A year before the group came to this time and space, in the first month of 1626 AD, there was a great battle between the Ming Empire and the Later Jin in Ningyuan City in the Western Liaoning Corridor. The Ming army commanded by Yuan Chonghuan held on to Ningyuan City under internal and external troubles, and resisted the more than 100,000 Houjin army led by Nurhachi with 20,000 troops. In this battle, the defenders relied on strong city defenses, sharp artillery, and the determination to unite to defeat the invading enemy, which was called "Ningyuan's great victory" by the Ming court.

This victory has heavy political significance and strategic significance for the Ming court, which has been losing for ** years in a row in the confrontation and is about to lose the northeast land, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was forty-three years old at the time, became famous in a battle, and was promoted to the governor of Liaodong in March of that year. Nurhachi, who was nearly 70 years old, suffered the most severe defeat in leading troops in more than 40 years, and died of illness eight months later.

For the "brilliant results" achieved by the "Ningyuan Great Victory", the domestic propaganda of the Ming Dynasty is quite in place, and some people even count Nurhachi, who died eight months after the end of the war, in the achievements of the "Ningyuan Great Victory", saying that Nurhachi was injured by the city defense artillery fire under the city of Ningyuan, and I don't know where Houjin went to find the miracle doctor, which can make the mortally wounded drag the wounded for eight months before dying.

After Nurhachi's death, the two sides decided to make peace for the time being, and a peace agreement was reached in the first month of 1627. However, the war between the Ming and the Later Jin did not end there, and by May, Huang Taiji, who had withdrawn troops from Korea, besieged Jinzhou. After more than 20 days of fighting between the two sides in the two battlefields of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, the Houjin army, which was unable to conquer Jiancheng, finally retreated, and this battle was once again hyped by the Ming court, calling it "Ningjin Victory".

On the fifth day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, that is, on the same day that the "Feisu" escorted with the colonization fleet to Heitu Port and arrived at Shengli Port, Huang Taiji finally ordered the withdrawal of the entire army. The next day, Yuan Chonghuan wrote "Jinzhou Bao Jieshu", calling this battle "a martial art that has not been seen in Cheng for decades". However, although the war in the north had ended at this time, because of the long distance between the north and the south, the news of this great victory had not yet reached Guangzhou.

Southerners like Li Nai had no idea of the war taking place in the far northeastern frontier, and although the imperial court's palace newspaper repeatedly reported that Hou Jin led troops to invade, they were always repelled by the heroic border army, and those northern barbarians seemed to be in a controllable range all along. But when Li Nai saw the boundary of the Ming Dynasty drawn by Ning Qi, he couldn't help but feel deeply worried about the war in the north. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

"In fact, a large area east of the Liaoxi Corridor is no longer under the control of the Ming court. Ning Qi said and drew a pen on the map again, and directly demarcated the large area east of Jinzhou out of the territory of the Ming Dynasty: "In terms of the actual control of the zhì area, the areas east and north of this line are already the territory of Houjin. ”

"Beiyu is so powerful!" Li Nai didn't have too many doubts about Ning Qi's explanation, because such a detailed map even the entire Ming Dynasty couldn't find a second one, and Ning Qi didn't have to deceive him on this issue.

Regarding Li Nai's exclamation, it is not convenient for Ning Qi to make more spoilers to him. In fact, the strength of the Houjin army at this time was far inferior to that of the Ming army, especially in siege warfare, and the many firearms possessed by the Ming army made the Houjin army, which was still in the era of cold weapons, suffer a lot. It wasn't until four years after Chongzhen's reign that Jin also began to cast red-coated cannons, and the balance of victory began to gradually tilt towards the Houjin side. The subsequent Denglai Rebellion brought a lot of advanced military technology to Houjin, and shortened the armament level of both sides in a short period of time.

Of course, the decline of the Ming Dynasty was not only due to the lack of military strength, but also due to many reasons, including natural disasters and **, which cannot be simply generalized. Moreover, the military decline in the northeast can no longer be reversed by replacing a few generals or local governors, but will only slide faster and faster towards the abyss of defeat.

Having said that, Ning Qi didn't want Li Nai's attention to focus too much on the war in the northeast, after all, the main direction of cooperation between the two sides was business, and at most it would add a culture, rather than political and military cooperation.

In order to divert Li Nai's attention, Ning Qi took the initiative to ask, "Your bank should have dealt with Francophone before, right?"

