In the New World, almost every person in the collective farm will become almost like Xu Aju after living here for a year.
Life here is rich in material, but also very dangerous.
Wealth can only be obtained by those who are willing to work hard.
Xu Fugui's life will remain in the New World forever.
At this time, a Ming army officer invited by Li Zhongyi was giving instructions to the Li brothers on how to use firearms.
"Here in the New World, horses are very important. If you don't know how to ride a horse, you will be at a disadvantage. And there is no shortage of food here, but this place is dangerous, and all these wealth are obtained at the risk of one's life."
This officer spoke with a northern Jiangsu accent and his name was Liang Yousheng.
He joined the army during the Liaodong Campaign and became a platoon leader due to his meritorious service.
According to his own words.
Originally, every household relied on water transportation.
One of millions of water workers.
Although not very rich.
But it is always much better than a tenant family like Xu Fugui, at least they don't have to worry about food and clothing.
Life was pretty good.
What a pity.
Such days came to an end with the arrival of Emperor Zhu.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty was powerful, and various large-scale shipping ships traveled between the north and the south.
The load capacity is large, the cost is low, and there are no safety concerns. It's still fast.
Therefore, sea transportation soon replaced water transportation and became the main mode of freight transportation between the north and the south.
A large amount of rice from Borneo, Java Island, and the Red River Delta arrived at Tianjin Port via large sea ships, and then transported by rail to major cities in the Central Plains. Under the impact of southern rice.
Nowadays, there are not many people growing grain on the land in various parts of the Central Plains - growing grain is a loss.
Various cash crops occupy the cultivated land in the Central Plains.
And in this case.
Naturally, millions of water workers lost their jobs - the freight function of the canal was replaced, leaving only a much smaller passenger transport function. After all, compared with the bumpy sea, taking a canal to travel between the north and the south by boat is safer and more comfortable. It's better than the sea.
Where have all the unemployed plow workers gone?
Except for people like Liang Youcheng who were lucky enough to be at the forefront of the times.
Some of them were unlucky enough to be buried by the Qing Dynasty.
And most of them.
Then he became a banker heading to the Northeast and the New World.
Liang Youcheng also chose to come to Jinshan with the army, because here, military households can be allocated at least one hundred acres of additional military land - these fields are in the New World, not in Han, and the military land in Han is not It will be cancelled, and unlike Shotoda, it is completely private.
But the same thing.
The price he paid was to serve in the Ming army for twenty years.
"There are still 17 years. 17 years!" Liang Yousheng said with a bitter smile, "By then he will be a little old man, and I don't know if he will survive until then."
I wouldn’t have stayed in a place like Jinshan for seventeen years, would I?
The Li brothers looked at each other.
They're not sure either.
I thought this was a good place, but now it seems that wealth is not so easy to come by.
If I had known earlier, I would have stayed in Sichuan, and the three brothers would have divided up the old man's land.
Even though you won’t be a big family after the land is divided, it’s still better than losing your life here.
"You can retire at any time!"
At this time, Zhang Jin, the battalion commander of the Ming army who came to inspect, heard Liang Youcheng complaining and said, "Just hand over the land."
Liang Yousheng laughed and said, "Then I'll be loyal to the emperor for twenty years. Battalion Commander, if I die, you have to help me take care of my wife and children."
"I will definitely take good care of your wife. As for your son, if you die, you will be a hero of the Ming Dynasty. The orphans of heroes can go to the Youth Military Academy. The emperor will provide all the food, clothing, housing and transportation. After graduation, you will become an officer directly. Don't worry."
"That won't work. My son has to study and take the exam to become a scholar."
"Bah, you're a scholar?" Zhang Jin spat, "Can your slender head give birth to a scholar?"
"Hahaha"
The surrounding Ming army officers and soldiers laughed together.
Liang Yousheng's face turned red, and Ai Ai didn't know what to say.
“I can’t explain this to you clearly.”
The camp was filled with a happy atmosphere.
Right now.
An officer asked: "Battal Commander, we have been out for a day, but we haven't found any movement. Do you think those Baiyi can be hooked out?"
"Who knows? Don't care about this. Kill them when they come. If you don't come, they will have a hard time this winter. There are hundreds of these people. If there is no food, half of them will die in the winter! I guess they will come out and fight. Got it."
