Chapter 21: The Wind Blows North, and the Gold and Silver Roll In

The economy of Liuqiu is very deformed, and the development of industry is rapid, but agriculture has almost come to a halt, and the latest price in Jilong Port is already a pound of rice equivalent to more than ten pounds of sea fish. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 There are six large fishing teams on the east side of the island, and the seafood caught is too much to eat, but the farmers on the island are almost all crowded into all kinds of workshops and factories, and the people are not far from working in the fields, and the grain is almost all imported and plundered. There are only some elderly people in the suburbs of the chicken coop who are growing some vegetables, and the price of vegetables is very expensive, and the income of vegetable farmers is higher than that of adult workers, but there are still no adults who like to farm, and industrialization has dazzled people's eyes.

The development of Liuqiu is rapid, but it is extremely lacking in the accumulation of spiritual civilization; Feverish study, feverish research, feverish work, feverish business, feverish expansion, etc., but no one thinks about why it has developed into this way; The fast pace occupies everyone's psychology, impatience, fanaticism, concentration, and so on are the normal psychology of everyone, if there is another person who is calm, then this person is Fu Ning. The whole Liuqiu is developing in Fu Ning's expectations, but there are also many things beyond Fu Ning's imagination, the new China in the previous life took thirty years to develop from an agricultural country to the world's second largest economy, but that was in the modern science and technology and civilization accumulated by the hard work, and in this world Fu Ning only hopes to be able to use fifty years, when he is old, to develop a modern Han world contentment, when he is old, he will not regret that he inexplicably came to this world of red mansions; However, Fu Ning did not expect that the Hermes-Epitek in the world of Red Mansions would burst out with extraordinary collective wisdom and achievements under the encouragement of appropriate policies, and that an industrialized Ryuqiu Island would be created in just six or seven years. Fu Ning felt that Liuqiu's development speed was several times faster than he expected, and he felt that he was not good enough, and he could develop so fast when he forgot a lot of knowledge in his previous life, if he could remember more and sort out some knowledge of his previous life, then how good it would be, but unfortunately he had tried his best, but he had a slight regret, regretting his lack of knowledge.

In March, when the marines were still cleaning up the indigenous people on the island of Kyushu, there was new good news from the Department of Scientific Research, dozens of craftsmen and students distilled and separated gasoline and diesel, with the help of the theoretical knowledge that Fu Ning had mentioned and the "hot oil" sold by Arab merchants. After receiving this news, Fu Ning sorted out the oil cracking processing theory in his memory and handed it to the craftsmen, but on the other hand, he was a little anxious to attack the Bohai State as soon as possible, because only by occupying and developing the Bohai State as soon as possible can he obtain the best quality coal and oil. The Bohai Kingdom of the Red Chamber World is located in the east of Shanhaiguan in the north of the Yalu River, it is a treasure land, there are endless treasures on the ground and underground, but it is a pity that the population of Liuqiu is still too small now, and the comprehensive power is still limited, Fu Ning does not want to stimulate the British Imperial Court for the time being, so he can only continue to develop and accumulate strength, and wait for the right time to be able to occupy the Bohai Kingdom.

Population, wealth, and territory are the three things that are urgently needed at the moment. In the past two months, the small and auxiliary warships newly launched at the Jilong Shipyard have been transferred to the 3rd Division stationed in Luzon, under the command of Tian Yanwu, in order to protect the iron ore transportation and clear the surrounding pirates. The trade of the three ports of the British Dynasty is also expanding rapidly, but the news fed back by the Department of Commerce and private merchants is not ideal, the officials of the feudal empire are staring at the interests of commerce and trade with blood-red eyes, and the officials of the ports of Guangzhou and Zhangzhou can still abide by some bottom lines, the craziest is Yangzhou Port, the three princes, the five princes and the six princes, and the seven princes and the eight princes of the new adult Kaifu Jian Ya have sent people to compete for the commercial interests of Yangzhou, a boatload of silk jewelry, coral agate, perfume lighters, Leather goods, fancy clothes, etc., were heavily taxed by officials, and they ate a huge fat. As for the northern part of Ryugu, the gradual plundering of Shikoku Island and Honshu Island was a pre-planned strategy, and only after clearing the Japanese natives could they collect the greatest amount of gold and silver wealth; Fu Ning didn't want to leave the indigenous population in that place so that the natives would wake up in the future, and everything on that land could only belong to the Han people of Liuqiu after the aborigines of the Wa Kingdom were completely cleaned up.

