If it is said that the difficulty of driving the Dutch is very low.
Then the power of the Spaniards entrenched in the Philippines is relatively stronger.
"Your Majesty, the city of Manila is now a fortress city. The Spanish have greatly strengthened the defense of Manila through the route from Manila to New Spain. In addition, they have also formed a fast offshore fleet to defend Manila. Mainly It uses a type of paddle ship that has been improved on the Galese battleship. Although it cannot sail long distances, it is extremely fast. When equipped with bombardment guns, it is very difficult to fight in offshore and port areas."
Luo Jiangong said.
The Galaisai battleship is actually a kind of warship called a centipede ship in the East. It is mainly used in Mediterranean operations where the wind and waves are not strong.
The multi-layer oar seat used can provide the boat with extremely strong maneuverability through hundreds of people rowing.
"Ironclad ships can be used to deal with it." Zhang Hong, Minister of the Navy, said, "But the key to the problem lies in New Spain's Pacific Fleet."
"They haven't appeared in Manila yet." Luo Jiangong also frowned.
"Maybe we got caught in a storm and got stuck on the way." Zhao Wen, the prefect of Guangzhou, said.
"No, no, no, we can't make this estimate." Zhang Hong shook his head repeatedly, "If New Spain's Pacific Fleet gets the news of the British defeat in the Indian Ocean, it might not come to Manila again, but become a destroyer in the Pacific. Turn over the fleet and block our exploration ships heading to the New World.”
Zhu Daohua frowned slightly when he heard this.
"This is indeed a trouble, but it is nothing important." Zhu Daohua said, "The Nanyang Fleet does not have to wait any longer. Give the Spanish an ultimatum and ask them to exchange the Pacific route map for Manila, otherwise they will have more fortresses in the Governor's Palace of Manila. There’s no way to keep it!”
Of course it can't be saved.
With Luzon so close, the Ming Dynasty could starve all the Spaniards in Manila to death as long as it sent a large army to surround it.
The New World has always been one of the places Zhu Daohua is most concerned about. After obtaining a route from Japan to Hawaii, routes from Hawaii to the surrounding areas of Vancouver in later generations can also be explored soon.
If only I could get a nautical chart from Manila to New Spain.
Then the Ming Dynasty could march to the New World from the north and south.
Establish a trading port and use the land of the New World to attract poor people who have no food and clothing in Han Dynasty to settle in the fertile soil of the New World.
This is a top priority related to the stability of the new Ming Dynasty.
Because the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties did not cause a tug of war in the Han region.
Moreover, Emperor Zhu also tried his best to avoid tug-of-war. The Ming army's offensives were usually rapid strikes that seized key opportunities.
This greatly avoided population losses caused by war.
So the two years of war ended.
Although there were some population losses - mainly caused by the Taiping Rebellion's coercion operations in northern Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and other places.
But in the densely populated Guangdong and Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Liangjiang, Huainan and other places.
The impact of the war was relatively small.
Therefore, the New Ming Dynasty was actually a dynasty built on the body of the Qing Dynasty that was not very damaged.
In fact, many of the social conflicts in the Qing Dynasty would fall on the Ming Dynasty.
With many people and little land, the people’s ability to withstand climate disasters is extremely low.
This is the number one threat to every feudal dynasty, even a more powerful threat than the nomads outside the customs.
Because generally speaking.
As long as the Central Plains dynasty can maintain basic financial health, it will not encounter an abnormal era like the Song Dynasty when the nomads were unprecedentedly powerful.
The standing soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty can usually beat the nomadic herdsmen who have no food and clothing.
The number one enemy that destroyed the financial system of the Central Plains dynasty was the emergence of a large number of landless peasants who had no ability to withstand climate disasters due to land annexation.
Once a disaster occurs, these farmers have no choice but to leave the land and flee to survive.
This was followed by refugees, uprisings, continuous wars and the destruction of agricultural production.
As a result, the foundation of the Central Plains Dynasty was gradually hollowed out.
finally.
Or destroyed by the peasant army.
Or they were picked by tribesmen from outside the customs.
Or the internal military leaders formed a situation of warlord separatism, fighting for a hundred years, and then encountered the "Lord of Destiny" to rule the world.
Boss Zhu knew very well that if he did not solve the problem of too much population and too little land, his Ming Dynasty might explode one day.
Therefore, after he became emperor, he took the issue of how to alleviate the population pressure in the country as even more important than the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The approach is actually multi-pronged.
The first is to vigorously promote industrialization.
Industrialization can absorb a large population. In addition, it can also transfer the country's financial backbone from agriculture to industry and commerce through industrialization, so that agricultural production will not collapse in the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters. In this way, Ming imperialism will have no military pay to fight wars.
The second is immigration.
There are two directions for immigration now.
One is to immigrate landless farmers from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian to Borneo and Java.
This is because the people of these two provinces have a tradition of migrating to Southeast Asia and are relatively adaptable to the climate of Southeast Asia. Now that broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs such as garlic medicine are available, the number of population losses caused by the immigration process has been relatively small.
Going to Nanyang is no longer a desperate gamble like before.
Instead, the imperial court organized, distributed muskets, trained troops, and used the situation as a military camp to become colonists.
In the other direction is Liaodi.
