Chapter 731: Royal Think Tank (Second Update)

Artillery Qianhu did not need to shoot their own artillery.

Usually things will be busy, especially when it comes to training and other things, but once they enter the state of war, artillery Senhe is probably the most idle.

Because each ship has a hundred households of each ship, and a thousand households can only stay on the flagship, except for watching those artillerymen shoot and scold a few words and kick a few times by the way, the rest of the can't be done.

After inspecting the various gun positions of the Denglai by the artillery of the East China Sea Fleet, Senhu Du Yue took advantage of the fire before the cannon was fired, and shouted: "Let's fuck have a little heart!" Don't forget the last time you were tired like a dead dog! This time, let's not rush, take our time! ”

Du Yue's words immediately caused the artillerymen in the cabin to laugh.

The last time I bombed Jinou Port, because I wanted to send the barbarians to see the Buddha as soon as possible, the artillerymen were tired of dead dogs one by one, and they didn't even have the strength to stand up, so Du Yue ran to find other soldiers to come over to help, and dragged these dead dogs back to bed.

But these killers obviously don't have a long memory - they bombed several ports along the way, and these idiots were in a hurry to shoot the shells out every time, as if they hadn't fired in their lives.

There was no way, the fleet was well supplied, and when it came to eating and drinking, there was nowhere to vent its energy, so it could only turn into anger and pour it out on the heads of the barbarians through cannonballs.

This time it was the same, after a day's rest, these killers were once again in good spirits, and they all stood in front of their respective gun emplacements, waiting for the order to shell Cam Ranh Harbor.

After scolding and reprimanding again, Du Yue said: "Okay, how to fight the cannon is still up to each hundred households, and the filial son is too lazy to care about you!" ”

After finishing speaking, regardless of the fact that each hundred households went back to command, Du Yue casually found an open space and narrowed his eyes - fall asleep listening to the rumbling cannons, enjoy!

Cam Ranh, Détente, Quy Nhon, Sha Fire, Binh Son, Xian Gun, Hue, Vinh Linh, Bu Tsai, all the way north and all the way to the artillery, the 24 main warships all the standing shells were all gone, and the six ammunition supply ships were also all exhausted, and the East China Sea Fleet was considered to have stopped.

If you don't stop, there is no way, the shells of the entire fleet have been exhausted, and even if you want to fight again, there is no hope - the Annamites originally did not have a few warships, and they were already sent to the bottom of the sea to feed Wang Ba when the war began, do you want the masters of the fleet to land and fight?

Don't be funny, it's impossible to land on the landing, it's been cool these days, it is estimated that the killers in the guard station hate the East China Sea Fleet to death, and at this time they have to be angry to death when they land to grab military merits!

After discovering that the entire fleet was useless, Nan Juyi simply ran away with the East China Sea Fleet, planning to go to the Wenchang Naval Base to replenish ammunition.

After the East China Sea Fleet ran away amid the scolding of various guards, the guards who were holding back the fire in their bellies simply poured all their anger on the head of the Annan monkey.

Emperor Chongzhen's secret order to Zhang Zhiji was perfectly executed, and in less than a month, Annan had already declared stability.

Although this speed is about the same as what was estimated when doing the deduction before, in fact, it is far beyond the imagination of Xu Hongji and others.

No one thought that the war of annihilation would be so easy - if this routine could be copied elsewhere in the future, it is estimated that he would live to see the day when the Ming Dynasty unified the whole world?

After shaking their heads, Xu Hongji and the others threw this ridiculous idea out of their minds.

The reason why the pacification of Annam was so fast was determined by the special terrain of Annam - it was almost a long shape, and after the fleet washed the ground with artillery fire in the past, there was no one on land who could give birth to the mind of resistance.

Moreover, the few people who raised the flag this time were originally from gentry and wealthy merchant families, and they had no experience in governing the country and no talent reserves.

In addition, all the guards of the entire Ming Dynasty are developing towards the line of elite soldiers and increasing artillery, and many conditions have come together to create this special phenomenon of rapid annihilation, which is estimated to be difficult to appear again in the future.

