Chapter 58 Isn't it a little too cautious?

"That's it?"

Zhu Daohua's ship.

Boss Zhu said with some surprise.

At first, he saw several Qing ships appearing in a detour behind the side of Lantau Island.

It is a kind of two-masted bird ship.

It belongs to the old antiques of Guangdong Green Camp - in fact, the Qing Dynasty was not unable to build big ships.

During the Kangxi Dynasty, in order to fight against the Zheng family in Taiwan.

Kangxi ordered people to build a kind of big bird boat called "Fengzhou".

The length of the ship is more than 60 meters, and the height of the ship exceeds 7 meters.

Even compared to the large Dutch warships in the East Asian seas at this time, it was "too wide".

The huge hull was also equipped with twenty-four heavy guns on a double deck.

Kangxi twenty years.

The number of such large bird ships owned by the Qing army reached more than sixty.

It was one of the world's top maritime powers at the time.

However, with the corruption of the bureaucracy of the Qing Dynasty.

The technique of building a sealed boat was gradually lost.

During the Qianlong period, the unspoken rules of shipbuilding in the Qing Dynasty were no less than those of the Opium War in later generations.

The shipyard reported for the repair of ten warships, but actually repaired seven or eight, which can be regarded as a conscientious operation.

Other "maintenance costs" are basically eaten up layer by layer. In Qianlong's later years, some broken ships that had long been scrapped and could only be left in the harbor to bask in the sun.

So, to be honest, the Guangdong Green Camp Sailor still has warships that can drive out of the port.

It is already regarded as an army of conscience among the Qing army.

What's more...

This army actually opened fire.

Originally, the Ming army was ready for battle.

Although the warships of the Guangdong naval division on the opposite side were simply a joke in the eyes of the Ming navy.

But when the other side relied on the reef on the water surface of the narrow Pearl River estuary as a cover, it came in a roundabout way.

The officers and men of the Ming Navy couldn't help but be in awe - this was a completely decisive attack.

Courage is commendable!

Soon, however, a shocking scene emerged.

Relying on the protection of the reef.

After the few bird boats hurriedly fired several cannons, they hoisted their sails and went to Guangzhou along the shallow water area of the Pearl River Port... Escaped!

"This...."

The officers and men of the Ming Navy looked at each other.

"Is it to lure the enemy deeper?"

Someone said in disbelief.

You said you ran and you ran.

What does it mean to rush out and fire a few shots far away?

Provocation?

Demonstrate?

The current Ming army is still in the stage of "its prosperity and prosperity".

For the time being, the army in the entrepreneurial stage has not yet learned the style of "firing empty artillery", "drinking the blood of soldiers", and "destroying 100,000 enemies and turning into the wind".

Generally speaking, the army in the start-up stage is very strong.

The Ming army at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

The Eight Banners of the early Qing Dynasty were all like this.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was able to go deep into Mobei, like a duck to run over the Northern Yuan Dynasty full of grasslands, and the battle of Yuerhai was a great victory, and the record obtained was more brilliant than that of Huo Quai's northern attack on the Xiongnu royal court.

And by the end of the Ming Dynasty...

A few white armors of the Eight Banners could drive hundreds of Qiu Ba of the Ming army to flee everywhere.

The same goes for Eight Flags.

The Eight Banners before entering the customs were really strong soldiers in the world.

The kind of fierce man who can put on two layers of armor and slash and slash.

And now.

The descendants of this group of fierce men can basically draw a bow, which can be regarded as elite.

Therefore, it is easy to understand that the officers and soldiers of the Ming army do not understand the operation of these green battalion soldiers.

Actually, relatively speaking.

The green battalion soldiers under Guan Shouzhong are really the "upper brave" in the Guangdong green battalion.

At least they used up all the gunpowder on the ship before they ran away.

Several shots were fired.

It is worthy of the salary given by the Qing court.

"Fleeing when you see the enemy is considered brave..."

Zhu Daohua looked at the Guangdong green battalion soldiers who had slipped away with a telescope and complained.

"Bonaparte, I think our plan is still too conservative... With such soldiers, we rushed directly to the city of Guangzhou, and it was not a problem to break the city in a war, right? ”

Zhu Daohua took off the binoculars and said.

