In the New World, almost every person on the collective farm, after a year of survival here, will almost become a person like Xu Aju.

Life here is materially abundant, but it is also dangerous.

Wealth can only be obtained by those who are open-minded.

Xu Fugui's life was forever left in the New World.

At this time, a Ming army officer invited by Li Zhongyi was instructing the Li brothers on how to use firearms.

"Horses are very important here in the New World, and if you don't know how to ride them, you're at a loss. And there is no shortage of food here, but this place is dangerous, and all this wealth is exchanged for life. ”

The officer spoke with a northern Jiangsu accent and was named Liang Youyu.

He enlisted in the army during the Battle of Liaodong and became a platoon commander because of his merits.

According to his own words.

Originally, every family ate this bowl of rice.

One of the millions of workers.

It's not very rich, though.

But it's always much better than a tenant family like Xu Fugui, at least food and clothing are not worried.

Life is passable.

It's a pity.

Such days came to an end with the arrival of Emperor Zhu.

The Ming Dynasty had a strong navy, and various large seagoing ships traveled between the north and the south.

The payload is large, the cost is low, and there are no safety concerns. It's fast.

As a result, sea freight soon replaced light transportation as the main mode of freight between the north and the south.

A large amount of rice from Borneo, Java and the Red River Delta arrived at the port of Tianjin by sea, and then transported by rail to major cities in the Central Plains, under the impact of rice from the south.

Now there are not many crops of grain on the territory of the Central Plains - growing grain is a loss.

Various cash crops occupy the cultivated land of the Central Plains.

And in this case.

Millions of workers were naturally unemployed - the freight function of the canal was replaced, leaving only a much smaller passenger function, after all, compared to the bumpy sea, the safety and comfort of taking the canal to travel between the north and the south by boat are better than at sea.

Where have all the unemployed workers gone?

Except for Liang Youyu, who is lucky enough to fight in the right position on the cusp of the times.

Some of them were very unlucky to be buried in the Qing Dynasty.

And most of them.

It became a farmer who went to the Northeast and the New World.

Liang Youyu also chose to come to Jinshan with the army, because here, military households could be allocated at least 100 acres of Junlu fields - these fields were in the New World, not in the Han land, and the Junlu fields in the Han land would not be canceled, and unlike Zhuang Hutian, it was completely private.

But it's the same.

The price he paid was twenty years of service in the Ming army.

"17 years, 17 years!" Liang Youyu smiled bitterly, "By that time, he will be a little old man, and I don't know if I will live until then." ”

I won't stay in Jinshan, a place where birds don't, for seventeen years, right?

The Li brothers looked at each other.

They're also not sure.

I thought it was a good place, but now it seems that wealth is not so easy to obtain.

I knew that I would stay in Sichuan, and the three brothers divided the old man's land.

Although even if you don't have a big family after dividing the land, it's better than giving your life in this place.

"You can retire at any time!"

At this time, Zhang Jin, the commander of the Ming army battalion who came to inspect, heard Liang Youyu complaining and accosted: "Just hand over the land." ”

Liang Youyu laughed when he heard this: "Then I will still be honest and loyal to the emperor for twenty years." Battalion commander, if I die, you will have to help me take care of my wife and children. ”

"I will definitely take care of your wife, as for your son, if you die, you will be a martyr of the Ming Dynasty, and the orphans of the martyrs can go to the junior military academy to study, the emperor has all the food, clothing, housing and transportation, and he will be an officer directly after graduation, you can rest assured."

"That's not good, my son is going to study and take the Xiucai exam."

"Phew, still show off?" Zhang Jin spat out, "Can your elm head give birth to a show?" ”

"Hahaha"

The surrounding Ming army officers and soldiers laughed together.

Liang Youyu's face turned red, and Ai Ai didn't know what to say.

"I can't tell you about this."

The camp was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

Right now.

An officer asked: "Battalion commander, we've all been out for a day, why haven't we found any movement, do you think those Bai Yi can be hooked out?" ”

"Who knows? Regardless of these, if you come, you will be killed, if you don't come, they will not have a good time this winter, there are hundreds of these people, if there is no food, it is estimated that half of them will die in winter! I guess they'll come out and fight it. ”

"They might go and rob the indigenous tribes."

"Maybe, that's how this place is anyway, either you kill me or I'll kill you."