At the very least, as long as it is not a long strip of coastal terrain like Annam, the possibility of using fleet artillery to wash the ground in the future is almost zero.

The artillery of the guard post must at least clear out a safe area first, and then arrange the artillery positions, and at the same time also do a good job in the protection of the artillery, maybe there will be some casualties, in short, it is very troublesome.

And the biggest advantage of the fleet artillery washing the ground is that it does not have to contact close combat, and once this advantage is lost, it becomes almost impossible to push forward as quickly as this time.

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Every ethnic group has a history that has been passed down from generation to generation, not only in the Central Plains, but also in Annam.

In the legend of the monkeys of Annam, the Ming Dynasty once attacked Annam hundreds of years ago, but with the unremitting efforts of the Annam people, they finally drove out the evil Ming, so that future generations can live in this land in peace.

However, although the Ming Dynasty is evil, it will talk about some rules, such as not killing people casually, such as getting food as long as you surrender, etc.

Now it's different, the Ming soldiers really don't kill people casually, but they will use artillery to carry out plough-style bombardment; It is true that you can get food if you surrender, but you have to do endless labor.

This is different from the legend, and the people of Annam began to miss the life before the rebellion, and even remembered the benefits of the previous government.

From the identity of the people of Annan to the identity of the people of Daming, and then back to the identity of the people of Annan and then to the current status of captivity, everyone began to regret it.

However, there is no such thing as regret medicine in this world, and it is impossible to go back in time, except for a very small number of more than seven million Annan monkeys who fled into Nanzhang or the mountains bordering Nanzhang, the rest either died or surrendered, and all of them were sold to the Ministry of Railways as piglets.

So much so that Hong Chengchou looked a little younger.

What was the biggest headache before?

Not material.

In addition to the Ministry of Industry, there is such a freak as Shaofu, and there are countless workshops among the people, as long as there is silver, what kind of materials can't be bought?

And the last thing Daming lacks now is silver.

Everyone knows that there is silver in the treasury and in the treasury, and there will be more and more in the future, so there is no need to worry about the silver at all.

The real headache is manpower.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are about 20,000,000, and it is actually very simple to pick out 350 million strong laborers.

However, whether it is to build a railway or dredge a river and build a bridge, it is life-threatening, and you can't take the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty to fill it, right? There are so many barbarians......

Now that Annan has been dealt with, about the five million Annan people who have been captured have all become laborers, and there will be more than one million strong laborers only slowly consumed by the Ministry of Railways, and the speed of railway construction will be greatly accelerated.

Hong Chengchou's old face was about to laugh like a chrysanthemum in September, but Guo Yunhou's old face turned black like ink.

The Annam monkey was sold to the Ministry of Railways as a piglet, and the money was paid by the Ministry of Households from the treasury to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies.

The problem is the people.

There are some Ming people who are buying and selling logs in Annan, but compared to the entire land in Annan, so many people together can't fill a town Nanwei.

And what about the rest of the land? Idle? Wait for the future to immigrate?

Don't be funny, the grain production there is so high, if you don't hurry up and immigrate over to cultivate it now, you won't have the face to see the sages after you die!

So here's the problem.

It's okay to want to immigrate, the problem is the number of immigrants.

It would be easy to relocate only 108,000 people, but what Annan needs is millions, or even nearly 10 million, people, where can I get them?

Forced migration?

Forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people is not a big problem, and hundreds of thousands can be reluctant, but when the number of forcibly relocated people reaches the figure of five million, there will be a big problem.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen said before, any difficulty is not a difficulty on the 20,000,000 people of the Ming Dynasty, and no matter how small the trouble is on the 20,000,000 people, it is a big trouble.

The forced relocation of 5 million people, they will also involve almost 20 million relatives behind them, accounting for almost one-tenth of the total population of the entire Ming Dynasty, this is not a big trouble, this is a fatal problem that will destabilize the country!

Guo Yunhou felt that his hair was about to fall out because of his worries - the problem was that even if Guo Yunhou became bald now, he might not be able to become stronger.

However, the development of events was beyond Guo Yunhou's expectations, and the people were very active in this immigration action.

