Chapter 66 South China Sea Railway Chronicle (6)

In fact, long before the envoys of the Choshu Domain arrived at Lingao, the central "relevant departments" that had descended on this time and space had already collected intelligence through the [Mini Reconnaissance Satellite] in the Guò Doraemon magic props, and deduced and assessed the development of the situation in the Japanese Civil War.

Looking at the map, the situation of the Japanese Civil War today is very similar to the original history of the historical situation on the eve of the Shogun War in the mid-19th century, where the Choshu Domain, which had received weapons assistance and technology exports from the Travelers for many years, was the backbone of the Shogun Movement. The Satsuma Domain, which had just been taught a lesson by the Senate Expeditionary Fleet of the Lingao Travelers, also adapted to the situation under the "persuasion" of the cannonballs, joined the fallen camp and sat in the second position. The remaining southwestern feudal domains, either voluntarily joining or being coerced by force, now have joined the Fallen Shogun. And those who insist on refusing to fall have been killed as a vote. It's just that the feudal clans of Shikoku Island still adhere to the pro-shogunate stance, which seems a bit regrettable......

However, even in the 19th century, the barren and impoverished Shikoku Island clans, except for the legendary Sakamoto Ryoma of the Tosa Domain, were basically playing soy sauce. With their weak military and financial resources, they will not affect the overall situation of the whole country at all.

Not to mention that in the Kyushu pacification battle in the early spring of this year, several vassal states of Shikoku Island have been severely taught a lesson by the downcast army because they sent troops to attack Kyushu Island, and for a long time to come, they may only be able to hide in their nests and lick their wounds, while sitting and watching the victory of the eastern and western armies against.

The Tokugawa shogunate, as an opponent, was also unfavorable, first of all, the conquest of Choshu a few years ago was defeated, and the samurai of Banner, who was the foundation of the shogunate, suffered heavy losses. Then, the new army of modernization, which had been painstakingly managed in the past few years, was completely wiped out by the "unknown pirates" before it encountered the enemy, and then the remnants of the Shogunate's allies and strongholds in western Japan were also pulled out one after another, and the battle line had retreated from the border of the Choshu Domain all the way to the vicinity of Kyoto.

If it had been the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had been in peace for more than 200 years in the 19th century, decaying from top to bottom, and completely bloodless, under so many heavy blows one after another, I am afraid that the hearts of the people would have turned away, crumbled, and even in a state of disintegration.

But the problem is that the world is still in the seventeenth century, not the nineteenth century.

——At this time, it was only more than 20 years since the end of Japan's Warring States Period, and in the time of one or two generations, many veterans who had followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, participated in the Battle of Imjin Invasion of Korea and the Battle of Sekigahara were still alive. The military power of the Japanese feudal domains has not yet been "blunted" by the long years of peace. The Tokugawa shogunate and the various genealogical relatives who were the arms of the shogunate still maintained the vigor and vigor of the beginning of the opening, which was far from being comparable to the cowardly waste of the nineteenth-century shogunate.

Therefore, in the face of the extremely unfavorable situation of "black opening" on the Kansai battlefield, the determined "Aoi III" General Tokugawa Iemitsu did not shamefully abandon his army and flee back to Edo like the last general Tokugawa Yoshiki - although the new army of the modern shogunate, which he originally relied on as the backbone, had been annihilated by the "21st Century Pirates" of the Vladivostok Far East Company on the outskirts of Osaka Castle before he had time to fight the Choshu army, and the blow to the morale of the army was so severe that it could not be repeated. However, for the sake of the Tokugawa family, which had been sitting firmly for less than 20 years, Tokugawa Iemitsu still tried his best to motivate the fighting spirit, win over allies, coerce and buy more reinforcements from various feudal domains, and restore the fighting ability of the shogunate army.

At this time, the Tokugawa family and its genealogical retainers, who were still on the rise, did not show much of wavering or fear in the face of the terrible signs of the change of ownership, but on the contrary, they were rarely united, gritted their teeth and scraped the ground, almost bankrupting their families to send troops, grain and grass, war horses and ordnance to the front line - anyway, if the shogunate fell, no matter how much treasure they hid, it would only be cheaper for all kinds of rebels.

