Lord of Ming Dynasty

Compared with these places that want to join the core area and are heavily subsidized by the Chinese Empire and greatly helped to develop, the Qing Dynasty is relatively rich.

why?

After 20 years of war, the Qing Dynasty went from having a population of nearly 7000 million to only 6000 million in the end. Later, all 450 million people became cannon fodder, and only [-] million people were left to develop in the Ural Mountains.

Over the years, with the completion of the railway, the entry of steam engine trains, the entrepot trade with Lao Maozi, the trade with the Chinese Empire, and the subsidies given by the Chinese Empire in the last few years of the war, the Qing Dynasty The life of the Manchus is pretty good, and the Han people are not bad, and other captured Russian soldiers who joined the Qing Dynasty, as well as the remaining indigenous populations of various countries and nations that were exterminated, and those who were transferred from Lao Maozi The population made the commercial atmosphere of the Qing Dynasty quite strong, which made these places quite rich.

Tens of billions of trade per year, even if more than 300 billion debts are returned to the Chinese Empire every year, the Qing Dynasty still has more than 100 billion that can be used for expenditure. , So at first they just hunted, farmed, worked as workers along the railway, and later entered the mining industry, and after that, countless Manchu shops and Han shops sprung up like mushrooms to do business.

There are always smart people who can make money by doing business, so people in the Qing Dynasty are generally businessmen and businessmen.

Moreover, the land of the Qing Dynasty is quite cheap and vast, with a length of [-] kilometers and a mountainous area ranging from tens of kilometers to three to four hundred kilometers in width. There is no need to worry about the land at all. Although most of the land is in the mountains, there are still many places to use when the land is divided equally. The people don’t have to fight for the land too much. The mind has changed from a desire for land to an admiration for making money in business.

Mining, selling trees, selling animal skins, selling medicinal materials, and contracting a certain section of railway and highway construction projects, many things can make money, and if you can't re-export the goods from China to the old Russian territory, the easiest food Well, the grain sold by the Chinese Empire at a low price can be sold at a high price to Lao Maozi, and they can make a lot of money.

Therefore, regardless of the huge size, the Manchu Jurchen Jin people who once fought the Han Dynasty and cried for their fathers and mothers have lost their living land, and traveled thousands of miles to settle in this relatively cold and barren mountainous area, with a population of nearly 600 million. It has become a population of more than 600 million, why do we say more than [-] million now?

As mentioned above, there were only 450 million people left in the Qing Dynasty. After more than ten years of development, it has recovered to more than 500 million people. Later, because of the Maozi trade, some Maozi went to the Qing Dynasty and became the Qing Dynasty. The population, and some Maozi people who had been captured and never wanted to go back to be Maozi’s serfs, stayed in the Qing Dynasty, and some people from the Chinese Empire emigrated because they couldn’t bear the desolation of Siberia, but fled to the Qing Dynasty. , which caused the population of the Qing Dynasty to grow to more than 600 million people.

And more than 600 million in such a huge territory, there is hardly any pressure. The Qing Dynasty did not feel the pressure at all, but was happy because there were more slaves. Yes, although the Qing Dynasty has been defeated and cannot be defeated again, the system determines However, the Manchus still felt that apart from the Manchus of their imperial relatives, the rest of the Qing Dynasty were their slaves of the Manchus, and even they were slaves of the Manchu nobles. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty still believed that apart from him being the master, the others People are slaves, and everyone in the Qing Dynasty thinks so, they are slaves.

But for the Huaxia Empire that drove them to Siberia, Kangxi felt that he was a slave in his heart, and the infinitely good scenery could not go back. The ten years in Yanjing were quite comfortable and comfortable. The threat of the Han people in the empire, I am afraid they have already occupied the colorful world of China.

Where should belong to their Manchurians, and only Manchurians deserve to own it, but now they are freezing and starving here, and have to look at the Chinese Empire and Russia. The Chinese Empire can't afford it, and Russia was once defeated by them I can't afford it now.

Russia has annexed Ukraine, seized some areas on the border of the Caspian Sea, and seized the Baltic Sea region. Half of Poland has been annexed by them, and a few small countries have emerged in the middle. No one can provoke Russia anymore. The Netherlands and Portugal are outliers. Spain is still at war with Russia, Prussia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are also at war with Russia, and the battle between Turkey and Russia basically has no stamina. Turkey cut off the return of Russia's 10,000+ army, making Iran's Arshaf dynasty With the weapon support of the Chinese Empire, the 10,000+ Russian army was quickly defeated and all the territory was regained.

