1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 181 Destruction of the country with one word

One year before the time-traveling group came to this time and space, in the first month of 1626 AD, a great battle broke out between the Ming Empire and Hou Jin in Ningyuan City in the West Liao Corridor.The Ming army commanded by Yuan Chonghuan stood firm against Ningyuan City under internal and external troubles, and resisted the more than [-] Houjin army led by Nurhachi with [-] troops.In this battle, the defenders relied on solid city defenses, sharp artillery, and united determination to defeat the invading enemy captives, which was called "Ningyuan Great Victory" by the Ming court.

This victory is of great political and strategic significance to the Ming court, which has lost for eight or nine years in a row and is about to lose all of its territory in the Northeast. Yue was promoted to governor of Liaodong.Nurhachi, who was nearly 43 years old, suffered the most serious defeat in leading troops for more than 40 years, and died of illness eight months later.

Regarding the "brilliant results" achieved by the "Ningyuan Great Victory", the propaganda in the Ming Dynasty was quite good. Some people even counted Nurhachi, who died eight months after the end of the war, in the "Ningyuan Great Victory" achievements, saying that Nurhachi He was wounded by city defense artillery fire at the foot of Ningyuan City—I don’t know where Hou Jin found the miracle doctor, who could delay the death of the fatally injured wounded for eight months.

After Nurhachi's death, the two sides decided to negotiate a temporary peace after several negotiations, and reached a peace agreement in the first month of 1627.However, the war between Daming and Houjin did not end here. In May, Huang Taiji, who had withdrawn his troops from North Korea, surrounded Jinzhou.After the two sides fought in Jinzhou and Ningyuan for more than 20 days, the Houjin army, which was unable to conquer the strong city, finally retreated. This battle was once again hyped by the Ming court, calling it "Ningjin Great Victory".

On the fifth day of June in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, that is, on the same day that the "Flying Speed" escorted by the Tuozhen fleet to Heitu Port arrived at Shengli Port, Huang Taiji finally ordered the withdrawal of all troops.The next day Yuan Chonghuan wrote "Jinzhou Baojie Shu", calling this battle "a martial art that has not been seen in decades".However, although the war in the north has ended at this time, because of the long distance between the north and the south, the news of this great victory has not yet reached Guangzhou.

Southerners like Li Nai have absolutely no idea of ​​the wars that took place in the far northeastern frontier. Although the imperial court’s mansion newspaper has repeatedly reported news of the invasion led by Hou Jin, they were repelled by the heroic frontier troops every time. The harm of those northern barbarians seems to have always been within a controllable range.But when Li Nai saw the border of Ming Dynasty drawn by Ning Qi, he couldn't help feeling deeply worried about the war in the north.

"In fact, the large area to the east of the Liaoxi Corridor is no longer under the control of the Ming court." Ning Qi drew a pen on the map as he spoke, and directly delineated the large area to the east of Jinzhou from the Ming Dynasty. Territory: "As far as the actual control area is concerned, the areas east and north of this line are already Houjin's territory."

"Beilu is so powerful!" Li Nai didn't have much doubts about Ning Qi's explanation, because even the entire Ming Dynasty couldn't find a second map of such a detailed map, and Ning Qi didn't cheat on this issue either. His necessity.

Regarding Li Nai's exclamation, Ning Qi is also inconvenient to give him more spoilers.In fact, the strength of the Houjin army at this time was far inferior to that of the Ming army, especially in terms of siege warfare. The many firearms owned by the Ming army made the Houjin army, which was still in the era of cold weapons, suffer a lot.It wasn't until four years after Chongzhen that Jin also began to cast red cannons that the balance of victory began to gradually tilt towards the later Jin side.The subsequent Denglai Rebellion brought a lot of advanced military technology to Houjin, which brought the two sides closer to each other in a short period of time.

Of course, the later decline of Ming Dynasty was not only due to lack of military power, but was caused by many factors, including natural disasters and man-made disasters, which cannot be summed up in a simple word.Moreover, the military decline in the northeast will not be reversed by replacing a few generals or local governors by this time, but will only slide faster and faster into the abyss of failure.

Having said that, Ning Qi didn't want Li Nai to focus too much on the war in the Northeast. After all, the main direction of cooperation between the two parties was business, and at most a cultural addition, rather than political and military cooperation.

In order to divert Li Nai's attention, Ning Qi took the initiative to ask: "Your bank should have dealt with Frangji before, right?"

Li Nai did not deny this, nodded and said: "Every year, there will be ships going to Manila to trade with Frangji people. As for Flangji people in Haojingao, there are also many trade contacts."