Therefore, when the Choshu Domain ended the Kyushu Pacification War and was preparing to attack Kyoto with "Kamiraku", the shogunate army had once again gathered a huge army of more than 60,000 people in the region and was ready for battle. Although the Shogunate was also able to muster more than 60,000 troops, because it was a long-distance expedition and an external battle, in order to ensure the defense of the supply line and the rear hinterland, it could only invest a maximum of 40,000 men on the battlefield.

Even if it has a certain technological lead in weaponry and infantry tactics, if it can't attract more foreign aid, it seems that it may not be able to offset the strength advantage and home field advantage of the 60,000 shogunate army.

Therefore, although there are many similarities in the situation, the current Choshu army cannot be as devastating as the original history of the mid-19th century Shoguna Movement, and only a Fushimi-Toba battle, which lasted less than 48 hours in the whole process, completely defeated the Tokugawa family's already extremely weak fighting spirit and backbone at that time, and basically laid the foundation for the victory of the Shogunate faction, and only the "garbage time" of sweeping the tail was left.

In general, the Tokugawa shogunate, which had a great family, as long as the will to fight did not waver. It's not something that can be easily defeated in one or two battles. Even if they were defeated in the field battle on the Plain, the shogunate army could continue to fight to the death, holding Osaka Castle and holding back the fallen shogunate. Even if Osaka fell and the entire Kansai changed hands, the shogunate could resist in Tokaido, and at the same time seize the time to regroup, recruit troops from the base camp of the Kanto Plain again, and prepare for the next round of the contest against the overthrown army, which was already exhausted, in the heart of its own territory - the rapid fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in history was actually more similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union. When the entire upper echelons of the shogunate lost the courage and confidence to resist and abandoned their own political power and legal system, even if there were low-level pawns such as the Shinsengumi and Aizu clans still fighting, it was no longer possible to reverse the situation.

On the contrary, the Mori family of the Choshu Domain, as the challenger, only had one chance to overthrow the shogunate, and it was okay to suffer some innocuous minor setbacks, and if it was the kind of defeat that really broke the bones, I am afraid that it would only take one time to bring the Choshu Domain back to its original shape. After the war situation took a sharp turn for the worse, in the face of the inevitable defeat of "the wall fell down and everyone pushed it", even if the Maori clan would not be defeated to the point of abolition and annihilation, all the previous ambitions and hegemony would be completely in vain, at least for a few generations, and it would definitely be no longer necessary to think that they would be able to send troops to Kyoto again and compete with the Tokugawa family for world domination.

Based on this assessment, in order to prevent the Tokugawa shogunate from turning over in the midst of the Jedi counterattack and making all the previous investments in the Choshu domain go down the drain, it was almost necessary for the traverser to provide further military assistance to the Choshu domain, and even directly dispatch a fleet to help in the war.

But the problem is that in the past, there was only the Senate of Lingao Traversal, and earlier only the Huangshi Marshal was responsible for the "investment" in Japan. Now there is one more Vladivostok Far Eastern Company, whose interests need to be reconciled - both sides are staring at the girls, cannon fodder and silver of the Japanese archipelago with red eyes...... If the benefits are not distributed and negotiated in advance, each will fight its own at that time, and most of them will definitely fall off the chain.

Not to mention that there is also a "relevant department" of the central government that has been parachuted in recently, although this department is not very in charge, but even if it is only for the sake of "respecting the authority of the central government", the Senate of Lingao Travelers cannot handle such a major matter on its own.

In addition, the crossers also have great doubts about the recent heretical faction in the camp of the Fallen Shogun, the "Japanese" crusaders in Manila that appeared out of nowhere, and the two Spanish warships that came to help in the war. I don't know if this was just another Jesuit effort to spread the faith in the East, or if it was a harbinger of the Spanish Governor's Office in the Philippines trying to expand its territory, or if it was really just the revenge of the Tokugawa Shogunate by the Japanese Christians who had been driven overseas by the Shogunate, similar to the various anti-Qing riots organized by Sun Yat-sen among the overseas Chinese......

Of course, no matter how much these guys harbor evil intentions, in the face of the absolute superiority of the military strength of the traverser, they can only be crushed. But given the perception of the Choshu Domain, a hardcore ally of the Choshu Domain, and the views of Japanese Christians, there are some things that cannot be left out of caution.

After all, in this world, it is never possible to rely on advanced weapons and tactics alone to defeat a single thing—the lessons of the once arrogant GIs of the United States of America who were exhausted in the quagmire of the Vietnam and Iraq wars are still known to all of you......

