Chapter 102: Semi-Industrialization vs. Feudal Empire

Qianlong's pressure now is indeed quite great.

The news from Hunan and Fujian is very bad.

November 3rd.

The Ming army occupied Chenzhou and Hengzhou.

Luo Dian, the head of Yuelu Academy, voted to Ming, and Peng Jun was the prefect of Hengzhou, and Ouyang Hou was the prefect of Chenzhou, and soon the land of the two prefectures was under control, and the local gentry supported the Ming Dynasty, sent their sons south to Guangzhou, and sent their children to join the army and donate money and food.

November 7th.

The Ming army occupied Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, and sent sailors to destroy the Fujian naval division stationed in Penghu, and Taiwan was also occupied.

November 11th.

Feng Guanggui, the prefect of Changsha, abandoned his official position and left, the gentry from all over Changsha returned to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Daohua, the puppet king of the Ming Dynasty, moved to Changsha.

In the following days, the wealthy clans and gentry of various provinces in Hunan took refuge in the Ming Dynasty.

With the time entered December of the 56th year of Qianlong.

More bad news appeared on the table where Emperor Qianlong of Jiangning was walking.

Under Hunan Province, the Qing court officials and subordinates who remained in Guangxi were basically in a state of disconnection, and nine times out of ten the whole province had fallen.

And after Hunan was occupied by the Ming army.

The Ming army began to intensify its offensive in Fujian.

Now it seems.

The consequence of concentrating the troops of the southern provinces in Jiangxi was to allow the Ming Dynasty to take advantage of the situation, bypass Jiangxi, and swagger to seize Hunan and Fujian.

At this moment.

Qianlong of Jiangning Mansion was here, and the expressions of several important ministers of the Qing court were similar to Qianlong.

His brows were tightly knit and his face was solemn.

"Your Majesty, in just three months, he attacked from both sides, brought all the provinces of Hunan and southern Fujian into control, dispatched officials and subordinates, and opened Enke, putting on a posture of wanting to occupy it for a long time."

It was Sun Shiyi who was speaking.

As one of the few Hanchen military aircraft, Sun Shiyi is Qianlong's most important Hanchen think tank, even if Sun Shiyi has the idea of retiring because of the expulsion of the people of Ganzhou.

Qianlong also did not grant him permission to return to his hometown.

"Now if Hunan and Fujian are all returned to the Ming Dynasty, then the Ganzhou and Nanchang camps in Jiangxi will be in danger of being cut off from the Jiangning camps by the Ming Dynasty."

Qianlong nodded solemnly.

"The combined army of Ganzhou and Jiangning has a total of 100,000, if the 100,000 army falls into Jiangxi, I am afraid that Zhejiang, Yunnan, and Guizhou will also be difficult to protect, and when the time comes... I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will be able to own the eight provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Zhejiang south of the Yangtze River, with a total population of more than 10,000,000! ”

Qianlong looked at the ministers with a solemn face.

"If so... This Ming Dynasty is really coming back! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, Jiangxi must not be defended, and the Qing Dynasty will never lose the south of the Yangtze River!"

Qianlong stood up, and his cold and thin face showed a little ruthlessness: "No matter what the price is!" ”

Hunan and Jiangxi were one of the most important grain producing areas in the entire Qing Dynasty.

And Zhejiang and Jiangsu are the biggest money bags.

If you lose the three provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

What did the Qing Dynasty use to feed the Eight Banners of more than one million, and what did it use to envelop the princes of Inner and Outer Mongolia.

The Qing Dynasty was essentially a Manchurian and Mongolian aristocracy (mainly the aristocratic princes of Inner Mongolia) happily lying together in the Han land to suck blood and fatten themselves.

And now the fattest piece is about to be occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

How to keep Qianlong from worrying?

The loss of the south of the Yangtze River was not only the loss of a large piece of land in the Qing Dynasty - in fact, in terms of land, it was not particularly large, only a fraction of it.

The key is wealth and population!

These southern provinces provided at least seventy percent of the Qing Dynasty's taxes and almost half of the population.

There is no southeast tax powerhouse.

We must continue to raise the hardcore crops of the Eight Banners.

It is necessary to continue to pull the Mongolian princes to support the Qing Dynasty.

Then we must press the courage on the Han people in the north.

In fact.

The burden on the Han people in the north was already very heavy - with the overdevelopment of the north, Guanzhong was dilapidated after the Tang Dynasty, and the Central Plains and other places also had the problem of overdevelopment due to the expansion of the population.

