Chapter 867: The Consensus of the Colonists

At the end of October, the general election ended without any suspense, and the Baath Party became the number one party in the Ming Dynasty. The lower house of parliament occupies 180 seats, and more than eighty percent of its members are members of the Baath Party. This result is really disappointing. But then again, standing doesn't hurt your back. As long as you do things, you will make mistakes, and the opposition parties are masters of professional picking.

A policy cannot satisfy everyone, and the longer you are in power, the more likely you are to lose your advantage under the electoral system. Eventually, there will come a time when other parties will take their place. There is no doubt about that. Why? It can only be said that most of the common people are short-sighted, and there is blind obedience.

For the sake of elections, politicians should not do too much to disregard the long-term interests of the country. The most typical is the Nordic countries, which relied on the protection of US imperialism during the Cold War, and the military intelligence bureaus of individual countries had two people, one director and one agent. Why do you have money? Raise welfare, pull votes. Because of high welfare, you have to have high taxes, and then lazy diseases breed, and when it turns into lazy cancer, there are many countries in Europe that are too lazy to give birth to Nima's children, and the final result is that Nima's country is bankrupt or facing bankruptcy.

The current Ming Dynasty does not have this worry for the time being, and the whole world is in the era of great exploration. The common people of the Ming Dynasty are hard-working and hard-working, and they occupy land all over the world, and the population does not have family planning, so they just have to work hard, and they don't even need the state to introduce policies to encourage childbirth. Of course, now can be said to be the best era, and many problems are not thought about by the Ming people at all.

The reality of Daming is short of population, and the shortage is very serious. The level of agricultural production is still very backward, manpower is the main agricultural resource, and industrial development is in the ascendant. The problem of labor crunch and labor prices has grown to the point where a large number of overseas populations are used to replenish it. As for the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is definitely not the first choice to enter the factory to do things, it is better to board the ship and go to the Americas to divide the land. The latest new policy in that realm is crazy, an adult who settles in the Americas can get a hundred acres of land. Because of the emergence of this policy. The population curve of Ming immigrants to the Americas shows a significant upward trend.

How to promote the development of the steel industry? Is this also called a thing? I saw that there was no icon of the Daming Railway, and the railway to be built was 10,000 kilometers long. Within ten years, Daming's steel industry will not show a downward trend.

No matter how good Daming is, the relationship with the French is not too big. The only good thing is that the French nobles who are ready to pack their bags are finally ready to go, and then look at the money in their pockets, and buy it as soon as possible. At this time, the benefits of Mingfa friendship were revealed. Are you going to buy silk? Okay, French, right? Long live the friendship between Ming and France, see no, the Hangzhou product on the top number, give you a 20% discount. What kind of porcelain do you like? Rest assured, it won't be expensive for you, and you will be given a 20% discount. Absolute conscience price!

The French aristocracy happily bought and bought, and they couldn't tell whether it was made in Hangzhou anyway. Take some goods other than Hangzhou and Susong to fool them, and they will also be distributed. Don't underestimate this difference, the most expensive Daming silk comes from Hangzhou, Suzhou and Songjiang. Silk produced in other places, no matter how good it is, can be worse than two percent in price. This is called brand effect. As for porcelain, it is not a place in Jingdezhen that produces porcelain, there are many places where Daming burns porcelain, anyway, the ghosts can't tell it.

Facing the spring breeze. The French mission, full of joy and joy, set sail, and the farewell scene was very touching. Especially those French ladies, who kept sending flying kisses, in exchange for a low scolding at the station: stinky and shameless!

Despite her reluctance, Mira set out on a journey back to France. Shouldering the mission of family prosperity, she had to go back. The next time I come to Daming, at least the year after tomorrow. Madame Rambouillet was also reluctant to leave Daming, and life here was like being in paradise compared to Paris. I miss the food of Daming, I miss the pedestrian street of Daming, and I miss the warm service of Japanese women in Daming. The French delegates returned with a load of gold coins in their pockets.

Among the crowd of people who saw them off, Liu Yiming and Zhang Guangde were in a very good mood, and the French nobles handed over a lot of orders, with a total value of nearly four million Chinese yuan worth of goods, and this transaction made a net profit of more than one million yuan. Everyone divides one point, and it is difficult to think about it in a bad mood. Who would be too much of this kind of good thing to sit at home and earn money?