In short, the proposal to provide military assistance to the Choshu Domain will definitely be approved, but how many troops to send, which troops to dispatch, who will be the supreme commander of the front, and what kind of strategy and tactics will be implemented...... There are many, many issues that need to be discussed over and over again.

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When the people with different minds in the carriages have had a simple or sumptuous lunch, the train has already traveled to Changhua Port.

At the port of Changhua, the Hainan Island Ring Railway branched off from here to connect the Shilu iron ore mines in the nearby inland mountainous areas, so that these high-quality iron ores, which are quite scarce throughout China, could be transported to the industrial area via the Guò seaport and railway.

As early as before the crossing, when the bigwigs of the executive committee chose the crossing site, the iron ore resources on Hainan Island were one of the important conditions for them to be valued. Shilu Iron Mine, a large iron ore mine located about 40 kilometers inland on the west coast of Hainan Island, has proven reserves of more than 300 million tons in another time and space. In addition, the average grade of the ore is more than 50%, and its excellent conditions for open-pit mining are extremely rare and excellent. In addition, Shiroku Iron Mine is not only rich in iron and copper ore, but also has cobalt, nickel, sulfur, aluminum, gold and other metal resources. For the Lingao Traveler Senate, which is bent on building a modern industrial system on Hainan Island, Shilu Iron Mine is really a treasure that cannot be missed.

However, since the "Australian thief" settled in Lingao, although the exploration of Shilu iron ore has been organized, it has not really developed Shilu iron ore - it is not that the senate does not have this idea, but due to the limitation of objective conditions, it is really unable to develop Shilu iron ore for the time being.

First of all, the first difficulty is that the Shilu Iron Mine is located inland, its main mine is 40 kilometers away from the nearest harbor of Changhua City, and the entire mining area is in an undeveloped and primitive environment, with the extremely limited manpower and material resources of the Lingao Crossing Senate, it is almost impossible to build a railway from the sea to the inland mining area in this environment. Even opening up an ordinary mountain road is a huge project that is extremely laborious and costly. Moreover, in the absence of railways, if iron ore were transported by ox carts, horse-drawn carts and porters for a long distance of 40 kilometers, not only would the cost be extremely high, but it would also be impossible to meet the basic needs of large-scale industrial production at its maximum.

Secondly, on Hainan Island, in addition to the excellent quality but difficult to develop the Shilu iron mine, there is also the Tiandu iron ore mine in Sanya, which is a "alternative" deposit, although the reserves and mineral varieties of this mine are not as good as Shilu, and the distance from the Lingao base camp is farther away from the Shilu iron mine, but the location of the mining area is good, very close to the seaport, convenient for sea transportation. In addition, the scale of Lingao's coal-steel composite industrial system is limited after all, even if the Shilu iron ore is not developed for the time being, only the iron ore produced by Tiandu can basically support the production and development needs of Lingao traverser in the early stage.

However, this time is different from the past, with the advent of the central "relevant departments" across time and space, and the ensuing Doraemon World 22nd century black technology magic props, the development of Shilu iron ore has become a very easy thing - whether it is transportation capacity, construction capacity or smelting level, it is no longer an obstacle to the development of Shilu iron ore.

As early as the beginning of the planning of the railway around the island, the "relevant departments" at the request of the Lingao traverser group laid a railway branch line to open up the transportation line from the seaside Changhua Port to Shilu. And began to build a large-scale coal-iron composite industrial base in the local area. In this way, the refined coal produced by Vietnam Hongji can be transported to the nearby "Steel City" of Changhua for the smelting and processing of steel and other metals. The environmental pollution problems in Lingao and Sanya can also be alleviated by Cheng Dù - Lingao's heavy industry will gradually be relocated to Changhua. And Sanya's Tiandu Iron Mine, after having a better alternative to Shilu, can simply shut down, so as to leave a green landscape for the convalescent staff of the modern world.

Of course, even if the railway and iron ore have been initially completed with black technology equipment, in the next open-pit mining process, I am afraid that a lot of human lives will be paid for this - even if it is just to save costs, the central government will not be able to provide too many black technology mining tools to Lingao Crossing Group free of charge. And modern mining machinery...... The first is that it is large and heavy, difficult to transport, secondly, the maintenance capacity cannot keep up, the fuel required for operation cannot be raised, and finally there are not so many qualified operators, so it is better to use the manpower of the time and space to mine manually. In the past, when the Lingao Traveler Senate was mining Tiandu Iron Ore, 2,000 to 3,000 people died in various accidents, diseases and other causes in the mining area every year, and the total population of Hainan Island was less than one million at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which could not support this cruel industrialization process of cannibalism.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the early perilous factories and mines were not just a change of way of life for the rural farmers and urban outcasts who were forced into the factories, but they were really devouring human lives!