Zhang Jin shrugged.

Zhang Jin was right.

For the white adventurers who approached the Governor's Mansion of the Golden Mountain.

Robbing the grain transport team of the Ming army was a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

Of course.

Things are not so easy to accomplish.

However, the white colonizers of this era were not the citizens of the developed countries nourished by the favorable material conditions of later generations.

They are very hard-working now.

"Kill! Kill these Ming people! ”

"Rush! Hurry up! ”

"Their muskets were firing too fast, rushing up for hand-to-hand combat!!"

A group of Britons with a London accent emerged from the woods.

They shouted slogans, a bit of a fearlessness.

These were some adventurers from England who were part of the British Empire's world colonial imperial system.

When a group of white men rushed out of the woods with muskets.

They were greeted by bullets from the Ming army.

In the face of the terrifying rate of fire of the rear-loading guns, these hungry white colonists looked like devils rushing out of the hell of hungry ghosts.

But the bullets are fair.

It doesn't matter if they're devils or not.

When a bullet passes, it is the fate of being thrown to the ground.

Leaving behind more than two hundred corpses, the white adventurers retreated.

"Clean up the battlefield!"

Zhang Jin also did not order the pursuit.

The harassment of these Europeans actually had little effect on the Doge's Palace, and even had a certain benefit - they could make the immigrant farmers more combative.

But in this way .

A dealer who is especially capable of fighting.

Of course, it's not easy to manage.

Or rather

I don't dare to care.

But this is a matter for the Governor's Mansion of Jinshan.

Zhang Jin doesn't care about this.

All he had to do was fight.

This was the fief of the second prince from now on.

If you do a good job here, you may be able to become a general under the second prince who has been named the King of Gold.

Now the positions above the Ming army are almost occupied.

The brigade commanders and army commanders of the first type are still very young.

For example, Lieutenant General Luo Dingshan is only 30 years old this year.

Lieutenant General Yang Yuchun, 32 years old.

Now the top leaders of the Ming army are basically a group of officers in their thirties who are in the prime of life.

And the Ming army is unlikely to carry out a large-scale expansion.

Therefore, the hope of promotion of middle-level officers like Zhang Jin has to fall on the feudal kingdom of the princes.

The Ming army did not expand.

But the army of the feudal kingdom will definitely carry out a certain expansion.

"That's the end of it?"

The Li brothers were a little incredible.

"What else do you want?"

'It's too easy, isn't it?'

"Now it's easy, because we have a battalion of troops to escort it. And they don't have rear-loading guns, and when they have rear-loading guns as well. This is when things get difficult. ”

"That's for later."

The crowd was talking.

"Your Majesty, the North Korean Corps has invaded Pyongyang, and the Korean puppet king Li Ying is nowhere to be found."

On the ironclad battleship Daming.

Emperor Zhu Daohua of the Ming Dynasty stood on the deck, and the Jinyi guards next to him commanded Gong Zhuman to report beside him.

The battle for the Governor's Palace in Jinshan was going on almost all the time.

In the opinion of Emperor Zhu.

The lives of these low-level civilians and soldiers are just a cold statistic recorded in a book.

The blood and tears of Li Zhongyi and others are not worth mentioning for the Ming court.

In the opinion of Emperor Zhu.

The battle for the New World is a math problem.

The annual migration to the New World, combined with the birth rate of the original immigrants, is the growth rate of the Han population in the New World.

The process of fighting for the New World is also very simple, that is, to make the Han people the main race of the New World as much as possible!

Now the New World is brewing a future war.

And right next to the Ming Empire.

A large-scale war has broken out.

Two divisions of the North Korean Corps, with more than 30,000 infantrymen, crossed the Yalu River a month ago.

The North Korean Bepa Army, which received the support of the two classes of North Korean tycoons and from Europe, was much stronger than the original North Korean official army in terms of combat effectiveness.

At least it has reached the level of the previous Eight Banners Coating Army.

But compared to the North Korean Corps, which was formed by the elite from the Liaodong Corps.

That's still a small thing.

Since entering the DPRK, the North Korean Corps has not focused on occupying territory, but has been staring at the main force of the Farewell Army!

Several battles in a row down.

The main force of the 60,000 Bepa army was annihilated, and most of it was annihilated.

When the North Korean Corps was approaching the city of Pyongyang.

