Chilean saltpeter to provide more sufficient raw materials for its military factories; it can carry more food to reduce the material pressure of the new land in North America.

Moreover, Chen Ming also transferred a small fleet of four medium-sized sailing warships to join the North American route. These are also old ships. They were originally to be allocated to the third and fourth overseas exploration bureaus, but now they are allocated to North America. So he added 5,000 elite troops to North America at one time.

However, just when Chen Ming was about to shift his main focus to North America, several secret reports were delivered to him, which suddenly awakened him from his wonderful reverie of America.

"Have they discussed it? Submit the report to me together?"

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Ming was holding a stack of memorials in his hand and pacing in front of the dragon case. Although his tone of voice did not seem very good, in fact, his face and his body and mind were full of joy and excitement.

This is a memorial sent from the Annan region, which was sent to the hands of the other three bosses except the Xishan Army. This is not a memorial to beg for submission, but they make Chen Ming more excited than the memorial to beg for submission.

Because their memorials are about "preparation" for reform.

Political reform - this was originally an occasional brainwave for Chen Ming. He wanted to see what the Eastern Confucian feudal state would look like under the "new policy". As a very self-aware time traveler, Chen Ming, who knows that his political ability is relatively low, really hopes to have a real example in front of him...

Then these "examples" that burn themselves can point out and illuminate the bumps on the road ahead for China.

Chen Ming really hopes to do this. His current strength also allows him to have the capital to squander this time. Annan has long been regarded as his own meal by Chen Ming.

Of course, the "new policies" of these three "forces" are also different.

The Southern Nguyen was a standard Eastern political reformer, taking the reformist route, with constitutional monarchy as a major premise, and then they were allowed to play freely. Russia, Germany, Japan, and even the Qing Dynasty and Siam in the original time and space history were all its teachers.

The situation in Northern Zheng was much stronger than that in Southern Nguyen. The central government still had a certain degree of control, and it also had to take the reformist route, but the Gangchang was the national capital route that Chen Ming had messed up. This was a system imposed on Northern Zheng by Chen Ming, and poor Chen Ming himself only had a superficial understanding of the national capital route, so even though the current situation and strength of Northern Zheng were better than those of Southern Nguyen, the future outcome was likely to be extremely dark...

Finally, there were the three remaining Qing heroes who lived in the northern and southern parts of Annam. This force had become a knife that was faintly controlled by Chen Ming. Chen Ming used this knife, which was originally hostile to himself, to severely injure Northern Zheng. For so many years, this armed force, which still retains the Qing banner in name, has not stretched out its claws to Chen Han. Instead, the northern part of Annan under their control has achieved a leapfrog development of full trade with China!

Chen Ming's promise to Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang is to strongly support them and support them in carrying out the "Confucian Great Harmony".

The feudal reform has already been done by Nan Ruan, and there is no need for the three heroes to repeat it. The situation of the three heroes is not very good. After several years of forced trade, their food, cloth, salt, iron, sugar, gunpowder and other social lifelines are in the hands of Chinese merchants. They have become a puppet being pulled by a string. If China suddenly cuts off economic and trade exchanges with them one day, the entire controlled area will be in chaos within a month. If they don't want to be assimilated by Chen Han without any resistance, they must change and strengthen their strength, especially military force.

And every true Confucian must have a "Great Harmony Dream" in his heart. Chen Ming felt that his proposal was still very attractive to true Confucian disciples.

This "Great Harmony Dream" is not a proletarian movement. The two seem to coincide, but in fact they are very different. Chen Ming does not intend to intervene too much in this. He hopes that the three heroes can achieve free evolution. Even if they turn themselves into a Godless Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, Chen Ming will watch them go to extinction, which will provide too many useful teaching materials for the Chinese Academy of Political Science. Of course, this premise is that they are willing to change like this...

The biggest purpose of doing so is to make China's future easier to walk, and the lessons of the past are a lesson for the future. Seeing the twists and turns in the future, let China's progress go more smoothly. Chen Ming's idea is so simple.

