Chapter 761: A European Play
Emperor Chongzhen's final summary of this civil strife among the barbarians in England was a farce.
Rebellion is by no means a trick, whether it is ancient or modern, Chinese and foreign, under the success of the king and the defeat, people will die.
But Charles I, a mentally retarded man, didn't think about directly integrating the royalists and then killing Cromwell, but planned to talk and fight at the same time.
How can barbarians play such high-tech things while fighting? The current situation is that Charles I was defeated by Cromwell's army, and Cromwell personally led the army to scare Wales.
The "elite troops of the parliamentary army" led by Cromwell had five regiments and more than 7,000 people, which was probably less than 2,000 more than the strength of a reorganized guard in the Ming Dynasty.
Although the number of people and combat effectiveness are fundamentally two completely different concepts - if you just rely on the comparison of numbers, let alone the strength of the transportation captain, the Northeast Army under the command of the young marshal Zhang Xueliang alone can completely abuse those Dongying dwarfs, why sing "On the Songhua River"?
But these Europa people are also too capable of tossing.
In general, the whole of Europe is now basically in three camps, one is the Holy Roman Empire, the second is the Holy See, and the third is the vassal states.
Forget about the Roman Empire and the Holy See, how much still rely on a little genealogy, and the camps of the various vassal states are more funny, except for the English barbarians who began to fight each other in civil strife, France also began to fight each other.
Sometimes Emperor Chongzhen doesn't understand, what are these guys tossing back and forth with thousands of people and tens of thousands of people? Why don't you pull hundreds of thousands or millions of horses at one time? How exciting is that?
What's even funnier is that as Cohen began to buy arms from Daming and ship them back to Europe, now the countries of Europa are fighting each other or internally, basically using Daming equipment.
The secretary of the military department and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry drooled while looking at the white flowers, and on the other hand, they had a headache because of the request of the North Industries Group and the South Industry Group.
What is NORINCO lacking now? Lack of talent!
In order to sell more arms and complete the great goal of using Europa's silver coins to redress the Ming army, the bosses of the North Industries Group had already gone to the military headquarters to cry, asking the rear to provide more support to the Northern Public Industry Group, and even the Governor's Office of the Five Armies received their cries asking for assistance.
Nothing else, NORINCO doesn't need silver, Cohen's old guy is now sending a steady stream of silver coins, what we have in NORINCO is silver, we are short of people!
For example, those experienced craftsmen, as well as those talents in the Royal Academy who know how to develop firearms, are all needed by our NORINCO Group, so let's get some of them?
The conditions are as they go, whether it is silver or a house, or a car, or even a girl, as long as they mention it, our North Industry can meet their needs, and all the problems that silver can solve are not a problem!
If you really can't get people, those scholars from the School of Industry of Beijing University can just come over at once, we are not picky eaters!
Naturally, these demands made by Jin Cheng, the boss of the North Industries Group, were sprayed back, including the requests of the Southern Industries Group.
Not picky eater? What are the students of the School of Technology of Jingcheng University? They are seeds, which they will use in the future to expand other universities, and now they can be pulled by the two of you to work as coolies?
Wu Lao, the head of the household department, has long been so happy that he has not seen his eyebrows - these two industrial groups are good, now a large number of arms have been sold, and a large number of silver coins have been melted and minted and then flowed into the treasury, which is really beautiful, and he does not have to live like the previous Guo Butang.
With a lot of silver support, Wu Ganlai is naturally full of confidence.
The military expenditure of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies?
Approved, is 10,000 yuan enough? If it's not enough, you can add another 10,000!
Want to build more universities?
No problem, build! The standard is built with reference to the standards of Luoyang University, Chang'an University and Nanjing University.
How many should you build?
Shandong, Zhejiang, Liaodong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Jiaozhi, Myanmar, Duogansi, Xinmingdao, come to ten first, and then build more universities in a few years!
The social school sent students to the county school, and the county school sent students to the government school, and then to the university, and after the university came out, they could go to the North and South Industries Group to work as coolies, and then get more money for the national treasury.
Fuxue? County school? If anyone who doesn't open their eyes dares to treat the government school and the county school as a child's play, not to mention what will happen to the Hongbu Hall of the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War alone can pick their skins!
The Ming Cabinet and the various ministries, including the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, recognized the importance of the Royal Academy, but they could not hold the Royal Academy in their hands, and the demand for talents forced these people to retreat to the second best thing and start with the university.
The ghost knows when the people of the Central Plains realized the importance of reading, don't care if they are literate or not, anyway, they have to play with their lives for their children to read and write, it seems to be a kind of nature since ancient times.
The same is true of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Because the imperial court continued to take money to subsidize, ensuring that the children of every family could complete social studies and county schools, and government schools and universities were obtained by ability, so the people of the Ming Dynasty recognized a reason.
It is not a great deal that a child can graduate from the county school, and if he can graduate from the government school, it is called ability, if he can graduate from the university, it will really be the blessing of the ancestors, the grace of the emperor.
Following the prosperity of martial arts, Emperor Chongzhen once again pulled the carriage of Daming and began to run wild on the road of education, and the benefits brought were obvious enough.
Although the technology of electricity is still pondering, even with the guidance of Emperor Chongzhen, it has not been successfully tossed out, but in other aspects, the impact on the Ming Dynasty is all-round.
The first is the battleship.
The North Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the South China Sea Fleet are the three most basic fleets, in addition to the West Sea Fleet in preparation and various regional fleets, such as the Xinmingdao Fleet, the Mughal Fleet, the Penglai Fleet, and so on.
In addition to the three fleets that have already been built, the remaining fleets and local sailors are in a very embarrassing situation - there are soldiers, but there are no ships.
