Within this year, in addition to Ming Dynasty's vigorous deepening of reforms, another Nanyang province was added.
The Dutch who originally colonized Batavia were all expelled back and took control of the Strait of Malacca. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also announced that the army could attack the Dutch in retaliation for the Dutch who dared to threaten the people of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, the butterfly wings traveled by Zhang Mingwei finally affected Europe. After receiving the new warships and new muskets and artillery from the Ming Dynasty, King Joao IV of Portugal felt confident and no longer kowtowed to outsiders, and expelled the British royalists.
But after all, Europe is still too far away from the Ming Dynasty, and there are still some historical events that are still developing according to their original history.
For example, King Charles I of England was the first unlucky king in Europe and was executed by parliamentary troops. The feudal rule of the Stuart dynasty was overthrown, it was declared a republic, and a protectorate government headed by Cromwell was established. One of the important missions of the Protectorate Government is to eliminate foreign competitors and turn bourgeois Britain into a maritime power that dominates the world.
Still in the UK, a large number of farmers gathered on St. George's Hill in Surrey to reclaim land, which became the origin of the Digg movement. They believed that the English Civil War was a war against the king and the big landowners; Charles I had been executed, and the poorest people should be given land for farming. This Digger faction can be considered a faction of utopian communism.
In France, the Treaty of Rueille was promulgated in the name of the young King Louis XIV and his mother, Queen Regent Anne of Austria, which ended the first Fronde movement and declared all avenues open to trade. However, many people are still dissatisfied with this, and there is an undercurrent surging in France.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian rebel army led by Khmelnytsky and the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate defeated the Polish army in Zborov and signed the "Zborov Treaty" with Poland, stipulating that Ukraine's Kiev, Provinces such as Chernihiv and Bratslav belonged to the Cossacks and enjoyed autonomy. Poland recognized Ukraine as an independent administrative region and established a substantially independent Cossack principality.
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The Sauron people, living in the Heilongjiang River Basin, are known as the "Shengnuzhen". The Manchu and Qing dynasties often sent troops to plunder the Heilongjiang River Basin and captured them for training, becoming a brave and capable force in the Manchu and Qing army.
If the original historical development is followed, the Sauron people have been fighting for the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north and south, and have made great military exploits. But I have never received preferential treatment. Anyway, I have to recruit the Sauron people for something, so there is no way to enjoy the blessings. Kang Mazi also issued a decree prohibiting the Sauron people from moving into the pass.
Therefore, the Sauron people fought for the Manchus all year round. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the number of people was so sparse that the Manchus could not recruit them at all.
In addition, the Sauron people themselves are actually facing huge threats from further north.
No, Rafkai, the leader of the Sauron people, is worried again, discussing matters with a few of his capable men, in fact, his brother and son-in-law.
A few years ago, for some unknown reason, blond-haired, blue-eyed devils emerged from the cold north. They burned, killed, looted, and even ate human flesh. Later, after a period of silence, these demons appeared again.
Now the tribesmen in the north have brought back news that the devil is showing signs of heading south again.
In this regard, it is not that the Sauron people have never fought with them. But they all wore thick clothes, and it was difficult to hurt them with bows and arrows. Only spear guns could be used.
However, the throw distance of the spear gun is too close, and those devils have powerful firearms in their hands. As long as they are hit, they will lose their combat effectiveness.
The Sauron people are not lacking in bravery, but the difference in weapons in their hands is too great to stop the attacks of these devils.
Now that they are going to attack again in a big way, that is really sad.
"If that doesn't work, evacuate all the villages in the north and move to the south!" Albasi, the leader of Yaksa, suggested to Rafkai.
Hearing this, Rafkai had to think seriously.
If you can't defeat those devils, you can't just be killed by them, right?
If the original historical development were to follow, Rafkai finally decided to withdraw his troops.
There are five cities in total under his control.
The first walled city is located on the other side of the Mohe River and is the city of Ravkai, the residence of Ravkai; the second walled city is the walled city where Ravkai's son-in-law lives; and the third city is Yaksa, the residence of Albasi.
After retreating again and again, these three fortresses were finally forced to evacuate all their people and continued to move south, until even the fifth fortress had to be evacuated.
However, in this plane, Ravkai’s son-in-law and the youngest person in the meeting, Guigudar, spoke before Ravkai could make a decision: “How about we surrender to the Ming Kingdom in the south and ask for their help? "
Hearing this, everyone was a little surprised and turned to look at him.
