Chapter Ninety-Four: The Clouds Move in All Directions
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The year 1351 was a stormy era, when the land of southern China was filled with gunsmoke, and the communist army armed with rifles and cannons swept away the Mongol and Yuan forces that had been entrenched for decades. In this war, the Yuan army, which had only a small number of primitive firearms, was overwhelmed by the republican magnificence that was ahead of the era. The Yuan army, which was dominated by knives, guns, bows and arrows, and the local gentry were scattered under the blows of the modern army supported by the industrial system.
The word "industrial country" appeared in the newspapers of the republic and spread quickly throughout Jiangnan. Fang Jiajun, who originally had some confidence, once again appeared as fragile as a baby.
Compared with the one-sided form of southern China, the land of northern China was full of flesh and blood, and the heavy blow of the cannon hit the human body, sending a burst of blood mist. But more often than not, it's a collision between cold weapons. Both sides are recruiting, and the Red Turban Army in the north has scattered like wildfire with as many as 700,000 followers. But the Red Turban Army also had its own embarrassment, and he really couldn't sell supplies from the Republic.
Cheng Pan has handed over the materials for aid to the Red Turban Army in accordance with the agreement, but now Cheng Pan is not ready to give it, although now the Republic has a certain amount of surplus grain with the opening of the Luzon territory, and it can also supply the Northern Red Turban Army with enough iron weapons, but Cheng Pan is unwilling to carry this gradually expanding burden. And even if the republic undertakes this part of the logistics, the Red Turban Army will not be grateful, but will think that this is the ulterior motives of the Republic. They helped the republic resist the attack from the north, which is what they should do, and once the republic stops supplying, then the Red Turban Army will come south to rob it, and it is better not to give it than this. It's the truth of Mien's fight against Mi Peng, and Cheng Pan still knows.
After Cheng Pan handed over the goods, he and the Red Turban Army were like passers-by, so that the people of the Ming Sect were very anxious, at this time the Ming Sect had gathered to 400,000, and now Yan Zhan Ng lacked armor, weapons and food, although the gold and silver looted were very large, but the republic did not accept these precious metals. Because we have now entered a period of war, food is the hard currency. , not only the republic, but even the Fang Jiajun also stopped exporting grain, but unfortunately the implementation of the Fang Jiajun was not enough, and some grain still flowed into the north.
The republican government's deal with the Red Turbans ended after only two months. The deadlock was broken by a man named Ke Bin from the Republican Foreign Trade Group, who had been a coal miner for a year and later joined the Foreign Trade Group after leaving the mine. Since the Huaibei Coal Mine appeared, he began to be interested in other unknown coal mines, but unfortunately except for the big mine in Huainan, there are very few coal reserves in other places, and it seems that only Huainan has mines south of the Huai River. So Ke Bin set his sights on the other side of the Huai River, where the Yuan army controlled zhì.
The foreign trade team gave him a certain amount of encouragement for this behavior. As the scale of steel production grew, and the republic began to use mechanical power instead of animal power and water power. The shortage of coal mines is getting bigger and bigger. The republic was no longer limited to the output of coal mines under its rule, and buying coal from other places became an option. It's a pity that none of the surrounding forces produce coal, and Fang Jiajun originally wanted to find coal in his own territory, but he couldn't show it all the time. Now they use wood for their ironmaking business.
The local government of Huaibei in the Yuan Dynasty also acquiesced to Ke Bin's prospecting for mines in Dadong, a place north of the Huai River, because the republic had already greeted them and found mines to sell to themselves. It's a matter of a lot of money. Local officials in the Yuan Dynasty were not opposed to this prospecting. Nor do I assist. It's all up to Ke Bin to run around with a few people.
