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This kind of thing must be indispensable for a grand ceremony, and this kind of ceremony generally requires the summoning of all the major civil and military ministers under Yang Feng at present, especially those feudal officials who are in charge of military power abroad, such as the envoys, guards, and governors in various places.

At present, the senior generals at the level of the Ming military region have stayed in Beijing, the Northwest Economic Envoy, the Southwest Economic Envoy who has just been stationed in Jingzhou to prepare to attack Sichuan against the current, and the Goryeo Town Guard, because Zhennan Mansion has not yet started construction, and now it is still based on Batavia, or the current Nanyang Economic Envoy who is called Coconut City, in addition to the two economic envoys of Zhancheng and Zhenla, and the navy is the Admiral of the Beiyang and Nanyang fleets, of which the Admiral of the Nanyang Fleet and the Nanyang Economic Envoy are both Luo Zhang's.

And these people must rush to the sky to participate in Yang Feng's enthronement ceremony.

The order was sent to them and then waited for them to come back, which would take at least more than a month, which had to be ideal, considering that Luo Zhang's fleet was still full of spice islands at this time, if he was not in Coconut City, I am afraid that a month would definitely not be enough, so it was simply set to the first day of the first month of the first month, that is, two months later, just when he ascended the throne, he changed the yuan.

However, Emperor Yang no longer gives the name of the year, this thing is always exchanged for no fun, in vain to increase the trouble, directly to China has a clear year of the first year of the republic, by himself re-promulgated a holy calendar, or simply the holy calendar, said that his master was born in that year, he in order to filial piety to the master with the beginning of the year this no one has anything to say, now is the Western calendar 1705, the first year of the republic is 841 years ago, so that is to say, next year is the holy calendar 2547.

Later emperors no longer gave them era names.

Just go down to the holy calendar, so as not to be troublesome, I have to say that the habit of starting the era in Chinese history is definitely a drawback, it is good to meet those emperors who are not much tossed, and it is okay to meet those who can toss and hate to change one a year, which also makes future generations how to learn history for those children? Thinking about the confused feeling he felt when facing the comparison questions between the era name and the A.D. era in the past history exam, Yang Feng felt that he had done an incomparably great job.

In this way, all parts of the Ming Dynasty quickly moved and began to prepare for the enthronement ceremony of His Majesty the Emperor, including all military operations were temporarily suspended.

In fact, there is no military action, the next main goal of the Ming army is to occupy the Yinyou of Lanzhou, but to fight Yinyou first have to repair the Guanlong Road, this Longshan is not easy to pass, the north and south of the two Guanlong Road have to build the road first, now more than 20,000 slaves are building a sandy road along the Wei River in the west of Fengxiang, the goal is to build more than 200 miles of Longshan, and then be able to pass the load-bearing four-wheeled carriage, support the Ming army to attack Tianshui Lanzhou and even Wuwei Jiuquan, and finally go directly to see the bright moon out of the Tianshan Mountain.

Of course, the main purpose is to excavate the sodium saltpeter mine in Shanshan.

Yang Feng wants to evolve to the era of explosives, and he will definitely not work without nitric acid, and he will also want to play with nitric acid before he has the ability to synthesize ammonia, and it will never work without this thing.

As for the other remaining main direction of attack, it was Sichuan, but it took too long to repair the Shu Road, so he chose to go upstream along the Yangtze River, but in this case, he would have to build a few more river paddle steamers, and now shipyards all over the Ming Dynasty are building such small steamers on a large scale. It is estimated that in another half a year, he will be able to obtain a fleet composed of a sufficient number of small steamers, and then pass through the Three Gorges to Chongqing and even continue west to Luzhou, and then turn to the Tuojiang River to Chengdu, the most troublesome part of this line is the Three Gorges, as long as the Three Gorges are crossed, there is nothing else to care about.

After conquering Sichuan, then you can play large-scale immigration, the poor country of abundance was Zhang Xianzhong, plus Shunzhi and Kang Mazi Ye took turns to kill, although there are still many people left, although there are more versions, but the Qing Dynasty's own Sichuan Tongzhi said a more vivid truth......

Rare as the morning star.