Jingshi is staging sorrow, and Shanghai wharf is also staging sorrow. It's spring again, and it's time to form a group. With the North American plan passed by Congress last year, the Ming Navy decided to increase the military power of North America. An infantry division, a North American fleet of ten cutting-edge warships, set off from the docks everywhere and finally turned in Nagasaki. It was not only the infantry regiments drawn by the army that boarded the ships at the Shanghai docks, but also the North American immigrants who came from all over the country.

Immigrants have a commonality, they are all landless farmers, and they are unwilling to go to the city to work, catch up with the state to encourage immigrants, and when they arrive in North America, they can get 100 acres of land, as long as they sign up for a person, they can get 20 yuan of settling-in allowance, and they will be fed and sheltered all the way, why not? There are also those who are opposed to immigration, especially in several provinces in the central and western parts of the Ming Dynasty. But this is useless, the previous cabinet could not solve the problem of land annexation, and Chen Xie's solution was to relocate. No one, who will farm for you? In the central and western provinces, where the population was already tight, the attitude of the landlord class had to be softened somewhat because of the emergence of the wave of immigration. It can be said that this move can be regarded as hitting the soft underbelly of the landlords and gentry. The cost of planting rose, the price of grain could not rise because of overseas plunder, and the agricultural capital of the Ming Dynasty slowly shifted to industry. That's all for later, at least for now, the trend is still evident in the inland provinces. Because of the Ming Dynasty's westward expansion plan, grain prices still rose, and it was profitable for the time being.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The explosion of the cannonball did not affect Xia Wanchun's expression at all, this young man had been honed in North America for a few years, and a cold colonist could be regarded as a practice. As a pioneer of the Los Angeles colony, Xia Wanchun led several township parties and organized an adventurous team of more than 100 people, and after landing in Los Angeles by sea, before they could gain a firm foothold, the Spaniards and natives colluded together to launch a fierce attack on the colony.

Because it was completely unforeseen in advance, the result of this battle was naturally that the adventuring team had to retreat to the sea. As far as the results of the battle are concerned, they did a good job, and the price they paid was ten killed and more than thirty wounded. No less than a thousand enemies were destroyed. Then, imperialism would not be willing to lose, Xia Wanchun did not even wait for his injuries to be completely healed, and after receiving retaliatory support from the military, there was also a group of new immigrants who had just arrived in the North American colonies, numbering about five hundred. It's all hardcover. No women? If you see it, as long as you enter this camp, the indigenous women will rob it casually.

Under the cover of naval guns, an infantry company and 500 immigrants who had undergone two months of military training rushed to the beach with rifles. Xia Wanchun personally carried a 75 mountain cannon wheel on his back, bent his back, and rushed to the beach.

The 75 mountain guns, which were quickly assembled, soon let out a roar. The guns were like raindrops, and the indigenous warriors had only cold weapons in their hands. Launched one futile attack after another, all failed. Just when they wanted to retreat, the reserves that had not moved came out.

Although it was a battle between less than 1,000 colonists and more than 3,000 indigenous warriors, the balance of power was still very large. In the face of the fierce guns, the blood of the indigenous warriors was drained, and Xia Wanchun, who originally intended to take root on the coastline and "live in peace" with the natives, evolved into an executioner whose hands were stained with the blood of the North American people.

The natives fled back to the camp, and the colonists who followed them were not in a hurry to attack immediately. Instead, four cannons were brought in for a heavy bombardment. Xia Wanchun held the binoculars and calmly examined the changes in the indigenous camp. As the adventurer commander of this battle, he has the responsibility and obligation to avoid casualties as much as possible. Every Ming person is precious, and this is North America.

Not far in front of the artillery position, there was a line, and the colonists with rifles were waiting for the natives not to come out. March in North America is still a bit cold. The artillerymen, however, stripped off their shirts and ran back and forth carrying shells. Although the opponent does not have artillery, the requirements of the code of conduct cannot be carried out, and any lazy behavior will be severely punished by military law.