The Joseon king Li Ying had only 3,000 Praetorian Guards left.

So it is understandable that Li Ying ran away directly.

"Nowhere to be found. Was it picked up? ”

Emperor Zhu said.

"Yes, it may be the Britons who did it, and the Britons have secret ties with some local powerful feudal clans in Japan, Your Majesty, do you want to."

Gong Zhuman made a throat-slitting gesture.

With the power of the Ming Dynasty now in Japan.

It was easy to punish a few Japanese feudal lords.

"No need, it's just a bunch of lost dogs, and it's not appropriate to cause more trouble in Japan." Emperor Zhu waved his hand and said.

North Korea.

Although there were some local feudal lords in Japan who were reluctant to submit to the rule of the Ming Empire.

But that's just an emotional reluctance.

In practical interests.

No Japanese feudal lord would stand up and speak out against the Ming Dynasty.

First of all.

Japan, like North Korea, has been integrated into the Greater China system.

Became a member of the Chinese vassal domain.

Economically, it has become a part of the Celestial Empire system in the Eastern world, Greater China.

If the Ming Empire is the sun, then these small countries around it are the planets of the sun, and they cannot escape the gravitational pull of the sun, but can only revolve around the sun.

There are no tariffs between countries, and Greater China is a huge customs union area, which means.

No matter how emotionally unacceptable the local feudal lords in Japan were.

Japan will be violently pulled into the economic cycle of Greater China.

This is not something that can be changed by humans - unless Japan establishes its own tariff system, but the Ming Empire is clearly not going to give them that opportunity.

Secondly.

It was Japan that had already begun to form the South American Expeditionary Force.

Emperor Zhu was very generous, and directly took out a South America and distributed it to the vassal states that followed the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of such huge interests.

No one in Japan is allowed to stand up against Emperor Zhu and the Ming Dynasty.

Emotions are emotions.

Some Japanese feudal lords did not agree with the deposition of the emperor, and Emperor Zhu could understand it.

But the real benefits are here.

It is equivalent to the Ming Empire using a territory as the size of Argentina as a bride price to marry the beautiful lady of Japan.

Belch.

Although this piece of territory needs to be conquered by Japan itself.

But without the blessing of the Ming Empire.

Japan simply did not have the strength to make this expedition to Argentina!

Therefore, in the eyes of Japan, this is the grace of the great son of tomorrow.

They welcomed Zhu Yizin, the sixth son of the Great Tomorrow, as the king of Japan.

Daming rewarded Argentina to Japan.

Such an exchange of interests is satisfactory to at least the majority of the Japanese.

A small number of people who are not satisfied can't make any big waves.

"Let Luo Dingshan knock down the entire territory of North Korea, temporarily appoint Luo Dingshan as the governor of North Korea, and then conduct the Korean imperial examination as soon as possible, since Li Ying has already run away, then I won't go to Busan." Emperor Zhu looked up to the south, "The fleet turns around and heads for Shanghai!" ”

"Your Majesty, do you want to send someone to Shanghai to explain first?"

"No, I want to take a look. A real Shanghai, check out this legendary hell! Zhu Daohua sighed and said.

A hell under his rule.

"Your Majesty, Shanghai is not hell, you have made China again, and you have immortal merits." Gong Zhuman hasn't finished speaking.

Emperor Zhu waved his hand again and again.

"Okay, okay, don't shoot if you can't make a sycophant. Whether it's hell or not, I know very well. Chase full, you say. If we do these things, will future generations thank us? ”

"Definitely, you will be able to cover the Han and Tang Dynasties, now all this is only temporary, and the future Ming will usher in a glorious and prosperous era!" Gong Zhuman said with certainty.

"But now there must be a lot of people complaining about me. Yes, forcing tens of millions of people to leave their hometowns and go to be the farmers of collective farms is really not small! Emperor Zhu said while holding on to the side of the ship.

He knew that his rule had not brought much improvement to the lives of the suffering Chinese, at least in his opinion.

Tens of millions of people are complaining about themselves now, but their descendants will surely thank themselves, right?

The people of the future will surely appreciate their ......

Emperor Zhu thought that they would erect countless statues and monuments for themselves, that they would portray themselves as a hero and savior in the history books, that they would print their own heads on money, that they would forget how much their ancestors had suffered under their rule......

(End of chapter)