Napoleon shook his head again and again: "No, no, no, my majesty, you can't have such an adventurous thought. For you, this is a battle for the country, even if you don't have any military achievements, don't take the risk easily! ”

"Don't underestimate your opponent, it's likely to be the beginning of failure."

"I know, I know, the proud army will be defeated."

Zhu Daohua waved his hand and said.

But I was a little disapproving.

It's just this kind of army like tofu scum.

Are you sure you are good enough to be an opponent of your own Ming army?

"Your Majesty, your enemy is the most populous country in the world, and one of the largest in terms of territory.... Your enemies can afford to lose, but you can't afford to lose! ”

Napoleon said.

"So, I still think that you should be cautious, careful, and never have that kind of gambling adventure.... What's more, if you want to rule Guangdong, you'd better be able to wipe out all your potential opponents in this war! ”

Do you catch them all?

Zhu Daohua thought for a while.

Who will be his opponents in Guangdong?

The common people of Guangdong will certainly not have much opposition to them.

They were not vested interests in the Qing Empire.

In history, even when the British army landed, most of the old people came to see the excitement.

Seeing the defeat of the Qing army, many people even applauded loudly.

Until the British army burned and looted on the outskirts of Guangzhou.

The local Lao Guangcai rose up angrily, picked up the slippers and started to work.

He killed more than 20 British soldiers.

It was a third of the number of British soldiers killed as a direct result of the war in this war ....

The identified opponents must have been the bannermen in the city of Guangzhou.

These people and the Ming army must be mortal enemies.

Potential naysayers.

It is the local big landlord in Guangdong.

These bigwigs were to some extent collaborators of the Qing Empire.

They could grab their own interests in the system of the Qing Empire.

Naturally, he will naturally become the defender of this empire.

But....

This collaboration is not intimate.

The rulers of the Qing Dynasty were guarding against them.

The Han people at the bottom no longer liked the Qing Dynasty, and the threat they could pose was limited.

Historically, the peasant uprisings would have been difficult to achieve without the participation of the landlord class, that is, the intellectuals.

Many of the people who have made a storm in history are the best talents....

This kind of person with high IQ and knowledge is the dangerous person.

The imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty also included these high-IQ people, consumed their intelligence with Baguwen, and burrowed into the stacks of the Four Books and Five Classics for the rest of their lives, so that these high-IQ people could think less about dangerous things by sharing the flesh and blood of the empire.

There's a proper term for this approach: Cage Wise.

These eight strands are taken.

It's a cage.

Therefore, Zhu Daohua knew.

It is impossible for this group of people to be exterminated.

You can only pull one faction and fight one faction.

"I don't think we need to be so cautious now, Bonaparte... You don't know the country, and I, know very well! ”

Zhu Daohua was sure, at least before he defeated the army in the Liangguang region.

The information obtained by Qianlong in Beijing is certainly inaccurate and incomplete.

Otherwise, he would not have thought that he would be able to hold Guangdong by transferring tens of thousands of green battalion troops from Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan.

"Why are you so sure? My lord, I think the Qing Kingdom is still quite strong. ”

Napoleon said with some confusion.

"If Emperor Qianlong has no problem with his IQ, he will soon realize the threat posed by your army, and he will quickly contact the Western countries and then train a new type of army. As long as he had a few thousand loyal aristocratic young officers and trained them to be qualified officers, he would be able to support a new army of more than 100,000 people. ”

Napoleon said.

Could it be that simple?

Zhu Daohua shook his head.

Sound.

All the Qing needed to do was that simple, their tax system was still functioning, in other words, the economic base was still there.

So according to Napoleon's point of view.

It should have been easy for the Qing Dynasty to get a new-style army.

However...

Zhu Daohua, who is familiar with history, is skeptical.

But he also doesn't know if the Qianlong Dynasty is similar to fifty years later.

Therefore, he did not refute Napoleon's point of view.

Instead, he nodded slightly.

"Well, Bonaparte. Honestly, I also know I can't take risks, but who makes me feel like I naturally ... The Qing state is actually quite fragile. ”

Zhu Daohua shrugged.