"Use? What do you mean?" Seattle showed a look of realization.
"I understand, since the white people want to use us to deal with Akito, we can take the opportunity to ask the white people to give us more muskets, more cannons and gunpowder!"
Seattle laughed.
The Soviet Union in North America was certainly not the industrialized Soviet Union of later generations. They were a nomadic and nomadic Soviet Union, so they could not produce their own muskets, artillery, and gunpowder.
They are not even a country - strictly speaking, the social form of the Sioux Tribal Alliance is somewhat similar to the Chinese Tribal Alliance before the establishment of the Xia Dynasty, compared with the mainland of China.
Chief Seattle himself is similar to tribal leaders such as the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor who are respected by the Chinese tribal alliance.
but.
The Sioux Tribal Alliance is a tribal alliance with muskets and artillery, and it is very powerful.
Right now.
The curtain of the tent was opened, and a tribal warrior walked in. After saluting respectfully, he said: "Chief, great elder, the white man's envoy is here!"
Seattle and the Great Elder looked at each other, and they immediately sat upright.
"Invite them in!"
"What? You want five thousand muskets and one hundred cannons?"
The three envoys were startled by the large opening of Chief Seattle's lion.
"No, no, no, we can't give you so many weapons."
"Then there's no need to talk. We can go talk to the Chinese about these things." A hint of cunning flashed in the corner of Chief Seattle's eyes.
The three chiefs looked at each other.
In fact, it’s not impossible to give.
Although Chief Seattle feels that he wants a lot.
But is five thousand muskets a lot?
Not much at all.
But they cannot let these natives have the illusion that "they can easily give out many weapons."
"We can give you five thousand muskets, but this quantity is too much, so in the early stage we can only give you one thousand!" John said, "If you can exchange Akito's head, one head. Five muskets!" John said, holding out his palm.
In the wild new world.
Although all forces are brewing.
But it is not easy to start a war in the New World, which lacks infrastructure and doesn't even have many roads.
And right now.
The second batch of 10 New World-type immigrant ships and two escort warships heading to the New World have been sailing continuously for nearly twenty days after replenishing fresh water and food from Tokyo Bay.
Follow the logbook.
This should be very close to the New World.
You may see the big lighthouse on Jinshan Harbor Mountain at any time.
"Master Li, it should be almost here now, right?"
On an immigrant ship.
Sichuan farmer Xu Fugui and his fellow villager Li Zhongyi and Li Xiucai got a chance to get some air together.
Because there are too many people on an immigrant ship.
Therefore, you need permission to go to the deck, and you can only come out at the specified time and place.
So although Li Zhongyi still looks sick now, he still doesn't want to miss this opportunity to breathe. The smell in the cabin is really unpleasant.
Speaking of which, Li Zhongyi was also unlucky.
He originally went to Chengdu to take the scholar examination. After passing the examination, he was assigned to work as an official in the Sichuan Immigration Bureau.
Li Zhongyi, who had no connections in Chengdu, was arranged to go to the New World on a ship - it was said that he could come back.
Li Zhongyi originally thought it was nothing.
It's nothing more than taking a boat.
He is from Sichuan and has seen many rivers, so taking a boat is not a problem for him.
It takes thirty days to go and forty days to come back, which is a matter of several months.
But who would have thought.
As soon as this big ship goes to sea.
The bumps on the sea are nothing compared to the rivers in Sichuan.
This one got bumpy.
Li Zhongyi almost vomited his stomach.
fine
There are acquaintances on this ship.
It was the family of his old tenant farmer Xu Fugui.
Xu Fugui's ugly daughter is fully clothed and taken care of these days.
If not.
Li Zhongyi may not be able to survive the day to reach the New World.
"I'm afraid it's too late. It was promised that it would take twenty days to depart from Tokyo Bay, but now it's already twenty-one days."
Li Zhongyi said.
He looked at Xu Fugui and sighed again.
A yellow-flowered girl, barely clothed, almost took care of her personally for twenty days.
What a life-saving grace!
If I don't marry this girl.
Is that still a person?
If he didn’t marry Xu Aju (Xu Fugui’s daughter).
Then Xu Aju had only one way to go. That was to jump into the sea and be done with it.
After all, this is the 18th century, when folk customs are not yet open, and the Ming Dynasty has left behind many "bad habits" of the Qing Dynasty, such as this woman's reputation for chastity.
Therefore, regardless of honor and integrity, someone saved my life, and all I could do was to commit myself to him.
but
People are really ugly
But Li Zhongyi doesn’t know how precious women in the New World are.
