Lord of Ming Dynasty

The war between Nanming Kingdom and Wu Sangui of Yunnan, Guizhou is intermittent, and the battle between Li Dingguo's troops and Wu Sangui is also intermittent, and they can't do anything to each other. Li Dingguo needs to stabilize and develop Yunnan Prefecture, and use the model of Zhang Huangyan and the Huaxia Army to transform Yunnan Prefecture. Nanming Kingdom We need to open up the road to the north. In case we can’t stay here any longer, and go north to Yungui or Sishan Prefecture, the officials and emperors of the Zhu Ming court always think of running away first.

During the battle in Henan Prefecture, Xuanyuan Longfei and Brother Zhu were in charge of each direction. Brother Zhu faced the Qing army's attack from Hebei Prefecture, and guarded against the rebellion of the Jin army from Shanxi Prefecture. Xuanyuan Longfei commanded His troops mainly fought against Hong Chengchou's new Qing army, and the main battles took place between them.

In fact, everyone can see that Hong Chengchou's Qing army can't stop the Huaxia army, but with such strength and combat effectiveness, the Huaxia army can't surpass it for several years. Hong Chengchou has been regarded as the mainstay by the Qing army, the Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty , enjoyed the absolute right to speak and respect in the Qing Dynasty, if not for this, would he, a die-hard supporter of Dorgon, have been liquidated by Shunzhi?

But on the side of the Huaxia Army, it is helpless. It is very easy to defeat Hong Chengchou's Qing army. 10,000+ soldiers need to be killed, but is Daming short of people?With the advantage of firearms, most of them are firearms troops. It only takes three months to turn a farmer into a qualified musketeer cannon fodder.

Because the Huaxia Army needs to develop steadily, and does not want to bargain with those warlords, Ming officials, and Qing surrender officials after the liberation of the whole country, because Zhang Qiang does not want to do the purges like the Soviet Union, so that he will eventually become the founding king of the country with all his merits and demerits. Later generations were scolded and scolded, history was distorted, and a lot of hats were put on his head. He needed the Huaxia Army to have an absolutely clean Ming Dynasty.

As the posterity said, there is only endless praise, no abuse and slander, and everyone's words make money.

Now that it has been decided to fight the Dajin Kingdom first to solve the problems in the southwest and northwest, Zhang Qiang will leave the Qing Dynasty to solve it last, so that the world can be unified, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will just go to a mountain lump and fight against China to restore Qingming. , That's beautiful, Zhang Qiang didn't have the opportunity and time to play hide-and-seek with these people, he could only do it step by step.

Now that the Nanming Kingdom has been weakened, Li Dingguo of Yongli Daming has been subdued, and Zheng Chenggong, who is ambitious but hesitant, has been driven away. The southeast coast and inland are clean, and the problem of the southwest and northwest will be solved next. According to this plan, I believe there will be a future The foreshadowing will be resolved quickly.

The Fifth and Sixth Fleets led by Ruan Jin have entered Baodao and stationed in various places and islands, completely turning Baodao into the territory of the Huaxia Army.

Blocked the waters around Treasure Island and cut off Japan's maritime trade routes with other directions. Of course, it is not completely cut off. Other merchant ships can go around thousands of nautical miles before going to Japan. But in this way, Japan's trade volume will drop. Without these trades, a lot of income will be lost, and without money, the annexation and wars among the various big names in Japan will intensify. I hope that is not something that the Huaxia Army has to consider.

As Zhu Dayou completely accepted Baodao, Zhang Qiang named him the governor of Baodao. He turned from a housekeeper to a feudal official, which is considered to be a success.

After the problem of Baodao was resolved, Zhang Qiang withdrew all the two field brigades of Baodao, and then transferred Bai Wenxuan's 800th field brigade to Baodao to take full charge of Baodao's defense. brigade, with a strength of 1, plus the logistics battalion and his personal company, the strength reached 500, and then organized a garrison brigade in Baodao, with a strength of 6000, stationed in various counties of Baodao , Camp.

Nearly 2 troops are sufficient to maintain the land defense of Baodao.

What's more, there are two naval fleets of 3 marines and marines with more than [-] troops. Even if the enemy has the same strength, they cannot defeat them.

