The time now is already November of the 22nd year of Hongxing's reign in the Ming Dynasty. According to the Western calendar, it was already December 1670. Time really flies by, the sun and the moon fly by like a shuttle!
A lot of big things have happened these days.
First, the British East India Company's Southern Continent expedition discovered the west coast of the Southern Continent, established a colonial stronghold called Swan Castle (English name is Swan Castle, or Swan Castle), and found a route to and from the Southern Continent via the Indian Ocean. The route on the west coast - starting from Java Island, passing through the Sunda Strait, traveling westward along the South Equatorial Warm Current, turning south near Madagascar Island, then finding the westerly drift zone and sailing eastward, and finally turning around the Western Australian Cold Current near the west coast of the southern continent. Go north so you can reach Goose City Colony.
It is much easier to return to Java Island from Echeng Colony. The cold current of Western Australia is just outside the door. With a smooth wind all the way north, you can reach Java Island in less than 10 days.
The British Rear Admiral Worster left Goose City on the "Oliver Cromwell" in June of the 22nd and arrived at Temasek in late June. Then he took advantage of the southeast monsoon that had not yet turned to go north, arriving in Guangdong in mid-July, and then took another two months to reach Shanghai... Not only did he bring discoveries to Shanghai, the world capital of the East, The good news from the west coast of the Southern Continent also brought about the rare birds and animals of the Southern Continent - the Mother Beast and the Black Swan.
The Loving Mother Beast is the kangaroo originally known as the Snack Monster. During the Goose Water expedition conducted by Yang Yandi, they gained a better understanding of kangaroos - they knew that kangaroo meat was not delicious no matter how it was cooked, and they also knew about the kangaroo's pockets. It is not used to hold snacks, but to hold cubs, so the name Snackmon was changed to Loving Mother Beast... This can be regarded as a major scientific discovery, right?
The second major event is that Luo Zhichen brought back the draft of the "Ming-Timur Treaty" from Tianzhu. According to this treaty, the Ming Empire and the Tianzhu Timur Empire will form an alliance, and the two sides will open their markets to each other. , established embassies in each other's country, and established an agreed tariff system.
Of course, these are all trivial matters. The most important article of the "Ming-Timur Treaty" is that the Ming Empire will authorize the Timurid Empire to purchase slave scouts in its own vassal states of Zhungeer, Heshuote and Dai.
Don’t underestimate the slave boy scout trade. According to the tradition of the Tianfang Sect country that “foreign slaves are good at becoming officials”, these slave soldiers from Central Asia will definitely be the pillars of the Timur Empire in Tianzhu in the future. They are the core of the Timur Empire. Competitiveness!
And the Ming Dynasty controlled the supply chain of military slaves in the Timurid Empire through the Zhungeer Kingdom, the Heshuote Kingdom and the Dai Kingdom... It was equivalent to holding seven inches of the Timur Empire!
The third major event was that Li Shaoyou, the Ming Dynasty’s ambassador to France, sent back the news that the rogue foreign affairs mission led by Song Xiance was visiting Europe!
This is a big deal!
The bandits are going to do foreign affairs! Moreover, Li Shaoyou also reported in the memorial that Huang Zhisheng, the assistant manager of Shenou Bank, was a bandit. This profiteer from the imperial merchants ignored the emperor's kindness and took refuge in the bandits. He also informed the bandits of the true meaning of Westernization.
Now the rogue bandits have understood the true meaning of "it is better to make than to buy, and to rob than to buy"... and they have also ordered a large number of advanced arms from the Dutch as tools for robbery. When these tools of crime arrive in Myanmar, the rogue bandits will Another large-scale invasion from Tianzhu should begin.
And the fourth thing is a big headache... The Ming Dynasty, which originally seemed to be in a peaceful and prosperous age, was suddenly shrouded in a huge cloud of civil war!
A real civil war! It couldn't have come at a better time!
Seeing that a world war is about to begin, there is a fight within the Ming Dynasty again. It is really a headache!
One side of the civil war that is about to begin is Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu who have defected to the Ming Dynasty. Their armies have now basically controlled Uzang, Oris and part of the Dogan area.