Especially purebred Han women.
Now I am still in the midst of blessings and don’t know how blessed I am.
At this moment...
Someone shouted loudly: "Land! Land is seen!!"
"We're here! We're here!"
"God bless! It's finally here."
Suddenly, the immigrants on more than a dozen boats cheered.
Along this way, no one has died on any ship. This journey has been really difficult.
But it finally arrived.
Li Zhongyi ran to the bow of the ship excitedly and looked at the legendary New World.
Xu Aju also came out, holding a musket in her hand - this is the standard equipment of all New World immigrants, not to mention Xu Aju, even her old mother and silly brother have a gun.
Firearms can be used for self-protection and hunting.
Both are weapons.
It is also a production tool.
At present, farmland has not been cultivated in the New World.
The importance of guns is too great.
At this time, Xu Fugui began to persuade his daughter: "My dear, Master Li is a scholar and not someone we can deserve. However, Master Li seems to be a kind person, and we don't want to be a real wife. Let him It’s okay to take a concubine in the future.”
Seeing his daughter's ugly appearance, Xu Fugui sighed.
In the future, what can happen in the future?
It's nothing more than being bullied by the wife and being ignored by the husband.
Xu Aju's eyes turned red and she subconsciously clenched the gun in her hand.
Just as a new batch of fleets heading to the New World arrived.
The first batch of fleet has returned to Shanghai Port.
More intelligence from the New World.
It was also placed on the desk of Emperor Zhu Daohua.
"Arab League...Soviet Union?"
Boss Zhu took a breath when he saw these two names.
Forget about going against the American imperialists, but also add the Soviet Union?
This is not how you seek death.
The Arab League is okay.
There is no oil in the New World anyway.
The name Soviet Union is too scary.
Boss Zhu took a closer look.
Oh, it turned out to be the Confederation of Sioux Tribes.
Boss Zhu wiped his cold sweat.
"Your Majesty, I think that although Zeng Ada's strategy is sound, it only defends but does not attack. I am afraid that it is a bit too conservative. The surrounding indigenous tribes and white forces have colluded. In this case, we should try our best to control the Jinshan Governorate. The surrounding tribes will have to be cleansed."
The person who was speaking was Tao Biquan, who returned to Zhongdu and became the Minister of the Ministry of War.
At this moment in the conference room of Beiyuan Palace.
A military meeting is being held.
Including the left and right prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, the chief of staff of the Generalissimo's Office, and the ministers of the Navy Ministry and the Army Ministry, they were all accompanying Emperor Zhu to look at a newly completed sand table.
This sand table is a topographic map of the Jinshan Governor's Palace with a radius of two hundred miles created by the Generalissimo's Mansion based on the first batch of data brought back from the New World.
The terrain conditions everywhere are clear at a glance.
And before this meeting starts.
Everyone also knows the current situation in the New World.
The situation is not good.
There is a tendency for indigenous people and white people to join forces to deal with the Jinshan Governor-General of the Ming Dynasty.
It was planned to launch a war when the Ming Dynasty had not yet established a stable foothold in the New World.
fine.
The second batch of immigrants was triggered in time, and the third batch of immigrants is also being prepared.
At the same time, private consortiums also plan to organize private fleets to go to sea to explore around the Jinshan Governorate, looking for mineral deposits and opportunities to make a fortune.
As the number of Chinese in the New World increased.
The certainty of victory in the war is certainly greater.
"If we want to send troops, will it be too much pressure to send another army?"
Gu Song, the left prime minister, frowned and said.
On the other side, Right Minister Peng Jun said: "In fact, we don't need too many troops, Your Majesty. Since the Soviet Union and the Arab League are nomadic and hunting tribes, why not let the Mongols deal with them? Let the Mongols go Grazing in the New World? Let them nomadically look for trouble with the Spanish, Americans, and Britons at the same time, and burn the flames of war into the enemy's territory. In this way, the security of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion will be sufficiently guaranteed."
Peng Jun's suggestion made many people present shine, but many people were shaking their heads.
"Mongols? They are no longer as brave as they used to be. These Mongols have been brainwashed and stupid by the Yellow Cult and cannot be beaten at all."
someone said.
"What should we do? Send a few dragoon brigades to sweep back and forth?"
“The cost is too high”
I saw that the ministers were arguing.
Zhu Daohua shook his head and said: "Isn't the Japanese samurai regiment doing a good job in Nanyang? Let's recruit another Japanese samurai army of about ten thousand people to fight in the New World."
As soon as this statement came out.
Many ministers looked solemn.