Even the Confucian Great Harmony, he also hopes to attract as many corrupt Confucian scum as possible to reduce the burden on his body. This proposal has been made for more than half a year, but none of the three forces have fulfilled his wish. Especially the Southern Nguyen, who kept asking China for help. They wanted soldiers, munitions, and money...

Chen Ming had forgotten this trick that he had come up with when his mind was full of energy. It was just a whim of his. As a time traveler, he had the "entertainment spirit" that politicians of this era did not have in his heart. But now the three forces in Annan suddenly reported to him: We are willing. What's going on?

The Military Intelligence Bureau then sent another message that Annan had ceased fighting.

It is not yet the rainy season in Annan, but all four forces have stopped fighting.

...

In March, Annan was already very hot. It was only a dozen miles from Donghu to Aizhi, and the chest and thighs of the horse were soaked with sweat. This is a southwestern horse. Annan, a hot and humid place, is not a good place for Mongolian horses to live. Although southwestern horses can tolerate rough feeding, have strong adaptability, and are good at walking in the mountains, they have strong labor, pulling power, and carrying capacity, and they are also fast, but compared with Mongolian horses, which are also fed rough feed and have the same strong endurance, these advantages do not account for any advantage. The most fundamental reason is that Mongolian horses, which are shorter than Western horses, are taller than southwestern horses even if they are shorter. In the horse market, horses with taller physiques can always win people's favor better. However, in terms of price, a batch of Mongolian horses are not as expensive as southwestern horses.

The Mongolian horses that have been integrated into the inland of China in large numbers have defeated the once glorious southwestern horses in the north and the Yangtze River Basin. They also invaded Lingnan and the southwest region for a time, but in the end, just like the Mongols 500 years ago were defeated by the climate of Annan, the Mongolian horses also repeated the same mistakes and showed that they could not adapt to the local climate environment. This also allows the Southwest horses to retain their last market, and their prices in Lingnan and Southwest are always kept at a level slightly higher than the Mongolian horse level.

Many merchants and wealthy people in Lingnan and Southwest will not buy low-grade horses to pull carts. Big merchants and wealthy people will look at horses imported from overseas. Tall, docile, bright fur..., all in all, it can be summed up in two words - face.

Although the horse in front of me is just an ordinary Southwest horse, it is undoubtedly at the peak of its physical strength, endurance and speed at only three years old. It is the best animal of the transport team in Lunan Town, Aizhi County. It can still pull a carriage weighing hundreds of kilograms on a muddy road.

The sun hanging in the west, shining from the kapok bushes on the side of the road, is still hot, and the muddy water splashing on the car is also hot on the bare legs. After wading through a muddy puddle, the car was pressed on the dry road with dripping water and marks. The old driver who had been shouting at the horse just now breathed a sigh of relief. It was great that the horse was strong enough to push and lead the horse. He sat up straight and reached behind his butt to take out a pack of sea coconut cigarettes.

This is a low-end cigarette produced in Hongji City, east of Aizhi. The old driver can only make money by selling this kind of cigarettes. There are self-produced tobacco leaves in the north of Annan, but now there are very few traditional tobacco shreds sold in the north of Annan, because the latter are exported to China. The remaining inferior goods that the Chinese don’t want are not as good as this kind of cigarette.

Now more and more people in the north of Annan smoke cigarettes, and more and more cigarettes are sold back to Annan from China. There are also smuggling networks on the sea.

A gust of wind blew, so cool!

There are open spaces and vegetable gardens on both sides of the road. The fields are black and emit a faint smell. Canals flow outside the vegetable garden, and the fields are lined with dark green and light green vegetables.

Aizhi is close to Hongji City. Every day, people pick vegetables from here and send them to Hongji's vegetable market on the same day or the next morning. Although the total area of ​​the latter is less than that of Guangning, it is only the size of two counties in inland China, but the population is not small. As of last year's population statistics, there are more than 300,000 people.

A large part of them are bound to the coal field and mining industry.

There is no way.

