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Although Britain and Spain, two heinous countries, fell successively in North America, according to prisoners' accounts, King James II of England died of dysentery, cold, and inflammation in 1700 about 500 miles west of the Mississippi River. and other disease syndromes.
The outcome of the Spanish King Carlos III, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the Americas, was even more tragic, but simpler and clearer. After hiding in Tibet for many years, he was "snapped" by a cobra while sleeping in the Rocky Mountains, and he immediately foamed at the mouth... …
Zeng Ying, a disciple of Emperor Hao Jing, paid a high price to buy the surrendered guard who had been protected by Carlos III. After searching for a long time, he found the man's grave, dug it up, and discovered the real owner.
I originally wanted to light a sky lantern on the spot, but then I thought about it and sealed the coffin with lime and sent it to California on a transport plane.
It was too late to report to Emperor Haojing, so the generals decided to adopt Zeng Ying's suggestion and fly the man's coffin to Lima...
The Spaniards destroyed the Inca Empire back then, and now it's time to take revenge.
It is for this reason that Boluo Zimin's prestige has been further enhanced.
In return, the amount of military equipment purchased from the Ming Empire began to be significantly increased.
Regarding this matter, Emperor Haojing's reply was only one word - OK!
The frontline generals are finally willing to use their brains to avoid being killed by pigs in the future!
Emperor Haojing had long told the story of "death by hitting a pig" to his ministers and generals.
To describe a person who is dumber than a pig, it means that the pig has hit a tree, and you have hit a pig!
After the two culprits were killed one after another, a large number of British and Western troops formally surrendered to the Ming Expeditionary Force.
Those who had surrendered before were all city-defending troops. Not many troops who were actually engaged in guerrilla warfare in the mountainous areas would surrender voluntarily.
The two kings died, but their sons succeeded them.
However, facing the increasingly powerful Ming army, the soldiers of both armies saw no hope of turning defeat into victory.
There are Ming Army fighter planes in the sky, Ming Army tanks on the ground, and Ming Army armored ships on the river.
You can't defeat the opponent in a city defense, and you still can't defeat them in a field battle.
If you want to win, you can only use night attacks and ambushes, tactics that were originally used by barbarians.
Even so, facing the well-armed and well-trained Ming army, it was still difficult for the two armies to win.
The number of troops lost every year is more than 100,000, and once lost, it is a permanent loss.
The Ming army would escort prisoners to places far away from the battlefield, such as the Inca Empire, and it would be impossible for the prisoners to come back on their own.
If you choose to surrender voluntarily, you will not only have travel expenses, you can be reunited with your family (if all your family members are not dead yet), you can also find a place to settle down and live a peaceful life.
The Ming army's attitude towards the British and Spanish armies was also very clear. The first offender must be punished, and the rest, except those who committed the most heinous crimes of killing innocent people, could be pardoned.
For those who are stubborn and want to resist to the end, we will adopt a zero-tolerance strategy. We will not be merciful to them and eradicate them without mercy.
On the one hand, surrendering can divide the opponent; on the other hand, military pressure can reduce the possibility of the opponent delaying time.
The reason why we use preferential conditions to recruit and surrender is because counter-guerrilla warfare is very expensive.
Even if the opponent only had 1,800 people, the Ming army would have to mobilize tens of thousands of people to encircle and suppress them.
There are helicopters and attack aircraft, and a large number of tanks and cavalry must be deployed on the periphery. This military expenditure will be wasted.
Moreover, North America is so big that it is difficult to send millions of expeditionary troops to complete the task quickly. I don’t know if it will end in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse...
As Carlos III was "loved to death" by snakes, the arrogant Spanish Empire collapsed and could never make a comeback.
This is not the case in the United Kingdom. In addition to the British in America, there is also the British in Africa, the same group of people that Cromwell took away.
Now living in central Africa, that is, north of the Congo River and south of French Africa.
When King João V of Portugal and his subordinate Zimin retreated from Brazil and planned to run to Portuguese Africa, that is, the Congo, they actually found that part of their territory had been occupied.
So the later official had a fierce battle with the local snakes who arrived first. On the shore, with the firepower of the fleet, the Portuguese army could easily overwhelm the British army.
But after arriving inland, the British army relied on their familiarity with the terrain to defeat the Portuguese army.
Cromwell III, Cromwell's grandson, was the commander-in-chief of the British army.
This family has another man who is good at conquering and fighting, which also allows the British army to gain a foothold in Africa where there are many powerful enemies.
To the north of Britain was French Africa, and to the south were the overseas territories of the Ming Empire, owned by Nicholas Zheng Yiguan.