In other words, it is equivalent to Russia losing the battle on Türkiye and unable to attack.

Kangxi was a man of foresight. He knew that if the Chinese Empire did not mess with him, then Russia would stabilize those occupied places in the future, and would eventually come back to fight the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty could not beat Russia with a population of tens of millions, and Russia China's territory is quite large. Although it is not as large as the territory that occupies all of Siberia, in the west, it can rival more than a dozen territories of the Qing Dynasty.

The first thousand and 120 chapters of hard work in Russia

The Qing Dynasty is almost an undefended country now, because they know that they can't beat the left and right countries, the Russian population is too fierce, the will to fight is too strong, and the Chinese Empire is really too powerful, too powerful, and the territory is too large , can't beat it.

Now the Qing Dynasty has also carried out limited military reforms. With 45 troops, it is still divided into the Eight Banners Army. The domestic patrol battalion is composed of the Eight Banners Army, the Han Banner Army, the Mongolian Banner Army, and the indigenous troops left over from various tribes. The Black Banner Army, the Batru Banner Army composed of Russian Maozi captives and British, Swedish and other fugitives, and the four Manchu Banners, the Bordered Yellow Banner, the Zhenghuang Banner, the Bordered Blue Banner, the Zhenglan Banner, and the four Manchu Banner Army .

Among them, the patrol battalion has 10 people. In all the land, the Zhenghuang Banner is the imperial forest army controlled by Kangxi himself, the Xianghuang Banner is the cavalry army, the Zhenglan Banner is artillery, and the Xianglan Banner is pure regular infantry. Artillery, but compared with the Manchu banner army, these armies are inferior in terms of equipment and horse use, and some of them are not even full, and the military pay is often not in place. The Han army banner is relatively large, because it is still There are many Han people, no, it should be said that there are many Chinese people in the Qing Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty still couldn't change their greedy style similar to the warlord troops of the later Republic of China.

Therefore, according to the assessment of the intelligence personnel of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is still low, and due to the Qing army's previous drunkenness, poor management, and distrust of any soldier who is not a Manchu, the overall control power still needs to be improved.

But the combat effectiveness of the four Manchu troops is still good. At least they have a cavalry. Although the cavalry is not very useful in the musket era, the mobility is still good. With mobility, even an infantry unit, in the It can also play a big role at critical moments.

There is also an artillery unit that has experienced artillery fire, and their overall quality is not bad. In other words, the combat effectiveness of the Manchu troops in the Qing Dynasty is still gratifying, at least comparable to the garrison troops of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, that was when the weapons and equipment were about the same, but the weapons and equipment of the Qing army were much different from those of the Chinese Empire. How could they be compared? With their weapons and equipment, as well as the organization, and the commanding ability of some officers, Their overall combat effectiveness may only be comparable to that of the elite Chinese garrison, that is, the garrison that is now almost used by the police force of later generations.

Compared with their corresponding cavalry army, garrison army, field army, and guard army in the Huaxia Empire, such troops are simply the difference between a giant and a dwarf, an adult and a three-year-old child.

They are not seen by the Chinese Empire, and their strength is also very limited. Except for the patrol battalion with a large number of 10 people, each of the other troops has about [-] troops. The Xianglan Banner only has [-] infantry and [-] artillery. The strength of [-] cavalry and carriages; the other troops are [-] troops in the blue flag, which is equipped with [-] infantry, [-] cavalry, and [-] artillery, a total of [-] troops; the same is true for the yellow flag, which is pure infantry. , only the officers have their own Gashha and some two or three hundred cavalry, the total force is less than [-], and the Xianglan Banner has [-] infantry and some cavalry.

There are about [-] to [-] guards in the palace, but these guards are armed with knives, armored, equipped with bows and arrows, and ride horses. Well, the Manchus can’t forget that their ancestors won the world immediately, so they still retain the tradition.

These guards are the emperor's favor to some clansmen and courtiers, they are all their soldiers, and they are also the favor to Han officials. These descendants of Han descendants are collected by the emperor and have a good future. In the future, they will be the banner of the Han army Or other officers who are not satisfied with the human flag, and the same is true for other guards, which is equivalent to a group of ostentatious officer reserve groups around Kangxi, and there are guards. Such people are ostentatious on the battlefield.

The Zhenghuang Banner guards the capital, the Xianglan Banner and Batru Banner guard the side of the Chinese Empire, the Mongolian Banner guards the borders of the Chinese Empire in Kazakhstan and the Russian border, and the Black Banner Army guards the upper coastal border. The other three flags, the Han Army Banner , Zhenglan Banner and Bordered Yellow Banner guard the Russian border.

