Lord of Ming Dynasty

Zhang Qiang knew that he had fought with the Taixi people this time. His biggest gain was not the gold, silver and prisoners, but the huge fleet of the Taixi people. As for the warships that leave the factory, the navy of the Huaxia Army has become a colossus.

If it is used well, there will be no place for Taixi people and Zheng Chenggong in the whole coastal area of ​​Ming Dynasty. Apart from surrendering and being obedient, they can no longer control the sea trade and show off their power.

The Huaxia Army will become a huge maritime empire.

Ruan Shu began to report the seizures again, and the final statistics showed that the goods and goods of these merchants and Thais had been confiscated, which allowed the Huaxia Army to obtain the income of the first year of 1650, 8000 million taels of gold and silver, and 6000 million taels of gold and silver. Two commodities, this is not counting the discounted prices of captured weapons, armor, grain, artillery, muskets, gunpowder and other strategic materials.

Of course, the Huaxia Army will not use these. All these weapons and equipment will be used to sell and support allies.

It can be said that in this battle, although Zhang Qiang lost more than half of the elite guard regiment, thousands of field brigade soldiers, and many members of the military intelligence operation team in this area, the rewards outweighed the sacrifices.

And it is far more than that, it can be said that the gains are huge, massive.

Chapter 4 Eleven Nervous Coping

The trench gate has become history. In order to eliminate the influence of the Portuguese here, Zhang Qiang plundered all the Thai and Western people here, and plundered all the population of the Ming Dynasty here. Hundreds of thousands of people became "slaves" of the Huaxia Army and were thrown into the Prisoner camps and hard labor camps are branded as criminals, and they will never be reborn forever.

And changed it to a place name in line with Chinese habits, Macau.

Li Guangxiong became the inspector here, directly managed and supervised here, the Nanming country immigrated to Guangxi and Guangdong, and 30 border residents from the border of Jiangxi came here to fill the population gap here.

Su Zhengqing was promoted to the general army because of his accumulated merits, but he couldn't manage here. After the handover of the remnant [-] Ming troops and the [-] guards led by the Nanming National Guard Commander who came here to take over the defense, Returning to Jiuxing County, where the [-] soldiers and horses of the Ming army left behind were integrated, and after leaving a thousand households, they returned to Zhaoqing Mansion with [-] soldiers and horses.

Zhaoqing Mansion, where he reorganized some soldiers and horses of Ming army generals who fled back, and later had [-] soldiers and horses, and became the commander of the garrison guarding Zhaoqing Mansion.

For the first time, Su Guansheng took control of the Longwu court and became even more powerful.

Li Guangdi returned to Zhaoqing Mansion to become an official and a nobleman, and he gained a lot.

But these have no connection with Zhang Qiang.

After two months, he returned to the center of the Huaxia Army, Jinhuafu City.

When he returned to Jinhua Prefecture, he reorganized and adjusted the guard regiment.

With the backbone of this battle and the remaining guard regiment soldiers and horses as the skeleton, elite soldiers and strong generals were drawn from the guard brigade, field brigade and large local garrison regiment to form the third brigade of the guard brigade.

And fully equipped with an upgraded version of flintlock 1.0, this is Zhang Qiang asked the officers of the guard regiment who left behind in this battle to use smoothbore flintlocks and rifled flintlocks during the battle after the battle was over. The evaluation report has improved, all rifled flintlocks are used, and improved bayonets are equipped for hand-to-hand combat. Some cold weapons are eliminated, and the troops only retain some pikemen to deal with the enemy's cavalry.

The new guard regiment is all changed to dragoons, equipped with an upgraded version of the flintlock 1.0, which is actually a rifle.

For the flintlock guns with three bullets in the rear, all of them are discarded. Although the rate of fire is fast, it is not easy to aim. After three rounds, you have to wait for a long time to change the bullets.

It would be better to arrange a few more rows of slow-firing rifles to have a better effect.

Streamlining the development line, abandoning some miscellaneous establishments, making the troops purer, better commanding, unifying weapons, arms, and training, making the troops more elite, is the right way.

