Chapter 428. A trip to the Wa Kingdom
With the benefits of the ghosts in Jinyiwei, the information that Dongjiang needs can even be transported through the military stack, and the big things that happened in the customs can be known in less than a week or so, and even a few days later than Emperor Chongzhen, and the news received by the emperor has to be picked by the people below before it is submitted.
At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the signs of a devastating cataclysm have been revealed, and the Jinyi Wei Henan outpost sent a message that since the beginning of spring, Zhengzhou, Xingyang, and Kaifeng have been rivers in the wilderness, and green seedlings have died in the fields.
This time, even if it is close to the town fortress and the middle-class landlord class who are close to the fortress and protect themselves, they will not be able to bear it, and this autumn, Henan is destined to be a thief!
Shaanxi and Shanxi are not good to get there, but the main force of the official army here is destined to be empty, Sun Chuanting's main force of the Qin army is still placed in Baoding, Hebei, to deal with the imminent invasion of Jiannu, and a large part of the men and horses under the command of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, was also assigned to the hands of Yang Sichang, who invited the governor to go south last year.
The imbalance of strategy will lead to this year destined to be the beginning of collapse, and the hourglass of the countdown to the fall of the Ming Empire has been reversed, which means that time is running out for Mao Jue who wants to do something.
Don't look at the Dongjiang River is very strong now, and the Qing State is half a catty and eight taels, which is weaker than the Qing State before entering the customs in history, and the immigrants in the customs are like a tap of water flowing for a long time, so that he can't wait for a while, then it will take a short time to make a population windfall, in March, one after another Lee's Korean long-term workers met the needs of Mudanjiang Town, Vladivostok and Wei two places to reclaim and hire farmers, if the shogunate is solved, the Japanese slaves on the Kanto Plain should provide Mao Jue with a large amount of cheap labor, it is really not good, The military strength saved by the East and the West can make up to 200,000.
Now the Dongjiang immigrants who have moved to Heilongjiang have tasted the sweetness, they have the most silver in their hands, and at the same time as dividing the land, in addition to the territory of the Dongjiang branch, they also spend extra money to contract pastures and buy more land, and the 100,000 or so people who took the lead in moving over from the Dongjiang River are the most lacking in manpower development.
As for those victims from Shandong, they have now become small landlords, each family can share a hundred acres of land, and the family is tired and tired to barely complete the development, although they do not need to be fatal, but they are also urgent.
Mao Jue's departure not only represents the interests of his own warlords, but also represents the interests of the people under the command of the Dongjiang River, which has settled the Dongjiang military and government, and on the day of Mao Jue's departure, tens of thousands of Dongjiang leaders spontaneously gathered at the edge of Vladivostok Weigang, and took the Dongjiang train, which was still expensive at this time, to see off Mao Jue.
"The old decay represents the heart of the cow, and I congratulate the general!"
"The general has a safe journey, and the martial arts are prosperous!"
Standing on the deck of the Black Pearl, looking down, there were crowds of people seeing them off like this, shouting while shoehorning some of the specialties on hand to the Dongjiang soldiers who were carrying their luggage and boarding the ship.
This scene has never been seen even in the early years of the Ming Dynasty when the Yuan Dynasty and the Han people were on the same page, Zhu Yuanzhang expelled the Mengyuan forces and restored the Central Plains!
"It's so lively!"
is still dressed as an OL, with a shirt and a black short skirt, and a pair of black-framed glasses, wearing high heels that Mao Jue had to be forced to wear, looking down, Yu Leer opened her little mouth into an O shape in amazement.
is also quite nostalgic, but Suyi's face still has an extra pair of pride, the sea is windy, she is carefully holding a cloak, and draped it on her shoulders for Mao Jue in the back.
After Mao Jue set out on the expedition, the biggest beneficiary seemed to be Adriana, who took the military and political power of the Dongjiang River with one hand, but at this time, Adriana didn't seem to have the excitement of holding power at all, but instead looked at Suyi's lower abdomen with envy, and now her little belly actually bulged slightly.
Certainly not because of the fat!
"If this time Huang Taiji launches an attack on the Guanning Jin defense line! Dongjiang will attack behind his back no matter what, even if it is a ...... tearing his face with the Qing people, Nana!"
"Huh?"
This Mao Jue was still chattering about military and political affairs, but Adriana was obviously a little absent-minded, and was yelled in her ear by Mao Jue's words, and she woke up with a spirit: "General, you command!"