As for whether there will be a conflict with the British court during the period, and how to deal with the conflict, Fu Ning can only hope that the time will be on the matter, and the specific handling according to the current situation, the plan cannot keep up with the changes, and can only deal with it when things happen.

The harvest of the conquest of Kyushu Island and Nagasaki brought a great surprise to Ryuqiu, but Fu Ning transferred the harvest to the Department of Culture to make everyone a little regretful, and then the harvest of the rest of Kyushu Island brought a little disappointment to everyone, eight million gold and silver and a large amount of bamboo and wood could not stimulate the nerves of the people of Ryugu, and then the stimulated Wa Kingdom had given up the civil war and began to unite to gather force in Xiaguan, and some people in Ryuqiu heard the news and began to worry about the ability of the Ryuqiu Navy to deal with it. In fact, Fu Ning was not worried about the war of conquest and suppression of the Japanese State at all, first of all, the Marine Division was already equipped with a large number of repeating guns, the fourth division was a repeating gun unit, the fifth and sixth divisions were single-shot rear gun units, and only a small half of the soldiers in the final seventh division were underequipped and still used the eliminated breech guns, and they might only need to wait for another half a month to replace the rear guns. The intelligence department sorted out and reported to Fu Ning that the population of the Wa State was about 12 million, and the large-scale civil war of the Wa State around the 22nd year of Qianping estimated that Fu Ning had a total population of 10 million; The conquest of Kyushu Island has already disposed of more than one million natives, which means that the remaining population of the Japanese Kingdom is about eight or nine million, which is far smaller than the two or thirty million population figure that Fu Ning expected two years ago; Fu Ning's prediction before the navy's conquest of the Japanese was two years, but after synthesizing the latest information, Fu Ning's latest judgment was that the time to conquer the Japanese and complete the cleanup of the natives was one year; At most, there will be a few mountain natives hidden in the mountains of the Wa Kingdom.

When the news of the navy's conquest and cleanup of Kyushu Island spread, the Tokugawa shogunate's shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, was seriously stimulated, and for a while, the two sides of the Japanese civil war immediately put aside their grudges and gathered in Hiroshima and Shimonoseki in the south of Honshu.

Tokugawa Yoshimune declared that he would gather 500,000 troops from all over the country and "defeat the Ryuki Tyranny!" Fu Ning scoffed at this; The largest war in the history of the Wa Kingdom was only the sum of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and even the total number of troops at the peak of its civil war a year ago was only nearly 200,000, which was only born from Ryugu's cold weapons and munitions, and now Tokugawa Yoshimune claimed to have 200,000 real combat power out of 500,000 troops; The total number of about 40,000 troops in the Liuqiu Marine Division was all firearms and equipment, so Fu Ning was not worried about the war at all.

Liuqiu's job here is to do a good job in the logistics of the navy's conquest, only Lao Yue, who does not understand military affairs, slightly expressed his worries to Fu Ning, but was quickly persuaded by Fu Ning.

Fu Ning was not worried about the war at all, what he was worried about was whether he could completely annihilate the Japanese army at one time, second, how much time it would take to clean up the natives of the Japanese country, and thirdly, how much benefits he could get in the end. Therefore, Fu Ning issued a "strategic guidance for the conquest of the Japanese" to the navy, requiring the navy to allow the provocation of the Japanese state to accumulate forces in Hiroshima and Shimonoseki one after another, settle the battle at once when the time is ripe, completely annihilate the Japanese army, and then quickly go north and thoroughly clean up the indigenous population, and finally gather and harvest and receive the civilian officials of Ryuqiu to realize the development of the gold, silver and copper mines in Honshu.

The relay of hundreds of craftsmen gathered by the chicken coop military factory day and night finally developed a prototype of the machine gun, but it could not be produced on a large scale, because the coal from the chicken coop showed more and more quality defects in the production of high-quality steel; The coal of the chicken cage coal mine is suitable for processing ordinary steel, but it brings a lot of trouble to production because of the quality of coal in the processing of special steel; Fu Ning understands this very well, because chicken coop coal is indeed not the best coal in terms of quality, Fu Ning thinks that the best coal should be in the Bohai Kingdom or the Shanxi region of the British Dynasty, but now Fu Ning can not reach those areas, so Fu Ning can only let the military factory small-scale trial production of machine guns and continue to develop submachine guns.