The manpower of each fleet has long been recruited, and compared to the ministries and the industrial groups of the north and south, including the workshops of the people, the manpower needed by the fleet is not the same thing as the manpower they need.
No matter how good the school students are, they have to learn from scratch honestly after they arrive at the fleet, and the children of the fishermen on the seashore are the most advantageous in knowing a few words, and they have an advantage over those students.
What is helpless is that the military is becoming more and more popular now, not only the common people are competing for places in the army, but even the students of those government schools and county schools are also competing - what kind of jinshi can be admitted to the army? Hungry?
Therefore, for each fleet, the problem of manpower is the best problem to solve, and the most headache is the problem of warships.
It is really simple for Daming to equip these fleets, and he can row enough ship material from Xinming Island or Penglai Continent or Cochin and Burma.
However, whether it is the military government or the Ministry of Industry, it seems that there is no plan to draw timber for shipbuilding at all, and even some old and scrapped ships in the three major fleets are directly disposed of and sold to the people.
The military government disliked that wooden ships were not as strong as ironclad ships, and the Ministry of Industry disliked that wooden ships were not as trouble-free as ironclad ships - the two sides hit it off and decided that all future warships would be equipped with ironclad ships equipped with steam engines, and all the original warships would be stopped.
The army has nothing to say, it is still the routine of artillery washing the floor and muskets lining up to shoot, the difference is that with the military government's exploration of firearms tactics, more tactics have been derived.
Some of the goods have begun to think about how safe it would be to make the steam engine smaller, install it on the carriage and wrap it with iron plates, leaving shooting holes for the soldiers?
In addition to the impact on the military, the further development of education has also had a great impact on the civilian population.
Before, there were people who wanted to stir up the storm in the dark, and wanted to pour dirty water on Chen Zuqi and hybrid grains, but Emperor Chongzhen, who had long been disgusted by those wise intellectual retards in later generations, naturally would not be soft, kill those who should be killed, exiled those who should be exiled, and then simply played a Chongzhen version of the strike.
Sweep away the evil and eliminate evil, all the social vitality groups are suppressed, all those who are crooked and crooked are also suppressed, and then these bastards are thrown on the construction site of the Ministry of Railways to work to atone for their crimes.
The newspaper naturally boasted about Emperor Chongzhen's instructions, and the people were affected by the news secretly spread by the newspaper and Jinyiwei, so they naturally thought that Emperor Chongzhen had to deal with a batch of scum because he loved the people like a son.
Since those bastards who were full of food and wanted to turn back the clock of history were forcefully suppressed by Emperor Chongzhen, a large number of people began to shift their eyes to other places, especially those who held a lot of land in their hands.
For example, the guys who have been involved in the steel industry at the earliest, because the intervention time is early, the technology and contacts have been relatively mature, and the capital that was smashed in the early years has long been returned, and now it has begun to make a lot of money.
In this case, many people who originally had a lot of land in their hands began to be tempted
Although these people have not seen the things of the later generations, nor have they experienced the baptism of the Internet, few of these people who can sit on a large area of land are real fools.
After discovering the determination of the imperial court to deal with hybrid grain varieties and grain prices, these people began to think of other ways out.
It's not impossible to continue to hold on to the land, but no matter how much you dig the land, there is only those worthless grains, and even if it is made into wine and sold, it won't make much money, so it's better to start getting involved in other industries.
The influence of education on the Ming Dynasty is almost all-encompassing, and it took nearly 20 years for this process to show its due power.
Emperor Chongzhen now attaches great importance to education, and Europa has also begun to attach importance to education, but Europa seems to have deviated from the road of education - although the two disciplines of physics and chemistry have long existed, they are not very valued.
On the contrary, the universities in Europe are more often ecclesiastical universities, either Protestant or Puritan, in short, most of them are still mainly doctrinal, and the emphasis is not on physics and chemistry at all.
Not only that, but the war in Europe is now in full swing, which is of great benefit to the Ming Dynasty, and it is also of great benefit to many Europas.
For example, the Dutch East India Company, represented by Cohen.
The British East India Company is considered to be a complete calf, and now the Dutch East India Company is the most useful person to speak in the entire European market, not the British East India Company, even if the British East India Company has the support of the English government behind it - now those British have a lot of their own affairs have not been resolved, where is the heart to compete with the Netherlands in Europe?
In the smoky conference room, Cohen banged the table with his pipe, frowned, and said, "Gentlemen, gentlemen, now is a good time for us to expand, stop all your and discuss business?" ”
Cornelius Lansing laughed, "What else is there to discuss? Now those British guys haven't wiped their butt clean, we just need to sell them the weapons and equipment from the Far East and let them continue to fight.
As for the rest, do we still need to care? We are merchants, all we have to do is to sell them weapons to fight, and then buy slaves from them, and then sell them to the Ming in the Far East, and then buy weapons from the Ming and sell them, and lo and behold, the silver coins of the white flowers will fall into our pockets.
Now I feel that the arms business is much stronger than the business of longevity, and everyone in Europe needs arms, not everyone. ”
Lansing's words made everyone in the conference room laugh.
That's right, not everyone needs Fushou cream, because the price of Fushou paste is too high for everyone to afford.
Arms are different, no matter how expensive they are, they are needed by both warring parties, even civilians.
After laughing, Cohen spoke, "Of course, everyone needs arms to keep them safe, but don't you think these muskets are too big?"
These muskets should be made smaller, not only to civilians so that they can defend themselves with muskets, but also to get some gorgeous and exquisite special versions to sell to the nobles.
But it's a different story, and what I'm going to say now is, what about the damned indulgences? Are we just watching the church snatch the silver coins from our pockets? ”
PS: Go back to Shenyang tonight.
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