Because the navy is the largest and most advanced navy in the Far East and Asia in this era, and the army is the tenth field brigade of the Huaxia Army with the most combat effectiveness in this era. It is the elite that Du Ge previously led and Zhang Qiang defeated 60 Qing troops. Combat forces.

Their troops are all equipped with Jin Kai 2 matchlock guns, the garrison brigade is equipped with Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns, and some militia units are equipped with cold weapons and Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns captured by Zheng Chenggong's army, as well as Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards. The outdated matchlock guns sold to Zheng Chenggong, this army is considered the most elite army today, and there is no need to be equipped with more advanced flintlock guns.

In the future, Zhang Qiang plans to make it a window for trade with the Taixi people. The intelligence of the Taixi people is beyond the imagination of the Qing and Ming people, especially their sensitivity to the advancement of technology, so that they can quickly understand some of Zhang Qiang's technologies. Zhang Qiang Even if the advanced flintlock guns were sold to the Dajin Kingdom, they would not dare to sell the flintlock guns to the Thais.

Taixi people are born with the gene of war in their bones and love to fight. However, no matter they are officials or ordinary people living in the land of China, they are all bloodless and gentle people who are calm and peaceful. They don't pursue other people's things, but only pursue themselves. To be able to continue their lives is to fight for survival, not to live better, because in this land rich in resources and vast land, just grabbing the wealth of brothers and sisters is enough for them to live for a lifetime.

It is not worth risking your life to go to the wild to compete with strong bears and wolves.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong also left countless cottages and castles, county camps, and plains and valleys mined out, all of which are fertile fields and fertile land with water and grass. The Chinese army who immigrated frantically did not need to clean up, and they owned hundreds of thousands of fertile fields. And pastures, except for some high mountains, Milin, and big rivers and mountains, the Chinese army has gained more benefits than they have struggled in the southeast for more than ten years.

Sometimes the generals of the Huaxia Army lamented that the robbers lived better than the rich people.

Chapter 559 Receiving Zheng Chenggong's Legacy 2

In addition to castles, grasslands, and fertile land, there are also abundant materials, such as shipbuilding wood. Zheng Chenggong has a lot of original wood stored here, all of which are huge ship woods that have been in the mountains for hundreds of years. This is cheaper for the Huaxia Army. There is not so much transportation capacity, the only thing left is the population. Zheng Chenggong took away the population of about 30 people, plus some survivors of the former dynasty who were exiled here in ancient times.

Zheng Chenggong understands very well that the population is very important for a power to rise.

Both old and young were taken away, and there was not even a single population left for the Huaxia Army. This is not to be feared. There are so many prisoners in the Huaxia Army, nearly a million prisoners, and there are also three to 10 people who can be transformed. All of them were transferred. 10,000+ hard labor is also transferred.

What Zhu Dayou meant was that it would not be a pity to die many of the hard laborers in the hard labor camp who went to those high mountains, rivers, and places with dense forests to open up mountains and forests, but they can do their best to create more places suitable for human habitation for the Huaxia Army.

These places are guarded by militiamen and garrison companies, and the chief supervisors in the prisoner camps are selected as village chiefs or village chiefs, town chiefs, etc., to form a new mountain village, let them live here for generations, and then select those prisoners Family members come to pair with them to form a family. The militia is to be rooted here. The garrison company is a mobile force and may be transferred in the future. The family members of the militia will form a new local common people with these people here.

The transferred population includes refugees and refugees during the war, as well as some poor families on the territory of the Huaxia Army. When they came here, they were like landlords. The new wealthy class generally live in county towns and camps, and do not go to places with high mountains and dense forests, winding rivers, and places where survival is relatively difficult.

Some of the family members and officials of officials who volunteered to develop here, soldiers will become new rulers, and settle down here in the era of officials and generals.

Most of them are southerners from some open places along the southern coast, and there are also soldiers and people from the north who were forced by the Huaxia Army to prevent them from forming a regional barrier between the south and the north and forming new hatred.

Over time, after three months, about one million people who migrated filled any county town, camp, and village here, and new mountain villages and villages were formed by captives and criminals from the hard labor camp.

The side by the sea is the original base camp. When you come here, you will first build some temporary residences, and then the Governor's Mansion will allocate population and resources. After the county towns are filled, they will be camps. In the future, the camps will be new towns, followed by abandoned villages. In the end, the labor camps and militia troops crossed the mountains, crossed the rivers and forests, and went to the valleys, rivers and dense forests that were beyond the reach of human beings.