Li Nai did not deny this, nodded and said: "Every year, there will be ships going to Manila to trade with the Franco. As for the Franc machine people in Entrenchment Ao, there are also many trade contacts. ”

"Then does Mr. Li know where the Francophile came from?" Ning Qi then asked.

"I only know that I come from a far place in the west, thousands of miles away from my Ming Dynasty, but I don't know where it is. Li Nai replied honestly. Although Zheng He drew up detailed charts 200 years ago, covering a vast area from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, it is a pity that these precious materials have not been effectively used, and the few overseas ports that Daming maritime merchants can go to today are extremely limited, let alone have a geographical understanding of thousands of miles away.

"The country of the Francophiles is here, we are used to calling it Spain. The Franco-Romans of Entrenchment are actually from a vassal country of Spain, which we call Portugal. Ning Qi pointed to Spain, which is located in the southwest corner of the European continent, and explained to Li Nai: "France is here, England is here, and there are red-haired people, their hometown is here...... In addition, the sea route they took to Daming by boat was like this......"

Li Nai looked at the coastline that circumnavigated almost all of Africa and most of Asia, and was quite surprised: "No wonder Western goods will ask for a high price, these Western countries are so far away from Daming." ”

"These nations have established numerous colonies along their routes, enclosing their lands for themselves and building trade posts, just as they did in Manila and Batavia. Ninkiki said, pointing out the locations of Manila and Jakarta on the map.

Li Nai didn't understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words, and he and He Qiang were facing the map and sighed: "It turns out that Batavia is so far away from Guangzhou Mansion!" "Yes, no wonder the red-haired people will blockade Manila and force the maritime merchants to trade in Batavia." ”

Ning Qi had no choice but to continue: "These Western countries, together are not as large as the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but they have occupied many places in the world, and the production of these places is enough for them to earn a lot of benefits from the Ming Dynasty. The spices you will buy at great expense are actually produced in these colonies, not from their homeland. ”

He Qiang was puzzled: "But the Ming maritime merchants also made a lot of money by trading with them. ”

Ning Qi sighed and said, "That silver was also dug up from the silver mines of the colony, and for them, digging up silver is as easy as digging stones, do you understand?"

Li Nai finally understood what Ning Qi meant, and asked rhetorically, "Mr. Ning is trying to say that as long as you have enough colonies, it will be easy to make money?"

"This is not just a matter of enclosing land to make money, this is expanding the territory!" Ning Qi said with hatred: "Every time they occupy a place, they will declare that this area belongs to their country, think about it, if the Ming Dynasty also started to do this two hundred years ago, what is the current situation? Batavia, Manila, these places are all from the Ming Dynasty, they are all Han Chinese, how can it be the turn of these foreign devils to be the masters!"

Ning Qi said that the love came up later, and his voice was a little louder. Li Nai and He Qiang looked at each other when they heard this, they had never had such an idea before, those distant trading ports occupied by Westerners could have been the territory of the Ming Dynasty? These maritime merchants occupied some land in the east and west of the thousands of miles far away from their homeland, and established towns, villages and ports, which could be regarded as expanding the territory of the country?

Li Nai was stunned for a long time before shaking his head and said, "I will never act like this, it is very inappropriate to do this......

Ning Qi laughed angrily: "You're right, you really can't expect Da Ming to do these things! The porridge in your own bowl is not cold, how can you have time to stare at the meat in other people's bowls!"

Li Nai didn't quite understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words, but from Ning Qi's tone, he could also feel that this "Haihan Master" had a bad impression of Da Ming, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Since you call yourself Haihan, it is said that your country is on the continent thousands of miles overseas, I don't know where this Haihan country is, can Mr. Ning point it out below?"

Ning Qi looked at the map, and easily drew in the entire North America on the other side of the Taiping: "This whole piece is the territory to which my Haihan belongs. ”

"But why are the words United States and Canada marked here?" Li Nai looked at the land on the map, which was much larger than the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and asked puzzledly: "This should be the name of the country, right?"

Ning Qi smiled and said: "Oh, these two countries have become history, when our Haihan was founded, these two countries had already been wiped out, but they had not had time to correct them on the map." ”

Ning Qi's words are not too fallacious, from the moment he crossed the group to this time and space, it was almost doomed that Canada and the United States would not appear in the long river of history again. Although the Mayflower arrived in North America in 1620 with its first settlers, it was not until 1775 that the shots of Lexington began to mark the beginning of the American Revolution. Canada was founded more than half a century later than the United States, and for the time-traveling group, which is full of ambition to achieve the goal of "only one China in the world" in this time and space, these two regions will probably not have a chance to survive until independence.