Beiyang new warlord

Really proud of the Celestial Dynasty! Regardless of her chestnut reddish hair, Adelaine called the red-haired fan contemptuously, and at the same time pointed briskly with a small pointer on the full map of Ming Dynasty behind Mao Jue.

"October 28th, the Dutch fleet attacked our Fuzhou City Self-Defense Force in Lianjiang County, and brought back the remnants of the Tang thief Zhu Yujian and the rebel He Tengjiao back to Guangdong. On October [-]th, the investigating fleet found that the Dutch had left eleven Three warships were sent to assist Tang thieves in defending Guangdong Bay, and insiders reported that on the [-]th, [-]th, and the [-]rd of the next month, three groups of Dutch cargo ships berthed in Liwan, Guangzhou, and sent a large amount of firearms to Tang thieves. The Dutch also offered money and silk to help The Tang thieves recruited Tuliao into an army, and sent officers to help the Tang thieves train the army!"

"In addition, Qian Xi, the governor of Jiangxi, expelled the envoys we sent to surrender, and assembled a large army to go north. It seems that there is a tendency to threaten us towards Huguang!"

"There was news from the southeast that the Dutch and the Toungoo people were colluding secretly. Li Dingguo, king of Daxi Kingdom, also sent news to Daming. There was a red-haired barbarian who came to Sichuan from Yunnan to visit Zhang Xianzhong, but he was beheaded by Zhang Xianzhong! Others A month ago, a boat passed Malacca, and it is said that it probably sailed for the Mughal Empire."

Speaking of the situation here, Adelaine turned the map to the other side, Europe, and the pointer pointed to the "Japan" in Europe, the British Isles.

"Half a year ago, news came from our ally, the British, that the French and the Dutch jointly built warships in Marseilles. I'm afraid there was a conspiracy at that time, and our allies may also be in danger!"

Good guy, it's going to be like rain and wind, the Dutch are worthy of being a Shanghai merchant coachman. In Daming's country, Daming's allies are multi-pronged, and there will be a storm in the entire southeast. Look at After Adelaine finished speaking, the important ministers in the court who were already full of words suddenly started talking, especially Sun Chuanting, who had the worst temper and the hardest temper, was the first to stand up in a rage.

"Your Majesty, the red-haired feudal son of the Netherlands, a small country called Cuer, dared to offend our celestial majesty, and He Tengjiao and other national thieves arbitrarily set up a false emperor and colluded with foreign feudal vassals. The crime is heinous. Please send troops to punish it immediately!"

But before he could finish his words, Hong Chengchou, a senior scholar who is also in charge of the Ministry of War, shook his head with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, I think that this matter needs to be dealt with more slowly. Now my imperial army is gathering in the south of the Yangtze River. Huguang has only three corps of the Xuzhou Legion, which are more than enough to defend the city, but not aggressive enough. Jiangnan is still thousands of miles away from Guangdong and Guangxi. , and may lead to a rout, leading to even more corruption in the war."

"According to what you said! Just watching Tang Ni sit down?"

I really don't know where Sun Chuanting, who is in charge of the household department, has such a temper. Hong Chengchou, who is the most arrogant, is also blushing. But it was a one-sentence question that hit the point.

"Everyone, don't be busy arguing, you have never thought about why this Dutch barbarian has always been in harmony with my Ming Dynasty, why he suddenly made such a fuss and troubled my Ming Dynasty."

This question really stopped the whole court abruptly, and all the thirty or so important officials frowned. No wonder they were so angry, it was because they couldn't believe it, and they couldn't imagine that this Dutch red-haired head was caught in the door. What's the matter, dare to trouble Daming.

But the silence didn't last long, and it was broken by Mao Jue himself. With a bang, he threw a heavy ingot of silver directly into the middle of the conference table.

"Just for the money!"

"silver?"