It looks like there is room for change, but in fact the Congo's outlet to the sea is only about a hundred miles wide.
This was also done deliberately by Louis XIV and Zheng Zhilong, so that they could jointly monitor Congo.
Not far south from the outlet of the Congo River, at the port of the military town of Luanda, you can see Zheng Jun's giant ironclad ship.
The same is true to the north. The French army has a very limited garrison there, but this does not mean that the British army can invade at will.
When the Parliamentary Army was allowed to leave the British mainland and retreat to Africa to survive, it was because of Louis XIV's face.
As long as the parliamentary army is still hungry, it will not disturb the territory of an old friend without personally showing up.
I have to say that Congo is a really nice place, except that the weather is much hotter than in the British Isles.
There are fish in the river, trees on the bank, farming, logging, hunting, and a large number of black people to enslave...
As long as you work hard, you can harvest three crops a year without worrying about famine.
If King Ao V brought troops over, Cromwell III would certainly not give up his territory easily.
This place belongs to Portugal in name, but in fact it still abides by the law of the jungle, and the strongest people live here.
Congo also has an important role, that is, as a buffer zone between the Ming Empire and France.
When the Portuguese army and the British army fought in the Congo, the French army in the north and the Zheng army in the south were indifferent.
Now it's good, there's still fun to be seen in the buffer zone, it's best for both sides to fight to the death...
In public, neither the Ming Empire nor France would express their stance.
But in private, Zheng Chenggong would sell second-hand weapons to Joao V, and France would subtly help Cromwell III.
Since both sides have exhausted their weapons and ammunition, wouldn’t it mean that the war is about to cease?
That definitely won’t work!
You have to keep fighting!
After both sides suffer, we can sit down and negotiate to see how to divide Congo...
It is certain that Africa will be divided into six parts in the future.
North Africa and the Northeast belonged to the Ottoman Empire, West Africa belonged to the French Empire, and the Congo had Portuguese and British influence.
Everything south of the Congo belonged to the Zheng family, and the Netherlands luckily grabbed a piece of the East African plains - Kenya (including northern Tanzania).
However, Zhu Cixiang can roughly guess the result three hundred years later, that is, the Zheng family is still in southern Africa.
Apart from the Ottoman ones, it is difficult to say, because the colonial model of the Min Dynasty was completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty.
Ottoman's control of the local area is through brain waves, so his control can last for hundreds of years.
The strategy of the Ming Empire was to transport local people there and completely assimilate them.
In the future, there will be at least 50 million to 100 million Ming people in the West, and the local black people will not be able to make much of a splash...
All the people from Fujian who moved there admired Emperor Haojing's foresight.
Even Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Chenggong did not expect that there are such good places in the world.
According to the map shown in the Book of Heaven, South Africa has minerals, Mozambique has fertile soil, Angola has oil, and Tanzania and Zambia have ranches.
The waters of southern Africa itself are a fishing ground. Crops can be harvested at least twice a year. The weather is not too humid and hot, at least much better than Myanmar. This place really couldn't be better.
When Zheng has nothing to do, he organizes tourist groups with thousands of people to go hunting in ranches in Tanzania or Zambia and have a great time.
The captured lion heads, ivory, and rhinoceros horns could also be used as tributes, and together with the great white shark's fins, they could be sent across the ocean to the Northern Capital to meet Emperor Hao Jing.
Due to the great advantages in all aspects, with the help of word of mouth, Xidi also unofficially replaced Sichuan and became the new land of abundance in the hearts of the people.
Comparing the four places of West, North, South and East, West has indeed great advantages in all aspects.
Not to mention the climate in the North, half of the year is winter.
In the Southland, it was just the opposite. The eldest son of the emperor and a group of younger brothers were blowing up mountains and digging canals!
The East Land is pretty good, very suitable for people to settle down, but the mining areas are far less dense than the West Land.
The mining areas in the West are not only dense, but almost all contain rich ore with very large reserves, and are easy to mine mechanically.
The Zhengs and his sons were the ones who contributed the most to themselves and also provided money, so Zhu Cihong gave them the best piece of land.
Another reason is that the Zheng Group has excellent shipping capabilities. It can transport their fellow Fujianese to South Africa on its own.
The first choice place for Fujian people to stay is the West, because the Zheng family and his son are their fellow villagers and leaders.
This is how everyone followed them to Dongfan in the first place. It was right to follow the Zheng family and his son.
