Chapter 500

It was not the Spaniards who were shocked, but also the French who came to the Golden State for the first time, although the current France is still almost meaningless in terms of navy, but the problem is that since 1636, Spain sent troops to France, and the Holy Roman Empire attacked from the north and south, and once advanced to the French capital Paris, but was finally defeated by the French army.

This victory laid the foundation of the French Army, and also announced the complete defeat of the Spanish phalanx, which was no match for the French Army with the same number of people.

Of course, it is still necessary to achieve absolute superiority on the battlefield at the Battle of Rocroix (May 18-19, 1643), but now France has the capital to be proud, after all, they defeated the Spanish Army, the first army in Europe, then their French Army should be the first in Europe.

"How big is this city?"

Ilminster looked at the endless street and asked the interpreter very curiously.

The interpreter explained: "Jinzhou is currently the largest city in the Ming Dynasty, with more than two million people living in this city, and more importantly, it is a new city, ten years ago, the city was abandoned, and it was built on the ruins of our great emperor! ”

Hearing the figure of more than two million, Ilminster did not speak for a long time, and in the sixteenth century France had become the most populous country in Europe, especially the largest city, Paris, with a population of 300,000.

He thought that even the largest city in the Ming Dynasty could not be compared with Paris, but after coming to the Golden State, he suddenly found that he was too unknowledgeable, and the Golden State of the Ming Dynasty was so big.

The translator explained: "Your Excellency, you don't know that although the population in Daming Golden State is the largest, it is not the largest city, in terms of the size of the city, in fact, the largest should be Terring!" ”

"Tring?"

Ilminster could swear that he had heard the name for the first time.

Why is Telin the largest city in the Ming Dynasty? Because of the topography of the Tellin, which was located in an oval-shaped valley, about a third of which was close to the sea, a port and a ship repair yard were established along the coast, and the two exits to the northeast and southwest of the valley became the gates of the city.

As a result, this valley basin, which is about 140 kilometers long from east to west and about 90 kilometers wide from north to south, has become the Ming Dynasty's Terling City, and in this basin, it has become the largest artificial breeding farm in the Ming Dynasty, with more than 1 million sheep and more than 200,000 horses.

The interpreter seemed to understand what Ilminster was thinking, and smiled and said, "Your Excellency wants to talk about Paris, right?" There are many cities like Paris in Daming, if Paris is placed in Daming, it can only be regarded as a relatively small city, Beijing, Nanjing, Chang'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Dengzhou, Jimo (now Qingdao), Quxian (now Lianyungang), Funing (now Qinhuangdao), Shanghai, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Dayuan, Luzon, there are too many cities bigger than Paris, I can't count them! ”

Ilminster pointed to the brightly lit buildings in the distance and said, "Is this the church of the Ming people?" ”

"No, it's the highest school in the Ming Dynasty!"

The translator introduced: "This is the Ming Royal Army Academy, also known as the Imperial Army University, the scale is almost equivalent to three Fandigang (homophone) cathedrals, and more than 3,000 Ming Imperial Army officers will graduate and enter the army every year!" ”

"More than three thousand?"

It is really hard to imagine that many countries in Europe do not even have 3,000 troops, let alone 3,000 officers, of course, the French Army has more than 3,000 officers, but the problem is that the Ming Dynasty graduates more than 3,000 officers every year, you can imagine how huge the Ming army is.

The translator smiled faintly, as a Ming man, what he liked most was to see these foreign devils who had never seen the world: "One hundred and sixty miles south here, there is the Ming Royal Naval Academy, and two or three thousand naval officers graduate every year!" ”

Ilminster felt that he was a little talkative, no wonder the Ming were so powerful now, they could graduate more than three thousand army officers and two or three thousand naval officers every year, and it was conceivable that their army should be at least hundreds of thousands of horses.

In fact, the number of the Ming navy is no less than that of the army, although the army has 39 army brigades, of which the four major governors each have four to eight brigades, and the Annan and Anbei legions are four brigades with more than 100,000 horses, but the Annan and Anxi legions each have eight brigades, and two-thirds of the army units of the four major army corps are stationed in one brigade in addition to the north, and three brigades are stationed in Luzon.