For this reason, the countermeasure of the Lingao traverser group is to contact slave traders from various countries, import a large number of native slaves from Southeast Asia, and consume their cheap lives to achieve industrialization...... As a result, the most prosperous slave training base in China was established in Sanya, Hainan Island. The most dangerous and arduous work, such as the excavation of highways and the reclamation of Taiwan, was almost all succeeded by the accumulation of the bones of these slaves. After the completion of the Shilu Iron Mine, in line with the principle of nearby use and the consideration of making room for people from the central government, the original slave concentration camp in Sanya was also transferred to Changhua Port.

When the passenger train stopped at Changhua Station, not far from the harbor, it was just in time for a group of slave ships to dock to "unload" - the native slaves of Southeast Asia who had survived the arduous voyage had come out of the hot and humid bilge in twos and threes, and then blinked their cloudy eyes, dragged their heavy shackles, and stepped on the gangplank on the deck driven by the whip.

From a distance, these slaves were almost all half-naked or even bare-bottomed, and the rags that might have been worn on them had long since been reduced to a pile of ragged cloth during the voyage, and their skin was covered with whip marks and scars of all kinds, and they were heavily handcuffed and shackled, and they were all so weak and weak as they walked - in order to save money on food, and to prevent the native slaves from having enough to make trouble, the only food that the slave traders provided them during the voyage was sweet potatoes, Not only are there very few of them, but they are also raw.

A few naturalized officials with short shaved hair and four pockets of "cadre uniforms" were on the docks as if they were selecting mules, horses, and livestock, critically examining the depressed slaves, while at the same time disgruntling the prices of the slave traders, who were probably novices in the slave trade, and did not know how to "dress" the slaves before selling. Next to it was a group of equally half-naked slaves, unloading refined coal that had just arrived from Vietnam from an incoming coal ship. In the scorching sun, their half-naked bodies were covered in black coal dust and sweat, and the same black tattered straw hats and strips of cloth around their buttocks were the only labor protection measures.

Once a ship's cargo was unloaded, the overseers would drive the slaves to another place with sticks to continue their work, with little verbal communication between the two sides - the Lingao Traveler Senate had originally wanted to train a group of translators, but it soon became clear that this was an impossible task. Although these Southeast Asian indigenous slaves look the same short, black and thin in the eyes of the Chinese, they all seem to be similar. In fact, they belonged to at least dozens of different peoples, each speaking different languages, and no one knew from which place the next slave ship would be captured...... Therefore, the overseers of the slave camps soon abandoned any intention of civilized management, and from the very beginning they taught the slaves to stick and beat them from time to time—for the unruly savage natives, these physical sufferings were the most effective way to teach them to obey the rules.

For each basket of coal or other goods loaded, the indigenous slaves of Southeast Asia took a bamboo plaque from the hand of the naturalized overseer. If you want to eat well, you have to complete the work indicators and put together the bamboo cards with the prescribed numbers. The result of slacking off work is that you don't have enough to eat, you don't have the strength to work the next day, and you are finally starved to death under heavy labor. Slaves who refused to work were executed outright, and their bodies hung on gallows in slave camps to dry - until a new victim was hung or rancid enough to be considered by doctors to be a threat of plague. This was a universal practice in the seventeenth century.

Although such a scene is like purgatory on earth, it has to be said that the use of slave labor is really more refreshing than any sweatshop. As long as there was enough sugar and rum to exchange slaves with various maritime merchants, labor was no longer a shortcoming restricting the development of Hainan Island. As for how many indigenous slaves in Southeast Asia will be buried in a foreign land...... Well, it's better to get some outsiders to be substitutes than to let your people die!

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Sitting in the clean and tidy carriage, looking at the dirty, noisy, and unpleasant cruel scenes outside the car window, those few travelers of Lingao Group may have been a little unbearable before, but now they have been a little numb to this, and simply closed the curtains and couldn't see it.

