Lord of Ming Dynasty

Every year, the British and the French come to buy food. Because of the increase in the tonnage of ships and the invention of steamships by the Chinese Empire, the speed of ships traveling at sea has increased a lot, and with steamships, it is not necessary to rely on the monsoons and trade winds at sea every year. To increase the speed of the ship, only coal is needed, and a ship can sail thousands of miles without interruption.

If one ton of grain is shipped to Britain and France, these two countries are still in turmoil, then it is at least [-]% of the profit, leaving out the losses and costs, there is still at least [-]% of the profit, So in recent years, British merchants, French merchants, and Spanish merchants have made a lot of money by transporting grain without doing anything.

Of course, it also provided a lot of taxes to the Chinese Empire, because selling to the British, French, and Spaniards has their own tax rates, and it must be very high. The 30.00% tax rate has increased their costs a lot, and selling The peasants still have to pay the price difference tax and the fixed amount tax, and the government also has to pay the price difference tax and the fixed amount tax.

But both the people and the government make a lot of money.

Now the Huaxia Empire’s heavy industry is not improving very quickly due to the lack of technological innovation capabilities. In Zhang Qiang’s view, all of them are backward and cannot be further behind, or even seriously polluting enterprises and factories. However, in the eyes of the Huaxia Empire, this is already too high. I am very proud of the climbing thing.

However, the development of light industry exceeded his expectations. The emergence of the spinning jenny made water power and animal power used in a large number of areas, completed the industrialization reform, and greatly increased production. The silk and cloth in the Chinese Empire were almost depreciated, so these things Export at a very cheap price, even though there is an export trade protection tax rate, it is still too cheap for Western businessmen, so they buy in large quantities and sell in large quantities to the West.

It made the reputation of the country of silk in China spread again, and increased the frequency and exposure of the Chinese Empire in the West. People say that China is the country of silk, and cheap cloth also makes Westerners use cheap cloth. Cloth, no longer wear monochrome clothes, or wear linen clothes.

Ceramic workshops, tea workshops, these special products of the Chinese empire are in short supply, and a large number of these workshops have appeared in the mainland of China, and even spread to the governor's district.

Islands such as Japan and Ryukyu are included in the core area, the Northeast Governor's District and the Vladivostok Governor's District are also merged into the core area, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia are merged into the core area, the Ural defense line is the core area for inspection, and all states in Southeast Asia are merged into the core area. Island, Treasure Island, and Luzon Island were also incorporated into the core area, and the core area of ​​the Huaxia Empire has more than doubled in size.

Now the Governor-General of Australia, the Governor-General of New Zealand, the Governor-General of Hawaii, the Governor-General of Indonesia, the Governor-General of Malacca, the Governor-General of Outer Mongolia, the Governor-General of Siberia, the Governor-General of the Western Regions, and the Governor-General of Central Asia are left. The Qing Dynasty became a subsidiary country of the Huaxia Empire, that is to say, it was attached to a subsidiary country of the Huaxia Empire.

Yongzheng, who succeeded Kangxi, was very eager to join the Huaxia Empire, but the few steps that the Huaxia Empire gave them were, the dependent country, the vassal state, the inspection period, the governor's area, and the core area.

There are great changes in these major steps, and it is also the Chinese Empire's perfunctory Qing Dynasty. Although it can strengthen the control of the Qing Dynasty and ensure the safety of the western part of the Chinese Empire, it needs to bear a huge burden, the burden of defending Russia, and shouldering the burden of the Qing Dynasty. The burden of expenses, because there are too many hardcore Manchus in the Qing Dynasty, they are a group of moths, similar to the later generations of the Saudi royal family and Qatar and other countries, all the income of the country belongs to them, they are very rich, other people The poor drop their pants.

Military and economically, Zhang Qiang saw that his son did a good job, and the domestic government was supported by the Prime Minister Li Yuanyin. Now he began to care about whether all the governor-generals could be merged into the core area after he left, and these areas could be completely integrated and digested. , At the same time, it is developing overseas in several Chinese countries.

