Chapter Eighty-Nine: Mixed Waters
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When the Luzon settlers' first summer harvest was completed, the Republic's transportation of food, the largest commodity of all, was suspended. The republic is free to do something else. Cheng Pan shuttled between the five major territories of the Republic during this time, and it seemed that he had missed many plots of Yitian. Zhang Wuji ascended to the position of the leader of the Ming Sect as in the original plot, and this time he held the Holy Fire Order, which was well deserved. Of course, after Zhang Wuji, an honest child, honestly explained the origin of the Holy Flame Order, the Ming Sect selectively forgot this detail, and since Cheng Pan had already handed over the Holy Flame Order, it showed that he didn't like this thing. To put it mildly, Cheng Pan, as the supreme commander of the republic, can't look down on the entire Mingjiao. Naturally, a few leaders of the Ming Sect would not go to the hot face to stick to Cheng Pan's cold ass.
Zhang Wuji was driven to the shelves and ascended to the position of the head of the Ming Sect. first rescued Wudang, and then rescued the martial arts people in the Dadu Wan'an Temple, and the scenery was immeasurable for a while. At this time, in the rivers and lakes, the prestige of the sect leader Zhang has overshadowed Cheng Pan. Cheng Pan didn't feel the slightest, Cheng Pan has been busy these days, and just after returning from Luzon, he went to Zhang Wuji's scripture collection in Gansu. So far, Cheng Pan has collected the most valuable basic martial arts cheats in this plane, (the Nine Yin peeking from the sky, the dragon descending, the martial arts on the Holy Fire Order, the great shift of the Qiankun in the Ming Sect, and the Jiuyang that was obtained) The benefits have all been obtained, and the protagonist is jealous and so on, Cheng Pan is not interested. Besides, it is impossible for Cheng Pan to implement the sister strategy plan of this plane now. I even have to hide from my sister, for fear of being contaminated with cause and effect, and I can't leave this world. This will affect the relationship between Zhang Wuji and several girls.
Besides, Cheng Pan's interest is not here, driving the only industrialized country in the world to level the world, and the game of conquering the world has ignited Cheng Pan's passion as a man. Steampunk, steel and steam, the smoke of gunpowder. Cheng Pan has a certain understanding of the thinking of several European monarchs during World War I. You can command a million soldiers with an iron will, your own country can produce ammunition that flattens a mountain, and whoever has this overwhelming power in your hands. There will be an urge to let the world crawl under their feet. It's a pity that there were several such countries in Europe at that time, so there were several scenes of European monarchs with the character of Long Aotian dying together in World War I.
In this low-magic world, there is no other force that can threaten Cheng Pan, the low-magic world is like this, individual strength is not the mainstream, group strength is the king, so it is important to have your own strength. But no matter how you accept your younger brother to build a gang, the power formed by it is not as strong as the power of a country. At present, the most powerful beggar gang is facing an unprecedented crisis. Due to the rise of the republic, there are fewer idle middle-aged men on the streets of Zhejiang or Beiyuan, and ordinary people are unwilling to be beggars. Not only are there no middle-aged men, but there are also children, and now the new members of the beggar gang are all old, sick and disabled. The general trend has been changed by Cheng Pan, a gang with a steady stream of strong life since the Western Han Dynasty in this era of large-scale industrial migration without manpower. Perhaps after the era of great migration is over, there will still be beggars, but such a large group of beggars will never appear again.
The beggars rely on their numbers to maintain their right to speak. Now not only is there a shortage of new people joining, but even the elderly are decreasing. Now the major forces of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have regarded these idle people wandering the streets as things to exchange resources with the republic, and a large number of old beggars have been lazy for a few years, ready to mix like this for the rest of their lives. But he was arrested as a slave by the wolf-like Yuan army, and then checked for his teeth, hands, feet, height, weight, age, and then sold to the republic. The republican labor camps will allow them to regain the memory of hard work and prosperity. These lazy men toiled under whips and sticks, and were guarded like slaves in the labor camps, but unlike slaves, they were paid, and the republican wanted a population eager to work and get rich and integrated into the republican system, rather than a group of inefficient people who needed to watch over the people who were hostile to the republic. For the republic, it is better to squeeze them early, and there is no need to worry about riots. With a reward, and the hope that you can live freely after the transformation. Although the reform method in the camp is violent and crude, most of the people in the camp are used to the pressure of confrontation after a while, and after seeing the tragic end of a few thorns, each batch of new recruits was given a piece of advice by the senior students: "Honest reform, don't challenge the patience of the instructor." This kind of reform was very efficient, and after reaccustoming themselves to a life of rewarding work, after leaving the camp, these people showed a strong enterprising spirit in the republican environment of fairness for laborers. These people who were reborn in the labor camps became the main force of the Republic's development in the northeast of the South Seas.
