In fact, in Xinghai Kingdom, due to the development of industry and agricultural technology, prices have fallen to a very low position.
As long as you are a naturalized citizen, even if you receive the minimum wage, you can comfortably support a family of three.
Not to mention those naturalized citizens with technical skills. In two months, they can collect three major items: bicycles, sewing machines, and radios.
Therefore, for now, the naturalized people of Xinghai Kingdom have a strong sense of happiness.
Of course, there are also some problems here.
For example, due to commodity prices, some scalpers privately purchase large quantities of various daily necessities and transport them to Nanming, Jiaozhi and other areas for sale.
Of course, this behavior is vigorously combated by Xinghai Kingdom.
After all, low prices are originally one of the benefits of Xinghai Kingdom, so just let the scalpers take advantage of it?
The words went too far, and the Qing envoy was beaten severely by Fang Puyu, and then was thrown back to the other side.
The envoy was beaten and returned to the military camp in a state of embarrassment. He then cried out to Luck Dehun about his experience and denounced the Xinghai Kun thieves for their powerlessness against the Qing army.
This Luck Dehun had no intention of recruiting the opponent to surrender. In his mind, failure would have to be washed away with the blood of the enemy.
The reason why the envoy was sent there was just to strike a blow. What if the other party surrendered? What if the other party is angered?
Luck Dehun, who has rich war experience, can easily take advantage of the benefits here.
But what he didn't expect was that before the messenger could leave, there was a violent explosion outside.
When he rushed out of the tent and took a look, he realized that the military camp was already covered by artillery fire!
What's going on?
You know, according to his previous experience, the artillery range of those Xinghai Kun thieves is only more than two miles at most, and his military camp is located five kilometers away from the seaside!
And those shells were fired from the sea!
Luck Dehun didn't know that with the rapid improvement of technology, the naval guns on the Star Sea Kingdom warships were no longer the Napoleonic guns they used to be.
After many improvements, the 88 secondary gun alone has a range of about five thousand meters, and the 180mm main gun on strategic battleships has a range of up to 11,000 meters!
In this era, the range of such artillery is simply the limit of people's imagination!
At this distance, no one with slightly poor eyesight would be able to see the battleship.
Each of the artillery shells flying from the strategic battleship can blast a large crater of more than ten square meters in the military camp, and the sputtering shell fragments are like a storm, killing the lives around them.
In just ten minutes of shelling, the vanguard army led by Luck Dehun was directly disabled. When the artillery fire stopped, Luck Dehun, whose face was darkened by gunpowder smoke, gathered up the remaining soldiers and took a quick inventory. The whole person almost passed out.
Only less than 10,000 of the 30,000 troops were left, and groaning wounded soldiers lay everywhere.
In fact, Luck Dehun didn't know that Xinghai Kingdom's attack was not limited to him.
Twelve hours later, at around 10 o'clock in the evening, a strategic battleship led three first-class battleships and two second-class battleships up the river from Hangzhouwan and headed straight for the outside of Hangzhou City.
Just when Duduo received the news, climbed up the city wall, and looked at the sudden appearance of several warships in the river, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, he saw those warships opening fire on the military camp outside Hangzhou City.
Although Duduo sent out several troops, there were still 180,000 troops in Hangzhou.
Such many soldiers and horses would definitely not be placed in the city, so a large camp was set up outside Hangzhou City.
As a result, the camp successfully attracted the attention of the Starship Battleship and was bombarded with shells for a full forty minutes.
Duduo didn't know whether it was good luck or bad luck. He accepted the banquet hosted by many officials in Hangzhou City and thus escaped this disaster.
But of the 180,000 soldiers and horses under his command, when the remaining soldiers were collected and counted, there were only less than 120,000 left.
Well, that's not to say that the Star Sea Battleship is showing mercy.
Helpless, it was night at this time, and candles were not allowed to be lit in the military camp, causing many shells on the Star Sea Battleship to miss their positions. Otherwise, it would be lucky to have 50,000 or 60,000 of the 180,000 troops left.
But no matter what, I came all the way here and didn't even fight a single battle, but I ended up in this situation with the loss of troops.
This is the first time Duduo has encountered such a situation since he left seclusion.
He used to be invincible.
After the war, the inventory was taken and the losses were heavy!
I don't know whether it was luck or other reasons, but the 50,000 regular and auxiliary soldiers of the Eight Banners who stayed in the camp lost as much as 20,000!
No way, the Star Sea Fleet's artillery fire was originally intended to bombard from the south of the camp all the way to the north.
As a result, due to the darkness, there were some deviations, and the first round of artillery fire fell on the Chinese army camp.
The 50,000 regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of the Eight Banners were stationed in the Chinese army camp.
Because there was no warning before the artillery fire fell, these Eight Banners soldiers suffered the most heavy losses.
Not to mention how uncomfortable Duduo felt, it was just that after the bombardment, the Star Sea Fleet immediately headed north along the coastline, running for more than 1,300 kilometers before appearing outside Tianjing.
After a burst of shelling, the Qing troops stationed at Dagukou dropped the corpses and dispersed.
Then a brigade of 3,000 infantrymen began to land, and quickly used the fortresses left by the Qing army to build diamond forts and erect forts on the spot.
Datukou has always been the focus of the capital's defense. In the Ming Dynasty, many fortresses were built at Datukou in order to prevent Japanese pirates from invading.
Well, as for the fort, there is none at this time. It will take more than a hundred years before the Qing government will build a fort at Dajukou.
The news that Dagukou was attacked by the enemy was quickly transmitted to the capital, which shocked the senior officials of the Qing court to the point where they could not sit still.
In the past, they could hit whoever they wanted. Why would anyone dare to hit them now?
Of course, the news that Luck Dehun failed without a fight in Zhejiang has not yet come, otherwise, they would be even more surprised.
But it doesn't matter, the Qing court is not afraid of any enemy.
Soon, the Qing troops stationed in and around the capital were dispatched one after another and rushed towards the large opening of the patio.
After two full days of busy work, the Lingbao Group, centered on Dagukou and backed by the sea, was finally established.
Since the Qing army did not have many artillery to speak of, the Lingbao group did not need to consider the possibility of artillery defense too much, so the construction speed was faster.
All three thousand infantrymen have been stationed in the diamond fort group. Twenty rotary machine guns have been mounted on the heights of each diamond fort, with every two forming a cross fire line. Six newly equipped 150mm cannons have been deployed on the sides of the diamond fort. On a high cliff protruding into the sea.
With a fleet of warships from the Northern Fleet docked nearby, there was absolutely no possibility of the Qing army sneaking into the artillery position.