A Chinese western country with Chinese feelings.Zhang Qiang knew that if he conquered the whole world, it would be impossible. Even if he conquered the West, the Chinese Empire would eventually be dragged down by the Westerners' constant dirtiness and democratic process. Perhaps the generation of Yongwu and his son would still be able to persevere , but it will not work in the next generation. With the accelerated achievements of science and technology brought to them by the unification of the Huaxia Empire, perhaps the rise of the West will destroy China more powerfully than later generations.

The later generations are a world ruled by the Jews, but it is a slow process of digestion. After passing through, the development is accelerated. Maybe the Jews will speed up their infiltration into this world and then control this world. The Jews are the devil of this world.

Even a big country like the United States has been infiltrated and controlled by the Jews, let alone China. Maybe the Jews will take the initiative to change their genes in the future, infiltrate into China, and control China. Then China will replace the United States, but this is not what Zhang Qiang wants to see. What he wants is a world ruled by pure Han Chinese culture and ideology, at least a powerful Chinese Empire.

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After Zhao Shuai finished writing the report, he arranged for a ship to go to sea to send the report to the previous contact point, and then the contact point sent the report to the telegraph room established by the Turkish Chinese Empire for transmission. The intelligence department has a commercially dedicated intelligence line for communication. , and the message was sent with a password, so even if someone in Turkey intercepted it, they would not know the content.

Afterwards, he just wandered around the island with people to understand the situation here. The people under him were responsible for field inspections and collecting first-hand information here. He used to know about this place and its people through the reports of the Military Intelligence Department and the Military Intelligence Division. , especially Li Ya and his group, and Wen Ruxin and his group.

Now he wants to get to know them through his own personal experience and what he has seen with his own eyes. As the captain of the prestigious Military Intelligence Division, his identity is a rock that weighs down everyone here, especially Wu Kejing, this person Can fully control, as well as the intelligence agents under him, as well as the intelligence agents under Wen Ruxin and others. The next day, those intelligence agents who did not submit to Wu Kejing reported to him.

There are even a few deeply buried intelligence officers of the military intelligence department, which makes him have direct departmental intelligence officers who understand the island.

In addition to the intelligence agents and action team members he brought, his military intelligence department is already a dominant family in terms of majesty and official status. He is now equivalent to the emperor's imperial envoy, with extremely important authority and power of life and death.

However, he was not proud and complacent about this, because he knew that even if he was superb in martial arts and resourceful, even if he brought a lot of people and soldiers this time, he knew that the soldiers he brought this time In fact, they are all dissatisfied with the soldiers of the Huaxia Empire. They identify with the mercenary group more than him, an intelligence officer of the empire. They have a natural hostility to themselves.

They are more willing to accept Li Ya's leadership, but they will definitely not accept their leadership. Compared with Li Ya's status as an officer of the Guards, his status as an intelligence officer is insignificant in the eyes of those people. The Guards are every soldier. Everyone wanted to go, but Li Ya seemed to be the only one who was exiled as an officer of the Guards.

After all, the officers of the Guards Army are all selected from thousands of people, with a high degree of loyalty. Those who have gone through various tests and assessments and are loyal to the empire, how can anything happen casually.

Standing on a watchtower, Zhao Shuai looked at the busy people in Xinxianju Town, and at the various people coming and going in and out of Li Ya's camp. The busyness of the past few days was slowly calming down. Many personnel and materials were counted and distributed to various departments and units, and the deployment of personnel was orderly.

"This Li Ya is really talented." Zhao Shuai said with emotion.

Zhao Shuai got off the watchtower and came back to the Juyi Hall of the camp. The guards in the Juyi Hall took a look at him and let him in. Everyone knew that this guy was actually the boss of the entire mercenary group. Small, but who knew that if Li Ya didn't rebel against the empire, he could only be subordinated to this one and become the second child. After all, he was an imperial envoy.

There are many foreigners, aliens, and tribal natives here, but the Han people are in power here. As long as the Han people are in power, they cannot escape the control of the empire, although many Han people actually don't like the people of the empire now.