The environment in the north has been greatly damaged, the fertility of the land has been lost, and the sediment content of the Yellow River has continued to increase.

As a result of these problems, the environment of the North China Plain, which was once one of the best agricultural plains in the world, has become extremely fragile and its resilience to disasters has been reduced to a very dangerous level.

In the event of the loss of the South.

Then press all these guts to North China.

So can the Qing Dynasty suppress the Han peasants in North China?

These problems were clear to Qianlong.

The Qing Dynasty lost South China, and it had already reached a rather dangerous point.

The collapse of any dynasty.

It all started with the collapse of the finances.....

"There is always a fight, and it can't be delayed any longer..."

Fukangan said.

"The question is where is the battlefield? If it is to be placed in Nanchang Mansion, then it is best to retreat directly from Ganzhou and strengthen Nanchang Mansion, if it is placed in Ganzhou Mansion, then it is necessary to increase troops in Ganzhou. ”

"But.... The key is whether Reverse Ming will choose to engage in battle. At present, in addition to 50,000 clothed marches and tens of thousands of cavalry, other armies... None of them have the ability to fight in the field with the reverse Ming. The anti-Ming artillery was too sharp to be fought without strong fortifications as a barrier. ”

As soon as Fukangan's words came out.

Let everyone present have a headache.

Now the Qing army wants to fight with the Ming army in the field, or it has enough artillery itself to form an evenly matched confrontation with the Ming army.

Either.

It was to send a large number of cavalry, which could cover the infantry and look for opportunities to harass the enemy's artillery positions.

However, these two methods were a bit difficult for the Qing Dynasty.

The first way, even if you have enough cannons, you don't have enough gunpowder, and the cost of producing cannons in the Qing court is too high, there is no way to have so many cannons like the Ming army.

The second method is that the Qing Dynasty has an absolute advantage.

However, cavalry is already rare, and the logistical pressure is also great.

Now, with Qianlong's southward march, the 30,000 cavalry is already going to be supported by the Qing Dynasty.

If the cavalry from Inner and Outer Mongolia were mobilized south, this terrifying logistical pressure would be able to crush the Qing Dynasty....

So now the question is.

On the one hand, the Qing army did not dare to take the initiative to go out of the fortified city and seek a decisive battle in the field.

On the other hand.

There is also an urgent desire to fight.

This required the Ming army to take the initiative to attack the city.

Only in the present situation.

How likely is it that the Ming army will take the initiative to attack the city?

Hailan looked at Qianlong.

His eyes narrowed.

As a native of the Northeast savages, he relied on being able to fight all the way to the current position.

Hailancha is naturally not a brave and unscrupulous person.

"If you want to attract Ming to attack, the battlefield can't be placed in Nanchang, only in Ganzhou City!"

"If our army shrinks back to Nanchang, then the Ming Dynasty will have no worries, and he can swagger to pocket all the southern provinces, and then mobilize superior forces to besiege Nanchang City."

"So we had to create a... The conditions under which the reverse Ming must come to attack, or rather... It's bait. ”

Hailan looked at Qianlong.

Bait?

None of the people present were stupid.

The bait that was able to make the Ming army abandon the existing plan and choose to break Ganzhou and besiege Nanchang ...

Maybe it's just His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Qianlong frowned: "Super Yonggong, are you letting my relatives go to Nanchang?" ”

Hailan said: "Long live Lord, this is the only chance, when you arrive in Nanchang, it is impossible for Zhu Daohua to turn a blind eye, he will inevitably lead the troops there, this is called Wang Jianwang!" ”

"But in fact, my arrival in Nanchang was just a bait, in order to attract the Ming army to storm Ganzhou City?"

Qianlong came back to his senses.

The purpose of the so-called trip to Nanchang was not to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in Nanchang City.

Instead, he made a gesture that the Ming army had to break the city of Ganzhou before it was possible for Zhu Daohua to lead the troops to Nanchang.

This was a move to attract the Ming army to storm Ganzhou.

This Qianlong Ye is still hiding in Nanchang Mansion, and he is very safe.

"Will Reverse Ming take the bait?"

"Yes, if there is an opportunity to wipe out all the capable soldiers of the Qing Dynasty in Jiangxi in World War I, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to give up this opportunity!"

Highlanza said.

