Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Your Majesty, please let us express a little sincerity for those who have left their homeland. Accept us."

Zhang Qiang decided not to change it generally, and waved his hand, "I'll see your performance in the future, now I need you to give me the title of third prince to compete with your eldest brother, and by the way, make trouble for your second brother, you go back Come on, let me handle this matter. In addition to I will continue to support you with some population and troops, I will also send you food and supplies. I promised you just now. Go and get some weapons. I also promised you, that's all my support, you must do what I ask, otherwise, your end may be miserable, do you understand?"

The third prince, Hong Tianpao, had no choice but to leave the palace after being grateful.

Zhang Qiang asked someone to find Huang Tao from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, "You have to keep an eye on the thoughts of those officials and people in the country. This time I received information from the Ministry of Military Intelligence that Du Ge is very dangerous. Before it develops, it is very dangerous to meddle in the affairs of the State of Lu. According to our usual habits, when we disrupt the situation externally, we will definitely disrupt the situation internally. Officials, as well as their subordinates, don’t want any ideas and turmoil against us in the country, do you understand?”

"Yes, I understand. I'll set it up right away." Huang Tao was holding a file folder, combed his hair back, and wore a spirited Chinese tunic suit on his body. He was as gentle as a civil servant in the Republic of China. Who would have known a few years ago? He and Jin Qi wore ragged leather jackets, felt hats, matchlock guns on their backs, and sabers in their waists, leaping on the grasslands, dealing with Mongols and Qing Manchu cavalry, entering yurts, burning, killing, and looting.

Mi Lin went out, Jin Qi came in, Huang Tao has been in this position for a long time, did he also go out and take charge of his own side, always doing intelligence work, which is not conducive to their growth, Zhang Qiang looked at Huang Tao's back like this think.

While thinking about Mi Lin, Mi Chun came again. After the eunuch passed the report, Mi Chun came in, followed by Sebastian, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, the foreigner.

Being able to serve as a high-ranking official in the Kingdom of China, Sebastian, a Spaniard, is spiritual, capable, and adaptable. Even if you promote some foreigners to a certain high position, it is difficult for them to adapt to the Chinese. The crooked ways in the officialdom like that, he was squeezed out within a few days.

"What is it?" Zhang Qiang asked.

"Oh, to report back to Your Majesty, our kingdom's iron production has reached the level of one million tons per year. It's just that many places don't use so much iron anymore. I don't know how to dispose of it. This is a product that is forbidden to be bought and sold by the kingdom, so Minister Sebastian and I came to ask His Majesty."

Zhang Qiang was also very surprised when he heard this. He didn’t expect the Huaxia Kingdom to be so powerful that the supply of iron production exceeded the demand. Of course, this is the best iron production. If you talk about civilian pig iron, iron with many impurities, They couldn't be satisfied at all. With a territory as large as the Huaxia Kingdom, there was no need for farm tools and various iron tools, but what they reported now was the output of iron that could be used to make good weapons and equipment, guns and cannons.

These can't be put on the market casually. Maybe Du Ge and the others are waiting for this batch of steel. After going back to refine it, they can make the Chinese Kingdom's standard Lianzhu gun, the best artillery with a high range.

Now Zhang Qiang has no choice but to say: "First find a place to store it, send heavy troops to guard it, strictly investigate spies, you can't lose a little bit, and use it with good accounts, don't allow people to make troubles from it, and use it slowly in the future. "

One million tons, even some small countries in later generations do not have such a high annual output. This is the output of refined pig iron, not the output of pig iron with a lot of impurities. It can be said that these pig irons are directly steel, which has already met the initial requirements of steel. It is standard, and it can be directly used to produce matchlock guns with low chamber pressure, even single-handed flintlock guns.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang suddenly remembered that due to Du Ge's defection, some technicians from the arsenal and some elite soldiers from the field brigade were taken away, so in terms of technology, combat skills, and various systems, the Huaxia Kingdom is equal to another The enemy narrowed the distance, directly bringing the enemy from the [-]th century to the [-]th century Western firearms age. In fact, Ming has already entered the firearms age, and has already explored the war mode of the European countries in the [-]th century.

