Chapter 125: The General Trend

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of November of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and there were many major events in the Guan, in the court, Zhu Youzhen approved Wei Zhongxian's return to his hometown, and then made every effort to eradicate Wei Zhongxian's henchmen, and the eunuch party of 256 people from Cui Chengxiu or below committed suicide, or execution, or garrison, none of them were spared, and since then the court is the dominant party of Donglin.

The Donglin Party comprehensively denied the court's collection of taxes such as commercial tax, salt tax, and mining tax, saying that the gentleman would not take advantage of it, and that agriculture was fundamental, so agricultural taxes could be levied, and it was not enough to add three salaries, that is, Liao's salary, trilateral salary, and bandits' salary.

This is a discerning person who knows at a glance that it is messing around, the rich do not collect taxes, and collect the poor, especially the last one who suppresses bandits, is to collect heavy taxes from the poor, and eliminate the poor who are in chaos because they can't survive, which is like opening a floodgate of chaos, the poor are getting poorer and poorer, becoming homeless, and then collecting heavy taxes from other poor people to clear out the homeless, so the homeless people are more and more, and there is no end, until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And our Donglin Zhugong has changed and become a loyal minister of "my Daqing", but "my Daqing" is not as stupid as Chongzhen, and the Donglin Zhugong can not affect the government, "I Daqing" will collect taxes from businessmen and rich gentry, and those who are disobedient will be killed if they should be killed, and there is no need to discuss.

In other words, Emperor Chongzhen is making the next stinky move, but several of his opponents, the Rogue Thief, Jiannu, and the Black Armor Army, are all developing at a high speed.

The thieves are indeed developing at a high speed, since Wang Er of northern Shaanxi took the lead in pulling the flag to rebel in Baishui County, the heroes of all walks of life in Shaanxi have responded, there are hungry people and deserters have joined, the team soon developed to thousands of people, causing the court to shake, busy sending officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress, but was defeated by it, the uprising team was active in Hancheng, Pucheng, Yijun, Luochuan, Baishui and other places.

Although Wang Er failed in the end, his uprising was like a spark and had become a prairie fire, and since then there have been continuous uprisings in various parts of Shaanxi.

At first, Huang Taiji only sent the owner of the Blue Banner Mang Gurtai to lead more than 20,000 people from the Blue Banner to help the Houjin in-law Kol Secretion Department resist Lin Dan Khan's conquest, who knew that Lin Dan Khan might be old, he was afraid of the powerful Hou Jin, and fled after a slight defeat, leaving a large area of territory and the Mongolian people to abandon it.

Mongolia in the Ming Dynasty is divided into three departments, the territory led by Lin Dan Khan is the Chahar Department, which is the orthodoxy of the descendants of the Mongolian Yuan family, and has always been at odds with the Jurchens, and its tribal people, especially the tribes along the Great Wall, have strong enemies outside, and there is a famine inside, and ask for begging inside, how do you know that the fool of Emperor Chongzhen did not allow it, and pushed them to Jiannu alive, therefore, Huang Taiji in this year, integrated the Eastern and Western Mongolia to obey the various departments, and created the left and right two banners, which is the predecessor of the Mongolian Eight Banners.

Jiannu added tens of thousands of troops, which made Huang Taiji's ambition even greater, and he was thinking about this winter, an expedition to Monan, completely unify Mongolia, and eliminate the threat of the three border troubles of Houjin.

The three major border troubles of the Later Jin Dynasty are the Mongolian tribes in the west, the Ming Dynasty in the south, and the North Korea.

There are a large number of people in Dongjiang Town, but they are all some Liao people who fled to the island because they couldn't survive, their physique is weak, their combat effectiveness is not strong, and they can't fight with Jiannu head-on, they can only fight guerrillas, which belongs to the problem of ringworm, that is, the main force to fight guerrillas is still the Fujian and Zhejiang soldiers sent to Mao Wenlong by the court, and the real Liao people are not capable of fighting with Jiannu, so they are not listed as one of the four major threats by Jiannu.