This is the most difficult project, the terrain is dangerous, no human habitation means that it cannot survive, it is not suitable for survival, and there will be death.

In one month, of the more than 30 locations that have been identified, only seven people from various ministries successfully arrived at those locations, and the others did not arrive due to various reasons, or died or disappeared.

Various cases emerged one after another, and even Zhang Qiang was forced to come here to personally understand and guide the work.

From the map, it can be seen that from north to south, there is roughly a mountain range running through the entire island, and the place near Daming in the east gradually rises from west to east. That is to say, the most suitable places for people to live are from the west coast to the inland The extended area covers a wide area, accounting for about 20.00% of the island IV. Later generations of Baodao people used to call them lowland peoples and highland peoples. Lowland peoples mainly live on coastal beaches and plains, and highland people mainly live on hills and peaks. valley area.

Now that I have come here, I have received Zheng Chenggong’s legacy, mainly the 20.00% livable lowlands and some hilly forest areas in the west. The valleys and plateau areas will definitely not be able to go there for a while, and turn over the east side of the mountains. The coastline also has more than ten percent of the residential area, but it is far away from Daming, and it will not be able to pass for a while, but there are navy troops stationed there, and some captives and militiamen form villages and camps on that side to defend against enemies from the sea. invasion.

Sometimes due to terrain, climate, and various objective reasons, some remote areas cannot be changed in a short while.

From west to east, from low to high, there are five prefectural cities lined up, one main city, located in the middle of the north and south, five county towns between the hills, fifty camps in the middle of each town, towns, two hundred villages, 20.00 militia defense points, 80.00 garrison battalions, and [-] garrison company garrisons, occupying [-]% of the entire treasure island's habitable areas, and the other [-]% are uninhabitable or temporarily unreachable areas , These areas will be opened up by prisoners from prison camps and war criminals from hard labor camps.

The first batch of people sent out at present is about [-] miles from the wild land near the edge of the most suitable inhabitable area. Mountains, rivers, dense forest areas.

Among them, only seven local personnel arrived, and felled trees to build villages. Behind them, the soldiers sent by the garrison camp escorted the prisoners and hard labor to deliver food and supplies. At the same time, they opened up roads along the way. Trail, the future transport team will advance along this trail, gradually use tools to widen the trail, cut down some tall trees along the road, can pass the single-wheel trolley, and then use a shovel to widen it to be able to walk ox carts, mules and horses The dirt road of the convoy, and after that, every time the team that transports supplies starts from their starting point, widen the path by at least one meter, and the length is 100 meters, and then proceed according to the original plan. The same is true for the teams behind, relaying each time After completing a period of tasks, the Huaxia Army will not send special personnel to do these things.

After the dispatched team that arrived there built the stronghold, the first step was to open a road back from their side. They had to start from scratch, starting from the planned width, so that at least two Huaxia army carriages could run in parallel. The road must be paved with gravel and compacted with a stone roller. At least 100 meters per day can be done. One layer can be completed on the first day, such as opening up the prototype of the road, cutting down trees, leveling the land and pulling out weeds , spread the ashes, flatten it on the third day, and form it within a week. Otherwise, the team leader will be demoted and transferred away. Can't finish beheading.

If the prisoner fails to complete the sentence, the prison term will be increased by one year. At the same time, he will be beaten with a board and whipped.

These things are supervised and completed by the governor of the governor's office. The garrison, such as the field brigade, only guards against the enemy and fights, and has nothing to do with them.

The governor can only manage the soldiers and militia of the garrison battalion, and has no right to interfere with how the army fights. The army can only follow the governor's advice, and then cooperate with the governor to complete the task of suppressing bandits.

Zheng Chenggong left an island that is the fourth largest island in the world, and also expanded the territory for China's future territory and reduced disputes. This is his greatest achievement.

5 Chapter [-] Development of Treasure Island

In fact, having said so much, Zhang Qiang is going to carry out in-depth development on the treasure island left by Zheng Chenggong. You must know that in later generations, this place is a place with a very prosperous economy, especially sugar and rice. Both are one of the tax sources of the Qing Dynasty, but rice can be used to fill the lack of arable land in the southeast coast. There are many river networks, and the food produced is not enough to feed the population in the southeast coast. It also needs to be imported from Baodao and Vietnam. I can't get used to the wheat of the northerners, so some things like rice need to be imported from other countries.