And it is about to enter the [-]th century, when Europe is on the rise, these technologies may be transmitted to Europe, Europeans may be much faster than Ming Dynasty, Europe, now the Chinese army must unify the territory before Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, otherwise maybe The Europeans are about to cause trouble.

And because of my laziness, because I want to play American-style checks and balances, and make trouble, the result is that the surroundings of the Huaxia Kingdom are all small countries or various forces that are constantly in war. They have a bad relationship with the Huaxia Kingdom, and it is difficult to eliminate them. , the rise of the Chinese nation has become more and more difficult every time.

It seems that I have to speed up my pace, and I can't jog like this anymore.

But my own system is always so lazy, it seems that it always ignores me and refuses to give me anything, so that my current technology is almost stagnant, and it is impossible to rely on the development of Daming people. He lacks strength, and if he wants to lead them forward, he must have something in his head, but in his later life, he is only the bottom of the society, and he hasn't learned much. He has seen a lot, so he won't.

Alas, what a headache.

Chapter 733 Pseudo-New Lu Mansion Regime

As time went by, the third prince also got on track. His population had reached 60, and his army had reached [-] elite soldiers. At the same time, his navy had also expanded.

The ones given to Feng Quan were old ships of the Yangtze River Guard Navy, fishing boats and merchant ships. The Yangtze River Guard Navy only kept 180 tons of patrol boats. This is a little more, because from Chongqing to the mouth of the sea, the Chinese Army is needed. Taking care of the Yangtze River navy, there are many places where large ships cannot enter, so a [-]-ton boat is a powerful existence, and further upwards are [-]-ton ships. This is already an invincible existence on the entire Yangtze River in this era. up.

In the eyes of the common people, and in the eyes of those water bandits, this type of ship is smaller than the official ships of the Ming Dynasty in the past. The artillery equipped at that time was more powerful, the mobility was better, and the speed was faster. It was equipped with only seven or eight tons The three small boats, as well as the big oars that can be rowed, can move against the wind at any time, or in other places with narrow terrain and too many reefs, to hunt down the enemy.

The small boat can be lowered to carry soldiers and horses to chase the enemy, or it can be tied to a cable like a large sailboat on the sea. When there is no wind, the small boat can be used to drag the big boat to cross the difficult windless sea area. At this point, we can also row boats with big paddles, which can be said to be a big killer for maintaining law and order on the Yangtze River.

In some important prefectural cities, prefectural cities, and county towns, [-]-ton warships are also stationed. The prefectural capitals form a team of about five, which can carry nearly [-] soldiers and horses to a location quickly, and then deploy troops at nearby docks. Five ships are [-] troops. For a Chinese kingdom that has basically wiped out enemies and bandits, and has turned to economic development, once these troops are dispatched, it means a big deal to suppress the rebellion.

But basically impossible.

Since [-] tons can maintain law and order, and even make full use of these large ships in the state city for mobile deployment of troops in times of crisis, no matter how big they are, Zhang Qiang still puts a squadron in every section, and every day The fleet consisted of twelve ships of six hundred tons.

A total of five lots, as many as more than 60 warships, maintain stability.

Zhang Qiang sold other more powerful ships that were originally in the area of ​​the estuary, such as the [-]-ton and [-]-ton ships, to the third prince this time, and sold a hundred of them at once.

Almost all the large ships stationed in all the depths of the Yangtze River were sold out.

In the future, the third prince will need to use the fish catches and commercial trade taxes in his territory to pay off his debts. He must also bear the food and grass supplies of the Huaxia Kingdom army stationed in his territory, as well as the military pay for the officers and soldiers stationed in the camp. He must also bear a certain amount of assistance to the Huaxia Army. Responsibilities such as suppressing bandits and fighting wars.

