Chapter 340: The Empress is also the Emperor
"It's a very funny way!"
Yang Feng looked at the Zhao Shengjun who was marching out of Zhengyang Gate in a queue.
They were formed on the same day.
It was the envoys and their attachés who were the commanders headed by Li Jinzhong.
Anyway, it is to show the form in the capital, just like a sworn master, the queen mother gives the flag, the officials preside over the grand march, the masters chant and pray for blessings, and then they all put on the armor funded by the little princess, holding high the banner given by the queen mother, so put together a small team of hundreds of people, and show the military appearance in the capital. Because they are all new-style armor, they still look very imposing, and the sparkling of Dubuling Buling in the sun has won the applause of those onlookers.
They also have a sense of mission and hold their heads high.
At this moment, it seemed to them that they were going to embark on the road to the west for this great empire, for the Queen Mother behind them, for the light of the Buddha, and for the ascension to the Western Heaven after death.
Although not they go.
But their men are no different from them.
Many of them are still their traditional hairstyles.
This is actually quite normal, in the cold environment of Huining, if you want to avoid illness and death caused by washing your hair, it is best to shave your baldness.
It's bald.
The lice can't be hidden.
No need to wash your hair anymore.
As for keeping a small tail, it's not clear what this one is for.
But this is indeed the same custom in the cold zone, all of them are more or less shaved, and they are all more or less braided.
The Khitans, Mongols, and Xianbei people all have this habit, and even the Japanese slaves in Huining have begun to do this at this time, which is due to the environment, just like the herdsmen do not take a bath all their lives, and in their environment where there is almost no medical treatment to speak of, they always try to avoid washing their bodies.
Otherwise, a cold may lead to a dead end.
But the vision is inevitably a little weird.
"So in history, more than two hundred years later, this is the kind of person who captured the capital?"
The little princess said with interest.
"There is only a trap, no attack.
Led by the descendants of Wei Guogong, the civil and military officials of the city surrendered without a fight, and then knelt outside to welcome the new lord, and under the pressure of the new lord, they all changed to the same hairstyle, and all the nobles in Nanjing were without exception. Moreover, all the nobles except the Chang family couldn't wait to kneel down and beg for the reward of the new lord, and there was only one hard bone in the Wenchen, who would rather die than shave his hair and change his clothes. The head of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, also left an allusion to the itchy scalp to later generations, when the military generals got together to discuss the countermeasures, he said that his scalp was itchy and then went into the inner room, and when he came out again, he had already shaved his head.
In addition, his concubine persuaded him to die for the country, and was willing to throw himself into the lake with him, but he refused to jump after sitting by the lake for a long time.
His concubine urged.
He said the water was too cold.
The water is too cold and the scalp is itchy.
This is how the civil and military generals in this city behaved in the face of these alien invaders more than two hundred years later. ”
Yang Feng said with a smile.
Of course, none of this will happen again.
With the development of Huining, the Jurchen system was soon washed away by the influx of immigrants.
In fact, there are no Jurchens anymore.
At least there is no such name, even if they don't use the guards of the Ming Dynasty as their identity labels, they are all based on the original tribal names, like what Huligai, Vultures, etc., originally they were the same, the Jurchens are just the general name of the Ming Dynasty for them, as for the current official identity of the Ming Dynasty, they are those fetters and guards.
Collectively referred to as Huining Zhuwei.
From Jilinwei to the north, all the way to the distant Arctic Circle.
Including Sakhalin, Hokkaido, but Hokkaido is now prosperous, mainly because the whaling industry is becoming more and more prosperous.
Even because the traditional fishing method is too dangerous, and the effect is not good, now some whaling ships in the guard have begun to use giant bed crossbows, anyway, the power of people holding whaling forks to jump down from the ship, no matter what, it is impossible to compare with bed crossbows, and the accuracy is not a level, a whaling ship several bed crossbows salvo, even sperm whales can not carry it.
The most important base of the whaling industry is in Hokkaido.
As for the west, it goes all the way to the Erguna River, including the Hulunbuir grassland, and the fishing sea is a place to guard thousands of households.
Further west is Yan Randu's command of the envoys.
The plundering of the Western Expedition lured them to move out of the country, whether they died outside, or they did not want to go back, and instead went to the Western Regions to multiply, and the final result was to gradually evacuate their population. At the same time, they continued to develop the immigrants to Hoeryong, even if they needed to give them superior conditions, they had to persist in continuing to do so, and within 50 years, they would completely dissolve into it.