On the other side were Wu Yingxiong, the military governor of Anxi, Wu Guogui, the military governor of Hexi, Peng Suke, the son of Dayan Eqil, the former military governor of Uzang, and Galdan, the military governor of Chuhe River in the Zhungar Kingdom.
It was Wu Sanguizi's group of disciples who colluded with the followers of the great lama and started fighting with the three vassals of Wu Zang, Orisi and Dogan who came over from the rogue bandits. Both sides have old hatreds plus new hatreds, and they both regard each other as mortal enemies! 877 good book network
This is really annoying to the extreme!
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"Father, this is a memorial from His Highness the King... It belongs to the three vassals of Shenwu Zang, Orisi and Duogan..."
Ding Yuying held a memorial and sat in a corner of the Huangji Hall, frowning with a look of embarrassment on her face.
She and Prince Zhu Hexing returned the home just last month - the reason for returning the home was that the two of them "screwed up" their errand in Tianhe Mansion!
In fact, it's not too bad, but it just spent three to four million to resettle the rogue military households, support industries, and develop the economy of Tianhe Prefecture, and in the end it was a mess.
The military households who allocated their land for farming were busy from spring to autumn and basically lost money! Many of them also mortgaged and sold the land allocated to them by the imperial court.
And the military households who received subsidies to open handicraft workshops are also having difficulty operating. They can't receive orders from the Ministry of War at all, and even the prince's intervention has no effect! By the time Zhu Hexing and Ding Yuying left Tianhe Mansion in despair, most of the workshops had closed down, and only a small number of them managed to survive by producing farm tools and horse gear.
In other words, after an investment of 3 to 4 million, there were only 30,000 to 40,000 poorly run family farms and hundreds of handicraft workshops that could barely survive...
However, Zhu Cixiang had no intention of blaming Ding Yuying. Instead, he admired the princess even more - because he knew very well that Zhu Hexing and Ding Yuying could not handle their errands in Tianhe Mansion... Those big military households Some people are not suitable for business at all. Whether it is a farm or a handicraft workshop, they cannot do well.
Therefore, most of them will fail in starting a business and spend the rest of their lives in poverty... If their relatives in the United States can dig up gold and send some money back, they can still live comfortably. A little, otherwise we will have to rely on the Ming Dynasty to provide relief.
This is also the reason why Zhu Cixiang arranged them in Tianhe Prefecture, because Tianhe Prefecture is the port for Liao's grain export, the price of grain is relatively cheap, and the cost of relief is relatively low... Moreover, many large-scale enterprises have appeared in the Liao River Basin in recent years. Large private farms (the small farms of military households were squeezed out by them) need to hire some short-term workers during the busy farming season, and the requirements for skills are relatively low. They can also be regarded as the livelihood of those military households in Dashun.
Another reason is that Liaoyang Province is an important town for the Andong Protectorate and the Heilongjiang Protectorate that frightened the Jurchens in the Ming Dynasty, and large armies have been stationed there for a long time.
If the Dashun military households in Tianhe Prefecture dare to rebel, then Liaoyang's army can come over at any time to suppress them!
Thanks to Ding Yuying's hard work, although the Dashun military households did not live a good life, they were all very grateful to the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess. When the two of them left, there were tens of thousands of people on the pier to see them off!
It can be seen from this that the three to four million taels were spent on the blade... and also bought the hearts of the people. This Ding Yuying did a good job indeed!
Therefore, Ding Yuying, who became pregnant again, resumed listening to and participating in politics in the morning, taking classes and making up lessons in the afternoon, and in the evening she had to deal with an energetic military prince (the prince also went back to study in the martial arts hall, Zhu Cixiang) from mid-November. I don’t have any hope for him anymore)’s busy life.
When Ding Yuying was listening to politics in the Huangji Hall today, Emperor Zhu asked someone to show her the memorial written by the acting king Zhu Cijiong, and also asked her for her opinion - not to test her, but to really want to hear from her, the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family. opinions.
"Father," Ding Yuying closed the memorial and said thoughtfully, "No matter what the third uncle's intentions are, his memorial is very important. It seems that there will be big chaos in the land of Uzang, Oris and Duogan. Got it!"
