Baykov was ultimately disappointed......

Because he refused to bow down, he was not summoned by Her Majesty the Empress, and in short, this official diplomatic relationship between Russia and the Ming Dynasty ended as if it had never happened.

Baykov and his attaché made the long journey home, but fortunately they did not return empty-handed, although they came as envoys, but in fact they also worked part-time as merchants. The tsar gave them fifty thousand rubles, and at this time one silver ruble was roughly equivalent to one or two pieces of silver, so they went back after their frenzied purchases. However, the Ming still gave them enough courtesy, such as Her Majesty the Empress issued an order to the Dzungar Khan, ordering the latter to escort the Russian envoys back to Tyumen, in case these guys who returned with a full load on the way were robbed by the Dzungar Ministry. It's not just a dangerous year to do business, it's also dangerous to be a diplomatic envoy, especially if you travel tens of thousands of miles overland like them.

When the Baykov mission returned with a map of the world given by the Empress of the Ming Dynasty, their neighbors also arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Swede.

The Swedish merchant ship Gothenburg arrives in Guangzhou.

This merchant ship, which bears the same name as the one eighty years later, also brought an envoy from the Queen of Sweden, who was sent to Nandu by a communication ship of the Ming Navy in Guangzhou.

Then he was summoned by Her Majesty the Empress.

And with the grace permission, they don't have to kneel down when they meet Her Majesty the Empress, in fact, they don't need to, Yang Qing, who is making every effort to explore overseas markets, will not be too strict on this small issue. Envoys from Britain and France did not need to bow down to the Empress on both knees, in fact he would occasionally invite these people to the palace as guests, and he had to kneel Bajkov only because, as Baykov himself said, he was discriminating against others.

But Swedes cannot discriminate.

On the contrary, at this time, the Nordic tyrant was still an ally that needed to be wooed, as for the reason, of course, it was to flank Russia, Queen Christina was about to abdicate and give her cousin Karl X, who was considered a childhood sweetheart, who and his children and grandchildren would continue Sweden's expansion. His grandson was Peter I's sworn enemy, the little lion of the Swedes, and finally fifty years later, the defeat of the Great Northern War made Sweden completely withdraw from the stage of continental hegemony. But now they are still in a period of ambitious expansion, saying that the territory of Sweden has reached St. Petersburg, which has not yet been established, and hostility with the Russians is inevitable, so they will be the best partners of the Ming on the other side of Russia.

After knowing that Sweden is also ruled by the heroine, Her Majesty the Empress of Daming even gave her some personal gifts, such as cosmetics, and the Daming perfume industry is also thriving.

As for trade, it goes without saying.

In addition, Daming also generously gave preferential treatment to Sweden, to be precise, Daming encouraged Swedish merchant ships to use copper to pay for the purchase of goods in Daming in the form of tariff reduction......

They produce 70 percent of Europe's copper.

**The high-quality copper ore of the Great Copper Mountain supported Sweden's external expansion, which is why the Nordics inexplicably emerged in this era to compete for European hegemony, this copper mine is the equivalent of a European minting machine, and the same as the silver hegemony of the Spaniards at the same time. Similarly, copper was also what Yang Qing wanted the most, so that the Swedes could use the copper they could easily obtain to buy goods from Daming to Europe in exchange for the gold and silver they wanted most. And gold and silver are now not the most important to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is not short of gold and silver, as paper money becomes more and more popular, metal currency is gradually becoming a margin for bank warehouses. But Daming lacks copper, because with the upcoming planting of rubber trees, Yang Qing can already use electricity, first of all, the cable telegraph is in the planning of the next ten years, which means that the demand for copper in the future will increase sharply.

Copper must be collected all over the world.

In short, the Swedes received a very different kind of preferential treatment in Daming.

"That's all for now!"

Yang Qing sighed.

In fact, these are the only countries that can trade at sea in Europe in this era, basically everything that can be reached, Liangya, Anglo-Dutch Fadanrui, Russia on land, as for the countries of the German system that have just completed thirty years of bloodletting, the countries of southern Europe are not qualified to go to sea, and the Spaniards will not let them go out of Gibraltar casually. Moreover, the seafaring nations of southern Europe were also wandering around the Mediterranean, and they had no ability to fight the oceans, and the Venetians were still entangled with the Ottoman navy, in fact, they had to be entangled for a long time.