As for General Huangshi in the luxury dining car, he has long been accustomed to seeing the most brutal killings and enslavements, and I don't know how many tragic things I have seen in Liaodong. There will be no reaction to this. As for the visiting "Choshu Veteran" Shousui Nobuyoshi, although this Japanese "sinologist" did indeed look polite and gentle, he never stopped doing all kinds of cruel things such as plundering villages, burning castle towns, "indiscriminately hunting" and "hunting" townsmen, or torturing and killing enemy soldiers when he was fighting on the Japanese archipelago.

In addition, the living conditions in the gold and silver mines in Japan may not be much better than the slave camps on Hainan Island.

And Senior Sister Ma Tong, who is in infinite space, has even seen the purgatory-level mode full of zombies and the destruction of the world by nuclear bombs, as well as the nightmare scene of the "City of Death" of the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

Only those Jiangnan scholars of the "Donglin Tour Group" talked about it with a righteous and unbearable face, like a group of humanitarian fighters.

“…… The thief is really unkind and unjust, and he wants to ruin my Chinese reputation! Doing such a tyrannical thing, he still has the face to claim to be a descendant of the Great Song Dynasty?! ”

“…… According to historical records, the sages and saints of the Chinese dynasties all took the education of barbarians as their own responsibility. Since the founding of the country, our emperor Ming has always been kind to Siyi, thin and generous, and graceful overseas, just to promote the style of a benevolent gentleman in our dynasty! The thief is a descendant of the Song family, but he doesn't even understand this truth? Such a hard labor barbarian, its methods can be called outrageous, how can there be the slightest bit of the etiquette and demeanor of a great country? Is this what people in China should do? ”

“…… Is this thief with wolf ambition going to lead beasts to eat people? If we can meet the king of thieves, we will spit on him! ”

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Although they didn't dare to speak too loudly because they were afraid of the many "thieves" in the car, the "Donglin gentlemen" still lowered their voices, stood on the height of morality, and vigorously criticized the Australian thieves for their "cruelty and unkindness" and "resentment", as if they were all good people who were willing to give kindness.

Only the "Wuwei Young Tiger" who followed this unreliable amateur investigation team from Nanzhili (at that time, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces were classified as Nanzhili, and Hebei Province was Beizhili), the leader of the team, Fang Yizhixin, made a friend, ostensibly from the family of the gentry in Xiang'an County, Wuwei Prefecture, Anhui Province, but in fact Yu Guozhen, a 21st century traveler who was wearing souls, couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.

No matter how brutal and inhumane these so-called "Australians" are to the natives of Southeast Asia, they are still trying to bring disaster to the outside world, and use the bones of foreigners to fill the bloody mouth of the industrial revolution, so that more Chinese people can save their lives...... And you, the moral gentlemen of the Donglin Party, stand on the moral high ground all day long, spraying people everywhere and buttoning your hats, but when it is your turn, how do you treat the compatriots of the Ming Dynasty?

To put it bluntly, in today's Ming Dynasty, the discipline of the entire ruling class is unprecedentedly low compared with later generations, corruption and perversion of the law in the officialdom has become common sense, and the local areas are full of powerful and powerful, and the countryside is full of fortress-like buildings built by gentry and celebrities and "great good people", and every family is raising their families, often disguised as bandits and bandits to attack and kill each other, or directly collude with those genuine bandits and bandits.

Ordinary people, on the other hand, are like ants with no human rights, no matter where they are. If those scholars with merit and fame fancy someone's property, they just throw away a few small sums of money, or even give nothing, and forcibly "buy" them - at this time, law and morality are decorations.

In the face of such a harsh "ecological environment" and the heavy exploitation of the government - almost all the big households did not pull out a dime, passing on taxes to the poor until they forced the poor to death, in the entire Ming Dynasty at that time, homesteaders had long become rare and protected animals, and they were rapidly extinct. Even if there is no endless war, the common people want to eat a few full meals, at best, they can be starved to death peacefully, and when they can't survive in the face of famine, there is finally a way out to escape the famine and sell their children and daughters, that's all.

Speaking of which, the daily living standards of most of the tenant farmers in the world during the Chongzhen period may not be comparable to the slave camps on Shanghai South Island!