"Your Majesty, recruit 10,000 more Japanese warriors? Isn't this too much? There are 40,000 Japanese warriors fighting in Nanyang, and 10,000 Japanese warriors have been recruited in the northeast to wipe out the natives. Now recruit 10,000 more, then But it’s only 60,000. Your Majesty, don’t forget Li Tang’s lesson.”
Peng Jun frowned and said: "The Japanese are not from our tribe, and their hearts must be different. Your Majesty should use your courage with caution. Moreover, the Japanese are closer to the New World, just in case."
Of course Peng Jun would not know how much harm the Japanese had done to China in another time and space.
His current opposition to the excessive use of Japanese soldiers is based on the lessons of the Anshi Rebellion.
Moreover, the mountains in the New World are high and the emperor is far away, just in case these Japanese soldiers have other ambitions.
It's not easy to control.
But Emperor Zhu was not worried about this.
The cost of immigrating to a new continent is high.
It is not something that Japan under the current system can afford - a small Japan supports hundreds of feudal lords, large and small, and each of them has great power. There is no way for people below to rise, and those above are in positions. They are all fixed too.
If Japan stays as it is now.
Revolution will happen sooner or later.
But unfortunately, Japan is now integrated into the Eastern Celestial Dynasty system created by the Ming Empire.
The pressure of Japan's domestic society to solidify was absorbed by the Ming Dynasty system - Japanese elites who could not get ahead in Japan could choose to serve the Ming Emperor!
Now for most of the lower class samurai in Japan.
But it’s really not as good as the emperor to be close to one’s father and mother.
Samurai are undoubtedly the backbone of Japanese society. According to the information Zhu Daohua has, the number of Japanese samurai with salaries currently ranges from 400,000 to 450,000, while there are even more samurai and ronin without salaries, making the total number of samurai in Japan Around a million people.
However, not all of these millions of warriors are talented.
The number of samurai who can truly support the progress of Japanese society will not exceed 200,000. Therefore, to weaken Japan, the problem cannot be solved by killing a few of their so-called reform elites.
But if more than 100,000 samurai elites are killed in future wars, the motivation for Japanese social progress will be greatly reduced!
That's why Zhu Daohua encouraged the use of Japanese samurai to fight the indigenous people in foreign colonial wars.
This time in the New World, the opponents were not only local indigenous people, but also Europeans.
Predictably so.
In the New World, there is likely to be a war involving multiple forces.
A flesh-and-blood mill that consumes human lives is about to appear in the New World.
Why don't you send the Japanese samurai there to consume them quickly?
When are you waiting to go?
Setting the number of Japanese warriors recruited at 10,000 this time is just the beginning. The ideal situation is to include Japan in future wars in the New World.
You know, it will take at least twenty years to train a living Japanese samurai to replace a dead Japanese samurai!
However, Emperor Zhu would not say these words to Peng Jun.
He smiled and said: "Right Minister, you are worrying too much. I will not imitate Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty. The Japanese military regiments went to fight in the most peripheral areas and could not threaten the mainland of the Ming Dynasty at all. Moreover, it is not the era of the Tang Dynasty anymore." Nowadays, wars rely on firearms. How can Japan compare with the Ming Dynasty in this regard? Moreover, the cost of using Japanese soldiers is lower than that of using Ming soldiers. First of all, we don’t need to divide the fields for Japanese soldiers. We can save money by using 40,000 Japanese soldiers. 1.6 million acres of land; secondly, the salary requirements of Japanese soldiers are low. Even during wartime, the average salary and food expenses of a Japanese soldier will not exceed 6 yuan per month; if a Japanese soldier is killed in action, the court does not need to pay much pension. They are all my retainers. All I need to do is let a young man from their family take over as a retainer and give them another hundred yuan.
As for acclimatization, it is not a problem at all. Now there are many drugs that can alleviate it. In recent years, very few people in the army have fallen ill due to acclimatization. Moreover, the Japanese are small and light in weight. In the future, they will be equipped with Mongolian horses in the New World, so that they can ride out in the New World and attack and harass all parties that may threaten the power of the Jinshan Governor's Mansion. These small Japanese are just right. And I'm going to let them use revolvers. Most Japanese samurai are not afraid of death, so they included a repeating pistol for shooting, which is just right! "
Peng Jun and others did not agree with this analysis. They were also unwilling to use too many Japanese in the army, so they all expressed their opposition silently.
Zhu Daohua knew that it would be difficult for him to convince them, so he simply used Qian Gang's arbitrary power.
He reiterated his decision and then asked everyone to leave.
(End of chapter)