Soon the Red Turban Army was in turmoil. Ke Bin, who was coerced by the Red Turban Army, lost contact with the Republic for a time. But with the follow-up contact between the Red Turban Army and the Republic, Ke Bin can be regarded as contacting the organization. Later, with the cold transaction between the Red Turban Army and the Republic, the Red Turban Army, which was crazy about the lack of materials, thought of this prospecting group, and wanted to ease relations with the Republic, and hoped to really find a vein as a source of money. The Red Turbans have given a lot of help to this prospecting team, and of course the Republic needs to be responsible for their food. Of course, the foreign trade team will not treat the people who work badly, not only give them food, but also let Ke Bin evaluate the people's table and give money according to the evaluation.
Suddenly, the prospecting team of more than 1,000 people determined that there was a large mine in Huaibei comparable to the Huainan coal mine after more than a month of drilling holes everywhere, and everyone was very excited when there were signs of victory, and the eyeliner planted by the Red Turban Army in the prospecting team also spread the news. The Red Turban Army immediately sent more people to dig up. Finally, Huaibei Coal Mine appeared.
The mine was found, and the two sides had an interest base to continue to cooperate. The mines were mainly in Suzhou, only about 60 kilometers away from the Republic's territory on the north bank of the Huai River. Of course, as the Red Turban Army that occupies the coal mine, he is fortunate to be enthusiastic about the sudden expression of the republic, and at the same time has some vigilance. I am glad that this coal mine is very valuable in the eyes of the Red Turban Army, in other words, it is very valuable. The vigilance is because the republican neighbor is too strong, and they are afraid that they will become the guilty party and be robbed by the republican troops.
The republic now has no intention of sending troops to the north for the time being, and the basic cadres of the entire republic are already seriously lacking, and the communist army, which had been expanded, has once again been forced to disarm, and a large number of soldiers have participated in the establishment of local order in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, and other places, as well as in the training of local grassroots cadres. Now the whole republic has only eight divisions and 50,000 men in the central territory, excluding the necessary garrison troops in various places. The republic now has more than enough heart for Huaibei but not enough power.
The focus of the discussion between the two sides was whether to build a railway to Suzhou, as the wary Red Turban Army had its own strategists, and these strategists told the Red Turban Army that the King of Shu was greedy in the Spring and Autumn Period
The king of Qin pretended to give him the stone cow dung gold, sent people to build a road with the Qin state, and finally was destroyed by the Qin state through this road. Therefore, no matter how the republic explains the economic benefits generated by the Red Turban Army selling a large amount of coal after the opening of the railway. But the Red Turban Army just didn't agree, and in the end, the envoy of the Red Turban Army said clearly: "You are a country of tigers and wolves, and we can't be as stupid as the King of Shu." This sentence was brought to Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan was speechless, although he didn't have good intentions about building this railway, he just wanted to get resources quickly, but there was no need to build a railway to fight, and the communist army in Suzhou only needed a day to rush there. The north bank of the Huai River is a plain along the river. A horse and a flat river, not the place where Shu Road was difficult to go to the blue sky.
I am very helpless about the wary republic of the Red Turban Army, but in fact, although the republic led by Cheng Pan is located in Chudi. But the surrounding forces called the republic the Qin State, with a strict legal system, a strong army, and diplomacy that turned its face for the sake of profit. Outside the Republic, Cheng Pan began to be called King of Qin. Cheng Pan not only has the domineering way of governing the country of the king of Qin in the eyes of the gentry outside the territory of the republic, but also inherits the influence of the king of Qin for the sake of interests, the king of Qin in the Warring States period is a blatant scoundrel for a piece of Hebi, and his adviser Zhang Yi is first five hundred miles of land in order to separate the relationship between Chu and Qi, and then shamelessly said that it is five miles of land after the matter is completed. Although Cheng Pan did not do this, he forced the gentry to divide the land, instigated the clan to fight among themselves over family property, and declared that the landlord had no property rights to the land that had been abandoned for several years. These things are even more shameless than the previous King of Qin.