Now the plot of Yitian has been unfolded to Zhang Wuji's sea, and the ship sailed north with the connivance of Cheng Pan's order, out of the republic's sphere of influence, of course, it was not only this ship that broke away from the sphere of influence, another ship from Persia sailed honestly under the republican rule and then bypassed the route of the republican fleet and followed towards Spirit Snake Island. As soon as Zhang Wuji left, the Ming Sect nominally regarded Zhang Wuji as the sect leader, but in fact, they all did their own things. Plans for various uprisings began to be prepared in various places. Such a big thing is enacted in the absence of the sect leader, which means that the sect leader has been hollowed out.
In the second half of 135o A.D., the rumors that Shiren instigated the Yellow River to oppose the world spread in the land of North China, at this time the Yuan Dynasty was staring at their biggest enemy, the Republic, and the Yuan Dynasty also understood Cheng Pan's character, the Republic liked to be upright, and it was agitated in the newspaper before the start of the fight, and the rumors and nursery rhymes were not the style of the Republic. So the Yuan Dynasty did not pay attention to some small signs in North China, and they paid attention to the actions of the Republic at Jiujiang.
Since the republic spent a year ago to win Anhui after a year of good development, the Yuan Dynasty did not notice the movement of Mingjiao, but the foreign trade group of the republic did. With the large-scale expansion of the Yuan Dynasty in the past two years, a lot of money was spent. The northern part of the Yuan Dynasty, which was dominated by a small-scale peasant economy, was already on the verge of collapse under heavy taxes. In view of the chaos of the future, the Republic has reduced its offices for recruiting immigrants, leaving only the offices for immigrants by the sea. Prevent the imminent chaos from causing harm to the staff in the Yuan Dynasty's control area. In the future, when the peasant army revolts, no matter how strong the communist army is, the insurrectionary officers with brains will definitely not let go of the immigration recruitment office that has food and supplies, and at the same time has a weak defense. To prevent this from happening, the Republic has now abandoned these sites.
But this frightened the Yuan Dynasty, and the republic began to evacuate their people, which was the rhythm of the immediate start of the fight. Where is the republic going? The intelligence that the Yuan Dynasty gathered from the Republic was to the west. That's right, the republic is to go west and take Hubei, which is separated from Anhui by the Dabie Mountains. Under Cheng Pan's plan, Wuhan, Hubei Province can be used as a capital in the future. The thoroughfare of the nine provinces, this place radiates the entire Central Plains, is the core of China, across both sides of the Yangtze River, the traffic is reached, and then build a direct railway across the north and south from here can easily concentrate the country's materials and manpower to develop industry.
Now the steam tugboat on the Yangtze River is like a locomotive to drag several ships against the current to the north to deliver supplies to Jiujiang, this kind of steam ship is to adopt the structure of paddle wheel, specially suitable for inland river navigation, as for the steam-powered ship that adapts to the sea surface, it has not yet been designed. Cheng Pan didn't plan to do it, and in the fifteenth century, there was no other use for studying ironclad ships except at sea. Clippers are enough now, both in terms of combat effectiveness and capacity. Even the clippers can only be manufactured now, and there are only two companies: the Republic and the Zhejiang Fangjiajun. As for the Northern Yuan, there was no money for this, and Persia and Europe in the distance were busy resisting the Mongols. After a while they were busy hiding from the Black Death. The shipyard controlled by the Fang family is now operating dismally. But they can build it, but they don't dare to install guns on it, and they don't have the money to install it.
Jiujiang was already preparing for war, and the republic also unabashedly declared that it would seize Jingzhou in the future. Cheng Pan discussed the people's situation in North China with the high-level of the Republicans, and it was determined that the contradictions between the grassroots peasants and the high-level rulers in North China had reached the extreme, even if the Ming Sect did not incite it. There will still be people holding high the banner that the sky is dead and the yellow sky should be erected. Now that it's decided, make a plan for the future chaos exhibition.
The plan to enter Jingzhou along the Yangtze River was proposed, and preparations were made to carry out this battle, and the republic was no longer fought with the strength of the whole country. In this westward expansion plan, the republic prepared to send eight divisions of 50,000 troops to destroy the resistance forces in Hubei. Immediately after that, 100,000 political workers entered Hubei to implement the establishment of new rules. Under such obvious intentions of the republic, the Yuan army in Hubei and Jiangxi felt deeply vulnerable and asked the imperial court for help. However, at present, the Seventh Prince, who actually helped the emperor deal with government affairs, deeply felt the importance of having a military force to protect him. Naturally, they would not send a few important and reliable military forces at hand to the front line to serve as cannon fodder for the communist army, but only ordered the Yuan army in North China to use Huaibei as a buffer zone for defense, and at the same time ordered the Yuan army in Sichuan to respond to Hubei.
However, the Yuan Dynasty didn't know this time, the Republic Army was a participant in this war this time, but it was by no means the instigator, the Republic had tasted the sweetness of messing up the defense line of the Yuan Dynasty army when the Fang family army jumped back last time, and now, the 50,000 troops of the Republic who were ready to fight were still waiting for the opportunity, and the Yuan Army, which had focused all its attention on the Republic, would once again be caught off guard by the sudden situation within itself like last time.
The situation is like a pool of water, stirred up by the tense actions of the forces of Mingjiao, Republic, Northern Yuan, and Southern Zhejiang.