What else is this commanding? After all, a woman is a woman, seeing her with such a look of envy, jealousy and hatred, Mao Jue patted her little brain helplessly: "Don't be envious, after this trip to the Japanese country, Heilongjiang has developed almost the same, Lao Tzu stays in Tieshan every day, and I will give you one!"
"Who is envious!"
There was obviously a red cloud on the little face, but Adriana was very useful: "The concubine body just wants to remind the general that the deadline given to you by the old man is about to expire, and if you don't want to be good with the name of the eldest son, you have to go to the ancestral hall and kneel by yourself!" ”
This topic diverted from you, and it really caught Mao Jue off guard, and patted his head very distressed, Mao Jue frowned helplessly, and for a long time, he gritted his teeth and snorted.
"Isn't Ben going to go out to patrol the Wa Kingdom? In that case, let's call it Xingjian! ”
"Good name, Tianxingjian, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement!"
Adriana nodded appreciatively, but then she snorted in dismay.
"But this has something to do with the conquest!"
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Anyway, Dongjiang's hope, Mao Jue's eldest son has finally decided on a name, Mao Xingjian!
As he rode the red dust and rushed to the Beijing Division, he, who was Lao Tzu, also gathered a large army, and once again rushed to the Wa Kingdom to kill the past, just like thousands of parents in China, fighting the country for future generations.
Ten regiments of the Yizhou Corps, personally escorted by General Kong Youde, ten regiments that can be used to fighting are accompanied by the rate, and there are 20 reserve regiments, three large ships of the naval division, more than 20 second-class sailing ships, more than 50 third-class functional ships, plus the naval division, the army has reached more than 32,000 people.
This time, because I was going to Kyoto on an errand, I didn't go to Nagasaki Castle, where I always go, but after passing through Jeju Island and inspecting the Jeju Corps, the fleet drove northward along the coast of Wakoku, and finally stopped at Tamba.
Mao Jue has not set foot on the land of the Wa Kingdom again for four years, and there have been many changes here since when he came, the villages seem to be denser again, and the originally barren mountain woodland has also been cut down a lot, and corn and sweet potatoes have been planted.
The high-yield crops from the Americas were also popularized on a large scale in the Wa Kingdom more than 100 years earlier in the hands of Mao Jue. Destiny is food! It's a steady stream of people's hearts! Although the food is still so bad, at least the time to eat enough is one or two more months a year, and before you know it, the population of the Wa Kingdom has also risen a few points, and the world seems to be a lot more peaceful.
It's just that this is not a good thing for the Japanese state, just like Qianlong's prosperous era and never endowment, the population breeds too fast, the fields and response productivity have not been responded to improve, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the foreign missionaries wrote that China was rich, the inhabitants were neatly dressed, the faces were healthy, civilized and polite, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it became a different scene, the astonishing abject poverty of the borderland, the people were short, the face was yellow and thin, and the army was in tatters like a flower, these are the costs of uncontrolled population growth.
After all, in contrast, the Qing Dynasty still has a vast territory, as well as Hetao, Dabie Mountains, and agriculture can be expanded near Taihu Lake, but the Japanese country is narrow and mountainous, and overdevelopment brings soil erosion and environmental damage.
Although Mao Jue did not want the power of those families in the south of the Yangtze River to infiltrate into the Japanese country, but with the Hangzhou Luo family operating the first hot spring hotel in Kyoto, whether it was Dongjiang merchants or Yangzhou merchants, they inevitably infiltrated in.
Under the influence of several times, even if the Ming Dynasty did not deliberately colonize the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had to develop more and more to the semi-colonies of the Ming Dynasty, becoming the Ming Dynasty's labor exporter, agricultural exporter, industrial product importer and tourism service country, and the scissors were always held under the feet of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if it has changed so much, there is still one thing that has not changed, that is, the servility against the power, landing in Tanba, the army of the Dongjiang River has formed a spectacular marching procession, the cavalry in front of the road is open, hunting with flags, and behind is a phalanx of heavy infantry pushing cannons and carrying spears, even if it is a reserve force, it is also neatly armored.