It seems that the defense against Russia is greater than the defense against the Chinese Empire. This is understandable. The military strength of the Chinese Empire is too strong to resist, and it occupies the dominant terrain. There is no way other than surrender. Defense is just a show , and after all, the Manchu Qing and the Chinese Empire came from the same place and belonged to the same ethnic group.

The Russians are different at first glance. At the same time, Russia often creates friction and is aggressive. Of course, the main energy must be focused on Russia.

Although Russia was defeated and reconciled with the Qing Dynasty, they also lost 1000 million people and millions of soldiers, and it took a few years to recover. Of course, their attitude towards the Qing Dynasty is not so friendly. While fighting against several western countries, while recovering their vitality, they will not go to trouble with the Qing Dynasty, and they are afraid that the Chinese Empire will intervene.

The Chinese Empire has already frightened them, especially the huge material and population potential of the Chinese Empire. The Russians with a population of more than 6000 million now do not want to fight against the Chinese Empire with a population of 7000 million. A Qing Dynasty is supported by the Chinese Empire. With a population of [-] million to [-] million, Russia and the Western Allied Forces were directly pushed back to the border area, and they were defeated. If there were not many rebellions in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and the cold in Siberia, Russia might have been thrown into the cold palace and became Another catastrophe for the Principality of Moscow after the Yuan Dynasty.

The Russians don't want to provoke the Chinese Empire, they just want to toss and occupy a lot of land in the west, but compared to the vastness of Siberia, it is somewhat laborious and narrow here, no matter how they fight, it is impossible to have the kind of thousands of miles in Siberia Empty land with no one left.

Except for the fear of the Chinese Empire, Russia only envies the Chinese Empire, railways, steam ships, telegraphs, cavalry troops, luxurious carriages, a lot, a lot of money, a lot of people.

The money, materials, food, weapons and equipment that Russia has been fighting in the past few years have all been purchased from the Chinese Empire, and even the food for the domestic population has been purchased from the Chinese Empire. The money Russia owes to the Chinese Empire is much more than that of the Qing Dynasty. There are many, the Qing Dynasty provides land, workers, and cooperation through minerals, and can sell medicinal materials and timber together. It can be mortgaged through its own commercial and trade taxes, basically paying off the debts of the Chinese Empire, although it owes A little, but not too much.

Russia can’t do it. These years of fighting have sold out the country’s gold, silver, jewelry, and many of the country’s supplies. The weapon manufacturing industry was able to cope with it at the beginning. Later, these backward weapons and equipment were not enough for agriculture and animal husbandry, so they can only be obtained through China. The empire imported another huge batch of decommissioned weapons and equipment from the Huaxia Empire.

At the beginning, I still had money to buy, but later I ran out of money. I used the reserve funds of the royal family, but the royal family is not a good person, does not do charity, and is no longer willing to lend money. Like the Qing Dynasty, it borrowed tens of billions of Huaxia Yuan, then hundreds of billions of Huaxia Yuan, and finally tens of trillions of Huaxia Yuan.Even if the Russian Empire is sold now, it will not be enough to repay the Chinese Empire.

The first thousand and 120 chapters of colonized Russia

So Russia can only continue the war, accumulate wealth by robbing other small countries of gold, silver, jewelry, land, minerals, women, children, etc., and pay off the annual interest, but this is not enough. It was not enough to pay back, so the minerals were sold, and almost all the minerals in the country were under the control of the merchants of the Chinese Empire.

Selling the forest farm, almost 60.00% of the forest farm is owned by the Chinese Empire, but signed a lease agreement and returned it to the Russian nobles and royal family, collecting rent from them every year, and repaying a part of it in this way, just a small part of it part of the arrears interest.

The money owed by Russia to build the railway, so the railway was gradually mortgaged to the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire hired Russians to operate, hired Russians to work, hired Russian troops to defend the railway, and partnered with the Russians, or operated exclusively , but no tax is paid to the Russians, the tax is directly included in the interest of the repayment, which exceeds the interest expense, so part of it is included in the repayment.

Afterwards, the Russians followed the example of the Qing Dynasty and used the taxes of other parties in the country to pay off their debts, which took more than ten years.

The roads and railways in Russia are all operated by the Chinese Empire, or jointly operated, and after hiring Russians to operate and other methods to generate profits, part of it will be given to the Russians, part of it will be given to the workers or the cost of continuing operations, part of it will be repaid for interest, and part of it will be repaid. There will be tax points and tolls set up on the highway. This part belongs to the extra income of the Huaxia Empire and is not included in the repayment and interest.

