Lord of Ming Dynasty

He needs money, he needs to improve his strength as soon as possible, and build his own team, otherwise, if he is useless, he may be worse than the Japanese. Zhang Qiang of the Huaxia Kingdom is a cannibalistic master.

Chapter 9: The Japanese Have a Place to Go

After chatting with Hong Wenyi, Hong Tianpao discussed with his bureaucrats, and then sent envoys to the Huaxia Kingdom.

This is a profitable business.

Selling all those foreign races in the Ryukyu Kingdom, he can earn 4000 million Huaxia Yuan. Of course, it is impossible to pay all Huaxia Yuan. Although Huaxia Yuan is very strong, people in this era still believe in gold and silver. It has not lost its own value, the function of preserving value, and it is still a hard currency.

The consequence of this is that the population of the Ryukyu Kingdom has decreased sharply, from nearly 500 million to more than 200 million, but this is also clean.

He now feels that a single ethnicity is really good. Don’t worry that the natives of Southeast Asia dislike the Han people, and that they are not treated as well as the Japanese. Let's make big trouble.

He gave Hong Wenyi all the weapons and equipment captured in this victory over the Japanese rebel army, as well as some damaged warships and warships lost, as well as the enemy's warships and warships captured at a low price.

And sold a batch of Mongolian war horses seized from Goguryeo to Hong Wenyi. The island of New Zealand has more islands than the islands of the Ryukyu Kingdom. You can run horses. Ryukyu Kingdom, give me a try. Landing in Jiexiu is like a matter of tens of seconds. It may be like landing before the take-off is completed.

Why didn't Hong Wenyi dare to go to the Huaxia Kingdom? Because he knew that going would mean going for nothing. They knew that Zhang Qiang would not strengthen their strength. They were not Zhang Qiang's reliable allies. One member of the Hong family made good friends with the Huaxia Kingdom. That's right, Hong Wenyi also intended to erase the anger in Hong Tianpao's heart, using money to smooth out the anger in his third uncle's heart was much better than his third uncle troublesome them in the future.

The envoy was quickly received by Zhang Qiang, and he agreed to the envoy's request. Although the Japanese island was occupied, there were still so many Japanese people, much more than the Ryukyu Kingdom. Although a lot was dealt with, there were still many. There are also many Goguryeo prisoners of war captured earlier, Qing army prisoners of war, Japanese civilians collected from all over the country, Japanese naturalized people, various criminals, and previous prisoners, countless.

It's good to be able to handle some of it.

The other party used iron ore from Nanyang, guano, various shipbuilding woods, diamonds, jewelry, palm oil, cloth, canvas, and Chinese yuan, gold and silver, etc. to settle the bill. This is very good.

All kinds of materials can enrich the domestic products of the Huaxia Kingdom. Gold, silver and jewelry can be handed over to jewelers to sell to the domestic people.

In addition, Hong Tianpao also sent a lot of Western books and some scientific instruments for research, and some of the various Western scientific and technological achievements that Hong Tianpao and the others called strange skills and ingenious things, others do not know, but Zhang Qiang knows , How important these are to promote the development of a country's technology and civilization. His technology tree has been stuttering intermittently because of the half-dead system. Zhang Qiang asked the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry to jointly develop grenades, landmines, and those gangs The guy has been researching for two years and has not come up with a finished product. It seems that the scientific atmosphere in the Huaxia Kingdom is still not good.

Huaxia is not lacking in creativity, but that no one will do things that are not beneficial. Huaxia people have been earning a living since they were young, and they are desperately earning money to maintain their lives under the persecution of the ruler. They can't even solve food and clothing. How can they be in the mood To study something that is destined to leave your name in history hundreds or decades later, in Huaxia's words, it is enough to eat and support, they have not reached that point yet.

Everyone wants to make money, make money, solve their own background problems, and then go to the upper class, and when they get to the top, they have to maintain a decent appearance and make more money, so no one studies those things. Whoever does research is doomed to be poorer, because He will be robbed of the fruit of victory by the people above, and then eat nothing left. If you are mediocre, then no one will look at you when you are in a hurry. You can slowly make money, live, and go your own way The way to deal with the rulers while guarding against the jealous ones.

If you have some abnormalities, then you are a virus and will be wiped out by the immune system of the people around you.

Inertial thinking and instinctive life are good, but these cannot make the nation strong and continue.

It is the inertia of the world that a strong nation will surely destroy a weak nation.

This time Zhang Qiang sent all the Japanese people injured on the front line to the emissary, and then sold 100 million Southeast Asian natives and 100 million Japanese people, which reduced the number of Japanese people on the front line and Southeast Asian natives, and reduced the number of Japanese people on the Japanese island. New immigrants from Yunnan, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui were transferred to Japan Island to fill the population vacancies there, and a large amount of land and real estate were given to the new immigrants.

Since the Huaxia Kingdom either fought wars or opened up wasteland for 20 years, the population of their occupied areas has been unable to increase. After several years of steady development, the population has increased by almost 500 to 3000 million per year, but it can be used for immigration. The population is only a few million per year, and the immigrant population also died in large numbers in the barren land, or were attacked, died of acclimatization, and were injured or disabled due to fighting with the original natives.