When Guigudal saw it, he quickly explained: "Those Jurchens are our enemies. They were destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, which shows that the Ming Dynasty is much stronger than them. And it is said that the Han people have always been a country of etiquette. We surrender to them. It’s better than having to either exterminate the entire clan or keep running away, right?”
The Manchus have been plundering the Sauron people. Of course, the Sauron people are enemies.
In the past few years, they had heard some rumors about the war in the south, and they knew that the Jurchens who often came to plunder them had been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty.
Hearing his words, Rafkai said hesitantly: "I just don't know how those Ming people will treat us?"
After hearing this, Albasi also said hesitantly: "According to previous rumors and impressions, the Ming people do not look down on our land and population at all. They only need us to surrender to them and listen to their words, so they will not be too harsh on us." .”
Another person also spoke: "Over there in the south, our people have actually been in contact with the Ming army. They did not yell at us to kill us, nor did they come to the north."
Guigudar saw that Ravkai was still hesitating, and couldn't help but said: "No matter how good Ming is, he is better than those devils, right? We are almost cornered by those devils, they are pushing every inch, yes It is impossible to retreat forever. One day, we will have no retreat!"
He was right. Historically, when there was no way to retreat, he fought the devil to the death, only to be massacred by the devil.
When Rafkai heard this, he naturally knew this, so he no longer hesitated and asked the people here: "Okay, as long as Mingren treats us better than those devils, we will admit it. But who will go to Mingren?" Are you talking about this?"
After hearing this, Gui Gudal looked around and responded without hesitation: "I'll go! Bring the tribe's best gift and invite Ming reinforcements as soon as possible!"
After hearing this, the others had no objections, so they collected gifts one after another and gave them to him, asking him to ask for reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.
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The governor of Liaodong Province is Zuo Yingxuan, who governs the entire Liaodong Province from Shenyang.
The land area is too large and the population is too small, which is a characteristic of Liaodong Province.
For this reason, he did not expand northward, but focused on restoring people's livelihood in Shenyang, Liaoyang, Haizhou, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan, which were originally developed areas.
After several years of intensive construction, more than half of the tens of thousands of captive construction laborers died.
But it was also the case. The steam train from the capital to Shenyang was opened to traffic along the original official road. This made him very emotional. This was really not easy!
When building railways, the most important problem is when encountering rivers. However, because of cement and steel, building bridges has become much simpler.
When the Duke came up with the cement formula, he was a witness. It was because of the announcement of the cement formula and continuous improvement that cement suitable for building bridge piers in the water could be used in time.
As for steelmaking, let alone it, it is also the intention of the Duke.
Also, in Liaodong, potatoes have been planted on a large scale in the past two years. Not to mention, this kind of potato is suitable for planting in Liaodong. It solves the problem of food and clothing in Liaodong at once, but there is one disadvantage. Every day I almost vomited when I ate potatoes.
The imperial court's national policy also takes care of Liaodong Province, which continues to have an influx of people. Especially after the abolition of lowly status, many people who originally had lowly status wanted to truly own houses and land and become real Ming people, so they came to Liaodong.
Their choice even caused Wei Zaode, the governor of North Korea Province, to protest to the court, saying that there was no one in North Korea and requesting more preferential policies to attract people in the pass to migrate to North Korea.
Zuo Yingxuan won't care about this. After all, Liaodong has too many advantages over North Korea.
At this time, his attention was focused on the telephone lines laid.
There is no bamboo here in Liaodong, so porcelain pipes can only be used to lay telephone lines. However, this is not only costly, but also easy to break, and the laying project has never been ideal.
What Zuo Yingxuan didn't expect was that news came from the court not long ago that a new type of material could be used to lay telephone lines. The original porcelain tube telephone lines in Liaodong were stopped, and new materials were planned to be used to lay telephone lines.
This made Zuo Yingxuan look forward to it. If he had a telephone, it would be much more convenient to contact the court.
On this day, while he was thinking about it, someone came from below to report that the Sauron people from the north had come, bringing gifts, and wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and ask for surrender.
As soon as he heard this, Zuo Yingxuan immediately remembered the incident of the Xingguo bus agent. He immediately smiled and said, "Send the order to Liu Wenxiu. It's time to do what we said before!"
Afterwards, he received the envoy from Sauron.
To be honest, after Guigudal came to the south, especially Shenyang, he was stunned by the prosperity here. He felt that even the best gift from the tribe he had brought was a bit too much to handle, and he suddenly had no idea whether the trip would be successful.
What he didn't expect was that Zuo Yingxuan received him very kindly, accepted his gift without telling him, and said to him with a smile: "You were originally under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty Nuergandu, but now you are in trouble , it is naturally impossible for the court to ignore it!"
