Lord of Ming Dynasty

He Haole said: "A few days ago, the Mexicans brought a message from the Spaniards. They want to negotiate peace with us. What do you think?"

Zhuang Lin rode his horse forward slowly, while thinking, while watching the captives working around him, he shook his head and said: "What about talking now, do they want to live in peace with us? They just acquiesce, peace talks are meaningless Whoever has the big fist, who occupies this place, who takes away the profits here, now we occupy it, the Spaniards don’t come, I’m afraid there are ghosts, or the British will come, maybe Nova Scotia Since we are very close to the mainland, the British would not go anywhere easily if it wasn't for a decisive battle, but we are here at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea, and it happened to be closed and beaten by others, and we still haven't escaped after wandering around for a long time.

When Molin and the others came here, the British must have known that we were here, and they might join forces with the Spaniards to deal with us in the future. "

He Haole smiled and said: "No matter what, we can ease the relationship. With the contacts of the Spaniards, we can increase the number of merchant ships or passenger ships that come and go. As commercial trade increases, our tax revenue also increases. Now [-] gold coins a month , You must know that when we were there, I heard that there were [-] gold coins a month, but it was still blocked by the Spaniards, and the enemy was strong and we were weak.

Now we have sinned against Spain and Portugal, and only France communicates with us, but there are still [-] gold coins. If there is Spanish trade, we may increase it to [-] gold coins. In addition, we can promote our Huaxia coins here. Now Europe basically The Internet has recognized and accepted Huaxia currency, and the transaction volume is small, but there are still some. "

Zhuang Lin smiled and shook his head, "It's useless. The Huaxia Empire doesn't pay attention to such gold coins and taxes, and neither does the New Qin Empire. The important thing is that we are here. Our influence is exerted here, we have a foothold here, this is what we want, and this is why I didn't turn back, but I meant to take root here.

See the overland road over there?

Our new Qin Empire will open up a second road back to the Huaxia Empire. From the Pacific Ocean, we will one day occupy this narrow throat of hundreds of kilometers.

Go down from the coast of Newfoundland, then turn to the east coast, go down from the east coast, and then go back to Nanyang with the selected sea area. From Nanyang to the Chinese Empire, this road is better than our risk of being blocked by the British. Crossing the North Atlantic Ocean, passing through the throat of Spain, entering the Mediterranean Sea, passing through Turkey, and entering our Chinese Empire through Central Asia will be much less troublesome. The only thing to worry about is the climate and hydrogeographical conditions of the sea. "

Chapter 430 Twilight of the Empire

In a blink of an eye, the Huaxia Empire has gone through nearly 70 years. It has been more than 80 years since it fought against the Manchus to the founding of the country. Although Zhang Qiang relied on the advantage of the traverser and had systematic blessings, he still could not resist life, old age, sickness and death. Finally, he gave the title of emperor to his son, Crown Prince Zhang Yongwu, who is in his 60s and nearly 70 years old. He abdicated himself to a corner of the palace, in the original seven-story courtyard that was originally built.

Over the past few decades, many people have left, and some of them have five generations under the same roof. The predecessor of Zhang Qiang, who was born in 1630, was 16 years old when he went to Jinhua Mansion to help Zhu Dadian resist the Manchu Prince Baylor. Now it is 1730 Years, a full hundred years old, and the people who followed him back then were all older than him, Zhou Porridge, Wei Wuji, Jin Sheng, etc. all passed away one after another, even Xue Hong, the juniors, had passed away.

All their sons have passed away, and their grandsons are all gathered together in the court, and the lowest ones have retired to rest in the state capital. The newcomers are all from the generation of great-grandchildren of these people. The generation of confidants promoted by Zhang Qiang basically either died in battle or died of old age. At worst, they could only rest at home, looking old.

In the past 30 years, under the brave management, the government is also good, at least the economy is prosperous. Although there are not many governors in various places merged into the core area, most of the people's livelihood is getting better and better. Containment, the population slowly dropped from 8000 million to [-] million.