With these bad reputations, other forces have been careful when dealing with the republic. The Red Turban Army, who couldn't figure it out, had to follow their methods. The Red Turban Army provided laborers, and the Republican side provided machinery and a small number of instructors to open the mines, which were sold to the Republic at a basic price of 50 kilograms of rice per ton of coal. Of course, there are many details, such as the different prices of different quality coal mines, and they must be subdivided. As for the wages of the miners, it was decided by the Red Turbans, but the republican friendship should not be too low, otherwise it would discourage the workers.
The Red Turban Army, which had made a big deal with the Republic, immediately trembled, and countless mines were drilled out by the coal miners of the Red Turban Army, and 5,000 tons of coal were produced in the first month, and these coal mines were transported by four-wheeled carriages to the north bank of the Huai River to deliver grain.
After getting a way to exchange materials, the Red Turban Army became lively on the battlefield, and the Red Turban Army's huge number of fighters began to approach Henan and Shandong. At the same time, ancillary heavy industries such as steel mills and machinery factories south of the Huai River were rapidly developed, iron ore from the southern railway, coal mines from the local and northern regions, and finally cheap labor from the north. Huainan Industrial Base began to have the capital to fight against the Ma'anshan Industrial Zone.
In 1352 A.D., the republic had ended the battle and began to concentrate on digestion, but the form on the land of China became more chaotic, because the republic occupied Jingzhou, so the Ming religious figure Ming Yuzhen led the backbone into Sichuan to revolt, relying on the complex terrain of eastern Sichuan to consume the Yuan army. Fighting against the Yuan army led by Duan of the Duan clan in Dali, yes, it is Duan Yu's unknown grandson. At this time, the Duan family has been divided into ten generations of Dali governors by the Yuan Dynasty, and they are already die-hard loyalists of the Yuan Dynasty. It's the king of Ruyang's father. Zhao Min now has to call Duan Gong uncle.
In other places, Taizhou, Jiangsu, that is, next door to the territory of Rugao in the Republic, Zhang Shicheng led the people to revolt. However, they played the slogan of killing corrupt officials, and did not directly aim their guns at the highest levels of the Yuan Dynasty.
As for the Fang family's army, it was still in accordance with the formation of a phalanx force of musketeers and pikemen to three to three, and a total of four divisions were formed to begin to expand to Hangzhou in the north again. However, the republic did not show weakness, and in April 1352, when the holiday army attacked Hangzhou again, the Taiwanese fleet of the communist army came to the sea near Taizhou to show off its force. After taking the envoy of Fang Jiajun to visit the test firing of high-explosive bombs. 6 Hai took out the map and drew a line in the southwest of Taihu Lake, prohibiting the Fang army from crossing. This threat is overbearing. However, as the Fang family army, which is all close to the sea in the essence area, it has to accept this mention, and now the Fang family army knows that its strength is still unable to resist the blow of the force of the communist army's expedition to Dadu four years ago. Song Lian, as Fang Jiajun's negotiator, tried to argue with reason several times. But weak countries have no diplomacy. At present, there is no other force that has the strength to contain the Communists. Therefore, the Fang family army had no choice but to accept it, and this incident caused a huge repercussion in Zhejiang Shilin. All the scholars began to lash out at the unkind and unjust practices of the republic. This article is too easy to do, first the Republican Army prevented the Fang Jiajun from going north to resist the great cause of the Yuan. Second, unrighteousness towards allies.
The hardest scolding in this world is often the weak side. The Chinese embassy was bombed, and the whole country protested indignantly, but the United States reported a little, and found a way for China to cover up the local targets and spray China, and the Americans didn't care at all. The United States in the nineties was the strongest. Why care about the opinion of a poor country. But 2oo8 years later, the whole United States is beginning to lose the mentality of the past. At every turn, I look for China's faults in the newspapers. If you move your mouth too much, you are weak. More obviously, Japan, when China's economic strength was not as strong as theirs, was normal, but as China crossed them, the language became sour.
At this time, Zhejiang was obviously a weak country helpless. The people of the republic do things outside the republic, with pride in their tones, but they cannot deny the criticism of others, which is the temperament of the people of a large country. This comes from the confidence of an annual output of 300,000 tons of steel.