The spring of 1655 was particularly cold because Daming was still in the Xiaoice Age.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Qiang, a time-traveler with nothing, has been in this historical world for almost ten years.

Since the war with the Portuguese, the Portuguese colonies in the territory of the Trench Gate and the land of the Ming Dynasty were wiped out, and then returned to the center to carry out army adjustments, adaptations, and expansions, Zhang Qiang's itinerary has been full and busy.

After dealing with the army, and then Zhou Congee's report made Zhang Qiang further understand that the three provinces under his rule plus two and a half provinces, half of Anhui and Suzhou provinces, have achieved a comprehensive economic take-off, the population has grown rapidly, the strength of the army has been greatly enhanced, and most of the people have accepted the rule of the Huaxia Army.

The people of Huaxia are proud to be a Chinese people, because they are the only people in the land of the Ming Dynasty who beat the Taixi people on the sea, suppress and surpass the existence of the Southern Ming Kingdom and other Southern Ming courts on land, and at the same time fight against the Qing army, and really achieve the glorious goal of reorganizing the Han people of the Ming Dynasty.

The economy here is prosperous, the population is concentrated, the people live a stable life, many people have solved the problem of food and clothing, and they have begun to discuss the issue of honor.

Many people are thinking about where their children will become officials or serve in the army after graduating from the academy in the future, at least they will go to the local militia reserve units to gild, and then return to the local area, where they can be petty officials and glorify their ancestors.

The village chief of Huaxia Kingdom is not who has a lot of power in the village, who has money, then he has to enter the academy and become a soldier, only those who come out of these two places and have outstanding contributions will be appointed by the local government as the village head to manage a village, or as the lieutenant chief, the security chief, or even the township chief.

Rich does not mean that you can have the right or power to be looked down upon, Huaxia does not purely highlight the contribution of businessmen, it depends on your overall contribution to Huaxia, and the big contribution will be awarded, and those who have medals will be respected.

Huaxia currently has a huge territory, but it does not have so much supporting population, although the population is growing too fast, but it still cannot fill the speed of the population that the Huaxia army has fixed and concentrated on eliminating due to the war, and anyone who is dissatisfied with the Huaxia army or signs of hostility will soon be investigated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then invited to tea, and finally expelled or thrown into the prisoner camp, and now become criminals in the punishment camp, and the criminals do not own the means of production and the freedom of life.

This has led to the concentration of people along the transportation routes, but in some remote areas, there are only the people of the remote villages who have lived for a long time and have not come out, some of the people who have been sent to the reformed crimes, and the new people who have been assigned to other places here, these people are completely unable to fill such a vast area and cannot create value for the economy of the Chinese country.

Therefore, the population of Huaxia is still extremely scarce.

At present, the population of Huaxia is close to 40 million.

Huaxia Yuan has become the only currency in the hearts of the people of Huaxia, Huaxia Guoqian Zhuang has nearly 500 million taels of silver and 30 million taels of gold, as one of the supports of Huaxia Yuan, people's trust in Huaxia Yuan is stronger than the dollar in later generations.

And the exquisite, imitable Huaxia Yuan even circulated to the southwest Yongli Imperial Court, deep into the mountains, as far as the remote Western Regions, at sea, Zheng Chenggong had a large amount of Huaxia Yuan reserves in his hands, which was used to trade with the Huaxia Army, and there were many places in Japan where Huaxia Yuan was more trusted than gold and silver currency.

After the Huaxia Army completed the transformation of Fujian and Jiangxi, where it also became a safe area, Nanming Kingdom, Baodao, became the red area that the Huaxia Army thinks, and the border county government bordering the Qing Army became a red area, and the county government behind became a yellow area, before there was only the core area of the Huaxia Army, but several provinces were green areas, Jinhua Mansion used to be a red area, there was no yellow area at all, and now Jinhua Mansion has expanded this area, covering the three provinces of the area are green and safe areas, The yellow area is only the area of the county government behind the red area of the garrison on the bank of the Yangtze River.

It is believed that in the near future, this side of the Yangtze River will become a safe green area and the hinterland of China.

Such a situation and economic trend have made Huaxia's fiscal revenue increase year by year, and even if the expenditure is getting bigger and bigger, it will not affect the increase of Huaxia's fiscal revenue in the slightest.

In one year, Huaxia Guo's financial revenue has achieved a real profit, reaching a scale of 300 million Huaxia yuan.

Under the influence of Huaxia, there was a large loss of gold and silver on the territory of the Qing army, and the loss of population, Huaxia Yuan was actually more valuable than those silver tickets on the territory of the Qing army, and it was more trusting, and people trusted this kind of money that was not gold and silver.

Due to the need to maintain military pressure on the Huaxia army, the Qing army continued to recruit troops, and constantly sent to the places where the Huaxia army confronted, so that the population and youth of the Qing country disappeared rapidly, and the economy collapsed in many places, the uprisings continued, and bandits were rampant.