The whole Lingnan is short of coal. The cost of mining and transportation of several small coal fields in Guangdong and Guangxi is not lower than that of Hongji City, and the combustion heat energy of the same weight of coal is not as good as that of Hongji coal. This makes the sales of Hongji Coal Mine better and better.

As a state-owned coal mining enterprise, when a large number of free labor forces expired and left Hongji City without looking back, they could only continue to recruit workers and acquire slaves.

This allowed Hongji City to once enter the ranking of cities with the highest proportion of non-agricultural population in China, and it also brought huge business opportunities to Annan towns around Hongji City.

In addition to being barely self-sufficient in food, Hongji City also needs a large amount of vegetables, meat and other supplies. Moreover, Hongji City’s good geographical and political environment for Annan has also allowed many people to open factories here. For example, cigarette factories, shipyards, hardware factories, glass factories, match factories, cement factories, etc. These factories have expanded the non-agricultural population of Hongji City to a certain extent and also expanded the consumer market.

Ai Zhi is only ten or twenty miles away from East Lake, and further east of East Lake is the boundary of Hongji City. Many Ai Zhi people work in Hongji. As the first place to interact with Hongji City, this place is greatly influenced by Hongji City.

Even small buildings like Hongji City are beginning to appear in towns. Although the exterior decoration still has a traditional atmosphere, the interior is already made of cement and bamboo reinforcement.

Every time the old coachman walked through this area, he felt indescribable envy. Why didn't he have such a good land?

As an ordinary low-level farmer, his desire for land is endless.

Soon, an orchard appeared in front of him, which made the old coachman even more envious. He kept staring at the orchard, not daring to move forward. Anyway, there are no potholes on this stretch of road!

The tree is full of golden-colored fruits. Every time you pick fruits, you can pile them into a hill. Then the horse-drawn carriages from Hongji City transported the fruits to Hongji City one by one. I really don’t know how people there are so rich, it seems like every household can buy fruit...

If only he could have a fruit grove in his own land, he would no longer work as a cart driver in the town. He would pull coal every day, but something bad happened - the conveyor stopped spinning, and he would have to load the cart himself. …

Many people in Lunan Town now burn briquettes. I have to go to East Lake every day. Most of the five carriages and two oxen in the transportation team work for this briquettes factory.

The old coachman couldn't help but think about the rumor he heard. Is it true?

“Land to the tiller?”

"Everyone has the same clothes to wear, the same money to use, there is unevenness everywhere, no one is without food and clothing..."

If this were true, his old man would not have a few good days to live, and he could really live a good life. The old coachman couldn't help but have a daydream in his mind. He thought of the kitchen he saw when he was delivering coal to the restaurant in the town. There were hanging chickens, ducks, fish, pork, and beef. All these things seemed to have turned into food and piled up. In front of him were whole chickens, whole ducks, steamed fish, and whole pig heads.

If you can really live such a good life, then this life will be really worth it.

Although the 'imperial court' in front of me now is a bunch of Qing people, if it can really allow me to live such a good life, then it is also a good imperial court.

Of course, this rumor caused a panic in Lunan Town, but there were also some alternative families among the rich, such as Fan Wensi. He shouted in support of the New Deal. He said that he would follow the Governor's Office. The three heroes caused trouble in northern Annan. It's just a governor's mansion, not a real king or emperor.

In Lunan Town, Fan Wensi, a wealthy Yue man, is an unusual person. He even took the initiative to send his second son to be a soldier because he thought: "It is good to send him to be a soldier. The world is different now, and we have our people." In the army, it’s easy to talk about anything. You know, we are called ‘military relatives’.”

The old coachman sat at the front of the car looking towards the good things in the future. Although there were many uncertainties, he felt happy in his heart.

Chen Ming in the Nanjing Palace had just rolled off Liu Wanyun's belly. After the rain, he held the naked Liu Wanyun in his arms, with a look of comfort and deep contemplation on his face. Chen Ming's hand holding his little wife kept sliding on Liu Wanyun's smooth body. The atmosphere was a little solid, and Liu Wanyun seemed to be waiting for something.

After a long time, Chen Ming finally said: "Let your father go ahead and send Chen Gang to Lang Son..."