Now that large ingots of silver are rare, Beiming Central Bank began to issue silver coins for circulation, which saved the fire consumption and cost of recasting year after year. This should be Mao Jue's private collection, but looking at the heavy silver ingots Rolling in front of him, Fan Wenju, a scholar of the First Assistant University, was the first to frown and shake his head suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, only the Eagles, the Portuguese, and the Dutch are the only Western vassal states that directly trade with Daming. Among them, the Dutch are the largest vassal state that trades with Daming. Every year they trade with Daming, and they can get hundreds of dollars. With an income of ten thousand taels, the Westerners are greedy, for the sake of money, it is too late to curry favor with Daming, so how can they go against Daming?"

"Mr. Fan said that the Westerners are greedy! What kind of business is the most profitable, and there is no business. When the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, the Dutch took advantage of the weakness of the Ming Dynasty and had no time to take care of it. They successively occupied the East Indies and Xiaoliuqiu. The locals were forced to farm for them, and the spices from the Spice Islands were sold for huge profits. The annual profit was more than ten million taels. It even held Malacca and controlled the entire waterway in and out of Southeast Asia. The profit space of the Dutch has actually been compressed by Ming! The Dutch are the hegemony of the sea in the West, how can they bear it!"

With his chin resting on his hands, he looked at the silver ingot in front of him with a gloomy expression. Mao Jue's voice was also gloomy, as if it was about to rain, gloomy and terrifying.

"Besides, my Ming Dynasty was not able to unify before, and the Dutch were able to occupy the East Indies. Now my Ming army is going south, and King Fu is watching the wind. The unification of the world is imminent. How can we allow others to snore on the side of the couch! The Dutch occupying the East Indies How not to be uneasy?"

"What's more, I, Ming, united with the British, and the British were even willing to support my son's marriage with their queen and daughter, and recognized my second son as the future king of England. The power of Ming Dynasty has spread to Europe in the far west. It’s a mediocrity not to be envied by others! The expansion of Ming Dynasty has already been feared by those Western European powers, threatening their hegemony. According to the signs, the Westerners have united to deal with me, Da Ming!”

"The Dutch are in the southeast of me, disrupting my unification! The French are in the far west, attacking our allies of the British. It is expected that in Tianzhu, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, and the Holy Roman Empire will also unite and compete with me. They want to force Da Ming back to the land, continue to monopolize the rich and rich maritime trade, and isolate Da Ming from dividing up the world!"

"We are now facing a war on a global scale!"

Speaking of this, Mao Jue's voice suddenly became excited, knocked on the table, and shouted loudly: "But I will never back down!"

Mao Jue's words are indeed shocking. Even after following Mao Jue for so many years, his vision is no longer as limited as that of those rotten scholars back then, but this is the first time that his strategic vision has risen to a global level! Even Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting's generation were all stunned, but they were a little dull, and each of the cabinet ministers couldn't help raising their heads again, and there was a look of excitement in the pairs of pupils!

These are outstanding people, how can they be willing to be lonely?But how can he leave the stage of a world of great controversy after making great achievements and leaving his name in history!

"Your Majesty, I believe that the most urgent task is not to fight Tang Ni in Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, but to repair the railway from Songjiang to Fuzhou at the southern end of the Yangtze River!"

"Your Majesty, I think that the army can advance slowly, and the navy can go south first to cut off the connection between the Dutch vassals and Tang Ni, and at the same time send envoys to mediate in the six Central and South countries!"

This is just an eggshell-like upper limit, with their eyes set on the global scope, and strategies were actively proposed by these important ministers! Listening to the ministers, sitting on the dragon seat, Mao Jue In those pupils, there was also a particularly fiery gaze.

It's a lot of fun fighting against the sky! ! !

Chapter 862. Daming, challenge!

The history of China is a strange circle, starting from the Han Dynasty, after experiencing a big troubled times, it began to recuperate, then prospered, reached its peak, and then began to decline. Unable to survive, the last vigorous tent uprising ended the entire dynasty.

After ushering in a big troubled world again, it returned to this vicious circle. This was the case in the Han Dynasty, and the life cycle of the Sui Dynasty was a little shorter, but it was also the same. The Tang Dynasty was also the same. The Song Dynasty was a little special. The foreign trade of the Southern Song Dynasty can be regarded as a small peak in ancient times.

