Xinxiang City.
A businessman from France soon brought news.
The largest fleet in France, the French fleet specializes in escorting supply ships to the Brest.
In the Atlantic Ocean, they were surrounded and suppressed by Nelson and Collingwood, and were almost completely wiped out.
The Royal Navy Squadron in the Mediterranean also took this opportunity to attack Toulon again and surrounded Italy and Naples.
Forcing the two places to join the anti-French alliance.
The Brest, after being severely damaged in the Atlantic Ocean, returned to the port of Brest with more than 10 million taels of silver.
French Admiral Villeneuve was killed.
Because Philips saved the Brest, he was personally received by Napoleon and promoted to rear admiral.
France, on the other hand, has completely lost the ocean at this time!
When this news appeared in the Ming Dynasty newspaper, the entire Ming Dynasty was shocked.
Unexpectedly, their defeated enemies Nelson and Collingwood actually destroyed the French Grand Fleet in one battle after returning to Europe.
Even the Brest was seriously damaged.
People couldn't imagine that Villeneuve had taken the wrong medicine, so that such a straight fishhook could be fooled.
Just like five years later, a confusing operation ruined the French and Spanish combined fleet.
The French businessman entered the palace late at night and proposed to Zhu Zaiming to order four Dingyuan-class battleships.
Zhu Zaiming was confused at this time.
He knew Villeneuve was bad, but he didn't expect it to be this bad.
I wanted to flap my butterfly wings and let the French navy hold on for a little longer.
I didn't expect the butterfly effect to occur, but unfortunately it had the opposite effect and sent the large fleet ahead of schedule.
Zhu Zaiming frowned.
Europe has already started building wooden-ribbed ironclad ships. Once these ships are launched, even if the Brest is resurrected with full health, there will be no way to save it.
After all, this kind of early dome-armored cruiser would always be sunk when faced with a massive amount of explosive shells that cost a lot of money.
Maybe, is it really necessary to sell it to the French Dingyuan class?
Zhu Zaiming rejected such an idea.
Because when the Dingyuan class was born, it was already the eve of the launch of the dreadnought ship. It can be said that it is the crystallization of the industrial revolution.
Before the Ming Dynasty returns to its homeland, the Dingyuan-class battleship, a national weapon, will never be sold to the outside world.
Not selling the Dingyuan-class battleship does not mean that other ships will not be sold.
The Ming Dynasty's self-built fortress-class cruiser has 80 guns.
With thick armor and fast speed, the Fortress-class cruiser was more practical in Europe than the Brest before the old sailboat was completely replaced.
Therefore, Zhu Zaiming recommended the fortress-class cruiser to the French businessman.
At the price of 1 million taels of silver per ship, it helped Xinxiang Shipyard win an order for 12 ships.
Time enters October.
When the Xinxiang Shipyard officially started construction of the Fortress-class cruiser and Dongfeng-class destroyer.
Zhu Zaiming published an article in Daming Newspaper.
"Eight Hates".
This name reminds many people of bad memories, but it is the Eight Great Hatreds of the Ming Dynasty, not the Eight Great Hatreds of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The content is also quite explosive:
Emperor Zhu Zaiming of the Ming Dynasty wrote a sincere letter to the emperor and empress:
I, the Ming Dynasty, expelled the Tartars and restored China, and achieved a state of affairs that was beyond the reach of the ancient times. Nowadays, the Jurchens occupy the Central Plains, and the smell is everywhere. This is a hatred.
Keeping my head but not my hair ruins my Chinese clothes, so that I can no longer display my writing skills and my martial arts skills. These are the two hatreds.
On the 10th day of Yangzhou, there were three massacres in Jiading. Millions of people died, their bones were exposed in the wild, and there was no rooster crow for thousands of miles. These are the three hatreds.
The slave Wu Sangui of the third surname slaughtered the people and strangled Emperor Yongli to death in the cursed water. These are the four hatreds.
Hongli, the leader of the puppet Manchukuo bandits, absorbed the people's fat and anointed people, and even sold poisonous cigarettes to harm the people. This is not the behavior of a human king. These are the five hatreds.
The literary prisons were set up, the people were enslaved, and the style of the Han and Tang Dynasties was no longer the same. These are the six hatreds.