"They might go and rob the indigenous tribes."
"Maybe, that's the way this place is anyway, either you kill me or I kill you."
Zhang Jin shrugged.
Zhang Jin is right.
For the white adventurers who approached the Governor's Palace of Jinshan.
Robbing the Ming army's grain transport team was a killing two birds with one stone.
Of course.
Things are not easily accomplished.
But the white colonists of this era were not citizens of the developed countries that would be nourished by favorable material conditions in later generations.
They are very able to endure hardship now.
"Kill! Kill these Ming people!"
"Charge! Rush up!"
"Their muskets fire too fast, rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat!!!"
A group of Britons with Cockney accents emerged from the woods.
They shouted slogans, which seemed a bit brave and not afraid of death.
These people were adventurers from England who were part of the British Empire's world colonial empire system.
When a group of white people rushed out of the woods with muskets.
What greeted them were bullets from the Ming army.
Facing the terrifying rate of fire of breech-loading guns, these hungry white colonists looked like devils rushing out of the hell of hungry ghosts.
But bullets are fair game.
No matter if they are devils or not.
Every bullet that passes by is the fate of being knocked to the ground.
After leaving more than two hundred corpses behind, the white adventurers retreated.
"Clean the battlefield!"
Zhang Jin did not order the pursuit.
In fact, the harassment of these Europeans had little impact on the Jinshan Governor's Mansion, and even had certain benefits - they could make the immigrant farmers more capable of fighting.
But this way.
A banker who is particularly good at fighting.
Of course, it is particularly difficult to manage.
Or
I don’t dare to take care of it anymore.
But this is a matter for the Governor's Palace of Jinshan.
Zhang Jin doesn't care about this.
All he had to do was fight.
This will be the fiefdom of the second prince from now on.
If you work well here, you might even be able to become a general under the second prince who has been named the Golden King.
Now the positions above the Ming army are almost occupied.
The above-mentioned brigade commanders and army commanders are still very young.
For example, Lieutenant General Luo Dingshan is only thirty years old this year.
Lieutenant General Yang Yuchun, thirty-two years old.
The current top management of the Ming army is basically a group of officers in their thirties who are in their prime.
And the Ming army is unlikely to carry out large-scale military expansion.
Therefore, the hope of promotion for middle-level officers like Zhang Jin had to fall on the feudal kingdoms of the princes.
The Ming army did not expand.
But the feudal army will definitely expand to a certain extent.
"Is this the end?"
The Li brothers are a bit incredible.
"What else do you want?"
'This is too easy'
"It's easy now because we have a battalion of troops escorting us. And they don't have breech-loading guns. When they also have breech-loading guns, the situation will become difficult."
"That will happen in the future."
Everyone was talking.
"Your Majesty, the North Korean regiment has invaded Pyongyang, and the puppet king of North Korea, Li Ying, is missing."
On board the armored battleship Daming.
Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty stood on the deck, and Gong Zhuman, the commander of the Jinyi Guards next to him, reported the report.
The battle at Jinshan Governor's Mansion is going on almost all the time.
In Emperor Zhu’s opinion.
The lives of these low-level people and soldiers are just cold data recorded in the notebook.
The blood and tears of Li Zhongyi and others were not worth mentioning to the Ming court.
In Emperor Zhu’s opinion.
The scramble for the New World is a mathematical problem.
The annual immigration to the New World plus the birth rate of the original immigrants is the growth rate of the Han population in the New World.
The process of fighting for the New World is very simple. It is to make the Han people the main race of the New World as much as possible!
A future war is brewing in the New World now.
And right next to the Ming Empire.
A large-scale war has broken out.
Two divisions of the Korean Corps, with more than 30,000 infantrymen, crossed the Yalu River a month ago.
Although the North Korean special forces, which have received support from two powerful families in North Korea and from Europe, are much more powerful than the original North Korean official army in terms of combat effectiveness.
At least it has reached the level of the previous Eight Banners Coating Army.
But compared with the Korean Corps, which was composed of elites drawn from the Liaodong Corps.
That's still small compared to a big witch.
Since entering North Korea, the North Korean Corps has not focused on occupying territory, but has focused on the main force of the other troops!
After several battles in a row.
Most of the main force of the 60,000-strong army was annihilated.