Russia is provided by the Chinese Empire for everything it uses, eats, drinks, wears, walks, transportation, and even the cemetery. Today, almost more than ten years later, it is fully controlled by the Chinese Empire, the only one controlled by the Chinese Empire. What can't be done is the fighting nature and expansion nature of the Russians. They always want more land and population.

Maybe there are many sober-minded people in Russia who have seen the risk, but they are also very helpless. They owe trillions, tens of trillions of Chinese dollars, and they are desperate to pay back the interest every year, plus billions of Chinese dollars. The arrears, this is because the Huaxia Empire agreed with them to offset some of the arrears manually, otherwise they would have to owe it, and there was no possibility of repaying the money.

Unless the problem is solved through turmoil and war, Russia will sink.

And Zhang Qiang also saw the situation in Russia, and gradually reduced some of their arrears every year, and let them borrow less new arrears every year, so that they had the money to repay billions of Huaxia Yuan every year.

At this time, the Huaxia Empire, through a series of plundering strategies, has basically emptied the hundreds of billions of Huaxia Yuan that Russia owed the Huaxia Empire when the war just ended. In addition to the repayment of loans by the common people, and the timely return of the money borrowed by companies and money accounts, the money that is continuously passed through the loan accounts is equivalent to the money of the people of the country, and it is given to the Qing Dynasty and the Russian Empire, which eventually made almost all of the two countries Controlled by the Chinese Empire.

With the growth of commercial trade with Turkey and Sweden, it has increased from several billion Chinese yuan to hundreds of billions of Chinese yuan every year, and then hundreds of billions of Chinese yuan. The raw materials of the Chinese empire are obtained from Siberia and Central Asia, the Western Regions, and overseas governors. , processed in the core area, and then returned to other viceroy area goods, or coins, and these goods were exported to other countries at the same time.

The annual fiscal revenue has increased from the previous tens of billions to 3000 billion. In addition to repaying the money, the country, the people, and businessmen to clean up the country's loans every year, a part of it is allocated to Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and Turkey. , Turkey is relatively conservative, it does not have a lot of pockets, it is only a few billion, at most tens of billions of loans, and it will take a few years to repay it, and then look at the situation. The total income is close to 30 billion, which can be used to guarantee the administrative expenses of the empire center.

After repaying the loan, and then borrowing part of it, the finances of the Chinese Empire will be spent from the rest, to allocate funds to various places, to purchase food, to immigrate, to fund some emerging industries, such as steam engine manufacturing workshops, and upgrades to shipyards. , The upgrade of the railway, the replacement of the locomotive, the erection of the telegraph line, and the loan to the merchants.

In short, although the financial revenue of the Huaxia Empire has increased, the annual repayment and subsidies are being tightened. Except for some large-scale items that must be upgraded, it is now impossible to complete the refitting of the Navy's warships. More than 200 experimental steam warships, more than 200 finalized first-generation steam warships, and 70.00% of the finalized warships have not been built, and 50.00% of the experimental warships have not been completed.

However, more than 50 experimental warships have been sold, especially the first battleships and the early developed warships, which were bought by the Spaniards, and the British also ordered [-] units with [-] horsepower It will be two or three years before these orders are completed.

This year is good. With the orders from the Spaniards and the British, as well as a series of purchase contracts and business cooperation, the financial revenue of the Chinese Empire has increased by 100 billion Chinese yuan. This 100 billion yuan is pure new income, and other taxes will be added one after another. Increase, there is about a billion yuan in income every month, because a lot of income is divided equally into the local fiscal revenue of the state capitals in the core areas along the coast, especially the nearby Southeast Asian Governor-General.

The total trade volume of the British, the Spaniards, the Turks, the Qing Dynasty, and Russia has made the financial revenue of the Chinese Empire have increased by leaps and bounds this year. Zhang Qiang has to sigh, it is still the sea trade that makes money.

Of course, there is another point of making money, which is the trading of weapons and equipment. The Spaniards and the British are the big heads, but they buy and sell ships and warships, while Turkey and the Arshaf dynasty buy and sell cannons and muskets. Not to mention large battleships and advanced steam engines, but they also bring at least billions of Chinese yuan in income to the Chinese Empire every year.

As for Russia, the Chinese Empire is no longer ready to give them loans. It reduces loans year by year and gradually increases the amount of arrears. As long as Russia does not end the war for a day, they can only rely on the Chinese Empire and can only buy from the Chinese Empire. arms.

Another country that needs weapons is Sweden, Norway and other countries. Although they don't need much, they will bring at least one billion Chinese yuan in income.