As for the Indian Ocean countries, which have been expelled from the arena of maritime trade, except for the Omanis who operate in East Africa and the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, the Ottomans, Persians, and even the Mughal Empire have lost the ability to trade at sea.

It was useless for them to think about it.

Neither the British nor the Dutch nor the Ming Nanyang Company will allow competitors to emerge again.

"In this way, maritime trade really can't support the economy."

The Empress said.

"The significance of maritime trade is only to replenish the amount of our currency, and to maintain the prosperity of the country depends on domestic demand, even if we order to close the country now, as long as there is enough domestic demand, we can still ensure economic prosperity. Even the lack of money is nothing, Taizu only relied on treasure money to maintain the economy, but the most feared by domestic demand is the serious imbalance of wealth, when wealth is concentrated in a very small number of people, and the vast majority of people are abject poor when talking about domestic demand is a joke. Only when everyone has spare money in their hands can a truly strong internal market be formed, and the basis of all this is to average the land first, which is the basis for the formation of a domestic demand market. ”

Yang Qing said.

This is also the foundation of the modern Chinese domestic demand market.

The reason why India, with its large population, has not been able to match China's achievements is that their land system restricts the formation of a strong domestic market, and the gross purchasing power of the people who do not have enough to eat.

As for the export-oriented economy......

The basis of the export-oriented economy is still domestic demand, and unless a small country like Singapore has to have a domestic demand market before there can be an export-oriented economy.

The premise for the establishment of the domestic demand market is land reform.

What is the basis for South Korea's successful export-oriented economy? This is because since the beginning of 48 years, South Korea has carried out land reform, and carried out land reform under the banner of liquidating Korean traitors, which eventually increased the proportion of yeoman farmers in South Korea from 30 percent to nearly 90 percent.

Why is Japan successful?

Because after the war, Japan also carried out land reform under the leadership of the United States, and the government forcibly purchased the land of the landlords and then resold it to tenant farmers. But in the 50 years after these reforms were completed, Japan went on a frenzied printing of money, artificially creating so much inflation that the peasants only needed to use thirteen packs of cigarettes to repay their loans, and in this way they also completed the land reform.

As for Wanwan, it goes without saying.

The consequence of not land reform is these strange people in Mexico.

Of course, there are special ones.

For example, it's not good with Uncle Black.

"Let's see if those landlords will honestly listen to your mercy!"

The Empress said.

"Do they dare not listen?"

Yang Qing said: "They are vegetarians when they are sabers in the hands of these old bandits!" ”

And at this time, Chenyang, Guangdezhou.

"This place is good!"

Liu Fu, the captain of the second team of Qingzhang of the Guangde Branch of the Land Reform Department under the Ministry of Land and Land of the Ming Dynasty, sat on horseback and talked while admiring the spring colors on both sides. He was promoted from Huangzhuang in Guanzhong in order to supplement the shortage of manpower for Hebei's land reform, after all, Yang Qing's land reform team was originally responsible for at most one or two prefectures, and it was impossible for the entire Beizhili land reform to cope with it. During this period, not only was he transferred from Guanzhong, but even the local area of Beizhili was promoted a lot, and finally Yang Qing had enough cadres to carry out land reform in the entire Nanzhili.

The first step of land reform is to clear the zhang.

Although it has been carried out once before, it is unlikely that it has not changed over the years, and it was under the auspices of the household department at that time, so it is also impossible not to conceal it, and now it is necessary to re-carry out the inventory, and at the same time carry out a comprehensive and meticulous registration of the occupations of the population, including the types of crops.

Even mapping.

Each village had to draw up a detailed map.

"It's good to look at it from a balloon!"

A young man next to him said with a smile.

This is a surveyor, and he is also a graduate of the Kunxing Academy in the imperial city, a protégé of the Son of Heaven, a descendant of an officer who died in battle, and he studied surveying and mapping at the Kunxing Academy, followed by a carriage with a small hot air balloon and various drawing tools put away. Of course, it is impossible for Yang Qing to equip them with so many high-end instruments, and the mapping of these people is just to draw a map of the field of view in the air, and then stitch the map......

The error is certainly not small.

But in this era, it is open to have such a map.