Therefore, although the population grew rapidly, there were still a lot of people who died, and many died of natural causes, old age, and disease. Therefore, in 1671, there were still many places that had not been developed and occupied, but the number of immigrants was no longer enough.

At present, the population of Huaxia Kingdom remains below 7000 million, about [-] million.

Over the years, the Huaxia Kingdom is still an agricultural kingdom. The development of light industry is not small, the textile machine industry appears, the horse-drawn carriage industry appears, blacksmiths, finance, carpenters, masons, and many talents have developed, but they can barely maintain a family life and make ends meet. It was still some businessmen who were beneficial, and the business atmosphere gradually became stronger, which supported the financial expenditure of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Japanese prisoners, Southeast Asian prisoners, they had to be used since the founding of the country, and now they can only be used as cannon fodder, so Zhang Qiang sold most of them.

The envoy completed the first handover a month later. In addition to the original statement, the envoy also used some rabbit skins, sheepskins, and even some alpacas and other animals to settle the bill.

In the future, it will be handed over several times, and a total trade quota of [-] million Chinese yuan will be reached.

Of course, Zhang Qiang knew that these were not all the things that the Ryukyu Kingdom needed to buy. The Ministry of Military Intelligence had already investigated it clearly, but he didn't care. Anyway, he was making money. Australia and New Zealand were so far away. The kingdom will only become stronger. Even if they join forces, they will not be afraid of them anymore. If it weren't for the remote location, Zhang Qiang would have sent troops to destroy them long ago.

When Yanjing is defeated, Zhang Qiang is going to let the troops recuperate for a few years, and at the same time deal with Luzon Island and completely turn Luzon Island and Indonesia into the Kingdom of China. Then the Kingdom of China will have five or six thousand nautical miles in the inner sea, which can be said to be a vast territory. .

As for the Qing Dynasty in the Northeast, Goguryeo, and Japan, take it easy.

Chapter 9 Eleven: The Ryukyu Kingdom's Resurrection

The business with the Huaxia Kingdom was doing very well, and he got 4000 million Huaxia Yuan. In the process of transferring business to the second prince, Hong Tianpao earned more than 1000 million Huaxia Yuan, as well as a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Purchased 100 million captive Han people from the Huaxia Kingdom, and settled these people down.

The population of the Ryukyu Kingdom reached 390 million, almost reaching 400 million, and the population before the war was restored. However, most of these people were poor and unable to provide some ordinary labor, but they could not bring money. Hong Tianpao After paying no less than 800 million Chinese yuan to complete the whole process of purchasing, relocating, and finding a job for these people, he then thought about how to let these people generate taxes for him, so he couldn't do business at a loss.

The Kingdom of Ryukyu is an island kingdom on the sea. Although it cannot manufacture warships, maintenance is still a very profitable business. He sent these people to the maintenance shipyard as coolies to take care of the meals. They will not receive their salaries after three months, that is to say These people have to spend three months in the maintenance shipyard for nothing.

And the first business is to repair warships for the navy that suffered heavy losses, as well as repair and remove debris for warships, merchant ships, and fishing boats sold to the little prince. There are more than a dozen large islands, and 30 people are doing these jobs , the little prince paid the money.

The Han people in the original Ryukyu Kingdom were either merchants or fishermen, or they served the passing merchant ships. Where did the Ryukyu Kingdom reach a trade agreement with the second prince, so the two sides began to do business. The deserted port became alive because of the end of the war. The merchants of the kingdom also came again, and Zheng Zhi's caravan also arrived, and the three forces began to trade.

Afterwards, the Spaniards also came to join in the fun. For the sake of the prosperity of his kingdom and making money, Hong Tianpao was no longer so contradictory or afraid of destroying his relationship with the Huaxia Kingdom and did not associate with the Spaniards and other Thai and Westerners. He publicly ordered that the Thais and Westerners be allowed to come here For trade, the Spaniards changed the ships of the Zheng family and came here to trade under the banner of the Zheng family.

The Kingdom of Ryukyu returned to its former prosperity.

In terms of military affairs, the Kingdom of Ryukyu re-recruited and reorganized soldiers and horses, compiled and trained 15 Han soldiers and horses, which greatly increased the number of Han Chinese soldiers and horses. Some Southeast Asian native soldiers and horses left behind were no more than 5. Sixty thousand troops.

Now that the number of people is much smaller than the number of Han people, after two campaigns, the Japanese and Southeast Asian aborigines have become much more honest, basically equal to the complete naturalization of the Han people, so the remaining people are more reliable, and compared to the newly compiled The soldiers and horses trained, the combat effectiveness of the servant army is much stronger. After the battle, the Han soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, which increased the combat effectiveness of the recruits. Therefore, in order to prevent the Japanese from retaking Jeju Island, the Ryukyu Kingdom did not dare to send all the servants Kill them all, otherwise the Han soldiers and horses recruited from all over the place will not be able to stand up to the vicious Japanese soldiers and horses who have gone through the war of annihilation.