Most of the surplus population went to Turkey, Romania and other places, which was nearly [-] million people, and the Chinese Empire didn't care what happened to these people.

Most of these populations took root in these areas, some scattered to the west, and some people died in the New Qin Empire. About one hundred thousand people became the population of the New Qin Empire. The New Qin Empire The pace of introducing population from these places has been stepped up, and the population of the island has grown to 30 Han Chinese in the past few years, crowding out the living space of many foreign populations such as mercenaries.

As a result, many mercenaries, except those in the army, were transferred to Nova Scotia and the small port of Cologne in the Caribbean. The number of Han Chinese in the small port of Cologne reached 5, and the immigrant population of other countries also reached 3. People, ports and small towns have been expanded to become the only most prosperous port city in the vicinity, a large city.

Not to mention the local aborigines who surrounded dozens of small villages or immigrants from various countries who landed.

However, the Han people still like to gather together and form groups of Han people around them. Most of them are in the cities, doing business, teaching, and working.

But most of them are for the navy and army and the new Qin Empire.

The port is surrounded by an ocean and a river leading inland.Many people go boating and fishing on the river, and the fishery resources here are also very good.Not as rich as Newfoundland, but no less.

But even so, the Huaxia Empire still did not support most of the Han people to the New Qin Empire, because many people were unwilling to cross the sea, and the human resources of the New Qin Empire still could not compete with the population of the West.

Nowadays, with the population circulation in the West and the prosperity of the slave trade, the populations of various countries have increased. Even the native population of Portugal has more than 300 million people, the population of Spain has nearly 500 million people, and the population of the Dutch has 120 million people. There are 900 million people, the United Kingdom has 3000 million people, and France has even more people, nearly [-] million people.

The population of the Qing Dynasty is nearly 800 million people, and the population of Russia is even more terrifying, with 4000 million people. If you add the Han Chinese who have been there for so many years, it will have a population of 5000 million people, and the population of Turkey is 200 million people. , Of course, these are approximations. In the absence of a later census system, many populations are approximate estimates.

Many immigrants from the Chinese Empire used to be forced. With the prosperity of the economy, the number of merchants increased, and the population flow was very large. They went to the Governor-General, or in Australia, and Siberia increased. In recent years, it has gradually stabilized, and the population of Siberia has reached 4000 million. , Australia's population has reached 3000 million people, and the other islands and the Governor-General's District have 2000 million people, or 600 million people.

This is all due to the prosperity of business and trade, the prosperity brought about by the stability of the government, the population increases, and the economy rises, and the enthusiasm of the people to have children is low. In the past, there were more than ten children left in a family, and seven or eight children survived in the end. Now one The family survives four or five, but can survive four or five, and most of them can find jobs, or do things to support themselves.

To find things to do and support themselves, many places in the local area can no longer satisfy them, so they take the initiative to immigrate, instead of many places that are relatively barren at the beginning, and need to be developed by captives, slaves to farm, labor, there are After the foundation was established, immigrants took over in the past, and then after one generation of construction, the second generation took over, gradually accumulating a lot of people, but many people died of pioneering.

This is the pain of development.

However, although Yongwu is old, he still has the desire to develop, and he still manages the government with great care. Soon his health is not good, so when the establishment is discussed, the right of succession is transferred to the second Yong. The tattoo was on, because his eldest son in line of succession unfortunately passed away, so the right of succession was transferred to Zhang Qiang's second child, the prince, so the second child came back from Australia, re-entered the court, and served as the prince prime minister.

After some struggles in the empire, Zhang Qiang made a decision, the second child took over, the eldest son of the second child became the heir in line, and the second son of the eldest son became the heir in line [-].

To find things to do and support themselves, many places in the local area can no longer satisfy them, so they take the initiative to immigrate, instead of many places that are relatively barren at the beginning, and need to be developed by captives, slaves to farm, labor, there are After the foundation was established, immigrants took over in the past, and then after one generation of construction, the second generation took over, gradually accumulating a lot of people, but many people died of pioneering.

This is the pain of development.

