The Great Ming Dynasty Dominate Overseas

Two flowers bloom, one on each table.

Let's say that the king of southeast Ming Dynasty, Yan Changwu, returned to Nanjing from overseas, and Gan Hui, the chief of the general staff, reported to him three major events.

Daming imitated the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters in the Southeast of China, and marching orders, while the Ministry of War was governed by the military and political affairs, with checks and balances.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a five-armed capital governor’s mansion, which was responsible for commanding military orders and according to the system. The military department was not in charge of the five-armed capital governor’s mansion. However, in the middle and late period of the Ming Dynasty, the system was corrupted and the civil servants were dominated. The senior military attache’s old-age facilities cannot play a restrictive role.

Xinming used the law to determine the role of the General Staff, and Wen Junji is directly responsible to the imperial court. The Ministry of War Shangshu has no jurisdiction over them. The Chief of the General Staff is responsible for issuing military orders and training operations, and there are staff officers at all levels in the army. The chief of staff is the chief of staff, and the lower-ranking is the staff sergeant. They have completed the specialization and not counted. Civil officials cannot replace them. The key is to have a hole!

With the establishment, who wants to move them to try!

Yan Changwu is very much liked by the bureaucrats of the two Chinese states. Why?

Because he continued to increase the positions of officials and the bureaucracy continued to expand. Take the Southeastern country as an example. There are 16 ministries under the cabinet. In the past, the dynasty was called "Six Shangshu" so loudly that only six Shangshu were obtained. And there are 16 ministers and ministers in Liangzhong, so there are so many positions!

Even though Xinming maintains six departments, its subordinate departments have increased, and its independent official offices have increased. For example, the establishment of a new "General Statistics Office" has been established from the central to the local level, and how many more officials have been added!

Compared with the former Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in order to save money, he wanted to lay off employees, causing a postman named Li to be laid off. Everyone knows the serious consequences.

Now Gan Hui is very energetic. He first described the Ming army's invasion of the north and seized the vast territories of Monan, Mobei, Beihai and Siberia. The Ming army swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger and created the open frontiers and territories that all previous dynasties had lost. !

The officials in the hall watched him click on the big map with the pointer, and their hearts fluctuated. This was an unprecedented achievement. So headed by the chief assistant Ma Shiying, the ministers joined Yan Changwu to congratulate Yan Changwu with a wave of flattery.

Yan Changwu waved his hand to show that he didn't care, but he was very happy in his heart!

Both China have a large amount of territories, and the future of our Chinese nation is extremely promising.

The territorial revenue is not just the list of Gan Hui just now. After Gan Hui's request, he hangs up another big map with TJ. He explained that this is a map of Asia and America.

"We have crossed the Bering Strait and entered Alaska. It is already the Americas. We have dispatched a fleet to cruise there!" Gan Hui pointed out.

The Bering Strait and Alaska are both names given by Yan Changwu to commemorate his past, not for outsiders.

Everyone looked at those places intently, and they didn't think that Daming's territory had actually reached America.

Both Chinese people knew that where their troops arrived, they came to "planting islands" and "building monuments", indicating that it was the territory of the two Chinas, and they must not easily lose their territory.

Listening to Gan Hui's talk, it turns out that the two Chinese forces had arrived in Vladivostok, where the main business was whaling!

The whaling industry is really a big business, mainly driven by the palm oil business in the southeastern country. Yan Changwu advocates the nightlife of the two countries. The lighting mainly uses oil lamps, and the fuel is palm oil.

There are many kinds of lamp oil. The best lamp oil is whale oil, which is bright and long-lasting. After a unit of whale oil is ignited, the lighting time is four times that of the same unit of palm oil!

It makes sense to think about how vegetable oil can be compared with animal oil. After all, it takes ten tons of plants to grow a ton of animal meat before it can be transformed.

Wealthy people use whale oil to light lamps, or candles made of whale oil. What is sold daily is a mixture of whale oil and palm oil, which generally contains 10% whale oil, the rest is palm oil, and good lamp oil contains 25 % More than whale oil.

Not only that, the whole body of whales are treasures. Whale baleen is an important material for women’s corsets, skirts, umbrellas, fishing rods and other commodities. Whale oil can be used for lighting, washing rough wool and lubricating machines, and sperm whale dung is precious. An important source of spice ambergris.

Whale meat is edible. After killing the whale, the whale meat is salted and dried and brought back to China. It is very popular.

In fact, the whale meat is rough and tastes bad, but!

There are many poor people in this world, and the rich do not eat but the poor eat.

Whale bones have not been spared either. They are ground into powder using wind mills and water mills and brought back to the country. They are mainly used as nutrients for poultry and livestock, and can also be used for fertilization of crops.

Vladivostok became the home port for whaling in the north, which was originally under the jurisdiction of the southeastern country. Later, Yan Changwu said that the jurisdiction of the southeastern country was limited to Taiwan, so it was handed over to Daming.

Its ship repairing, shipbuilding, fishery product processing, and wood processing developed rapidly, especially the whaling industry. In 1655, Daming fishermen killed more than 2,000 whales, most of which were towed back to Vladivostok for processing and sales, and their annual output value As much as 5 million silver dollars, it became an important economic income for Ming Dynasty.

In the presence of Yan Changwu, the senior officials of both China and the navy knew what was on the other side of the ocean. No matter how far away, the national power would be difficult to reach. Therefore, the government required fishermen not to go far, no more than 200 kilometers north of Vladivostok, and sent warships and patrols. Ships are patrolled and controlled, and if they are caught, they will be punished, arrested or fined.

As whales are gradually decreasing, the scope of fishermen's whaling continues to expand. They were originally active in the waters of East Asia and the North Pacific. They finally crossed the Bering Strait and reached Alaska. Even if they are caught, they cannot be forbidden!

In fact, fishermen do not want to. The hardships and dangers faced by whaling at sea are unimaginable. They not only have to survive the storm, avoid the ice, resist the severe cold, but also get rid of scurvy, lung disease and other diseases. Several years of whaling trips even caused some crew members to suffer from depression. In order to solve the boredom when no whales can be caught, and to pin their worries about their relatives and even their lives in their hometowns, the whalers had to communicate, read, write, and sing. , Making sculptures, drinking and chasing women, etc., and the sudden danger when hunting whales, whalers can only escape the resistance of whales by praying that they can escape the whale's fury.

Therefore, whaling is the career of the brave. There is one qualification test for the captain of the southeastern country's navy. Command a ship to sail from the southeast country to the sea and kill a whale to obtain the captain's qualification certificate!

Someone once asked Pan Duolin, the boss of the famous whaling ship~www.wuxiaspot.com~, what is the most dangerous thing in whaling?

Pan Duolin set the highest whaling record in the two Chinese whales. He killed as many as 26 whales in a year. That year he was very lucky and made a lot of money. The answer he gave was: "The most whaling The danger is that no whales can be caught!"

Once there is no harvest, the livelihood of the whole family will become a problem, so even if it is dangerous, they have to go to sea.

When there are fewer whales in a certain sea area, fishermen have to explore unknown areas, and they can't stop them. Otherwise, it is impossible for the government to pay for them!

The ministers now realize that when the army is expanding its territory, the fishermen have already "opened up the sea and opened up fishing areas" in the ocean.

"We have dispatched warships, and the Marines will go there!" Gan Hui's pointer went to the Alaska area and said: "We have declared Ming's sovereignty in Alaska. Now please let the prince instruct us, how should we manage it?!"

Everyone's hearts are beating, Daming has a new territory to make money, and everyone has a share of pork again!