The country was closed, science was suppressed, and the industrial materials donated by Western Europe were privately owned and hidden deep in the palace. As a result, the national power lags behind that of Western Europe, causing the top of the world to fall into the valley, and the country cannot prosper. These are the seven hatreds.
The mere Jurchens, who had conquered the country only a hundred and seventy years ago, pretended to be orthodox and committed countless acts against humanity. Opium, slavery, etc. are all included, the world is turned upside down, the pure and the turbid are confused, and the crown is worn while wearing a monkey, the sin is heinous, these are the eight hatreds.
The bullying is serious and embarrassing.
Therefore, the eight hatreds are conquered.
The Manchu and Qing slave gangs who desecrated China must be wiped out. The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!
With the publication of the Ming Dynasty version of "Eight Great Hatreds", coupled with a large number of photos of Manchu corruption taken by Jin Yiwei, it directly pushed the public's anger to the peak.
"The crimes committed by the captives are monstrous, and the common people are in dire straits. We, the scholars, should join the army and serve the country!"
"Yes, reading? You're reading nonsense! Give me a musket, I'm going to blow the Jiaqing dog's head off!"
"It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty Army did not open up the selection process, otherwise I would also join the army."
"The strong man eats barbarian meat when he is hungry, and drinks the blood of barbarians when he is thirsty!"
The people were so excited that the newspaper was almost crushed when looking at the photo.
Zhu Zaiming issued a petition to appeal to Manchuria, and his intention was naturally to prepare for sending troops.
In response to the Manchu Qing's Northern Expedition, the General's Office has planned several troop dispatching plans.
The first plan is to attack from Guangdong and Guangxi. The target is the large amount of gold and silver in the Thirteenth Bank, while occupying the southern coast and gaining a large population.
The advantage of this plan is that it is the simplest to implement.
At this time, in the Manchu and Guangxi areas, the several green battalions totaled only 30,000 people, which was no match for the 1st Ming Dynasty Division.
In addition, being far away from the Manchu capital was very conducive to the safe digestion of Ming Dynasty.
The second plan was to land in Tianjin, penetrate directly into the capital, and attack the Manchu lair.
This is also a plan that most generals agree with.
If the Manchu and Qing court could be wiped out in one battle, the message would basically be spread throughout the country.
The first set of plans is conducive to population digestion, and the second set of plans makes rapid military progress.
But Zhu Zaiming had no choice between these two plans.
Instead, the third option was chosen.
Landing at the mouth of the Yangtze River, relying on the cooperation of the navy and army, we first cut off the connection between the north and south of the Qing Dynasty and controlled the important source of tax revenue in the south of the Yangtze River for the Qing Dynasty.
While stabilizing the Yangtze River front, the army was sent southward to suppress the enemy.
At the same time, land digestion and military progress were satisfied.
Moreover, starting from Jinling and sweeping the world, it is very consistent with the historical intuition of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Zaiming also wanted to see what Jiaqing's expression would be when he learned that the Ming Dynasty had reoccupied Jinling.
In this counterattack against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the General Mansion mobilized the entire First Fleet, a total of four battleships and nearly a hundred large and small sail warships.
As the main force, the 1st Army Division was transferred to the military port to prepare for boarding.
The 1st Division currently has 32,000 troops and is fully staffed.
And 12 new steam armored vehicles have been strengthened, and these armored vehicles will be used in the task of attacking Jinling City.
At the same time, the newly recruited warrior groups, with two groups of 2,000 men each, will coordinate to launch an attack on Jinling for possible fierce street fighting.
As for Xinxiang and Nanyang, the 10,000-man 2nd Division will be responsible for garrisoning and training at the same time.
The Ming Dynasty had 360,000 people and nearly 50,000 soldiers. It can be said that it was a military force.
This is also the reason why Zhu Zaiming chose to take the Yangtze River Estuary.
As long as Jinling is occupied, rely on the naval fleet to blockade the Yangtze River and block the enemies in the north.
In the early days, the land military pressure was much smaller. The small army prevented the division of troops in various places for defense, which led to some unexpected situations.
At that time, we can defend the Jinling area to the Pudong seaside and digest the population with peace of mind. We only need one brigade to go south and slowly regain the south.
Great things can happen.