Southeast Asian natives released 1 people on Jeju Island, [-] Japanese soldiers, and as many as [-] Chinese soldiers. Jeju Island is still the front line of confrontation with Japan.

Only the remaining 120 intact warships were all placed on Jeju Island, and all [-] warships were placed on Jeju Island. Others were injured and old warships and warships were all sold to the second prince. There were not many warships left, so Hong Tianpao asked the Huaxia Army to buy two hundred warships and warships.

Because the new ships are gradually entering service, although the old ships are still very new, Zhang Qiang still wants to dispose of them and use the money to build new warships. This time, all the ships of the Yangtze River Naval Guard were sold to the Kingdom of Ryukyu, and then received. A group of frigates, about twelve ships, and some small tonnage warships of more than 90 tons that were decommissioned from the third fleet in Palawan Island guarded the Yangtze River waterway. If they are too large, they are not suitable for inland waterway navigation. Nine Ten tons and sixty tons can still go far into the narrowest part of the inland river to facilitate the suppression of bandits.

The speed of the twelve frigates is enough to make those water bandits feel suspicious of life, so it is enough to patrol the entire Yangtze River defense line.

What's more, the Huaxia Kingdom is now in a state where people are united, and everyone is very grateful to His Majesty the King, so there are not many criminals haunting, so such a small number of ships can completely guard the Yangtze River.

It also has more than 300 old warships, warships, and more than 200 small ships, which can travel through the waterways with too many hidden reefs between coastal islands. The squadron of the Third Fleet stationed in Palawan has eliminated more than 200 ships. Afterwards, the old ship got the first batch of twelve frigates, which strengthened its strength. At the same time, it also got six new 780-ton warships, the Huaxia, which increased the strength of the fleet.

In fact, Hong Tianpao is also very keen on these new warships that have been out for three years, but the Huaxia Kingdom still does not let go and will not sell these new warships to him after his repeated requests.

The speed is fast. It is said that it only takes 20 days to go from the Kingdom of Ryukyu to Australia, and it takes only one and a half months to go back and forth. They paid twice the price to buy it, but Hong Tianpao didn't dare to do so. In the choice of money or life, he chose death.

Just kidding, the Huaxia Kingdom doesn't even sell hard-core allies like him. If he dares to sell to the Spaniards, the Huaxia Kingdom garrisons stationed here, even the Huaxia Kingdom soldiers and horses that he did not use at the most critical moment, are likely to be sold to the Spaniards. He dared to rush into the palace and kill him even if he gave this order.

During his war with Japan, during the Japanese riots in the Kingdom of Ryukyu, the Huaxia Kingdom garrison did nothing to save them. Their role is to monitor and suppress their own Ryukyu Kingdom. Although this makes me very uncomfortable, the situation is stronger than yours, so you have to endure it.

How big a person is, how much food he eats, Hong Tianpao knows how much energy he has, and he dare not provoke the Qing Dynasty, who is about to wipe out all the troops of the Qing Dynasty in the pass, and drive the Qing Dynasty out of the Huaxia Army in the pass.

Now that the Ryukyu Kingdom has become prosperous and stable again after experiencing catastrophe, he does not want to destroy this stability.

As time went by, Hong Tianpao discovered that the Dutch and British who had been defeated by the Kingdom of China reappeared in his port after disappearing for two years, and honestly started business.

Hong Tianpao turned a blind eye to this, as long as they don't make trouble, he won't take the initiative to expose it. If he has money but doesn't make money, is he going to tear up his face and fight, loss plus war?

However, he is not polite to the Japanese and Goguryeo people who come to him to fish in troubled waters, even the Han people in the Qing Dynasty. The guards arrest people all day long. He knows that if they get more supplies, his Ryukyu Kingdom There will be no stability, the two sides are enemies, and selling supplies to them is tantamount to capitalizing on the enemy.

Chapter 9 Twelve: The Second Prince Who Accumulated Strength

Zhang Qiang, who is in Jinling Mansion, has been focusing on the Ryukyu Kingdom recently. Although he wanted to do something about the Ryukyu Kingdom before, that guy Hong Tianpao was really hard enough in the end. He just slaughtered so many Japanese, and the natives of Southeast Asia were also affected. The extreme method of killing all those people to eliminate hidden dangers in the country has stabilized the domestic political situation, and has firmly grasped the soldiers and horses. There are always [-] Han soldiers who are loyal to him by his side, and the navy officers and soldiers are also very happy. Allegiance to him, it can be said that whether it is the provocation of the Japanese, the unintentional act of the second prince, or the conspiracy and tricks of his own, in the face of Hong Tianpao's absolute strength, they are all reduced to ashes.

"Enough," Zhang Qiang could only comment on Hong Tianpao.

On the other hand, I couldn't help him. Anyway, I disposed of some unnecessary population, waste weapons, and old ships that the Huaxia Army didn't need, and gave them to Hong Tianpao.