After dispatching the news fed back by various local governments, and specially asking Emperor Chongzhen for information on Jinyiwei, Guo Yunhou found that he had thought about the immigration matter too complicated.

Originally, Guo Yunhou thought that the people of the Ming Dynasty would be reluctant to immigrate to Jiaozhi because of the difficulty of leaving their homeland or other messy reasons, but in fact, this was not the case at all.

What worries you most about migrants?

I don't know what the yield of the land in the place where I will immigrate, I am worried that I will be bullied if I go to an unfamiliar place, and I am worried that the cost of immigration is not proportional to the return.

But can Annan be the same?

Who doesn't know that Annan has two or even three crops a year, plus the monkeys in Annan have been arrested to build railways, and they don't have to worry about the bullying of the landlords, as well as the money given by the government, farming cattle, furniture, seeds, so many good conditions add together, and it is a fool who is not impressed!

When they saw the benefits, the people's action was almost as strong as before, and many people not only signed up by themselves, but even called friends to call others to sign up together, which made local governments start to have a headache on how to limit the number of people.

As a final solution, almost all local governments used the same method - casting lots.

If the county allocates a quota of 50 immigrants, there will be 50 paper balls with the word transfer written on them in the box, and the rest will be blank.

The person who draws the paper ball is ecstatic, and the person who draws the blank paper ball is like a dead father, and the people are so realistic.

It doesn't matter what homeland is difficult to leave, but because the benefits are not obvious enough, the temptation is not strong enough, once there is a huge, can be seen and touched benefits, the people of the Ming Dynasty are active through anyone!

Figuring out the twists and turns, Guo Yunhou simply concocted the same method, trying to attract people to move to the Leshi grassland - the effect is indeed obvious.

It's just that they ran into trouble when trying to attract people to move to Duogansi and Wusizang, especially on the side of the Green Ridge, and no one wants to go.

The people are not stupid, the terrain and environment of Duogansi and Wu Sizang are not very good, who will think of immigrating there when they are idle and have nothing to do!

After a large number of immigrants to the Leshi Grassland and Liaodong, Nuergandusi, and Jiaozhi, Guo Yunhou found a new problem in particular.

Just like Emperor Chongzhen has been worried, the population of the Ming Dynasty is still too small - after the population of 20,000 people has migrated out of more than 10 million, it is obvious that there are fewer people.

If it's just like this, it's actually nothing, anyway, the people will always want to have more children, even if they are greedy for the rewards of the government, they will have more children, and these places can be filled sooner or later.

However, the lord in the palace, he doesn't follow the routine, maybe when he slaps his head, he will run to the royal conquest, and then kill a large number of barbarians and then get back a large piece of land, and then he has to immigrate from the country to occupy the territory.

Looking at the treasury that was almost bottoming out, Guo Yunhou finally dispelled the idea of increasing the fertility reward and decided to go with the flow, after all, the current reward is not low, and if it is raised a little, the treasury should not be able to support it.

When the time comes, it will be ridiculous to have a shortage of the treasury because the people have too many children - the Ming treasury has not been dragged down by huge military expenditures, nor has it been dragged down by huge construction expenditures, but it turns out that it can't support it because the people have too many children, so it really becomes a joke!

These messy things also gave Emperor Chongzhen a wake-up call.

Through Jinyiwei and the East and West Factory, Emperor Chongzhen is like a giant dragon entrenched in the sky over the entire Ming Dynasty, and any wind and grass cannot hide from his eyes.

The same is true of these problems faced by the household department, Emperor Chongzhen also knows that Guo Yunhou has a headache, but Emperor Chongzhen does not have any good solutions.

After all, there is no other good way for people to give birth to children, except for guidance.

But it seems that it is okay to gather old guys like Shi Fenglai, as well as some guys who don't want to mix with the court, and make it into a treasury think tank?

Although it has the meaning of robbing the cabinet of jobs, but the cabinet has to deal with government affairs, but think tanks do not need it, as long as they keep making assumptions about various situations and then deducing them?

PS: The second update is completed, and 8000 words have been sent today. There will be updates in the evening.