The war began to stall at the end of March, and finally broke out in early June, when Tokugawa Yoshimune finally gathered most of his forces near the mountain pass and Shimonoseki, and 200,000 "elite soldiers" with steel swords and swords and more than 400,000 bamboo swords and bamboo guns peasants gathered together to prepare to cross the sea under the command of Tokugawa Yoshimune to attack Kitakyushu; However, at this time, the naval commander Zhang Qi ordered the fleet to continue to blockade the Seto Inland Sea and the sea of Shimonoseki, while the four marine divisions landed from the port of "Kure" and occupied Hiroshima by surprise before Tokugawa Yoshimune could react, blocking the rear route of the Japanese army; Then the four divisions began to march south towards Yamaguchi and Shimonoseki, and Tokugawa Yoshimune was "wrapped in dumplings" and had no escape.

The battle of Yamaguchi Shimonoseki completely annihilated the combat power of the Wa Kingdom, Tokugawa Yoshimune was killed, more than 600,000 Japanese troops who did not know whether it was soldiers or peasants were completely annihilated, and only a few thousand people fled to Nagato and Hagi Port on the west coast, as for whether they could cross the "Tsushima Strait" and escape to Goryeo, it depended on their luck; More than 100,000 Japanese soldiers were driven into the sea on the sea surface of Shimonoseki, and for a time there were endless groups of sharks playing in the sea and making waves, stirring up the sea surface of Shimonoseki to make the sea water red, and the sergeants of the naval fleet blocking the sea could not bear to watch, but as long as the people who experienced this battle have exercised a heart of stone, they are very calm and calm in the process of clearing the natives in the northern part of Honshu.

Fu Ning was surprised by how Zhang Qi came up with such a strategic plan, and later wrote to inquire only to learn that Zhang Qi's war ideas came from one of his own guards, that was a recruit young man named Su Ran, a student who took the initiative to graduate after taking more than 100 credits from Jilong Middle School, and joined the army because he liked to be a soldier. Fu Ning liked such a young man very much, so he awarded the most advanced military merit medal to Zhang Qi and Su Ran, and ordered Su Ran to fall back into the chicken coop and be trained by himself.

After June, there were basically no waves in the war against the Japanese, and the greatest casualties of the army came from the belly of the Japanese women, and some soldiers who did not obey the military orders were killed or injured in the subsequent war of purging the natives, and were bitten or bitten to death by the Japanese women when they indulged, but the total number of casualties in the navy was not large, and the total number of casualties was only more than 700; With more than 700 casualties, the consumption of the indigenous population of Honshu and Shikoku was a very cost-effective thing in Fu Ning's opinion.

It was only after June that the precious metals of the Wa Kingdom gradually gathered together during the military operations after June. The benefits of colonization, plunder, and clearance occupation are quite different; Colonization is the process of administering the indigenous people after occupation and gradually reaping the benefits, while plundering is a military action to plunder property, but in both ways leaving the obedient indigenous people; Fourning's favorite thing is the clear-up occupation, so that you can get the maximum harvest in the shortest time and get new land permanently, but the only flaw is the lack of population for future development.

The harvest is staggering, and the statistics are constantly increasing, with the main harvest coming from the Kanto region of Honshu; The first is the accumulation of more than 1,000 years of Japanese people, and the second is the silver mines in and around the Kanto region, although the silver mines have yet to be developed on a large scale, but it is foreseeable that the future profits will be amazing.

Zhang Qi sent a report from Benzhou asking for instructions to leave some young people from the state for the development of silver mines, but Fu Ning replied and vetoed it. Fu Ning replied in a letter: "First, comprehensively clean up the indigenous people, first clean up the indigenous people of Honshu, Shikoku and two islands, and finally Hokkaido; As for silver mining, there will be plenty of young men from Goryeo to serve as silver miners in Honju in the next two to three years, but the navy must sort out the information on silver ore resources in Honju and other places and report it to the General Staff for future use. Second, the navy soldiers should learn to enjoy foreign women safely, and when they do so, they must be able to learn their own safety protection and the clean-up work afterwards, so as to overcome psychological barriers, and be able to calmly clean up the natives without touching any widows when they have not received the ban lifting order, and be able to enjoy the foreign women safely and calmly when the ban is lifted, so that they will not become 'beasts' dominated by the lower body, and can do 'orders must be carried out, and bans must be stopped'; soldiers must gradually grow into bloodthirsty, fierce, disciplined, and rational and calm soldiers. ”