Because they were forced into exile, most of them were enemies who were really dissatisfied with the empire and wantonly destroyed them. Reduce crime and reduce the population of the empire.

Now the empire has a population of more than 6 million. Although the population growth has slowed down, it is still growing by tens of millions every year. In less than ten years, the empire will have a population of [-] million. Although the empire has expanded and has a lot of land , A lot of land actually produces a lot, and those who have a lot of food are sold out, but there are not many other resources, such as official positions, many people want to be officials, and there are only a few million official positions, and it is impossible for everyone to give them.

There are many second, third, and fourth generations, as well as the offshoot relatives of those people who are robbing these positions. Many talented people also want these positions. The relatives of talented people have never been a fair population group in China. , even if Zhang Qiang has the resentment of the young people of later generations, many things are trying to suppress these phenomena for the sake of fairness, but it is undeniable that no one can cure these phenomena, not even the United States.

There are other positions, other positions that can feed the population and obtain benefits, and in order to survive, stand out, and live better than others, they have to fight for a position or a benefit. The empire is rich, and people are not only satisfied with having If you have housing and land, you also need money and power. Therefore, in all kinds of fierce competition, the [-] million people are already quite conflicted.

Previously, the empire meant to eliminate these people, especially those who did not conform to the mainstream thinking of the empire, and wanted to resist and betray the empire. However, the actions of Li Ya and the others later made Zhang Qiang see another way to deal with it, which is to let these people Going to expand the territory, maybe the territory these people opened up is not the Chinese Empire, and maybe they may be enemies in the future, but they have reduced the threat of other Western races in the process of Sinicizing the world.

Walking into the Juyi Hall, he found a corner to do it. Although it caused a burst of panic, it was quickly calmed down by the strong Li Ya, who continued the meeting and ignored him.

In the middle of Juyi Hall, behind Li Ya's chair, there is a huge map hanging. Li Ya pointed to the map with a bamboo pole and said: "In our Lawn, the French call it that, that is to say, our Xianju Town On the sea to the east, about 45 nautical miles, on the other side of the icebergs and hidden reefs, in the faint sea fog, there are two islands separated by no more than [-] nautical miles, which are roughly equivalent to the most prominent part of the adjacent peninsula occupied by us and the French. The size of this piece of land was previously the territory of the British, but now it is also ours.

These two small islands are not big, about [-] kilometers from east to west and [-] kilometers from north to south. There is not much difference between the two islands. However, the two islands are facing away from us. There are two French port towns Well, all the French escaped were on these two small islands, and because the time was too long, they had already transferred many warships from the mainland.

Our two fishing boats disappeared in this sea area a week ago. We didn't pay attention at first, but then an armed merchant ship we went to look for was injured by the French and fled back. We sent people to wait for investigation again and found them , Fortunately, Fei found out, otherwise we will face a huge test, and our fleet may not be the opponent of the French at all.

The purpose of calling everyone here today is to tell everyone that we must preemptively strike. We cannot let the enemy come to us and use naval guns to destroy the construction achievements on our island. We will occupy them and make this place our territory. It is about 45 nautical miles away. If the weather is clear, we can climb to a high place and vaguely see the highest place on the opposite island. "

Chapter 210 and Seven of the New Qin Empire

"We are going to launch an attack on the two islands now. Everyone in the sailor brigade, except the left-behind stockade and the coastal defense fort, and the personnel on the pier are all dispatched. We will use fifteen warships and eight steamships this time. , seized one of the French three thousand ton warships, five thousand ton sailing warships of the French, and two sailing warships brought by leader Wu Kejing and the others.

Among them, the sailing warships form a team, and the steam engine ships and warships form a team, with the steam engine ships as the main force and the sailing warships as the auxiliary.The steam engine ships and warships are dominated by the Jinhua ship, followed by the Xianju ship, followed by the other six ships, the Yangzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hangzhou, and Jinling.The sailing battleship, the French St. Lawrence was renamed the Taizhou, and the Taizhou was the flagship. Captain Saray personally led the battle.