Perhaps the rifle also has a fatal flaw. The bullets are not easy to reload, and the reloading speed is too slow, but after improvement, the range can be increased to more than 120 meters. In this way, the essence of combat is to accurately hit the enemy at a longer distance. Use a smoothbore The increased speed of the flintlock gun will be offset by the enemy's superiority in strength. It is better to stand at a distance of 120 meters and attack the enemy. When the enemy needs to run up to 60 meters to hit yourself, at least you can beat the enemy. Play three rounds, these three rounds may cause the enemy to collapse.

In this battle, in order to ensure the shooting accuracy of the flintlock gun, the enemy was put close to 60 meters. Although the enemy's bullets may not hit your own people, or not too many hits, but when facing the enemy's superior force, The accuracy rate of your own smoothbore flintlock gun will not increase the number of kills more than that of the enemy. Often the enemy kills 45 people on your side and [-] people on your side. The death and injury of [-] people is really not good for the enemy. many.

Even if the Huaxia Army can fire ten meters per second more than the enemy, and fight one more round, there are no more than 45 people, [-]. When facing the enemy's strong force, maybe the enemy's morale is not very high, and the combat effectiveness is not very high. High, but the enemy's supervising team can keep the enemy from shaking too much, so that the enemy can use the superiority in numbers to wipe out the technological advantage of the Huaxia Army.

Perhaps the firepower of the Qing army is not as good as that of the Taixi people, but they have updated their equipment and imitated the Jinkai 1 matchlock gun, which has improved the quality and range, and the lethality has also increased, which is a threat to the Huaxia army.

They already have the ability of the Huaxia Army to attack, and after learning the experience of the Huaxia Army's trench battles, if the Huaxia Army wants to attack the Qing Army in the future, they have to rush to fight with them, which is not as powerful as their Huaxia Army , will definitely cause a lot of casualties.

It is no longer the advantage of the Huaxia Army to increase the rate of fire at will. The Huaxia Army has to improve the accuracy of shooting, so equipped with fast-firing flintlock muskets can no longer crush the enemy technically.

Increasing the number of troops, replacing flintlock rifles, and letting every soldier aim and shoot is the most important task of the Huaxia Army at the moment.

In the era of arquebus guns, aiming was not required, only a large number of troops were required to shoot in groups, and the fire coverage was enough. Therefore, even the soldiers of the Huaxia Army didn't care much about the accuracy of shooting, but now it doesn't work.

So Zhang Qiang compiled another field brigade, which was composed of Thais and Westerners who had surrendered and reformed. Now a Guards brigade was added, in order to greatly increase the strength of the Huaxia Army and shorten the difference in strength between them and the enemy.

And all the guard brigades were replaced with flintlock rifles and rifles.

It has become the current task of the Huaxia Army to replace all the field brigades with flintlock muskets.

The war is imminent. After more than half a year of confrontation, both the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army have long wanted to pass a decisive battle to prove who is the master of the Ming Dynasty, and they all want to eliminate their biggest opponents.

In such a tense and busy day, Zhang Qiang expanded his troops and restored the system of the guard regiment, while worrying about various matters of the Huaxia Army and looking at the civil affairs.

After all, this was the end of the Ming Dynasty, the era of feudal centralization, and people's thinking could not change so quickly. The Huaxia Army was an outlier in such an era.

Recently, the riding and hacking system has defined a system for Zhang Qiang's Huaxia Army, a half-serf, half-feudal centralized monarchy.

Semi-feudal because he lived in the era of the feudal dynasty, and semi-serf because the Huaxia Army had nearly 100 million captives. These captives lived a serf-like life, or even a slave-like life, which may not be as good as a slave’s life, because They are all sinners, and they naturally have no right to enjoy them. They are a kind of burden, a kind of sinner who redeems to the society.

The centralized monarchy is because although Zhang Qiang is called the Great Governor, he is not a king or an emperor, but what he says is the law, the law of the king, and it is more effective than the emperor. He is a monarch.

