Chapter 498 Anti-Ming United Front
Do you want to do it?
Of course it does!
Sony, as the elite of our young generation of Daikin, has actually gone deep into Daming many times.
It is very simple for him to infiltrate, just find a smuggler's pack team to solve it, the smuggling on land has long been restored over the years, in the end, as long as the ginseng they have there is still digging up, then there will always be merchants who will find a way to get through the blockade of the Ming army.
No one can solve this kind of thing.
Not to mention Sun Chuanting, even Yang Xin has no good way to go.
In particular, after the control of wild boar skin, even North Korea, it can almost be said that it has monopolized the ginseng production area, and the continuous rise in the price of ginseng in the customs has given huge incentives to smugglers. At this time, ginseng can be said to be everywhere in the Changbai Mountains, when the wild boar skin was still obedient during the Wanli period, it was once closed by Wanli for two years because of mistakes, and the ginseng in the wild boar skin there was rotten more than 100,000 catties because of poor storage in the two years......
Well, it's hundreds of thousands of catties.
This exaggerated figure is a historical record, it should not be dried, and the hundreds of thousands of catties dried in the sun are really exaggerated.
But even this means that ginseng at this time is not much stronger than radish in wild boar skin.
And what about Kannai?
Ten taels of silver for a pound.
It is said that in the original history, it rose to sixteen taels during the Chongzhen period.
Such huge profits can also stop smuggling, and the border defense system of the Ming Dynasty is more efficient than that of the U.S.-Mexico border police.
After Sony was disguised, he followed the smuggler into Liaodong, and then took the fake road he bought to lead him into the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and he had to go almost every year for these years to bring back the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty for the wild boar, and he also saw the strength of the Ming army increase. Liaodong has been full of fortresses, the original old castle was gradually abandoned and demolished, Fengji Fort and other important fortresses are all brick-covered fortresses, Liaoyang and Shenyang and other cities are not fortified because of the cost problem, but a large number of triangular forts are attached to the periphery.
The effect is pretty much the same.
Sun Chengzong's throwing five million a year to Liaodong was not in vain.
All the walls were piled with cannons.
And the elite cavalry are all muskets, although the Dajin warriors still boast of bravery, but it is also a fact that the bow and arrow can't shoot the wheel and the fire rifle after all.
Even after the war zone, to the Shanhaiguan area is also like an iron wall, although the Shanhaiguan City is not a fortress, but a large number of cement reinforcement, in fact, the two wings of the city are also fortresses, and in the new addition of the triangular fort in the Guancheng, it is said that there are also cannonballs weighing 18 catties, a cannon eroded dozens of miles of giant cannons. Of course, this statement is actually exaggerated, to be precise, it is actually a twenty-four-pounder cannon, and it is definitely impossible for a cannon to erode dozens of miles, but if it is close to five miles of Shanhaiguan, it should basically withstand these huge shells.
Moreover, after repeated tests, the firing table was compiled like the shore defense artillery.
In short, even if you don't know much about these, Sony also knows that the behemoth of Daming has gradually woken up from the initial malaise and has begun to really show the strength that this behemoth should be.
And then it was their end.
In fact, they are already on the verge of doom, last year they survived by killing people without food, this way of eating their own survival can not play a few times, and this year's disaster is more serious than last year, because of the military seizure of food in North Korea, there has been a rebellion of hungry people. In order to maintain the supply on their side, wild boar skins can only be extracted from the North Koreans, although the rebellion will be cleaned, and eventually both people and food will be turned into food, but there will be casualties in the cleaning process.
And once the North Koreans fled into the mountains, it was not easy for them to get out.
In short, Daikin has reached the brink of life and death, either trapped and starved to death like this, or simply let go out and fight to the death.
Young Zhuang like him certainly liked the latter.
What's more, this plan still sounds very reliable.
If they can really establish an alliance with Lin Dan Khan, coupled with the strong base, the three can put together 200,000 brave and warlike warriors, and there is a complete possibility of victory in the east-west attack, not to mention Yang Xin or anything, at least after the defeat of Liaoyang, there are all kinds of materials there, so that they don't have to worry about the lack of materials in a few years.
Sony finally embarked on the journey to Zhangjiakou with great ambition.
Of course, Yang Xin would not know this.
He led the counterinsurgency army along the canal to the south, and then ......
Stopped in Tianjin.
He went out for the country, I don't know if I can come back alive, I have to go home first to arrange it, it is said that Yang Dudu has been going to live for a long time over the years, for the Daming Jiangshan expedition to the west, and he can't even live as a husband and wife a few times a year, so that he has no children and no daughters, and now he has to go to Zhejiang to quell the rebellion for the country, and it is normal for people to go back to live for a few days and comfort a bunch of wives and concubines. As for the accompanying soldiers, of course, they also went over together, they were all Yang Dudu's brothers, and when they passed by Yang Dudu's house, of course they had to go to drink wine and eat seafood or something, as for the war situation in the south, it didn't mean that they were counting on him to go.
At this time, the official army in Nanjing had already moved south.