Every village, every stream, even every hill, every forest, including some isolated houses in the mountains, are all drawn on such a map, which is the level of secret archives of the Ministry of Land and Resources.

"Don't dare to sit, my legs will be weak as soon as I get to the sky!"

Liu Fu said.

It was clear that he had a fear of heights.

Suddenly, a little spark shimmered in green in his field of vision......

"Enemy attack!"

He screamed and threw himself under the horse without hesitation.

The inexperienced surveyor looked at him in amazement, and then blood splattered from his shoulder, and he fell off his horse in the impact of bullets, and the entire Qingzhang team and the escorting militia were in chaos, and everyone searched for concealment as quickly as possible. Almost at the same time, more sparks flickered, white gunpowder smoke rose little by little in the green mountain forest, bullets continued to fall in the crowd, and the two members of the Qingzhang team were immediately shot.

"Fight back, don't lie on your stomach!"

Liu Fu roared.

Then he raised the short gun in his hand, aimed at a shaking figure in the mountain forest and pulled the trigger.

The latter fell in response.

The other members of the Qingzhang team took off their flintlock pistols and fired back, but their opponents were clearly flintlock pistols as well, hiding in the woods and constantly firing bullets.

"Mah, Lao Tzu thought that the landlords in Jiangnan could be honest, but I didn't expect the north and south to be virtuous!"

Liu Fu scolded while loading the bullet.

Obviously, this kind of thing has happened to him many times, including many of his veteran team members, who have obviously been tested for a long time, hiding behind trees or rocks one by one, calmly reloading and aiming and firing. Only the newcomers who had just joined and the militia who had not experienced the war were a little flustered, but several veterans in the militia were also calm, still shooting and reprimanding their subordinates.

Liu Fu then fired a second shot.

Then he rushed to the surveyor who had fallen to the ground as fast as he could, grabbed the unconscious creature and dragged him behind the tree, and at the same time a bullet landed at his feet, and the crumbling rubble hit the surveyor's face, and the hapless child, who had just graduated this year, immediately woke up and screamed......

"What's it called, it's just a little injury!"

Liu Fu roared.

The surveyor was so frightened that he shut up.

Liu Fu took out a first-aid kit, quickly sprinkled medicine on the wound on his shoulder, and threw the bandage to him to press himself.

"Captain, these things have rifled guns!"

One of the team members shouted.

Immediately after that, another member of the team was shot.

Liu Fu looked at the opposite side, there was indeed an accurate musket in the chaotic shooting, constantly aiming at his old team members, and most of the shots were actually to contain them and buy time for this rifled gun to load. However, it is not uncommon for attackers to have rifled guns, this kind of thing can be changed with those smoothbore guns with good barrel quality, and it is not difficult to pull a few simple rifling wires by hand.

However, by this time he could already judge the number of enemies......

"Get on the bayonet!"

He yelled.

With that, he drew his saber.

The veterans and militia veterans quickly pulled out their bayonets and put them on, while the newcomers looked at each other in a panic, obviously they were not very comfortable with this kind of thing, after all, as civilian Qingzhang members, they really didn't think that they would have to charge with bayonets like on the battlefield.

"The old players are in front and the new players are in the back, don't be weak, go out and run my cat on the waist!"

Liu Fu roared.

Then he looked at the opposite side, and a new round of bullets shot out on the opposite side.

"Run!"

He yelled.

After saying that, he pointed the knife in his hand forward, and rushed towards the woods at full speed, and the old soldiers behind him shouted with flintlock pistols with bayonets on them, and the newcomers infected by it also rushed forward with their guns as soon as their brains were hot.

However......

Their enemies quickly retreated.

The fellows were clearly familiar with the environment, and when they rushed over, they were left with only a few dead bodies, and even the wounded had their throats cut off by their companions as they left, lying in the woods convulsing dyingly. Liu Fu used a knife to pick off the bun on their heads, revealing the head of the Yue Dynasty that the Japanese slaves had to keep.

"It's a fake widow, the feet are different!"

One of the team members said as he looked at the assailant's feet.

"That's the problem!"

Liu Fu said with a frown.

"Go to Guangde immediately to report, and apply for the transfer of troops to clear it, it doesn't matter if it's a Japanese slave, the important thing is that someone dares to fight by force!"

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