When the North Korean Corps approached Pyongyang City.
King Li Ying of Joseon only had three thousand imperial guards left at his disposal.
Therefore, it is understandable that Li Ying ran away directly.
"Missing. Was he picked up by someone?"
Emperor Zhu said.
"Yes, the person who did it may be the British. The British have secret connections with some powerful vassals in Japan. Your Majesty, do you want it?"
Gong Zhuman made a gesture of cutting his throat.
With the Ming Dynasty's current power in Japan.
It is easy to punish several Japanese feudal lords.
"No need, they are just a bunch of lost dogs, and it is not appropriate to cause trouble in Japan." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.
North Korea.
Although there are some local lords in Japan who are reluctant to obey the rule of the Ming Empire.
But this is just an emotional reluctance.
on actual interests.
No Japanese feudal lord would stand up and openly oppose the Ming Dynasty.
first.
Japan, like North Korea, has been included in the Greater China system.
Became a member of the Chinese vassals.
Economically, it has become a link in the Eastern world and the Great China system.
If the Ming Empire is the sun, then these small countries around it are the planets of the sun. They cannot escape the gravity of the sun and can only revolve around the sun.
There are no tariffs between countries. Greater China is a huge customs union area, which means.
No matter how emotionally unacceptable the local feudal lords in Japan were.
Japan will be violently pulled into the economic cycle of Greater China.
This cannot be changed by manpower - unless Japan establishes its own tariff system, but the Ming Empire obviously will not give them this opportunity.
Secondly.
It is Japan that has begun to form a South American expeditionary force.
Emperor Zhu was very generous and directly took out a piece of South America and distributed it to the vassal states that followed the Ming Dynasty.
In the face of such huge benefits.
No one in Japan is allowed to stand up against Emperor Zhu and Ming Dynasty.
Emotions are emotions.
Emperor Zhu could understand some Japanese feudal lords who did not agree with the emperor's dethronement.
But the real benefits lie here.
It is equivalent to the Ming Empire using a land as big as Argentina as a gift to marry this beautiful Japanese girl.
Well.
Although this piece of territory needs Japan to send its own troops to conquer it.
But without the blessing of the Ming Empire.
Japan simply does not have the strength to expedition to Argentina!
Therefore, from the perspective of Japan, this matter is the grace of the Emperor of Heaven.
They welcomed Zhu Yizhen, the sixth son of Emperor Da Ming, as the King of Japan.
Ming Dynasty rewarded Argentina to Japan.
At least most Japanese people are satisfied with this exchange of benefits.
The few who are dissatisfied will not be able to make any big waves.
"Let Luo Dingshan conquer all of North Korea, temporarily appoint Luo Dingshan as the governor of North Korea, and conduct the North Korean imperial examination as soon as possible. Since Li Ying has run away, we will not go to Busan." Emperor Zhu looked up to the south, "The fleet turned around. Head to Shanghai!”
"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to Shanghai to explain things first?"
"No, I also want to see a real Shanghai and see this legendary hell!" Zhu Daohua said with a sigh.
A hell under his rule.
"Your Majesty, Shanghai is not hell. You have made great achievements in rebuilding China." Gong Zhuman hadn't finished speaking yet.
Emperor Zhu waved his hands repeatedly.
"Okay, okay, if you don't know how to flatter us, don't do it. I know very well whether it's hell or not. Zhuman, tell me, if we have done these things, will people in future generations thank us?"
"It will definitely happen. You have made great contributions to the Han and Tang Dynasties. Now all this is just temporary. The Ming Dynasty will usher in a glorious era in the future!" Gong Zhuman said with certainty.
"But many people must be complaining about me now. Yes, forcing tens of millions of people to leave their homes and work as farmers in collective farms is really a big complaint!" Emperor Zhu said, holding on to the side of the ship.
He knew that his rule had not brought much improvement in the lives of the suffering Chinese people, at least in his opinion.
Tens of millions of people are blaming themselves now, but their descendants will definitely thank themselves, right?
The people of the future will definitely be grateful to me...
Emperor Zhu thought that they would build countless statues and monuments to themselves, they would portray themselves as a hero and savior in history books, they would have their faces printed on banknotes, and they would forget that their ancestors were in their own How much suffering has been suffered under the rule of...
(End of chapter)