"This is the only chance for the current to make the reverse Ming give up the strategy and switch to the decisive battle in advance."

Fukang sighed with peace of mind.

He also agrees with Highlandza.

This is the passivity after losing the ability to fight in the field.

When to hit.

How to fight.

It's not at all controlled by yourself.

The initiative on the entire battlefield is in the hands of the other side.

Now there is a way to attract the Ming army to attack the fortified city.

It is indeed a rare opportunity.

"Sun Shiyi, what do you think? Tun Bing Nanchang, is it feasible? ”

Qianlong walked back and forth a few steps, then turned his head to look at Sun Shiyi and asked.

Of course, Sun Shiyi knew what Qianlong was most concerned about.

"Your Majesty, the mouth of the Yangtze River is blocked with iron cables and forts, as long as the navy against the Ming Dynasty cannot enter the Yangtze River, backed by Poyang Lake and the Ganjiang River, the grain and grass in Nanchang City are worry-free, and the retreat is also worry-free."

Sun Shiyi said.

In other words...

Emperor Qianlong's retreat was also worry-free.

In case things get the worst.

Qianlong can also retreat immediately, retreat to the north, and maybe maintain a north-south dynasty.....

After Sun Shiyi finished speaking, he lowered his head and sighed in his heart.

In just half a year.

The situation has taken a turn for the worse.

The Qing Dynasty was about to consider maintaining a northern and southern dynasty.

This southern reversal of the light.

It's going to rise too fast, isn't it?

How did Sun Shiyi know.

Today, Guangdong is one of the most industrialized regions in the world.

Even "high-tech" such as railways and trains have taken the lead in Guangdong.

Although the current Ming Dynasty can only be regarded as a "semi-industrialized" country at best.

But even so.

Deal with the old feudal empire like the Qing Dynasty.

That's also a dimensionality reduction strike.

What limited the speed of the Ming army's advance could only be the reserve of local management personnel.

Sun Shiyi is a smart man, and he is also a capable minister and a cadre.

However, now this battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It is not a traditional warlord battle for hegemony or a battle for dynasty change.

Rather, it symbolizes the advanced productive forces and the prospect of industrialization, and the new Ming Dynasty beat the Qing Dynasty.

From the support for industry and commerce, to the current Zhu Daohua is brewing to improve the political status of industrial and commercial workers, at least not worse than the landlords in Hunan.

This series of operations.

Although, according to the words of the afterlife.

It is a revolution that does not touch the roots.

It's just reform and reform.

But that's enough.

The rumbling sound of the steam engine drove the wheels of industrialization to rumble and turn.

This symbolizes the power of the explosion of human technological civilization, after the energy of the sun stored by plants buried deep in the ground hundreds of millions of years ago burst out in a burning way.

There is no problem with this wheel running back and forth from the body of the Qing Dynasty.

After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly got up from the bed. If you want to watch the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the content of the latest chapters, and the Star Reading APP has updated the content of the latest chapters.

He took a big breath of fresh air, and his chest trembled.

Confused, incomprehensible, all kinds of emotions come to my heart.

Where is this?

Then, Shi Yu subconsciously looked around, and then became even more dazed.

A single dormitory?

Even if he had managed to be rescued, he would have been in the ward by now.

And their own bodies...... How could it be that there was no injury at all.

With doubts, Shi Yu's gaze quickly swept from the room, and finally his gaze stayed on a mirror at the head of the bed.

The mirror reflected his current appearance, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was very handsome.

But the problem is, it's not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters ad-free and free

The previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.

And now, no matter how you look at it, this appearance is only the age of a high school student......

This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.

Don't tell him that the operation was a success......

The body and face have changed, and this is not a question of surgery or not surgery at all, but immortal magic.

He's a different guy altogether!

Don't...... Did you cross by yourself?

In addition to the mirror at the head of the bed, which was obviously not good in feng shui, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.

Shi Yu picked it up and looked at it, and the title of the book instantly silenced him.

"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Novice Breeders"

Postpartum Care for Pet Animals

"Alien Beast Ear Girl Evaluation Guide"

Shi Yu: ???

The names of the first two books are quite normal, but what are you doing with the last one?

"Ahem."

Shi Yu's eyes were solemn and he stretched out his hand, but his arm quickly stiffened.

Just as he was about to open the third book to see what it was, his brain stabbed violently, and a flood of memories flooded back.

Icefield City.

Pet animal breeding base.

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