Almost. Looking at the collapsing wall, Xia Wanchun walked to the front of the queue, carrying a command knife in one hand and a revolver in the other, and raised the saber in his hand: "Marching into the drum, follow me!" ”

Kuakuakua, not very neat, but not chaotic in formation, pressed forward, and a company of the military temporarily rested and used as a reserve. These rookies who came from the Ming Dynasty can only survive in this cruel land by experiencing blood and fire. This has long been the consensus of the colonizers.

Let's take Xia Wanchun as an example, it wasn't that he didn't think about the way of education at the beginning, but unfortunately he didn't go to North America and tasted the cruelty of war. A very simple truth, this is someone else's home, you come to someone else's house, and Nima takes everything he likes, can people play with you?

Boom, a solid bullet flew out, bounced on the ground a few times, and several unlucky eggs were put down.

"Stop advancing, get out of range, take the wounded and corpses with you." Unexpectedly, there was still a Spaniard cannon hidden here, Xia Wanchun decisively ordered to retreat, not that he knew that it would be better to rush forward, but that he knew that these new Ding Ding would rush hard, and the casualties would be very large. If nothing else, a single shotgun can bring down a dozen. Of course, it is even more difficult not to let them see blood.

The infantry moved in tandem and quickly advanced to protect the retreating militiamen. The mountain artillery was pushed up, and the company commander Gao Jie called Xia Wanchun over and said, "Wait a minute, we will rush first, and after opening the gap, you will follow in time." ”

"Yes!" Xia Wanchun replied immediately, the true colors of scholars are getting less and less, and they are already very much like a soldier.

"Over there, sure enough, the Spaniards are operating." The artillerymen quickly found the hidden cannon, which looked like a six-pounder gun, but it didn't taste good when it got into the shotguns.

Boom, boom, relying on the advantage of range, before the natives' cheers disappeared, four mountain cannons overturned the hidden cannon to the ground, and at the same time, more than a dozen people were blown up. After a bombardment, the infantry moved in a group, with squads as units, very hierarchical horizontal formations, keeping a good distance from each other, and the enemy had less formation unchanged, and more quickly met and became a platoon.

The guns rang out one after another, and the sparks appeared in the gap where the platoon guns hit, two platoons took cover, and one platoon advanced. The bulky Montini machine gun has always been one of the favorite of the infantry. After pushing it up, there was a fierce strafing at the gap, and more than a dozen natives who wanted to plug the gap were knocked down, some died directly, some were wailing and screaming, and the rest were holding their heads and rats.

After approaching the gap again, the sound of arquebuses sounded in the camp, and the moment the white smoke rose for more than a dozen regiments, the soldiers quickly lay down, found cover on the spot, and then returned fire with rifles. This set is very skillful, and even the bow and arrow are dodged a lot.

More than a dozen soldiers kept zigzags forward, sometimes running, sometimes lying on the ground, and at first glance they were veterans who had been in battle for a long time. This is the experience of fighting with the natives many times, especially last year, the natives have a lot of arquebuses in their hands, although they are not very effective, but they must have brought casualties to the army as the attacking side. As a result, new tactics were summed up and used in real combat. This tactic of taking the squad as the smallest combat unit came about in this way. The European colonists did not want to see the Ming colonists intervene in the Americas, so they did not hesitate to unite and temporarily put aside their grievances with each other to deal with the Ming colonists together. This is becoming more and more evident now.

"Grenades!" More than a dozen grenades fell behind the wall, and after a violent explosion, another grenade was thrown. The infantry that followed rushed forward in the smoke, and the platoons that arrived behind fired like a storm. The natives and Europeans at the gap finally couldn't bear it anymore and turned around and ran.

"It's up to us!" Xia Wanchun once again greeted those newcomers who had eased up for a while, but had palpitations. Many of them turned pale, and they couldn't even hold their rifles. Xia Wanchun stepped forward without hesitation, raised his foot and kicked it hard. The temporary officers were also ruthless, and a scolding and kicking finally forced these rookies to continue to rush forward.

"Listen well, pay attention to your feet when you rush, rush to the front and shoot first, and then stab with a bayonet, don't retreat without an order, otherwise the overseer will kill you." I don't know how many times I repeated this, but the officers of the militia still took the trouble to repeat it. The militiamen rushed to the gap again, this time smoothly, the infantry company had already taken the place and cleared the neighborhood. Looking at the natives fleeing in the open camp, a group of new rookies seemed to be less afraid. (To be continued......)