Even today's Daming is the same, although Daming's maritime trade seems to be very developed, but the trade dividends have all entered the cellars of the family and landlords, and have not circulated in the market, especially since the imperial government did not receive a penny in taxes However, Daming 17 years before Chongzhen still failed to get out of the shadow of the agricultural empire.

So many dynasties before have one of the biggest common features, they all died directly and indirectly in the Peng uprising!

In fact, this strange circle is not difficult to explain. Huaxia is a too typical farming civilization. Everything is pressed on the land. The land in the world is limited. When the population expands to a certain level, the land will not be enough. The landless people do not have a developed industrial tertiary industry. , can only be the most unstable bomb in society, refugees! And even if we prevent land annexation, the land will still gather in the hands of some people at that time. He worked all day, but he didn't have enough food and clothing, and his ability to withstand disasters was extremely poor. Once he encountered a natural or man-made disaster, and there was a large-scale famine, these accumulated social problems erupted sharply, blowing up the entire dynasty. collapse.

So when I came to Mao Jue, I decided to get out of this vicious circle directly. The main source of income of the royal family and the government was changed from the tent that seemed to guarantee the harvest from drought and flood to the seemingly more unstable business. In the hands of Mao Jue, even agriculture Commercialization is also carried out, and large-scale commodity grain is used to meet social needs, and then all the surplus population is added to industry and commerce. Create more jobs, so that even if there is no awning, there are jobs to do, so that people will not starve to death.

Moreover, compared to the landlord class who are content with pleasure, guarding their own one-third of an acre of land for selfishness, and poaching the corners of the country, the merchant group is more aggressive. Road, get rid of those dishonest business guys. These greedy guys are not more patriotic, but in terms of interests, they are closer to the empire than the landlord class. It is also more conducive for the empire to maintain an aggressive and aggressive attitude by letting big businessmen replace the traditional landlord class. .

However, commercial empires seem to have many benefits, but they are more difficult to control than agricultural empires. You can see how the British rose in history. They relied on force to occupy a large number of overseas colonies. The colonies dumped a large number of industrial products, plundered raw materials cheaply, and completed bloody capital accumulation. If they want to do this, they must step on the heads of other countries.

Unfortunately, Mao Jue wants to follow this model, and the western powers also want to follow this model, so there must be irreconcilable conflicts between the two sides, and they must fight until one side completely falls.

The strategies of the Dutch and Ming are actually similar. Sir Curt’s main strategy is to support the Southern Ming and fight against the vigorous development of the Northern Ming, so that the two Great Ming Empires will be exhausted and scarred. On the corpses of the two, The Netherlands can feast on it, and Mao Jue actually thought about the same thing, to win over Britain, which first carried out the bourgeois revolution, as a younger brother, and then use Britain to intervene in the European continent, stir up internal turmoil in the entire European continent, and then profit from it.

Originally, the two sides were still in a balanced mode, and they were both tied to each other. As a result, a wedding in Xiangyang triggered a series of bloody incidents. With a lot of effort, Bei Ming easily defeated the seemingly huge and powerful Nan Ming, and the Eastern Continent of the Netherlands was balanced. The policy has gone bankrupt, so they can only fight barebacked and interfere with the unification of Ming Dynasty by force. At the same time, the French will take action to pull out Britain, Ming's nail on the European continent. If Britain falls and Ming still fails to complete the reunification, the West will win!

This is really a game on the scale of the entire earth!Fortunately, Da Ming, who has replaced the big capitalist big trust as the core driving force of the country, is not stage frightened!

The Ming Navy was the first to dispatch. Under the strong and powerful voice of Mao Jue from the Hangzhou headquarters, warships from all over Northeast Asia began to gather southward. Recently, the city of Hangzhou has become lively. My hobby is to go to the harbor to see warships, because there are new arrivals and departures every day.

Even after watching for a long time, they have summed up their experience. The warships are relatively dark, and they are basically built by the military shipyards of the Lushun generation in Lutun Island. Yes, and although there is technology sharing, after all, the craftsmanship of the old boatmen is there. There are more main warships in the north, while the south has some third-tier warships, and most of them are auxiliary warships.