"Then does Mr. Li know where Frangji came from?" Ning Qi continued to ask.

"I only know that it comes from a place far away from the west, and there are thousands of miles of sea and territory away from my Ming Dynasty, but I don't know where it is." Li Nai replied honestly.Although Zheng He drew detailed nautical charts 200 years ago, covering the vast areas from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, it is a pity that these precious materials have not been effectively used. It is also extremely limited, not to mention the geographical understanding of thousands of miles away.

"The country of the Francois is here, and we are used to calling it Spain. The Francois in Haojingao are actually from a Spanish vassal country, which we call Portugal." Ning Qi pointed to the country located in the southwest corner of the European continent. Spain, explaining to Li Nai: "France is here, England is here, and the red-haired people, their hometown is here... Besides, the sea route they took to Daming by boat is like this..."

Li Nai looked at the coastline that circumnavigated almost the whole of Africa and most of Asia, and was quite surprised: "No wonder the price of Western goods is so high, these Western countries are so far away from Daming."

"These countries set up countless colonies along their route, enclosing the land as their own, and building commercial and trading points, just like what they did in Manila and Batavia." Ning Qi said on the map The location of Manila and Jakarta are indicated on the above.

However, Li Nai did not understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words, and he and He Qiang were facing the map and said with emotion: "It turns out that Batavia is so far away from Guangzhou!" Merchants go to Batavia to trade."

Ning Qi had no choice but to continue: "These Western countries, together, are not as large as Ming Dynasty, but they have already occupied many places in the world, and the output of these places is enough for them to earn a lot of benefits from Ming Dynasty. Like you will All kinds of spices purchased at a large price are actually the products of these colonies, not the goods they transported from their hometown."

He Qiang was puzzled and said, "But the Daming Maritime Merchant also earned a lot of money by trading with it."

Ning Qi sighed and said, "They also dug the silver from the silver mines in the colonies. For them, digging silver is as easy as digging stones. Do you understand?"

Li Nai finally understood what Ning Qi meant, and asked back: "Mr. Ning wants to say that as long as there are enough colonies, making money will become easy?"

"This is not just about enclosing land to make money, it's about expanding territory!" Ning Qi said bitterly: "Every time they occupy a place, they will declare that this area belongs to their country. Just think about it. Daming started to do this 200 years ago, what is the situation now? Batavia, Manila and other places are all owned by Ming and Han Chinese, how could it be the turn of these foreign devils to decide!"

When Ning Qi got emotional later, his voice became a little louder.Li Nai and He Qiang looked at each other in dismay when they heard this, they had never had such an idea before, those distant trading ports occupied by Westerners could have been belonged to Daming?These maritime merchants have occupied some land in the east and west of thousands of miles away from their homeland, and established towns, villages and ports. Can they be regarded as expanding the territory for the country?
Li Nai was stunned for a long while before shaking his head and said: "I, Daming, will never act like this, it's really inappropriate..."

Ning Qi laughed back angrily: "You're right, you really can't expect Daming to do these things! The porridge in your own bowl hasn't blown cold, how can you have time to stare at the meat in other people's bowls!"

Li Nai didn't quite understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words, but from Ning Qi's tone, he could also feel that this "Master Haihan" had a bad impression of Daming, so he quickly changed the topic and said: "Your side Since you call yourself Haihan, it is said that your country is on the mainland thousands of miles away, I don’t know where this Haihan country is, can Mr. Ning point it out for me?"

Ning Qi glanced at the map, and conveniently drew in the entire North America on the other side of Taiping: "This whole area is the territory of my Haihan."

"But why are the words America and Canada marked here?" Li Nai looked at the land on the map that was much larger than the territory of Ming Dynasty, and asked in puzzlement: "Is this the name of the country?"

Ning Qi smiled and said: "Oh, these two countries have already become history. When we Haihan founded the country, these two countries had already been wiped out. It's just that the map has not had time to correct it."

Ning Qi's words were not too fallacious. From the moment the time-traveling group came to this time and space, it was almost doomed that Canada and the United States would not appear in the long river of history again.Although the "Mayflower" had already brought the first group of immigrants to North America to establish settlements in 1620, it was not until the shooting of Lexington in 1775 that it marked the start of the American War of Independence.The founding of Canada was more than half a century later than that of the United States. For the time-traveling group that is full of ambitions to achieve the goal of "there is only one China in the world" in this time and space, these two regions probably will not have the opportunity to survive. Independence—a few years before that, the regime established by the Traversing Group must have already set foot on the territory of North America.

(End of this chapter)