The first choice destination for Cantonese people is Luzon. The islands south of Luzon, including Borneo, are owned by many vassal kings and certain generals. Zimin of the vassal state and fellow generals will settle there.
The three large areas of land, the South, the North, and the East, were forcibly relocated under the orders of the imperial court from beginning to end, with priority given to the densely populated Central Plains area.
The dense population means that there is very little arable land per person in the local area. Even if we are not in the Little Ice Age, a drought or flood will affect hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.
Without leaving a large area of land to be reclaimed, even if the court had a pile of grain reserves, Zhu Cixi would not agree to let the poor people continue to live in one-third of an acre of land.
The migration direction of the people in Shandong and Southern Zhili is to the east, the people in Shanxi and Northern Zhili go to settle in the north, and the people in Shaanxi go to the west of the Western Region.
People from Zhejiang and Jiangxi can go to the south, and people from Huguang and Sichuan can go wherever they like. There is no designated destination, but they must obey the orders of the imperial court.
Mumin outside the pass can also choose where to stay. Anyway, he is grazing, and there is a large enough place for him to raise livestock wherever he goes.
After the summit, Emperor Haojing set out for his first global inspection of overseas territories the next year.
I had only taken a train to Northland before, but now I wanted to travel around the world.
The first stop is Kimchi, the second stop is Japan, and then from the Northern Territory to the East through the Arctic Strait.
Zhu Cixiang's first visit to Kimchi this time was his second visit to Japan. It was also the first time for many vassal states in the north to visit.
Departing from Tianjin in early April, the visit lasts about three days in each place.
In the past, in the age of sails, if you were delayed too long in the south, you would be frozen if you took the North Pacific route.
Now is the era of ironclad ships. There is air conditioning in the room to adjust the temperature, making the journey much more comfortable.
The speed of ironclad ships is much faster than that of sail ships, and they can also save sailing time significantly.
Zhu Cixiang's ship was a seventh-level battleship (King). He did not use an eighth-level battleship because he did not want to delay the Navy's time to become familiar with this level of battleship.
Seventh-level battleships are theoretically sufficient. They are accompanied by four battleships of the same type, as well as eight level-6 cruisers and eight level-5 cruisers. There are no ironclads below level five.
The rest are merchant ships that go to various places on the route. With these twenty 10,000-ton ironclad ships, it is enough to ensure the safety of the fleet and Zhu Cixang himself.
The only ones accompanying him were the Crown Princess Liu Xi'er and a bunch of biological mothers of the princes who followed the second son of the Crown Prince Zhu Xiangzhen to the East. The other concubines, including the Queen Xue Wanqing, all stayed in the Beidu.
After tasting Chongguo's famous king crab and various seafood, the group, who were full and full of food and drinks, set off on their journey again after replenishing their supplies.
In many vassal states before, Zhu Cixiang also brought many local products to express his condolences to the local Zimin.
The construction conditions of the various vassals in the North were roughly similar, and the capitals generally only had a few hundred thousand people.
It is equivalent to the population of the local county town, but in a cold place, reaching such a level is already rare.
Fortunately, the local people have no worries about food and clothing, and merchants come by boat regularly to trade.
Due to the abundant resources in minerals, fisheries, forestry and other aspects, the lives of local people are not much worse than those in the mainland.
Among the many vassal states in the North, Zhou State, which had the largest population and was able to mine, was the strongest, while Chong State, supported by sulfur and sea fishing, had the best economy.
Although it cannot be compared with Kimchi or the Japanese country, many feudal kings can live freely in their own land and live as they please, and they are contented.
In order to take care of the vassal king, Zhu Cixiang had already allowed the vassal king and his family to go to the southern vassal country to escape the cold for half a year with the consent of the other party.
In this way, the shortcomings of the Northland almost ceased to exist for the feudal kings.
When he arrived at the Dadong Empire and saw Zhang Tianen, the son of Zhang Tianbao, in the Bay Area, Zhu Cixiang was filled with emotion.
Back then, his grandfather was the one who came here to stir things up. Now he can finally take over the inheritance...
The Ming Dynasty also undoubtedly annexed his Dadong Empire, whose land was really not as good as the south.
After staying for a day, Zhu Cixi went to nearby Changtan for inspection.
It has developed into a large city with a population of more than 500,000, which is considered the largest city in the East.
Fort Long Beach was not demolished and the city was built on nearby land.
The military port is right next to the fortress, and the miner port is based on the city, so the two sides do not interfere with each other.
"I'm here! I saw it! I'm going to bask in the sun!"
Seeing the beach, beautiful women, and palm trees, this is what Zhu Cixi felt.