Cheng Shijie stationed field mobile brigades in Jinzhou, Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Luoyang, and Chengdu, and all of them were mobile brigades that had been transformed into mules and horses.

The navy is divided into four fleets, Dayuan, Lushun, Luzon, and Coconut City, plus two combined fleets of Zhanzhou and Xinming, and the four fleets have dozens of strike squadrons and escort fleets under their jurisdiction.

The interpreter said to Ilminster: "Your Excellency, have you read the travelogue of Marco Polo?" ”

"Read!"

"This lucky man, who has been to the Orient himself, calls this ancient country the Golden Land in his travelogue, claiming that it is full of gold, and that the piles of silver piled up along the streets have fascinated and driven many Europeans mad...... The great Columbus set sail in search of this fantasy golden country, but unfortunately he went the wrong way and ran to the Americas, and he did not see the real East until he died. ”

In the protocol not far away, Davis, the governor of the East India Company of Great Britain, excitedly said to his assistant Simon: "Dear Simon, can you believe it? Now I live in this spacious room, and I am living a life that even the Pope would be jealous of! ”

Simon nodded again and again: "That's true, the fine porcelain we use in front of us, in Europe, such an art treasure is the treasure of the royal family, the royal family will carefully wrap it in silver, hide it in the heavily guarded underground palace, every time you want to take it out and enjoy it, you have to bathe in incense first, lest it tarnish this exquisite work of art......"

"But I just put it on the desk, put a little water, and put two flowers on it."

Davis excitedly said, "I'm wearing silk as soft as a baby's skin, not one, but five!" These silks are just perfect! If I could give this piece of silk to the princess, that female cousin would definitely be so excited that she ran naked! ”

Just when these foreign devils lamented the prosperity of Jinzhou, Cheng Shijie and his son were sharpening their knives in the imperial study.

Every move, word and deed of these foreign devils in Jinzhou will be reported to Cheng Shijie by Jinyiwei, and now Jinyiwei is in charge of the collection and sorting of foreign intelligence, especially the envoy of Beizhen, who has basically undertaken the work of national security.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the intelligence report in front of him: "What do you think?" ”

"I feel like I should follow the example of Da Lao Mei!"

Cheng Jialong said: "We have made a lot of money through trade now, and we can cultivate spokesmen for interests and support pro-China forces all over the world!" ”

"We must strengthen propaganda!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "The smell of wine is also afraid of deep alleys, not to mention those foreign devils, they are not good people!" ”

"Dad, do you want to take advantage of their weakness now, let's strike first!"

Cheng Jialong said: "Every time I see the cultural relics and antiques in the British Museum, I am very angry, originally I had no choice, but now we have the strength, we can completely empty Britain!" ”

"The current Great Britain is still a country bun, and sending troops to the past is definitely a loss-making business!"

If you want to say that the army is at a loss, Da Ming is really at a loss.

That is to pack up the small book, the shogunate, which is closing the country, has now become an ostrich, they bury their heads in the sand, migrate to the coastal area, grab if they want, fight if they want, they don't resist, they just lie flat.

Iwami Silver Mountain is no longer mined, they know that they can't hold it if they are mined, and the whole country will starve to death millions of people every year, not to mention that the samurai can't live, and some Ming even went to Luzon to work as workers to earn living expenses.

Cheng Jialong said: "Now Europe is crazy, besiege Venice together, I'm afraid they won't last long!" ”

Cheng Shijie said: "Do you dare to guarantee that this is not a flesh and blood plan?" ”

Cheng Jialong shook his head and said, "I can't guarantee it!" ”

Cheng Shijie is also sighing, Daming's current environment should also be governed, in fact, Cheng Shijie does not have a very good way, however, Daming prohibits the cutting of forests, any cutting down of forests, must be reported to the Forestry Bureau, the cutting certificate is very difficult to approve.

Therefore, the consumption of wood comes from imports, mainly in the Indochina Peninsula, Nanyang and Xiaobenzi, and burning coal is the best way that Cheng Shijie can think of at present.