The remaining ships have not been renamed, and are still called the Marlin, the Proximity, the Lawn, the Winter, the St. Pierre, and the Ispur and the Ankara.

With so many warships, it is not enough to transfer all the sailors on board, so the Turkish mercenary group sent 500 people on board, the African mercenary group sent 800 people on board, and another [-] British sailors and [-] French sailors were transferred on board. As the soldiers and handymen of the sailing warship, the sailors, crew and captain, and the battle command are all managed by the sailor brigade.

On the steam engine ship, the flagship is commanded by the captain of the sailors, Maureen, who obeys the command of the leader of Sare. The sailors are mainly equipped on the steam ship, and [-] Indians are transferred to serve as handymen on the ship. Jumping to fight, the Inuit served as gunners and soldiers, transferred the British and French, and the Iliads served as gunner commanders, boatswain and fourth mates on board and other highly skilled positions. The Han Chinese team had three people on each ship, Serve as supervisor and liaison. "

Li Ya finished talking about the assignment of combat missions, and then said to Sara, "This time I'll leave it to you."

Sare stood up, "Good leader, I will definitely teach the French a lesson."

The mercenary regiment still uses the title of the leader.

Li Ya nodded kindly to Sa Lei, then glanced at Zhao Shuai who was sitting in the back, and turned to look at Wu Kejing. At the same time, although the territory has expanded, a series of things are still handled by Li Ya. Sa Lei does not take power. Wu Kejing has made great contributions and is also the third leader. Li Ya's position was threatened, although Li Ya didn't say anything, Wu Kejing still knew that he was being left out.

After Li Ya glanced at him, he didn't say anything, then turned around and said to everyone: "I hope this time I can completely injure the French and let them know who is the overlord and who is the master here. I know they will definitely take revenge. They've done this a few times, but it's a pity that our mercenary regiment came together and made it through."

Many people were very excited. They finally survived and built such a large territory. Although it was still a small part of the entire island, they finally had a place to stay, and this place belonged to them.

Those new recruits from the mercenary regiment recruited by Zhao Shuai and Wu Kejing just looked at them coldly, they didn't feel anything about it, but Zhao Shuai and Wu Kejing agreed to pick them up, and the empire didn't pursue them Their identity and past only require them to continue to fight for the empire, and they still regard themselves as members of the empire.

But they don't know that they are different from the empire, and they have to actively integrate into this group from now on, otherwise, their end will be miserable. Li Ya has the same personality as the emperor Zhang Qiang of the empire, and he can't tolerate aliens at all.

As soon as they came, they sent a Turkish mercenary group. Many of them were Turks who could not get along with Turkey, as well as people from other countries conquered by Russia and Han exiles who fled to Turkey, tribal fighters in Africa and Western wanderers in Africa. Those who let them board the ship this time is to let them fight the French and consume them.

There are also many foreigners in the sailor brigade. Many foreigners were dispatched this time, but many of the sailor brigade were formerly members of Li Ya's mercenary regiment, especially the Han people. superior.

That is to say, Li Ya is preparing for consumption. Li Ya knows that these ships may not be able to beat the French fleet. After all, the French also have steam engine warships and sail warships, and sail warships are the main battleships.

At present, apart from the Spanish and the British, especially the British who develop steam engine warships, other countries still rely mainly on sail warships for maritime operations and travel.

The mobilization meeting lasted for a few hours, and then Li Ya announced the end of the meeting to prepare, and the next night, the entire fleet set out to sea in the night wind.

At this time, with the departure of fifteen warships, the entire port became a little bit free.

Wu Kejing came to Li Ya's side and said quietly: "Wen Ruxin and the others failed. Three days ago, they were surrounded by [-] troops from the British. The British fleet attacked them. Four steam engine warships and four armed The merchant ships were all sunk at sea, and the people on them were either captured or wiped out. Wen Ruxin and the others were besieged. Finally, because of the French and British rebellion, the [-] Han troops led by him were wiped out, captured and killed. , some people came back from the land and described what happened, and our personnel interrogated them to prove that it really happened."