Not just for them.
The other commanders can also go back and let Qi Bin publicize it in Fusang, and let Date and other toasts also participate, after all, they all believe in Buddhism.
Promote the Dharma!
This is their glory.
Maybe in the future, there will be temples all over the steppes of Eastern Europe!
Imagine the scene of the Slavs, forced to hold Buddhist scriptures and chant them, it is still very exciting, and besides, they will also like this kind of life, after all, they were originally serfdom.
"By the way, has your brother arrived in Bengang?"
Yang Feng asked the little princess.
The King of Liao had officially begun his southward expansion and commanded the Ryukyu Metropolitan as the King of Liao......
This is the commander of the embassy including the Ryukyus, and a certain island has been going south to include Luzon, but it is just a signboard at the moment, and the commander of the envoy is there, temporarily stationed in the Ryukyus, anyway, it is also a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty, and a yamen is set up in the Ryukyus. Then Zheng He led the fleet to build a base in Bengang when he was in Fujian, and some gentry in Fujian had already planted sugarcane there, after all, the arable land in Fujian was limited, but there was a large area of reclaimable plains opposite them, and the land was fertile and the water was abundant. In addition, Guangdong merchants have a hunting ground in Tainan, mainly hunting deer there, and by the way, the Guangdong gentry are always very sensitive to making money, and the rise of the whaling industry in the north immediately made Xu Wen's gang of veteran whaling moves.
They are indeed the Jianwen Dynasty.
But the whale does not distinguish between the Wen Dynasty and the Empress.
The other is that the gang that digs up bird droppings has a supply station in the chicken coop.
These bird droppings are still sailors, specially formed by Zhu Yuanzhang at the time, a total of more than 20 boats, and then throw a group of exiles over, this work can only be done by exiles, after all, it is too hard. Guano is poisonous, in fact, even transporting guano is very bitter, and it is normal for American sailors transporting guano in the era of guano to not last fifteen minutes in the cargo hold, and it is normal for them to be smoked to nosebleeds or temporarily blind. In short, these unfortunate exiles are becoming the cornerstone of the agricultural prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, they are responsible for digging, digging a boat, the sailor will drive away a boat, the southeast wind season goes straight to the mouth of the Yangtze River, the north wind season will ride the Kuroshio north to the Ryukyus, and even the Wa Kingdom, and then turn to the mouth of the Yangtze River downwind.
The little princess's dung dung dung factory is in Taicang.
There, it is processed along with soybeans shipped back from the north.
The latter has to be squeezed first.
Although it is true that soybean oil is not eaten in the south, it is used in canning factories along the coast.
From Liaodong to Fujian, canning factories along the coast use this cheap oil to fry fish and then cook it, and finally put it into different containers according to the length of the shelf life. The highest-end is, of course, tinned iron cans, which are all cans of military ration transported to the north, and the closest is a clay can, which can last for half a month anyway.
It doesn't matter if it's expired.
Just eat the undead.
The people in the inland mountainous areas are all gifts, after all, there are heavy oil, salt, sugar and spices, no matter which one is liked by the inland people.
The crockpots are also recycled.
There are also medium-distance use of porcelain jars, as well as glass jars, the glass industry has long been prosperous, and now seven years have passed, and glassware has long been civilian.
It is the prosperity of this series of industries that has made the Daming coast truly a granary.
Liaodong Bay, Tanggu, Shandong Peninsula, Zhoushan, Fujian, all have a large number of canned food industries, and if you want to do this, you can go to the bank for a loan, and the latter also provides technical support, including supporting industries, of course, the bank also controls the flow of funds, and they make money while the bank also controls them.
In the fishing season, there are even more than 100,000 people working there in Zhoushan, killing fish, making canned food, making cans, and almost the entire eastern part of Zhejiang is invested in it, providing supporting facilities for it, that is, selling rice to Zhoushan, can make a lot of money, and also drive the steel industry and tin plating industry. The latter even affected the tin mining industry in Yunnan, which is why the Mu family, although they preferred Jianwen, never wanted to openly defect to the Jianwen dynasty, and they were already heavily dependent on the economic system controlled by Yang Feng. This is also the reason why the Zhejiang gentry are becoming more and more passive on the issue of fighting against Yang Feng, everyone is busy making money, who cares about hoeing for the country, is it important to hoe for the country or make money? Look at how smart the Fujian gentry are, people will not oppose Yang, and the Fujian civil officials headed by Zhang Xianzong are still honestly working for the imperial court, and then while developing on the opposite side, they are partnering with the Guangdong gentry to engage in trade, and the good days of making money are getting happier and happier.
