Chapter 271 - Military Arrangements (Page 1/1)

Xu Guangqi said: "The dignity of the law cannot be desecrated, we can sympathize with this passerby, but to regulate people's behavior according to the law is to ensure the seriousness of the law." ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "What Mr. said is very reasonable, if the law is not strictly enforced, it will be useless, there will always be some people who will exploit the loopholes in the law, and then maybe someone will deliberately hit the carriage to get compensation." ”

Xu Guangqi exclaimed: "Your Majesty, there will be no such shameless thing in this world." ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled wryly, remembering that touching porcelain in the Celestial Empire had become an industry, but I was afraid that the people of the Ming Dynasty would not be able to understand it now. People, after it gets bad, there is nothing that cannot be done, and there is nothing that cannot be imagined. And what he is doing now is not wanting to see that ugly scene have the opportunity to repeat itself in Daming.

After the discussion of domestic political affairs, it is time for the main event - military arrangements. The ten-year program formulated by Lu Xiangsheng is mainly divided into four parts, one is to advance north to the Ural Mountains to deal with the problem of the Rakshasa country; the second is the issue of occupying the countries around the Strait of Malacca and controlling the waterways; the third is the issue of continuing to expand in the Americas and establishing a Daming-Yindi'an settlement on the land close to the Ming Dynasty; Fourth, the question of exterminating the remnants of the recalcitrant Mongols.

The views of the ministers and the people of the Ming Dynasty on the war have now changed a lot, not only because of Zhu Youxiao's strong suppression and propaganda, although this also has a certain effect. The most important thing is because the Ming people benefited from the war.

The war against Mongolia made the people in the north of the Ming Dynasty no longer worry about the Mongols who might rush in and rob at any time, and the auction of a few alkaline lakes can have several years of taxes, not to mention a large number of cattle, horses and sheep into the interior, which greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production, a large number of leather goods into the interior, mutton into the belly, making the winter no longer so cold.

Whether it's New South Wales or Danong Island, or Vietnam and Luzon, the abundance of grain has caused food prices to plummet, and now being able to eat enough is no longer a thing to show off in front of people. The use of rubber makes the carriage no longer so bumpy and uncomfortable, and the calm of the South China Sea makes the merchants who run the South Seas smile.

The Ming people don't like war, the ostensible reason is because the Ming people love peace, which is commonly known as the fear of being defeated, but in fact, the real reason is because war will force the imperial court to raise taxes, which will reduce the quality of life of the people. Now that the imperial court has not raised taxes, but has received all kinds of benefits and conveniences in life, who would oppose such a war? The officials of the Ming Dynasty are not really stupid, so they can naturally know what kind of war should be opposed and what kind of war should be supported, not to mention that war can also spread the words of the saints all over the world! This is the favorite thing of the literati of the Ming Dynasty.

Because priority was given to dealing with the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the Emperor indicated that in the war against the Rakshasa Kingdom, a large amount of land would be harvested, and there would be enough plains suitable for farming, so the construction of the railway must take precedence over the north. The Waspur people near Xiaohai were the first combat targets of the Ming army, and judging from the battle with Mobei Mongolia, it was not troublesome to force and the Waspur people, but the trouble was the construction of the railway.

Sun Chuanting plans to complete the construction of the Beijing-small railway within a year, which is a very arduous task, especially now that the railway has been repaired to the desert, not only the difficulty of construction has increased, but also the maintenance of the railway has been put on the agenda.

It was obviously impossible for the army to maintain the railway, and it was obviously impractical to use non-hardy Indians, which necessitated the military to recruit maintenance teams from among the locals. However, the abundance of food in the Ming Dynasty played a great role at this time, the Trans-Khalkha people were not willing to go to the railway construction site to work, but just rode a horse to see the railway, and swept down some sand and stones blown onto the rails, but it was not resistant, especially the Ming was willing to provide them with some rice and other food that they had never seen before, but they were very good after eating, and the maintenance team could easily recruit people.

Within three years, the Ming army would occupy the area on both sides of the Lena River with Zhenbei City as the center, and reach the mouth of the river. On the western front, it was necessary to subdue the tile spurs and enter the Jinshan (Altai Mountains) area. With the Qian River, which flows into Xiaohai, as the source, explore the Yenisei River basin to the north, and explore the Ob River basin to the north with the Irtysh River, which originates in Jinshan.

Within ten years, it was necessary to occupy the Three River Valleys, build the railway close to the Ural Mountains, and all the areas east of the Ural Mountains became the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The plains near the Ural Mountains will be relocated to at least 100,000 people for farming.

In May of the 11th year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Qianfang will lead the Zhenyuan fleet to Malacca, destroying all the Western armies here, making Malacca completely in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, controlling the world's largest spice producing area, continuing to sail westward within ten years, and setting up supply points along the way, all the way to Europe. If it is possible, occupy the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt and establish a route to Europe through the desert transshipment.

Because he had to fight against the relatively developed West, Zhu Youxiao attached great importance to the upgrading of weapons. Thundermercury was still not made, although he pointed out that it was possible to use mercury and saltpeter or saltpeter products, but despite repeated experiments by the students of the institute, it was still not invented.

However, the improvement of the musket continued, and a large number of rifled muskets were manufactured and equipped in the Guards. Gunpowder has long been changed to the best formula, and the granulation process can already be made by semi-mechanical methods. The butt of the flowering bullet has been continuously improved, and the barrel of the gun is getting longer and longer, so that the shooting accuracy and range of the artillery are slowly increasing, and the Ordnance Bureau has created a cannon with a range of up to two miles, but it is a problem with the manufacturing process, and the yield is low, so there are not many that can be practical, and they are all installed on the ship first.

The development of the Americas is now going very smoothly, Zhou Yanru is responsible for the non-stop construction of the Yin family's residence, and Chen Houfu has specially divided two ships to explore along the coast to the north, and now reports that it is at least 4,000 miles away from Huaxia City. Zhu Youxiao estimated that he had probably passed through South America and entered North America.

Hu Qinzhai led the Guards and the Yin family to form a coalition army, and continued to penetrate deep into the west of Huaxia City. Although they made a road, at most they only penetrated more than five hundred miles from the coast, and then they had to retreat.

Zhou Yanru no longer needed the protection of the guards, and after he formed the Yin family's settlement, he dispatched a large number of young people from the Yin family to form the Yin family's army, which was responsible for collecting the Yin family tribes scattered in various places. Just like a snowball, by the tenth year of the Apocalypse, the Yin family members who had joined the Daming Yin Family Alliance had reached more than 110,000.

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