However, although Yongwu is old, he still has the desire to develop, and he still manages the government with great care. Soon his health is not good, so when the establishment is discussed, the right of succession is transferred to the second Yong. The tattoo was on, because his eldest son in line of succession unfortunately passed away, so the right of succession was transferred to Zhang Qiang's second child, the prince, so the second child came back from Australia, re-entered the court, and served as the prince prime minister.

After some struggles in the empire, Zhang Qiang made a decision, the second child took over, the eldest son of the second child became the heir in line, and the second son of the eldest son became the heir in line [-].

The first thousand and 430 chapters Twilight of the Empire 1

This is good for the empire, but it suffers from those soldiers who have been abolished, especially the large number of garrison troops. Originally, with the abolition of the garrison army, guard army, and cavalry army, these people have turned into garrison troops. Everyone in the army can also receive a military salary and do some other jobs. Although they also train, the intensity of training has gradually decreased. For 30 years, training has almost stagnated. Receive a military salary, because there is really no time and place to use them.

The territory is vast, and some garrisons are unwilling to go far away, while some local garrisons continue to accept new soldiers in the new barracks. Although there is a method of retiring recruits, the last brave abolition and merger has strengthened the garrison and weakened the garrison. Army and cavalry army, guard army, increased field army, changed the army structure, and the recruit retirement method became impossible to implement, so it finally became recruit training for two years, most of them were added to the garrison, and some retired, The garrison could not be retired after less than four years, so the accumulation of personnel was serious.

The elite of the garrison has been transferred away, and the rest are mediocre or soldiers like militias from places where training has been abandoned. Where are the elite of the garrison?They are all guarding the frontier in the governor's district.

Under the impact of the economic tide, the garrison in the core area is mostly doing business and stealing chickens and dogs. This time, so many people have been abolished. It is these people. Some of these people really don’t want to stay in the garrison. Once they are abolished, they will immediately Like a dragon entering the sea, I am very happy, but a large part of it has lost a lot of income, which is very unsatisfactory, so the undercurrent of the empire is surging. After Yongwen took over as the prime minister of the empire, although the prime minister does not care about the army, the living arrangements of these people But they need to make arrangements. The Privy Council and the Ministry of Defense can just abolish it.

The way Yongwen thinks is to let Yongbing think of a way. If Yongbing can throw these soldiers to Russia, Turkey, and Iran's Bolshav Dynasty, it's all about that side, isn't it? their business.

This has created a flood of Han people there, and in order to integrate into the local area, many people have become lackeys of the Russians and Turks, either resisting, or sticking together to protect themselves.

It can also be said that the Chinese Empire has infiltrated East Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. After ten years of infiltration of nearly 2000 million people, at least 8000 million people have been killed or injured, but nearly [-] million people have settled there, and others are scattered. He has left for other places in the West, has no fixed residence, and is still wandering.

This wandering population is still in Siberia, the Qing Dynasty, Russia, Turkey, Central Asia, and other countries migrated to the west. Some people were absorbed by the New Qin Empire. The number of people absorbed by the New Qin Empire was very small, because many people were unwilling to go to China. The place where the empire is glorious, otherwise it would be better to stay in the Huaxia Empire. To put it bluntly, it just looks down on the New Qin Empire.

The navy of the New Qin Empire has developed more and more in this tide. Not only the first-class battleship fleet captured by the British has enough manpower to operate, each battleship has 400 people, except for a small number of hard work and prisoners. Most of the coal in the bottom warehouse and the cleaning of the deck were used by Han people, which made the imperial fleet more assured to hand over to the navy.

In the past, in order to restrain those mercenaries and dissident Han Chinese, the empire did not dare to trust a warship purely to one type of people, and there were always checks and balances from all sides. Now the first Han Chinese have high loyalty, and the later Han Chinese, plus some slaves and captives, hired foreigners, let alone 400 people on a ship, 800 people may be safely handed over to some mercenary officers for command.