The Qing government's wicker wall policy of closing off the customs and plundering native Manchurians as soldiers made the vast Liao land unprecedentedly desolate.
It has become a farming paradise that can absorb a large number of people.
The immigrants to Liao were mainly landless people from the Central Plains, Huaihe River, Shandong and other places.
But whether it is Nanyang or Liaoning, in Zhu Daohua's view, there is no need to worry.
Because this place is right at the mouth of Ming Dynasty.
You can eat it anytime.
The key is the New World.
The current situation in the New World is that the United States has just become independent, and the British Canadian colony and the United States are not as "friendly" as they were in later generations, and the two sides are at war with each other.
Although New Spain has strengthened its power in New Spain due to the rise of the Ming Dynasty, Spain was originally an old empire as thin as a mountain.
Nothing to worry about.
Europe is about to go big again.
The old colonial countries in Europe cannot take care of the Americas for the time being.
Both Britain and France will shrink their power back to Europe in the next ten or twenty years.
After being baptized by Emperor Zhu, Nahuang will definitely be more capable than the Nahuang in later generations when he returns to France.
Although Boss Zhu was once worried that Nahuang would really create a unified Europe.
But after careful consideration.
Emperor Zhu also believed that compared with the opportunity to occupy the New World, even if the emperor could really unify Europe, it would be worth it!
Can Europe really be unified?
Perhaps Napoleon could temporarily unite Europe with force.
But what about when his power weakens, or when he dies?
The probability of European unification is very small, and it is traditional to break up into fragmented small countries.
Therefore, Zhu Daohua believes that the risk is worth taking.
When Napoleon returns to Europe and all European dogs have lost their minds in the next ten years.
Occupy as much territory as possible in the New World.
When the Europeans react in the future, they will compete with the Ming Dynasty for the New World.
At that time, Ming Dynasty had enough population available in the New World.
Every time a ship of immigrants is transported to the New World now, Ming will have one more chance of winning in the American War twenty years later.
Therefore, for Emperor Zhu, if he could force the Spaniards to hand over the route map from Manila to New Spain at the expense of temporarily leaving the Luzon Island that he was talking about, it would save the Ming Dynasty the time and cost of exploring the route on its own. The cost was absolutely worth it in Emperor Zhu’s opinion.
After arranging the Nanyang strategy.
Zhu Daohua left Luo Fangbo to finish the meal with Luo Fangmei, who was pregnant again.
Luo Fangmei's current position is unprecedentedly stable.
This stability is backed by two legitimate sons.
Now Boss Zhu has many heirs.
For example, Wengzhu Princess sent from Annan and Myanmar can be produced.
In addition, there are also wealthy families in the country who send women to the palace.
However, according to etiquette, only the legitimate son is eligible to inherit the Ming Dynasty throne.
Even if the queen has no heirs, she can only adopt one prince to the queen's name and inherit the throne as her legitimate son.
But Luo Fangmei doesn't need it.
In addition to the prince Zhu Yicheng, the third prince Zhu Yixian is also the legitimate son.
Moreover, the prince Zhu Yichi, who is already two years old this year, is in good health. He has a tiger-like head and a tough brain, and eats a lot of meat. Now he can pinch the wet nurse's vagina. At first glance, he is Emperor Zhu's son.
The third child, Zhu Yixian, showed no signs of death - Emperor Zhu himself was a doctor. In fact, the key to reducing the rate of infant mortality lies in sanitary conditions.
And after giving birth to the eldest and third children, Luo Fangmei got pregnant again without stopping.
She can really be regarded as the "hero mother" of the Ming Dynasty royal family.
Until now.
Emperor Zhu already had five sons, among whom Luo Fangmei gave birth to two, Shi Xianggu gave birth to one, Tokugawa Manji also gave birth to one, and the third son was born to Ruan Yue, the princess of the Xishan Dynasty.
Five sons were sown at once.
In addition to leaving one to inherit the throne of Ming Dynasty.
Other arrangements must be made.
After all, Emperor Zhu did not intend to imitate Taizu and raise the royal family like pigs.
Instead, we should learn from King Wen of Zhou and enfeoff all the heirs and nobles.
Xia Jun Yimin.
Since there is a set of enfeoffments, the territory in America is the most suitable.
After being entrusted to the Americas, Zhu Fatty Emperor Zhu Yichi would not have to worry about his son's throne being taken away by some uncle - if he was still being imprisoned across the Pacific Ocean, he would really deserve it.
Moreover, it can also allow all the disciples to have a share of the throne to pass on, and there is no need to complain about the emperor's father favoring one over the other.
But here's the thing.
Emperor Zhu's sons are all young.
The window period for opening up the New World is these twenty years.
Now the princes are sent to the New World not to expand territory, but to die.
But if we start colonizing the New World now and set up a governor or something, then in all likelihood, the future will be as independent as the United States is now, and the American territory that we have worked so hard to open up may have nothing to do with the old Zhu family.
It’s really embarrassing.
Of course Emperor Zhu has selfish motives. If such a good land becomes a republic of gun-toting mobs like the United States.
That's really a bit unwilling.
What is a reactionary autocratic monarch (tactical retreat)?
This is why Emperor Zhu has not yet started the colonization plan of the New World.
That's the key.
He hasn't thought of a way to have the best of both worlds.
(End of chapter)