This place can completely move a million people, so that the country of abundance can be turned into fertile fields again, as for the problem of whether the people like to go or not, this can be solved, the land is not restricted, and each household is not allowed to exceed 1,000 acres of land in other places, but how much wasteland is reclaimed in Sichuan is their own. It doesn't matter if you exceed this number, if you have the ability, it will be yours to open a million acres, and it should be enough to think about it, after all, there are still many people at this time who are nostalgic for the era of being a big landlord, and as for the labor problem, they can buy slaves. Yang Feng was looking forward to seeing those young men and women in his own land, talking about love, enjoying the beautiful pastoral scenery, and then in the farmland behind them, countless Yan slaves of all colors were used as cattle and horses.

"Not only Sichuan, but also this standard for winning the northeast and northwest in the future, and it is also this standard in the colonies."

Yang Feng patted the world map beside him and said.

"But such land has to be taxed."

Huang Baijia said.

He was concerned about whether this would bring direct benefits to the finances, after all, a large landlord of tens of thousands of acres still did not pay taxes, which was too outrageous.

"No, there is no tax, but land rent, these places are owned by the state, all terra nullius and newly opened colonies are owned by the state, even if individuals go to reclaim land, these land ownership is still the state, and the state has the right to collect land rent, and the standard of land rent is according to the standard of the interior. For example, if someone wants to go to Sichuan to reclaim the wasteland, because everyone knows that it used to be a country of abundance, basically there is absolutely no loss in drought and flood, so the rent-free period can be shorter, such as five years. But if they want to go to Jinzhou to open up wasteland, then the place is far away and no one knows what will happen, the rent-free period can be longer, for example, ten years, and then for example, if they want to go to the outer Xing'an Mountains to reclaim the wasteland, everyone knows that the place is bitter cold and the environment is harsh, so the rent-free period can be longer, such as 20 years. ”

Yang Feng said.

Well, his policy will cause an inevitable consequence, that is, agriculture will be transferred outward, after all, with his 1,000 acres of ceiling blocking his head, it is impossible to be a big landlord in the interior, if you want to realize the ideal of being a big landlord, then you can only expand outward, so that after a long time, the result of inland industry and commerce, peripheral agriculture, it should be said that this is more in line with his wishes

A strong and weak branch is the fundamental, and a strong branch and a weak branch are fools, an industrialized China, controlling a group of agricultural vassals and colonies, this is the long-term way.

Huang Baijia nodded.

In fact, even if there is no tax, the industrial and commercial value generated by these immigrants is also very considerable, they need to buy farm tools, need to buy fertilizer, need various living materials, need transportation and sales, etc., and these will bring a lot of benefits to the treasury through industrial and commercial taxes, not to mention the huge profits obtained by Yang Feng's own enterprises.

"One more thing, the Wakoku shogunate is becoming more and more unfriendly to our merchants, and Tokugawa Tsunayoshi has also sent a large number of sailors to Nagasaki, presumably to take action against our smugglers."

Huang Baijia said.

At present, the Wa Kingdom is still in a period of isolation, leaving only the port of Nagasaki to trade with China and the Netherlands, and also to trade with Goryeo, but these are official, in fact, because it is impossible to learn from the relocation of Kang Azi to prohibit shipbuilding, in fact, the smuggling trade is rampant, especially the smuggling supported by those daimyo has even become the mainstream. Yang Feng's trade with Satsuma and other feudal clans in these years was smuggling, a large number of Ming merchants were doing this kind of work, but this kind of trade was harmful to the Wa State, a large number of cheap industrial products produced by the Ming Dynasty poured into the Wa State, and was continuously sucking out valuable gold, silver and even copper from the Wa State, and the lack of money supply had made the Tokugawa Shogunate clearly feel the pressure.

And the threat to his rule was not just economic.

Ming merchants generally did not go to the north of Honshu to trade, the official only Nagasaki, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the shogunate, but very few went there, and most of them were smuggled through Satsuma and other southwestern feudal domains, and at the same time they siphoned off the gold and silver currency of the Wa Kingdom, Shimazu, Nabeshima, Hosokawa and even the Maori family also benefited a lot as resellers. This is especially the Shimazu family, Shimazu Tsunagui took advantage of the huge harvest of the smuggling trade to buy a large number of arms from Yang Feng, flintlock pistols and cannons, and his strength has already broken the balance with the shogunate, he was supposed to go to Edo last year to fulfill the obligation to serve the Tokugawa family, but he never went because he was sick.

Tokugawa Tsunayoshi could not have reacted to this, and the most effective way was to cut off the trade chain that was eating away at his foundation.

"Tokugawa? I just want to teach him how to be a human being! ”

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

This is the result he has been waiting for all these years.

He didn't know that at this time, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi had already made a move.

"Mah, why hasn't the puppy come yet?"

