After testing the power of the cantaloupe thunder in actual combat, attacks on Qing army checkpoints suddenly became more frequent.
The Qing troops who went out to set up checkpoints became suspicious and frightened.
A few cantaloupes are thrown at me at every turn, who can stand it?
It's okay to be dead, but it's the worst to be alive. Lying in bed, screaming ouch and ouch for several days before dying, which greatly weakened the morale of the Qing troops everywhere.
Even the Qing troops in some places refused to go out to set up cards.
Of course, even so, the anti-Qing rebels' attacks showed no signs of weakening at all, and they even launched attacks in some counties.
In less than two months, more than 40 county magistrates, county lieutenants, chief registrars and other officials appointed by the Qing government were killed in bombings. As for the Qing troops in various places, no less than three to four thousand people were killed and injured.
Although for the entire Zhejiang 780,000 Qing army, these casualties were not too many, such frequent attacks really gave Qing generals everywhere a headache.
No way, it's a huge blow to morale.
So much so that many Qing troops did not dare to leave the camp.
This also caused the anti-Qing rebels to gain momentum in various places, and many people who could not survive joined the ranks of the rebels.
But at this time, what the anti-Qing rebels in various places did was to guide a large number of refugees to Zhoushan Island and hand them over to the Xinghai people in exchange for food and cantaloupe mines.
It has to be said that with the help of local snakes, the work effectiveness of the immigration working group has suddenly improved a lot.
The most critical issue here is that the refugees are willing to believe what the rebels say and think that settling in Xinghai Kingdom is a good thing to get rid of their current miserable life.
In the first quarter of 1651 alone, the immigration working group moved as many as 150,000 people from Zhejiang, and Hu Jian moved 50,000 people.
I have to say that the land of Zhejiang is indeed rich. Of course, if the Qing army was not too brutal, those people would not be willing to leave.
In addition, the immigration working group is not limited to Zhejiang and Hujian.
At the same time, the immigration working group also relocated more than 30,000 people from nearby Hunan and other places.
If this work efficiency continues, the number of immigrants will reach more than 900,000 in 1651 alone.
Although it is not enough to fill the gap in the population demand of various industries in Xinghai Kingdom, it can at least make up for a considerable part.
In fact, at the end of the first quarter of 1651, the population of Nanhai Island had reached 600,000, which was twice as much as when the travelers just crossed over.
In just over four years, the population has doubled. It must be said that the achievements of the immigration working group are remarkable.
Of course, the achievements of the Immigration Working Group are not limited to the Nanhai Island. In the Jiaozhi Kingdom, the Immigration Working Group also recruited a large number of refugees. Some of these refugees were directly filled in the Nanhai Island, while others were diverted to various places in the Xinghai Kingdom. A large overseas port city.
In addition, there are also a large number of prisoners of war from trade, etc. If this part of the population is included, the current population of Xinghai Kingdom reaches as many as 800,000.
Well, not to mention the peak period of the Ming Dynasty, the current Nanming and Xinghai Kingdom are absolutely inferior in terms of population.
However, relying on the continuous improvement of the technology tree, Xinghai Kingdom has brought the productivity of its population of 800,000 to the extreme of this era.
By the end of the first quarter of 1651, there were more than 300 large and small factories on Nanhai Island, including military industry, food processing, glassware, salt, chemicals, steel, daily necessities, shipbuilding and a series of other industries. system.
In addition, there are more than 100 large and small farms, fishing grounds, etc.
In addition, Xinghai Kingdom has also gradually spread some low-level industrial systems to overseas port cities.
For example, shipbuilding, food processing, salt, ore processing, etc.
However, weapons and ammunition are still strictly controlled, and high-tech technologies such as navigation clocks and steam engines are not allowed to spread outwards.
Among them, especially navigation clocks, steam engines and canning processing, in terms of stages, anyone who spreads out is equivalent to a traitor.
No way, these three technologies are too important.
The navigation clock allows the ship to position itself on the sea at any time without deviating from the course.
To put it simply, without such a highly accurate navigation clock, even if you know which direction the land is, you will still yaw due to inaccurate timing.
In fact, one of the most critical reasons why the Helan and Franji people were able to dominate the Age of Navigation was that they sent out a large number of ships to explore routes every year during the Age of Discovery.
During this process, countless people died due to hurricanes, trekking, hunger and other factors.
It can be said that every new route is created at the expense of human lives.
It is precisely because of this that both the Helan people and the Folangji people regard their navigation charts as top national secrets. It is impossible for foreigners to take a look at them.
At the same time, the grape pressure in Britain and other countries was extremely miserable.
The Forerunners have deployed ports at key coastal locations. If they want to pass through, they must either pay huge taxes or attack the ports.
Well, in fact, many times, even if you want to pay a huge tax, those ports will not allow you to enter the port for supplies, and it will not take long for pirates to come and plunder you directly.
It is conceivable how difficult it is to bypass these supply ports and discover new routes.
If this were not the case, why would the British have wasted so many lives in vain and were still wandering around Tianzhu. They would have to wait three hundred years to enter the Far East.
There is no need to say more about canned food. Its importance to navigation and military affairs has been fully described before.
The last steam engine was the key to the industrial age!
After any country obtains the design drawings of a steam engine, it may enter the industrial age at any time and rise.
Those elders of Xinghai Kingdom are not so compassionate and have built the whole world into an extremely beautiful place.
What they want is to take down the whole world, and then everyone can comfortably become elders, travel to beautiful places around the world, exercise their supreme power, enjoy countless beauties, and so on.
As the population increases, the scientific and technological strength and military strength of Xinghai Kingdom are also constantly rising.
Well, in this era, population can be directly linked to the military.
Even if the country with the most population does not have the strongest military strength, it can at least occupy the top positions.
If this were not the case, how could countries like Forou, Suilan Aboriginal Kingdom, etc. have a chance to defeat the Helan people and the grape-pressing people?
With the launch of six strategic capital ships, Xinghai Kingdom once again revealed its extremely ambitious ambitions.