Even among the big landlords, it is the same law, only talking about power - everyone either takes the official way, who has more prestige and more powerful backers, and can call on the power of the court to suppress opponents. Figures in the system, such as vassal kings, nobles, and high-ranking officials in ministries and courts, usually acted in this way. Because the legal rules of the Ming Dynasty were formulated around people. They are supported by the state as a thug. As for the gentry outside the system, they can only rely on their own forces to fight and kill. Your fist is big, and you can speak. The more people you can call, the more territory you have. If you have the ability, you can directly send troops to exterminate the enemy's family, and then say that the other party's entire family died in the fire or plague, and hand over all the property to you before you die...... As long as the backing is strong and the dots are in place, no matter how ridiculous the reason is, it will not be a problem!

In addition, as far as Yu Guozhen knows, even those so-called scholarly families who are known as "poetic heirlooms" and "strict style" are at best just restraining the descendants of the family, preventing them from taking their own rich servants out to bully men and women, directly ruining the reputation of the family, and by the way, they are just resenting and causing trouble everywhere. And instructing his own subordinates to put prints on the market for money and profits, extorting merchants to extort filial piety, skillfully seizing the land of small landlords and yeoman farmers in the surrounding areas, forcing tenants to sell their children and daughters, and even the whole family hanging, is still every family has not been left behind, and they are doing it every year, at most, they don't pretend to be thieves to kill people and steal goods, and organize human trafficking gangs to rob people's daughters, otherwise where will the money come from to support a large family of people to live a luxurious life?

No matter whose farms they live in, there are people who starve or commit suicide in despair every year, every year there are baby girls who are drowned by their parents at birth because they can't afford to feed them, and there are often two or three percent of people in a village who suffer from big neck disease because they can't afford to eat salt for a long time......

In short, this morally degraded society in the late Ming Dynasty feels very much like an enlarged version of the dark elf dungeon of the Felon Continent in the world of DND. The lower classes are treated as disgusting consumables like ants, with no guarantee of survival, and the upper rulers are filled with endless and brutal infighting, with each family sharpening their knives against each other in an attempt to kill the other. And every family member is also fighting fiercely with each other, and all kinds of means are used to the extreme, just like the description in "Dream of Red Mansions", the more wealthy the family, the weaker the family affection.

Of course, humans are not dark elves after all, so even in the last days of such creatures, there is still some positive energy, and not every place and every family is so dark. But on the whole, the general trend of this world is that good prevails over evil, the number of wicked people is much greater than that of good people, and the places like purgatory are still much more like places on earth than places like earth......

Well, why do you know so much about these dark sinister deeds? Because Yu Guozhen has experienced all the way - as early as the beginning of his family, he was repeatedly assassinated by his relatives, and he almost died several times, and the attitude in the clan was also to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, without any intention of protecting the weak.

No way, in these years, it is a rare phenomenon for brothers and brothers to be friends in wealthy families, and it is very common for brothers to fight like enemies. Noble as Zhang Fuzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry during the Wanli period, all of them killed their biological brother Zhang Xuyu in order to seize their brother's property. As a result, Zhang Xuyu's son, Zhang Pu, a talented son who was famous for writing "The Tombstone of Five" in later generations, had to rely on his mother's meager income from hand-weaving to make ends meet.

So, in the face of such a dark and bloody social environment, Yu Guozhen, a young man who was originally kind and benevolent, had to be ruthless, train his family, kill decisively, and after a civil and martial arts fight, he successively destroyed the two uncles who coveted his property, and by the way, he destroyed the water thieves they colluded with, so that he won the family civil war and deterred the bad relatives who wanted to kill him all day long for money. Immediately, with the protection of this fierce family and the freshwater pearl cultivation technology of later generations, Yu Guozhen finally succeeded in earning the first pot of gold to make a fortune.

Next, relying on this small force of armed forces trained by himself, Yu Guozhen repeatedly clashed with bandits and bandits from all walks of life, accumulated war experience, and finally won the heroic name of "Wuwei Little Tiger". At the same time, he used the novel knowledge of "Gewu" and "Western Studies" as bait, and got into a relationship with Fang Yizhi, a famous scholar in Tongcheng, and then entered the Donglin Party and Fushe Group, which had great influence in Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty......

Then, after really coming into contact with these "progressive youths" who claim to represent the "righteousness of the world", and roughly figured out what the true face of the Donglin gentlemen was, Yu Guozhen finally despaired of the world.

- Instead of handing over the country to these disgusting guys, it is better to let the Manchu Eight Banners rule the world!