On the ship Fushun, a merchant ship near Iwo Jima, the owner of the ship is holding a telescope to search the sea surface in the fog ahead.

The five-hundred-ton three-masted sailing ship under his feet was filled with cheap cotton cloth, because of the use of new steam-powered looms, there were more and more textile factories in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and cotton cloth became cheaper and cheaper, coupled with the use of new dyeing technology, so that the cotton cloth produced by the Ming Dynasty was extremely popular in the Wa country, which was also the main product of smuggling to the Wa country, and raw silk, glassware, sugar and other things were also extremely popular, and these goods were sold through the smugglers raised by the Shimazu family.

However, you can't go directly to Kagoshima, where the shogunate is watching, so you can only find a small island at sea and the Japanese people will pick up the goods in small boats.

"It's coming!"

A man beside him suddenly shouted.

A hazy shadow in the fog approached, and the owner breathed a sigh of relief, followed by more shadows, which became clear as time passed.

But at this moment, the man who spoke just now suddenly exclaimed: "No, it's a warship!" ”

"Quick, lift the anchor, raise the sails, and push the cannon out!"

The ship's owner roared without hesitation.

The Shimazu family would not use warships to receive goods, and they did not have a navy, only Nagasaki had a navy, and a shogunate navy had just been transferred from the north to block their smuggling lines.

The ship immediately became busy, the anchor that had been thrown was quickly pulled up, and then the six four-and-a-half-pound smoothbore bronze cannons eliminated by the army were pushed out, and those sailors loaded the powder bags and scattered shells as quickly as possible, and then aimed the muzzles of the guns at the warships that could already be seen, which were indeed the warships of the shogunate, a total of twelve ships in an arc in front of them. The Fushun quickly moved out a barrel of flintlock pistols, and distributed them together with ammunition to prepare for battle, this year to play maritime trade is not fully armed, it is purely dead, Fushun This is offshore trade, the level of equipment is the worst, those running Tianzhu and the Middle East route of merchant ships firepower is no different from cruisers.

"Quick, rush! Take this ship and reward each person with ten pieces of cloth! ”

And on the other side of the Fukushun, on the warship of the Tokugawa naval army, the samurai Yamamoto roared excitedly.

He got the tip, and he came here to block the Fushun, and naturally he knew very well what this merchant ship was loading, and when he thought of the full shipload of goods, he couldn't help but tremble with excitement, even the samurai life is not easy these days! It's rare to even eat a few bites of meat throughout the year, and if you usually have a small fish with a meal, it's already a good meal, but this time it's going to be rich, and he seems to smell the delicious sake wafting towards him.

However, floating towards him was the Fushun that raised its sails.

The Fushun, which was much larger than these warships, spread its sails and rushed straight towards the warships of the Japanese people, and then the cannons on the warships of the Japanese warships opened fire, and the small-caliber solid shells hit the Fushun with sawdust, but because of the weak power and poor accuracy, it only caused a minor injury to one sailor, and the cannons on the Fushun also opened fire immediately, and the dense lead bullets swept the decks of the two Japanese warships almost instantly.

However, these Japanese people were obviously stimulated by the cargo on the ship and went crazy, regardless of the cannon that restarted loading on the Fushun, and rushed straight up, anyway, this kind of four-and-a-half-pound cannon is impossible to sink a warship in any case, at most, it is to kill a few Japanese sailors, the latter is behind the shallows near Iwo Jima at this time, and there is only one way to choose by rushing hard, and the Japanese have twelve ships, as long as they are not afraid of death, they can rush forward after all.

"Fire!"

The owner of the Fushun roared.

Immediately after that, the sailors with rifled flintlock pistols around him pulled the trigger one after another, and the lead bullets continued to fly towards the sailors on the Japanese warship, and the same Japanese warship, the sailors also attacked Fushun with iron cannons and bows and arrows, although the Fushun was not a professional soldier, but those who could go to sea as sailors on smuggling ships were all standard outlaws, not caring at all about the bullets flying next to him and the sharp arrows falling overhead, and still methodically reloading ammunition and firing continuously.

Just as the light weapons on both sides continued to exchange fire, the cannons on the Fushun spewed flames again, and at this time the distance had been narrowed to dozens of meters, and the six cannons all hit the target, and the two nearest Japanese warships immediately added three holes each.

Before those Japanese sailors could react, the flames of the explosion instantly shattered the wooden planks and rose into the sky with countless fragments.

Well, this time it was replaced with a flowering bomb. (To be continued.) )