He can't let him take advantage of the benefits for nothing. It is impossible for Zhang Qiang to support a group that has nothing to do with him and has no interests. In the future, he will be a white-eyed wolf who will make trouble for him like Annan did to the Huaxia Kingdom in a blink of an eye.

The purpose of speeding up the support now is to let him deal with the eldest prince. His purpose is to help Feng Quan share the pressure. This pressure is his two older brothers. Feng Quan's main task is to unify the Japanese island.

At present, this seems to be quite difficult.

The main reason is that the Qing Dynasty did not know what went crazy. While speeding up the pace of war with the Dajin Kingdom, they began to help the Japanese. They transferred a lot of semi-finished firearms troops from Goguryeo, landed on the Japanese island, and dispatched 1 More than ten thousand Mongolian cavalry helped Japan.

Goguryeo, a tall cosmic nation, may not be able to do anything else, but their people are more suitable for firearms troops than Han people and Manchus, and the effect of training is more effective than Han people. Zhang Qiang believes that they are more obedient and patient than Han people. , so he listened to the instructor's words even more, and did whatever he was asked to do, so he could use his mind and concentrate on practicing guns and guns. His professional level was higher than that of many arrogant Han people.

There are as many as [-] of these Goguryeo soldiers, plus the Japanese began to mobilize, and under the training of the Dutch, they quickly formed an army of [-] soldiers. They also have many fierce warriors, and they can be tens of thousands of martial arts with any move. The dead soldiers who are willing to pay for the family, plus many cannon fodder-like wandering warriors, and even more cannon fodder peasant troops, this force is dozens of times that of Feng Quan's side.

At present, after half a year's development of the entire Xinlu Mansion, there are only [-] regular troops and [-] militia troops, which is only [-] more troops than half a year ago. Many people have been retrained and joined the regular army as recruits.

The pressure is great. Now that the Xinlu Mansion is changing three times a day, tens of thousands of cannon fodder like Japanese farmers will be caught one after another. At the same time, all kinds of uncomfortable Japanese people with lofty ideals who oppose the incorporation of the Chinese Kingdom will be caught. There are also more than 1 people, and there are also 30 or 30 people who have arrived in Southeast Asia and the anti-Chinese Kingdom and Qing people who have been cleared out of the core area. This is another [-] people. Half of them have been sent to Qiongzhou Island for mining, but there are tens of thousands of people left. What are so many people doing?

Of course, the construction was carried out under the guidance of the officials stationed in China. The speed of China was implemented. Mountains were opened, roads were built, rivers were dug, mines were opened, logging was pushed to many low Japanese buildings, and new buildings were carried out, plowing, watering, and weeding. Fertilization, as well as building a small arms repair factory, raising horses, and a series of things that will allow Xinlu Mansion to develop rapidly.

Many changes have taken place in Xinlu Mansion, but the construction of the army is still lagging behind, because many people cannot be trusted. That is, the original Japanese Han people, the native Han people in Southeast Asia, and the Han people in Qiongdao who have been exiled for decades and have long been the natives of Qiongdao, accounted for 300, the Lu State Daqing Han people accounted for 50, and the Lu State Ming Han people accounted for [-].

Among the Han Chinese and aborigines attached to the Feng Quan regime, the Japanese accounted for 3 people, and the rest were passively attached Japanese. It can be said that the Xinlu Mansion of the Huaxia Kingdom still belongs to the land of the occupation nature under the situation of the US occupation army, rather than The native land is a highly sovereign colony, a colony of the Huaxia Kingdom.

The [-] garrisons of the Huaxia Kingdom, the [-] army, and the [-] sailors and marines all belong to the garrison of the US military. Feng Quan's government belongs to the pseudo-government that is pro-Chinese army, and there is no government that is recognized by the Japanese. Perhaps the spies stationed by the enemy in many corners are instigating rebellion and carrying out ideological mobilization. I don’t know when they will jump out and give Feng Quan and Kong Youxing a fatal blow, preparing to replace them and regain the Japanese land.