With the prolongation of the battle, how many first-class battleships or other last-class battleships manufactured by the British were defeated or captured by the iron-clad New Qin Empire. The number of British second-class battleships and above captured by the New Qin Empire exceeded 180. After the transformation, more than 130 ships were usable, and [-] ships were finally listed for use. The others were either sold to the French, the Spaniards, or the Dutch.

The New Qin Empire basically had no small ships, and they were all large ships with a tonnage of 35 tons or more. Wunan and their warships were also updated, from ordinary sailing ships to large-tonnage sailing ships, and then all large-tonnage sailing ships were replaced. The steam engine warships of more than [-] tons were replaced later by the steam engine warships of [-] tons, and now they are all replaced by British first-class and second-class battleships. Three remodeled warships, recaptured the Portuguese hero port years ago, and fully occupied the Azov Islands.

This also reduced the relationship between the New Qin Empire and the Portuguese to a valley. The Portuguese fleet harassed the Azov Islands several times. Wunan and the others fought several times with the Portuguese in the Azov Islands. Once, the British and the Portuguese joined forces to fight Wunan and the others twice. Another time, Spain joined forces with the Portuguese, and the British fought the New Qin Empire once. As a result, Morin led the main fleet to help, and the three kingdoms returned home.

However, the trade between the Spaniards and the New Qin Empire has not been cut off. There seems to be a tacit understanding between the two sides. The merchant ships of the American colonies, or all the ships of the British North American colonies, while the British would not intercept merchant ships going to other places, the British would intercept them wherever they went, and the Spaniards had a good relationship with the New Qin Empire.

The Portuguese merchant ships were fully intercepted. The Portuguese merchant ships to North America, South America, and Africa were all intercepted by the New Qin Empire, while the Portuguese fleet intercepted the merchant ships of the New Qin Empire and the Chinese Empire outside the port of Spain. The merchant ships of the Chinese Empire from Turkey, Russia, and Eastern Europe were very troubled. After Song Qing led the fleet back from Panama, Morin sent him to escort the coast of Spain, passing through the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar.

On the Caribbean coast, the British fought against the Dutch, French, Spaniards, and Portuguese today, reconciled tomorrow, and fought again the day after tomorrow or within three months. Zhuang Lin and their fleet took the route, so many ships followed the Xinqin Empire to and from the mainland of the New Qin Empire and the territory of Panama or the territory of Nova Scotia.

As long as the New Qin Empire trades with us, you will be escorted for free. It is not a merchant ship sailing in the New Qin Empire. As long as you pay the escort fee, they will generally let them follow. The New Qin Empire began to escort merchant ships.

After several years of development, the New Qin Empire not only possessed as many as 130 ironclad ships, but also had [-] first-class and second-class battleships captured by the British. With so many main battleships, the New Qin Empire took care of the local , two territories, and merchant ship escorts on the routes leading to Turkey and other places. With the strength of the ships and guns, several Western countries were extremely decadent.

The first thousand and 430 chapters of the rapid development of the empire 1

It can be said that by 1730, the New Qin Empire had accumulated a lot of accumulation and had become a small regional power in North America.

Although the population is only 60, there are 50 Han Chinese, 10 foreigners and indigenous people, 65 immigrant foreign businessmen, and [-] slaves and captives.

It can be said that after several years of steady development, the New Qin Empire has successfully developed despite the suppression of the United Kingdom.

Although there are not many warships, all of them are stronger than the British warships. After several years of consumption, the British have lost 15 warships, nearly [-] main battleships, and the loss of personnel is even more than [-]. The above are all regular naval troops trained by the British, and the loss of other sailors and mercenaries is more than [-], which makes the British feel a little bit hurt.

Since the British were injured, after several wars, they withdrew the fleet blockade across the Atlantic.

Because what they are doing now is not to fight against the New Qin Empire, but to compete with France and Spain for the colonies in the Caribbean Sea. Compared with the two, they have invested too much in the Caribbean Sea, and North America has also invested too much. At the same time, because of the New Qin Empire The empire suppressed Nova Scotia, and they lost nearly [-] miles of land and three islands. This made the British feel that if things on land were not settled, no matter how powerful the sea was, there would be no benefit, so they temporarily backed down.