Thirty dispatch teams were dispatched, and only seven places were settled. The other places were either high mountains or dense forests. If there were no mountains and rivers blocking the way, they could only set up camp within [-] miles of the edge of the usable area, step by step. Roads were built at the destination, mountains were built and bridges were built. Of course, several teams lost their way because they went deep into the mountains and forests, and were finally swallowed up by miasma and swamps.

Thirty teams of 6000 people, each with no more than 200 people. In such a situation, we can only increase manpower input. Zhu Dayou mobilized nearby militia teams to reinforce here. Each team has two hundred militiamen and thirty soldiers from the garrison company. Two hundred captives and five hundred hard laborers formed a team, forced their way through these areas, arrived at the edge of the habitable and usable land, and set up camp [-] miles away, and began to work.

There are five places like this, and the other seventeen places have also increased manpower, increased hard labor and transformed captives, let them supervise the hard labor, speed up the progress, strive to reach the first destination, open roads, build camps, and then Open up wasteland.

As for the deeper places, we have to wait for the next year. In the next year, we will send more contingents to go deeper. This time we will go sixty miles deep, and then open the way back from the sixty miles.

Millions of captives and hard labor, millions of relocated civilians, 3 militiamen, 30 soldiers from the garrison battalion, more than [-] soldiers from the field brigade, and [-] sailors from the navy. Reached [-] million population.

In the initial stage, there were only 30 people and 10,000+ captives and hard labor. This is the development population of the first stage. It will increase to one million in the second year, and 30 million in the third year. By then, there will be treasures The central government serves as the foundation, extends radiation to both sides, and then opens the maritime trade ports with the Thais and Westerners. The opening of the five built ports will at least restore the maritime trade of the Huaxia Army to 50.00% of the original trade quota before the war. At least reach 5000 million Chinese yuan in sea trade revenue.

In this way, the funds for developing Treasure Island and the military expenditure of the Huaxia Army will fall again.

In this way, from the perspective of agriculture, the taxes collected by the villages and towns in the territory can be used for the common people, the business tax can be used to develop commerce and support the construction of newly occupied territories, and some other taxes can be used for the administrative expenses of officials and the central government, and at the same time can provide Poor places allocate some funds for some special expenses, such as new factory construction and new water conservancy maintenance, to help the people.

China is an agricultural country, so Zhang Qiang still can't exempt farmers from taxes, corvee and other taxes that later generations hate. It is only natural to collect these taxes now, but they don't collect much. Compared with Ming, Qing, and Huaxia Army The tax collected is fixed, and only [-]% is collected, and the remaining [-]% is handled by the people themselves, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs supervises to prevent some businessmen from doing evil.

In fact, the Huaxia Army now owns a lot of property such as gold and silver. If they are placed in the Qing Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Nanming and other places, they may not be able to use them up in 50 years. According to the latest statistics, they have been confiscated through trade, war, etc. The gold and silver and other property of enemies or outsiders have reached billions, which means why the trade has been cut off in the past few years, and only smuggled with the Qing Dynasty, traded with the Nanming Kingdom, or traded with other distant places, which is pitiful. In terms of maritime trade, the Huaxia Army still has no shortage of funds, because the Huaxia Army has so much gold and silver that it can issue more Huaxia Yuan.

The Huaxia Army controls the business of salt, tea, raw silk, silk, cloth, ironware, etc. in the south. Other places originally needed supplies from the southeast, but now the southeast is owned by the Huaxia Army. Even if they smuggle, they can only use the products of the Huaxia Army. Others Even if there are some talented businessmen in the local area who figure out other ways to get some of these commodities, they will not be able to occupy a larger market. They can only become a rich man in their local area, which will not affect the income of the Huaxia Army.

Now that the Huaxia Army has occupied Treasure Island and drove away Zheng Chenggong, the cane sugar business left by Zheng Chenggong and the rice business are all owned by the Huaxia Army, as well as the fishing business at sea. Maybe Zheng Chenggong cannot do this business. There is Zhang Qiang, a later generation, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce knows how to do it, saltpeter, ice cubes, and then transported to the southeast inland. People in the inland can also eat Shanghai fish. This is another profiteering business.