Now the Ming Dynasty can no longer see the displaced people, the war of grabbing people has been fully opened, not only the lack of people in Jinzhou, there is a shortage of people everywhere, the country has money in its hands, you can let go of a large number of construction basic industries, repair roads and ditches, this is what Ming officials like to do, there are political achievements, there are benefits.

Of course, it's best not to stretch out your hand, because once you reach out, you will be discovered, and now it's not like the next generation, and there is still a job in the Daming Post Station system, that is, to receive report letters.

Once the people who petitioned or complained arrived within the scope of the post station, the post station was responsible for protecting their safety, providing food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and if the report was true, the officials concerned would be hung on the tree, and they were prohibited from being officials, engaging in business and politics and participating in the imperial examination within three generations.

For now, the rule of the Ming Dynasty is not bad.

The Ming army continued to expand, and after the Dzungar people were pressed to the ground and rubbed on the ground a few times by the Anxi army, they became honest and recognized the reality in front of them, no matter how brave they were, they could not defeat the Ming army.

Especially the overwhelming artillery of the Anxi Corps of the Ming Dynasty, they either fled or surrendered, and there was no way out of resistance.

After completely smashing several Dzungar counterattacks, Changyu reorganized the Dzungars into eighteen unsatisfactory 10,000 troops, acting as the vanguard of the Anxi Army.

Farther afield in Siberia, the Anbei Army made a breakthrough in the Ura Mountains, pushing the front across the Ural Mountains, and the Annam Army Shen Mingyu's headquarters also progressed smoothly, and they had now reached Rangoon, and as for the Tusi Army in Annam, they were even more fierce and had already entered the territory of Ayutthaya (present-day Thailand).

Compared with the other armies, the progress of the Tusi army was slower, but they advanced very thoroughly, they did not leave a man for them, the good-looking women remained, and the unsightly or old ones were all humanely destroyed.

Cheng Shijie coaxed a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses to act as a daddy.

Just when Cheng Shijie was coaxing the child, four scarred battleships, escorted by the Ming Navy warships, arrived in Jinzhou.

Catherine was learning how to take care of her skin from Xiang Hui, when a young man with a scar on his face said anxiously: "Count Catherine has finally found you!" ”

"You ......"

"It's me, Giovanni!"

Giovanni no longer has the slightest trace of handsomeness, his face should have been burned by the fire, and it burned very badly.

"How did you get that?"

Giovanni didn't have time to speak, and he fell unconscious.

Fortunately, there was a doctor here, and the doctor looked at it and said, "Tired, it's no big deal!" ”

Catherine breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What's going on?" ”

"I'm Siegfried, captain of the battleship Marius in the Navy, and the Count has certainly never heard of my name, but I already know the Countess's name."

Catherine was unmoved by this sycophancy, and her brow furrowed: "The Marius is the main warship of our navy, and as the captain of the ship, you have a heavy responsibility, but you have traveled thousands of miles to Asia...... Is something wrong with Venice? Say it! ”

At the end, Catherine's voice trembled slightly.

Siegfried smiled bitterly: "You can't hide anything from the clever count......"

Catherine said anxiously: "Stop talking nonsense, tell me quickly, what's going on in Venice?" ”

Siegfried took out a letter and said, "This is a letter from the consul himself, asking me to hand it over to the countess himself." This is also a letter from the consul, but it was forwarded to the Ming Emperor by Count To! We set out with fourteen ships, fighting pirates, fighting pirates from southern Europe, and fighting merciless wind and waves along the way, and finally we reached Asia, and only these four tattered ships remained......"

Catherine punched Ziger in the chest, and she didn't punch hard, but found a large cloud of blood on Ziger's chest: "What's going on?" What the hell is going on? ”

Siegfried looked gloomy: "The Ottoman navy has once again made a big move to attack us. Of course, it's nothing, and we didn't fight the Ottomans less? I've been used to it for a long time. The worst thing is that Europe betrayed us, and while we were fighting a bloody battle with the Turks, the navies of France, England, and the Netherlands suddenly launched an attack on us! ”

(End of chapter)