Large and small warships formed a battle group, and began to hunt and kill all kinds of Dutch ships on the sea like wolves. If you want to support Nanming and Beiming to fight, you must have a ship that can dock, right?

However, in the army, Daming’s actions were relatively slow. After all, when the cannon was fired, ten thousand taels of gold, and Guangdong and Guangxi were still relatively easy to manage. Advance to Guizhou and Yunnan. With a single army, they could have fought against the 10 troops of the Qing court for more than ten years. If the Burmese side had not betrayed Ming Dynasty, and Li Dingguo, who had no hope, died of despair, the war might have been dragged on.

If you want to pacify the Southwest, what you need to fight is a protracted war of attrition. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your weapons. The most proud army in the Ming Dynasty only advanced to the Jiangxi-Fujian border this time. When the soldiers reached eight regiments, they first maintained the front with Jiangxi.

At this time, the most active is the legion under the Ministry of Industry, the railway army! The order from the imperial court was sent to various iron and steel mines in Liaodong, and the formed rail steel was transported to the south by Xulei Railway, and then starting from Nanjing, 10,000 + The army of railways was facing the damp and cold like a magical attack in the southern winter, rolled up their arms and sleeves and carried the rails to the south. The Ministry of Industry plans to complete the construction of Huguang and the two railways around the coastline in one and a half years. During this time, the Ministry of War only needs Urge the army to harvest the flat plains in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. As for the mountains on the edge of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Henan where the thirteen families in Kuidong were active in history, as well as the difficult and dangerous places in Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, when the railway is repaired, the energy of shells and bullets will continue to be delivered. Reach the front line, it will not be too late to kill him!

At the same time, Ming is also preparing to increase its troops to the colonies of the three islands of Luzon. When the railway is built to Fuzhou, land materials can be transported to Fuzhou on a large scale, and then shipped to Manila through Fuzhou, it will attack the Dutch in Batavia, East Indies At base camp.

With such a plan, within three years, the Ming Empire would be enough to complete the unification and completely drive the Western forces out of Southeast Asia. However, the only difficulty in the plan now is how to help the British allies far away on the other side of the world.

There is really a big difference between having such a [-]-year-old boy and not having one. The small countries in Europe don’t look big. If they really want to hold together, the fighting power is still very strong. The West still has a basis for holding a group. After all, everyone believes in God. , it is not without precedent in history, the Crusaders are the masterpiece of Western grouping, but if there is a British guy as Daming's western spokesperson, then the situation will be much better, for example, if you want to fight against Daming in France, the British guy can go for a walk in Northern Europe In a circle, everyone is a Protestant country. If the Frenchman, the Catholic, becomes bigger, we will have a hard time!

There is also the Netherlands, who wants to go to the east to fight for territory with Ming Dynasty with all its strength. As soon as his fleet leaves, the British fleet can directly raid his old nest.

It's just that in the east, Ming is playing at home, and in the west, it's their home court. It's really hard for the British and the emerging bourgeoisie to resist the powerful enemy of the French outside when there is chaos from the royal party inside!

A large map was hung in the office, and Mao Jue's eyes finally fell on the New World. Looking at the vast American continent, he shook his head helplessly.

"You still have to rely on that bastard!"

It is too difficult to take the eastern route to provide military assistance to the United Kingdom. The fleet has to bypass the Indian Ocean, the territorial waters of the hostile Mughal Empire. The route from the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea to the Mediterranean has not yet been developed. It can only bypass the windy Cape of Good Hope. Bypassing Europe under the traditional influence of the Spaniards, and then passing through the sphere of influence of France, and finally arriving in the UK, when a large fleet of 5 people arrived in the UK, there were only [-] left, thanks to Mazu's blessing!

Then the most reliable route is the Pacific Ocean route. By taking the Bering Sea and Alaska routes that have been opened, go south along the American continent, seize the Central American Isthmus in the hands of the Spaniards, open the Panama Canal, and drive the fleet from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, and then in the United Kingdom. The supplies from the thirteen colonies finally arrived in the mainland of Britain. After this, the risk factor will drop by [-] to [-]%.

The question is, in such a grand plan, such an important part, can that kid do it?