The cabinet is equivalent to a department of the imperial court, a department that governs the various ministries, rather than fully self-aware, like the cabinet of later generations, it controls all aspects of the country and has various functions that determine the country's policies and operating directions. The formulation of the general policy, the executive body of the major policy.

They don't even have the functions of the cabinet under the rule of the emperor of the feudal dynasty, they can run it by themselves, and sometimes the country can run completely without the intervention of the emperor.

This is not because Zhang Qiang does not want to delegate power, but because in this day and age, he cannot delegate power, there are too many enemies, and the country is not stable.

Zhou Porridge walked into Zhang Qiang's Governor's Office, and said to Zhang Qiang: "Governor, this is the operation status of all aspects in the past few months."

Chapter 4 Development and Situational Changes

The spring of 1655 was extremely cold, because Daming was still in the Little Ice Age.

In the blink of an eye, it has been almost ten years since Zhang Qiang, a penniless traveler, came to this historical world.

Ever since the war with the Portuguese wiped out the Portuguese colonies in the trenches and the Ming land, and then returned to the center to adjust, reorganize, and expand the army, Zhang Qiang's schedule has been full and busy.

After dealing with the army, Zhou Porridge's report made Zhang Qiang further understand that the three provinces under his rule plus two and a half provinces, half of Anhui and Suzhou provinces, have achieved comprehensive economic take-off, rapid population growth, and greatly enhanced military strength. Most of the people have accepted the rule of the Huaxia Army, and now outsiders no longer call it the Nanming Force, the Nanming Court, the Nanming Rebel Army, or the Remnants of the Ming Dynasty, but the Huaxia Kingdom.

The people of Huaxia are proud of being a Chinese, because they are the only people in the land of Ming Dynasty who beat Taixi at sea, suppressed and surpassed Nanming Kingdom and other Nanming courts on land, and at the same time fought against the Qing army. The glorious goal of reorganizing the Han people of the Ming Dynasty has been achieved. Now the Han people of the Ming Dynasty are not as demoralized and desperate as before, because they still have a place to go, Huaxia Kingdom.

The economy here is prosperous, the population is concentrated, and the lives of the people are stable. Many people have solved the problem of food and clothing, and began to discuss the issue of honor.

Many people are thinking about where their children will become officials after graduating from school, or serve in the army, at least go to the militia reserve local troops to be gilded, and then return to the local area, so that they can be a small official and glorify their ancestors.

The village head of the Huaxia Kingdom is not someone who is powerful in the village, whoever has money can do it, and then he has to go to school and serve as a soldier. Only those who come out of these two places and have made outstanding contributions will be appointed by the local government as the village head. To manage a village, or be the head of the village, the head of the security, or even the head of the township.

Scholars, farmers, and businessmen in Huaxia Kingdom do not highlight the status of merchants, but develop in a balanced manner. Having money does not mean that you have power or influence, and are highly regarded by others. Huaxia Kingdom does not simply highlight the contributions of merchants. For the overall contribution of Huaxia Kingdom, medals will be given to those who have made great contributions, and only those who have medals will be respected.

The Huaxia Kingdom currently has a huge territory, but does not have so many supporting populations. Although the population is growing too fast, it still cannot fill the population due to the war and the speed of the Huaxia Army's fixed-point and concentrated removal. Any dissatisfaction or hostility towards the Huaxia Army Those with symptoms will soon be investigated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, then invited to drink tea, and finally expelled or thrown into a prisoner camp. Now they become criminals in the punishment camp. Criminals do not possess the means of production and freedom of life.

This leads to the concentration of population along the traffic lines, but in some remote areas, there are only people from remote villages who have lived for a long time and have not come out, and some of the reformed criminals who have been sent here and other people who have been assigned here Local refugees and refugees, these people can't fill such a vast place at all, and can't create value for the Chinese economy.

Therefore, the population of China is still extremely scarce.

At present, the population of China is close to 4000 million.

The Huaxia Yuan has become the only currency in the hearts of the people of Huaxia Kingdom. There are nearly 3000 million taels of silver and [-] million taels of gold in the Huaxia Kingdom Bank. Be strong.