It's cool to be left and right!
Traitor?
Zhu's family?
It's about my birds!
That is the country of the Zhu family, not the country of the Fujian gentry.
Besides, isn't it the Zhu family now? The empress is not the Zhu family? At least before she got married, she was still the Zhu family, and since she was still the Zhu family, it was still the Zhu family.
We are all loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and we will not lose the ministers.
The empress is also the empress.
The ships carrying back guano were loaded with grain and canned goods in Taicang and Zhoushan, and then went south along the coastline to Fuzhou, waiting for the wind to be right, heading straight to the chicken coop, where they unloaded supplies and waited in line to be loaded.
As for supplies to Guano Island, there are special schooner clippers.
The bird droppings are all giant fortune ships, a ship can hold hundreds of tons, must rely on the wind direction and ocean currents, they will wait in the chicken coop, the bird of guano island is full, the chicken coop is an empty ship over, the sailors can be in the chicken coop to guard those native girls are happy, only the prisoners on the island are drinking stinky fresh water, eating canned food that is likely to have expired, and digging up guano in bitter haha.
Then he fantasized that he would live to the end of his sentence.
So at this time, the chicken coop has become a very prosperous harbor.
"It should have arrived, but there are not many of his guards willing to follow, after all, even if he goes south to open up Luzon, there is not much oil and water, unlike the fourth brother, which has been proven to be beneficial enough, and those guards under him prefer to stay in Guangning, after all, Guangning has already built various industries. This time, there were less than 3,000 people who followed him to Bengang, and at this time, there were already Guangdong merchants in Luzon who used to operate, and he was afraid that he would not be able to open up with this person, even if he arrived in Bengang, it was estimated that he would be in charge of those Fujianese in the next few years. They are willing to follow my brother, and with my brother's elite, they can take more land from the natives to grow sugar cane. ”
The little princess said.
The road of the King of Liao was blocked by Cantonese merchants.
The latter had already begun to establish a commercial base in Luzon.
And the He family also has a share.
The King of Liao wants to intervene at this time, He Di is afraid that he will not give face, he has the sailors of the Jianwen Dynasty in his hands, and even four battleships, unless Zheng He's fleet goes south to fight him, otherwise he is invincible south of the strait.
"Then let him play there first.
In addition, he told him that there were good ships in the mountains over there, and he could go to logging and building ships first, and the warships built with those woods were no worse than the Tielimu in Guangdong, and could even be used to build giant warships. In addition, he can also make camphor there, and this is also there, and there is sulfur, and there are sulfur mines there, and in fact, there are gold mines, and chicken coops and coal mines, in short, there are good things there. And he can really cut out the cypress wood in the mountains, how much he wants to cut the imperial court, that thing is a good material for building warships.
In addition, he wants to run Nanyang, and it is better to dig up guano than to sell spices.
The islands east of Luzon were all piled with guano, and as long as he could keep them under control, his descendants would be rich for hundreds of years. ”
Yang Feng said.
It's the truth.
Before the advent of ammonia technology, guano was the cornerstone of agriculture.
All countries depend on it.
There is no other source of fertilizer that can match it.
Soybeans are not comparable, soybeans are only because the root bacteria have the ability to fix nitrogen, so the nitrogen content in the soybean cake is high, but this high is only compared with other fertilizers, compared with struvite is much worse, the latter is directly an order of magnitude higher, the nitrogen content of the soybean cake is a few percent, and the Peruvian struvite is more than ten percent, not to mention that the phosphorus and potassium are all higher than the soybean cake.
Yang Feng engaged in dung pills instead of directly using bird droppings mainly because he wanted to develop Huining.
It is certainly better to use guano directly.
Of course, there is also the fact that the production is too small.
After all, the reserves on a small island in the East China Sea can't last long, and can only be used as an enhancement additive for soybean cakes.
But......
If you can dig Nauru, it's different.
With those guano islands in the southwest Pacific in hand, the Liao Wang family can really maintain a rich world for hundreds of years, after all, synthetic ammonia or something is still a very distant thing.
As for now, let him cut cypress, refine camphor, pan for gold, and mine sulfur there!
Just to build a large battleship for Zheng He to go to the Western Ocean, his schooners are fast, but they are not suitable as giant battleships, and giant sail battleships have to be crosssails, but this requires high-quality wood.
Hinoki is the best choice.