Every time Mao Jue's army marched to a certain place, there was no need to drink orders at all, and the peasants of the Wa Kingdom in the villages and towns on the side of the road had already consciously knelt down on both sides of the road and kowtowed, and the appearance of the servile face and knees was exactly the same as the Han people who plundered under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
Four years later, this time, the Dongjiang River was even more of a blockbuster, the frightened Tanba, the Western Daimyo of the Wakasa generation panicked like the little chickens, when the Dongjiang Army crossed the border, one by one the daimyo did their best to supply supplies, not to mention, but also personally ordered all the samurai under his command, accompanied Kyoto, the power of the Great Commission increased a lot, not to mention, when he landed in the Wa Kingdom on April 6, Mao Jue was 24,000 people, and when he arrived in Kyoto, it had reached more than 50,000.
At this time, the Japanese Kingdom of Kyoto, also reached the Tang Dynasty, a rare revival again, the dilapidated city wall for hundreds of years was restored and complete, the neighborhood that was burned down in the war was also fully revived, the dilapidated buildings were demolished one by one, the brand-new two-story small building towered out, the four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings in the smoke and rain of the grand occasion, once again revealed here.
Even more prosperous than Heiankyo in the Tang Dynasty, Kyoto on the shores of Lake Biwa has expanded a full circle compared to four years ago, and the streets are crowded with people, and the cries of people from the south to the north are colorful.
It's just that this peace also belongs to the Ming people, Mao Jue plans to make money from the Jiangnan clans, and those Jiangnan clans are not polite, and they also take root here with special products.
"Meet the Great Commissioner!"
Kyoto Toyotomi family twelve guardian daimyo, five of the fourth, if the year sent, the eye pay, enough hundreds of important ministers of the West Kingdom personally greeted at the west gate of Kyoto, even if the royal family of the Japanese Kingdom has sent representatives, standing at the front of the line is naturally the actual Emperor of the Japanese Kingdom, Yuan Feng Supervisor Yuan Chonghuan, the Ming Dynasty sent the eunuch Cao Xi is also among them, this eunuch than from the Ming Dynasty is really moisturized I don't know how many times, it is already rich fat into a ball, and then later, a woman wearing a red Ming Dynasty woman robe, wearing a phoenix crown Xia curtain, the girl with a bright face and bright eyes and bright teeth was also beaming, following Yuan Chonghuan's greetings, hundreds of powerful people also worshiped in front of Mao Jue's army.
I came here to pursue profits, not to put up a fight, getting off the car, Mao Jue also had no shelf, and his voice was full of people, and he shook the sleeves of his clothes suddenly.
"Ministers, please get up!"
"Xie Da Dedication!"
In the loud response, these courtiers stood up together again, but among them, a pair of beautiful white eyes smashed on Mao Jue, who was originally curious about the strange beauty with a high status in this team, but this white eye was too familiar, which made Mao Jue smile bitterly for a moment.
This Qiandao Ji, the eighteenth female college has changed, and she looks more slim, but she hasn't changed at all......
Even if it was Toyotomi Regency, it was the samurai class in power, and after welcoming Mao Jue, the army was stationed outside Kyoto City, and entered the city with three regiments of personal guards.
"After all these years of hard work, Lord Yuan and Grandpa Cao have left!"
"And me, I've worked hard too!"
Carrying Yuan Chonghuan's sleeves, the eldest lady of the Toyotomi family was arguing and arguing there without blushing and heartbeat, but unfortunately, she was directly ignored by Mao Jue, and the angry girl was biting her silver teeth and gurgling.
"Now the country is peaceful and prosperous, the wind and rain are smooth, and thanks to Mao Dongjiang's martial power!"
The smile on his face was like honey, Cao Xi was there to hold his fists and compliment, but Yuan Chonghuan, as the protagonist, had a gloomy face.
"General Mao, do you really want to accept the surrender of the shogunate?"
"Isn't the army that surrenders without a fight advocated by Confucianism? How do you ......?"
"General, the western kingdom is supported by samurai daimyo, these people have coveted the territory of the eastern kingdom for a long time, but now they ......"
Full of hesitation, Yuan Chonghuan's face that seemed to be a little older was serious, but before he finished speaking, a cold bang sounded, even if the Dongjiang special four-wheeled carriage trunk, an arrow was violently drilled in, and the tip of the arrow stared at the back of Cao Xi's head, and turned his head suddenly, the fat eunuch's eyes were straight.
Outside, frightened and angry shouts rang out suddenly.
"Catch the assassins! Protecting the !! adults"
(End of chapter)