Although the Black Armor Army is strong, Yang Wenli still wants to hide clumsy, and does not want to be listed as the number one target by the court and Jiannu, although he is not afraid, but Yang Wenli, who is familiar with history, knows that at this time, the Ming Dynasty is not exhausted, and it will be very difficult for him to seize the country, that is, at this time, "people" are not there, so he has to hide for a few years.

Yang Wenli is teaching Wang Rucheng to fire bone china, which is of course not difficult for him, he has a comprehensive technical record, but he just does it once.

When the first furnace of bone china was fired, Wang Rucheng was so surprised that he exclaimed: "This kind of porcelain, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, would definitely be shocked by the heavens, how could its white be so crystalline?" Although Hetian white jade is not as good, it is so white and pure, and the tire wall is thinner than the cicada wings, which can almost transmit light, and it can be included in the list of rare treasures. ”

"This is the power of science, which I have painstakingly developed for several years, and it is the exclusive commodity of our Black Armor Army, which can be exchanged for the materials we urgently need, such as iron ore, sulfur, lead, copper, grain, and so on.

You must be cautious about keeping this secret secret secret, and you must not let this secret technique leak out. ”

Yang Wenli boasted proudly, and told him to keep it a secret.

"Definitely, definitely! Rest assured, the commander, his subordinates dare to use their lives to guarantee that they will never let this magic skill leak out. Wang Ru Zhengma swore to him.

It only took two days to really fire bone china, because there were only so many feldspar and quartz sand brought from Dabie Mountain, and this time one-third of it was used, which made Yang Wenli very painful, these precious raw materials of high purity, he still had to leave them for great use in the future, and he didn't dare to burn bone china and glass again until he found a replacement.

Bone china is not a big road goods, the quantity cannot be very large, otherwise it will be cheap, every time he trades, only bring a few boxes of porcelain and a small number of glass mirrors, the first is more secure, and the second is that he does not want to ship back too much silver.

The Ming Dynasty's surrounding countries have a large amount of silver flowed into the Ming Dynasty, which has caused a shortage of money in the surrounding countries, so Japan and North Korea have also noticed the problem of trade deficit early on.

Money is really of no use to Yang Wenli's Black Armor Army, at least it is useless now, the Black Armor Army is all self-sufficient, except for the basic raw materials such as sulfur, lead, and iron ore that he lacks, he doesn't have to spend a penny.

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"Ru Cheng, the last step of the glass mirror is silver-plating, which is very critical and very simple, because the amount is not large, you will do it alone in the future, and you can't let too many people come into contact with it, so that it can more effectively prevent the outflow of technology."

The last glass was silver-plated, Yang Wenli didn't even let the slave soldiers participate, he only took Wang Rucheng in the workshop, and secretly did it. He dissolved silver in a crucible and told him.

"Whoa! I will. Wang Rucheng nodded and promised.

The melting point of silver is not high, it didn't take long to dissolve, and then he took Wang Rucheng to paste a piece of cut tin foil on one side of the arranged glass, and then Yang Wenli used pliers to carry the small crucible that dissolved silver, and carefully poured the red-hot silver liquid onto the tin foil, and the tin foil melted when it met the silver, and the silver tin alloy was plated on the glass.

After the silver liquid cooled, Yang Wenli used the lacquer that had been prepared for a long time and applied it to the top of the silver mirror to protect the silver plating layer.

"Alright! The glass mirror is thus made, how about you see the effect? After Yang Wenli completed these steps, he picked up a small round mirror and handed it to Wang Ruchengdao.

"Wow! …… How is it so clear? It's just delicate, compared with this kind of glass mirror, the bronze mirror has no advantage, the commander, you really have immortal arts, how can you develop such a treasure mirror? Wang Rucheng was surprised when he saw this, I am afraid that he had never seen such a strange thing in his life, and it was inevitable that his expression was exaggerated a little, but this is human nature, and it is the same for other natives of the Ming Dynasty.

…… To be continued