And the support for the Chahar Mongols had to be interrupted, Jin Qi and his men and horses completely withdrew to the Huaxia Kingdom a month ago, after the resettlement, reorganization, and training, three months later, his cavalry troops, herdsmen, and horse bandit troops will become soldiers of the newly built cavalry brigade of the Huaxia Army.

And Jin Qi temporarily went to Baodao City to support where, Tang Dianfeng was transferred back as the brigade commander of the Third Guards Brigade, He Jin handed over Guangzhou Mansion to Chen Hanhui to manage after completing the task assigned to him by Zhang Qiang, and there was Xuanyuan Longfei in the military, and then he replaced Tang Dianfeng as Baozhong Mansion on Baodao, the name of Baozhong City was too advanced, Zhang Qiang renamed Baozhong City Baozhong Mansion, and asked He Jin to manage where to partner with Jin Qi, who had just completed the task and transferred back, and broke up the combination of him and You Haibo who had been partners for many years.

Although he was not promoted to an official position, he was awarded several medals by Zhang Qiang, and his qualifications and honors were no longer inferior to Wei Wuji and Zhou Congee and others in the Huaxia Army.

Jin Qi was promoted to the rank of chief soldier, and several medals were also issued in recognition of his exploits in the Mongolian steppe.

As for the Chahar Mongols, let them go, where is the Qing army is still very strong after all, due to the increasing military strength of the Qing army, mainly the increasing Han army, the Qing army has gone from taking the Chahar Mongols to having no way to beating them to the point, Jin Qi has been away from the Huaxia Army for too long, Zhang Qiang transferred him back to want him to return to the Huaxia Army, where he is will not pose much threat to the Qing army.

After all, the Mongols and the Jurchen Jin people are actually in the same vein, their wars will not last long, division and unification are a regular thing, and the Chahar Mongols already have the intention of making peace with various Mongols.

So Jin Qi's work has become difficult, since this is the case, Zhang Qiang can only transfer him back to support them The only thing that the Huaxia Army is still doing now, which is a serious loss.

The clear factions and territories made it difficult for the Chinese army to pass through the desert overland passages to send them resources and obtain Mongol war horses and other resources.

The Huaxia Army has achieved self-sufficiency in war horses, and several years of horse breeding have enabled the Huaxia Army's horse farms to produce a large number of war horses, and there is no need to transport them from the grassland.

Now it is either the outcome of the First World War, or the chaos after the First World War, and the Huaxia Army will be weakened or attacked, and it will depend on this battle between the Huaxia Army and the Qing Army.

The Qing army had already gathered a million troops and deployed along the Yangtze River, the Mongol cavalry, the elite soldiers of the Qing army, the loyal soldiers of the Han army banner, the Han green battalion troops, and a large number of newly recruited troops, the total strength of which was three times that of the Huaxia army.

In the southwest, after the defeat of the alliance with the Portuguese, the army of the Southern Ming Kingdom is also expanding rapidly, and now it has 300,000 troops, with 50,000 firearms troops armed with arquebuses and trained by the Huaxia Army.

Nanming is no longer what it used to be.

The soldiers and generals of the Southern Ming Kingdom who survived to fight against the Portuguese coalition were part of it.

The 10,000 Nanming ** team led by Su Zhengqing and the Nan Ming ** team led by Feng Shuangli also fought several battles with Kong Youde's troops who took the opportunity to invade, lost some territory and gained some territory, and the two sides fought the battle into a stalemate like the Portuguese coalition army.

And Li Dingguo's side is getting stronger and stronger, with the support of the Huaxia Army, their troops have increased rapidly, and they have gathered a lot of soldiers from the defeated Tusi army, with super troublesome military branches like elephants, as well as crossbowmen such as mountain combat weapons, and also have the muskets and artillery of the Huaxia Army, and they are not good at fighting lighter battles.

Even if there is Wu Sangui, a plug-in figure and army transferred from Ganshan, he can only have some territory on the border of Guizhou Prefecture, but he cannot once again own a large amount of territory and population in Guizhou Prefecture.

Li Dingguo took the opportunity to counterattack Sishanfu and occupied a lot of territory in Sishanfu, and in the southwest, the Qing army had no time to take care of it, so it could only retreat in great strides.

The Qing army was pinned down on the opposite side of the Huaxia army, and many places had no time to take care of it, although Chahar was not as fast as a few years ago, but it was also surviving, and other Mongolian kings who had lost blood for many years were also secretly injured, Chahar made such a fuss, the Mongols had to fight with each other, and also helped the Qing army to fight, and also had to deal with Chahar Mongolia, so that the entire Mongolian steppe was also full of sorrow.

At this time, Zhang Qiang received news that a tribe called Yarkand Mongols had risen in the steppe, and the momentum of development was very strong, becoming the opponent of various Mongols, and at the same time, the Chahar Mongols were threatened, so that the Qing army had to transfer troops to deal with it.