Zhang Keda, the governor of the Governor's Office of the Right Army of Nanjing, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the reinforcement and suppression, and led the 20,000 troops cobbled together in Nanjing to Huizhou, and specially transferred 3,000 Huwei troops to the south together.
In addition, Lu Qin, the general of Huguang, also led the Huguang army into Jiangxi.
Therefore, the surrounding area of Xu Du is also considered to be a large army, but Yang Dudu has issued an order in advance, and all departments must strictly guard and do not let the rebels attack and disturb other places, and now the wheat harvest is about to be harvested, everything is focused on the wheat harvest, even if it is beaten, it must be fought after the wheat is harvested, and no one is allowed to act rashly, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law. And his order actually won the support of the vast majority of Wenchen, and even the old and new Donglin parties unanimously said that it was rare for Yang Dudu to do a good thing, so there was no need to be too anxious to go south or anything for the time being.
In fact, everyone doesn't want him to be too anxious.
Newcastle.
"Hou Hejian, what is the use of such a giant ship other than showing off?"
Gao Hongtu stood on this fortress and looked at the channel ahead.
He is Yang Xin's supervising army, the military affairs of the Ming military general must have a civilian official to supervise the army, Yang Xin used to be foolish outside, largely because there was no supervisor around him to recite the mantra, this time it was in the capital to march, this prison army naturally could not be less. In order to show respect for him, Sun Chengzong took out a list of officials with enough qualifications and relatively idle at the moment for him to choose, and then he picked Gao Hongtu.
And all parties are happy about it.
Gao Hongtu is a native of Jiaozhou, and the Qi Party, the core of the Eunuch Party, is of course welcome, and pro-Donglin Party.
Anyway, he is not a eunuch, and he has angered nine thousand years old before, and such a person is undoubtedly satisfied by all parties.
His responsibilities are Yang Xin's military discipline, logistics, and meritorious service. In fact, the main thing is to prevent Yang Xin from going south to transfer to Susong, according to Sun Chengzong's instructions, Gao Hongtu must ensure that Yang Xin's army takes the west road, that is, the Jiangxi route. In order to prevent him from taking the canal, Sun Chengzong specially ordered all the military rations along the canal line to be transported to the north, and at the same time stored supplies in Nanchang and waited for him to pass.
I have to say that Sun Chengzong also took great pains.
At this moment, Gao Hongtu, who was invited as a guest, was watching the four giant ships slowly sail by in the full tide of the Haihe River, the double-decker gun doors were all opened, the gun ports were stretched out, and all the sails were opened, like four floating mountains.
"Isn't it enough to show off?"
Yang Xin said.
Here are his four battleships.
They were about to go to Dengzhou, but Dengzhou was not the destination, the water in Penglai Water City was too shallow to moor these giant ships with a draft of more than five meters, so the real destination was Weihaiwei, where they would form a new Beiyang Naval Division with the twelve cruisers waiting.
The two battleships and 36 cruisers in Hong Kong were separately organized into the Nanyang Naval Division.
The other coastal naval divisions were all abolished, and the battleships were changed to coastal defense battalions subordinate to the general army of various places, such as the small cruisers of the original Denglai Naval Division, which were respectively incorporated into the Denglai General Army, the Dongjiang General Army, and the coastal defense battalion under the North Korean General Army, but the Denglai General Army could not control the Beiyang Naval Division, this naval division, like the Nanyang Naval Division, was directly under the governor's coastal military affairs, and the Admiral of the Naval Division was at the same level as the General Commander of Denglai.
Even the Ministry of War can't control it.
The money and grain of the water master was not from the household department, but directly from the emperor's inner treasury.
Even Yang Xin was still pushing the Apocalypse to set up a separate naval capital governor's office, bypassing the system of the five military governors' mansions also completely bypassing the military department.
"It's enough to show off, if when the Japanese invaded Korea, such four huge ships appeared in the Japanese and bombarded the cities of the Japanese country, then would they still need to fight for so many years? There was no need to even fire cannons, as long as they were across the sea, the Wa Kingdom did not have the courage to challenge the Ming Dynasty. ”
Yang Xin said.
Gao Hongtu stopped talking.
"It works just as well to show off, starting from the Wa kingdom and going south to the Western Ocean, most of the Fanstates along the way are close to the sea, and even the capital is by the sea, or depends on the sea trade for their livelihood, and four such great ships appear on the coast of their capital, or are blocked on the trade routes, and they can easily make them submit, and let them pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and allow our merchants to enter their cities.
The biggest thing in the world is not the land, but the sea.
Whoever controls the ocean controls the world, and when our warships sail on every ocean in the world and fly our flag, we are the masters of the world, and we are the real kingdom of the heavenly empire.
Do you know?
The ground under our feet is round, we are here in the time of day, the other half of the world is night, we are here in the time of night, the other half of the world is day, if our warships can spread over every ocean of the world, and have our flag in the sun at every moment. Or that the sun will never set over the banner of the Ming Dynasty, the sun of the Ming Dynasty will never set, and the Ming Dynasty will never set like the sun.
Daming, the sun never sets! ”
Yang Xin said.