Kong Youxing's regular army has not yet been recognized by the Huaxia Kingdom or given an official designation. Although a garrison was given the official position and military number of the garrison command, there were no soldiers from the Huaxia Kingdom to take over the army and put the army in Under the absolute leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Huaxia Kingdom.

So this nature belongs to the nature of the puppet army.

It will take 20 to 50 years to realize this transformation. When the first generation of Japanese is dead, these private school teachers from the Chinese Kingdom, teachers who have gone up a step, and officials will completely educate their next generation into Han thinking. The third generation continues to be educated and transformed into a Han body, so that they can truly integrate into the Huaxia Kingdom.

There is a long way to go, so the third prince needs to continue to share the pressure.

And the third prince lived up to his trust. The navy in the Kingdom of China sent officers and soldiers to help him reorganize the army. He had 220 thousand-ton warships, three hundred eight-hundred-ton warships, five hundred six-hundred-ton warships, and six hundred six-hundred-ton warships. Three hundred ton warships, one hundred 180 ton warships, and thousands of hundred to thirty ton merchant ships and fishing boats, followed by the Ryukyu Kingdom, the name of the kingdom that the third prince gave his power at the beginning, and continued to attack the eldest prince .

Chapter 734 Careless Lost Jingzhou

In a few days, Zhang Qiang went out to sea by himself, escorted by twelve thousand-ton warships and thirty-six three-hundred-ton warships from the First Fleet, and one hundred sixty-ton Cantonese transportation ships went around Xinlu Mansion. Watching Kong Youxing's battle with the Japanese in the open sea.

These battles were small-scale battles for the beach. The Japanese landed on the beach, and the defenders were the garrison troops of the Xinlu Prefecture Garrison Command led by Kong Youxing.

The Japanese kept pushing the boat into the sea with the solid shells fired from here across a bay, and then a huge team of farmers held Jinkai 1 matchlock guns or broadswords and spears in their hands, and samurai swords boarded the boat, heading towards the Washed away on the beach thousands of meters away.

The beach has long been filled with the corpses of Japanese farmers, densely packed, and it looks like the Japanese soldiers who landed on the beach at night when the US military wiped out the Long Live assault in the Pacific War in later generations.

But the Japanese seem to have made up their minds to use their numbers to win a victory. They kept sending people into the water. Some people even swam across the bay with their weapons on their hands, and then ran to the beach. However, they were shot dead by the volleys of guns that erupted in the bunker just after walking a few steps. , trembling a few times, after the kinetic energy of the bullet disappeared, it wilted like a piece of rag, and died lightly.

The battle inside the binoculars was brutal and fierce. The Japanese artillery fire was not jealous either. There were nearly a hundred cannons. From the artillery fire at the beach, Zhang Qiang could see solid shells that were bigger than the mouth of a bowl, bigger than a football. Then, even though it was nearly eight miles away from the coast, Zhang Qiang could tell through the lens of the quadruple telescope, which had been upgraded to be close to that of the ordinary later generations, that the shell was huge.

When it hit the ground, the gravel flew across, and sometimes it could kill one or two civilians who ran out in a hurry from the rear, and sometimes it could smash down some simple auxiliary fortresses.

Kong Youxing was also under tremendous pressure and suffered some casualties. There were constant people holding guns and lining up in a long column from the village five miles behind to run forward. , ran forward from some favorable low-lying terrain to support the front beach fortifications.

Where there are some places, such as the docks, some broken wooden bridges built, the enemy has already rushed up, but Kong Youxing will not give up these places, he does not want the enemy to occupy the docks, and then gather more according to the fortifications and obstacles on the docks The strength of the attack on the fortifications in the rear.

The current battle is close to the initial battle of World War I.