1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2496
What Chen Yixin can think of, in fact, others can think of it too.When the Liaolu Colonial Region was preparing to build an airport in advance, Shi Diwen, who managed the East China Sea Colonial Region, also began to think about the possibility of using airplanes as a means of transportation in the future.

Compared with the Liaolu region in the north, the area under Shi Diwen's rule is obviously more scattered. Jeju Island and Sasebo Bay are both overseas enclaves, and it is difficult to implement timely and effective management across the vast East China Sea.Even though he has always been diligent, it would be nice to be able to visit these places twice a year.

But if we can have more efficient means of transportation in the future, maybe the efficiency of governing these overseas enclaves will be different.So almost at the same time, Shi Diwen also started the plan to build the airport.Moreover, he started construction in three places under his jurisdiction at the same time, and there is one more airport than the Liaolu region in the north.

At the same time, Shi Diwen also asked people to follow up on the development of the aviation project in Sanya, and sent a large sum of money to the Aviation Research Institute, which means that after the project is settled, he can become the first batch of people to buy it. A mass-produced model.

In the spring of 1653, Haihan asked Daming to conduct a new round of negotiations on the division of spheres of influence between the two countries, and the venue was set in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang.

The Haihan side attached great importance to this negotiation, and Tao Donglai and Yan Chujie, two senior military and political officials, went to Hangzhou to attend the talks.

With such a posture, the conditions Haihan wants to raise are naturally not simple.During the meeting, Tao Donglai put forward straight to the point, requesting to divide the river with the Ming Dynasty for rule, and assign all the areas south of the Yangtze River under the rule of the Ming Dynasty to Haihan.

Naturally, the lion's request to open his mouth could not be recognized by Daming, and Haihan's condition was directly rejected.But Haihan has made up his mind at this time, and this meeting is not so much a negotiation as a showdown with Daming.

If Da Ming agrees to the conditions, then maybe there will be another ten years of peace, but as long as Da Ming refuses, then an all-out war will inevitably break out next.

The talks lasted only three days, and the two sides broke up unhappy.However, Haihan had already expected this result, and Tao Donglai and Yan Chujie were not disappointed.

After the talks, they did not return to the south, but stayed in Ningbo, which had become the boundary of Haihan, and personally directed the preparations for the war.

Daming is not unaware of Haihan's changes, but the problem is that the military strength of the two sides is too far apart. Even if he is prepared for Haihan's upcoming military attack, it is still difficult to resist the fierce offensive of Haihan's army.Regarding this point, the local officials knew it well, the imperial court knew it, and so did Emperor Chongzhen.

But they were unwilling to directly raise their hands to surrender, and they still had to resist after all.Many people still took chances, thinking that although Hai Han had uttered harsh words, he might not really launch a full-scale attack.If resistance is adopted, maybe the Haihan people will withdraw their troops on their own after they attack several state capitals and feel that the price is too high.

But what Daming didn't know was that as the people who traveled through ages gradually aged, more and more people lost the patience to continue to wait for the decline of Ming Dynasty, and it gradually became the consensus of Haihan's senior management to seize the world by force.Many people want to see Haihan become a true Eastern Empire in their lifetime, and to seize control of the East Asian continent and complete the replacement of the Ming regime is a milestone goal for the people who travel through.

Under such a general trend, using force to seize the territory of Ming Dynasty became Haihan's top priority.For this reason, the executive committee even suspended almost all foreign expansion plans, and mobilized the armed forces originally deployed in various places to the vicinity of the mainland. Even the garrisons in the Philippines and Xingdao regions were transferred to the north in large numbers, responsible for moving from the Guangdong and Guangxi regions to the mainland. Combat missions for inland advances.

After half a year of preparation, the Haihan army launched an offensive in the autumn of the same year.The war did not break out in a few areas in the south as Daming had imagined, but showed a state of complete victory as soon as it came up.

All coastal provinces except Jiangsu broke out at almost the same time.At the same time, the Haihan Navy, led by the East China Sea Fleet, sailed in from the mouth of the Yangtze River and launched operations upstream to transport the army to attack the cities along the river.

In the first half of the year, the city of Hangzhou, which was used as the venue for negotiations between the two countries, was declared to have fallen only four days after the start of the war.The troops under Shi Diwen bombarded the gate of Hangzhou City with heavy artillery. After the Ming army defending the city only made a symbolic resistance, officials from the Sansi Yamen came forward to ask for surrender.

However, many cities in the south in the front-line areas of the war are not even as good as Hangzhou. As soon as the Haihan army arrived at the city, they chose to surrender on their own.

This is also one of the results of Haihan's infiltration through various channels over the years. The local officials in these cities know that resistance is hopeless, and it is difficult to refuse the olive branch offered by Haihan-as long as they can ensure a peaceful transition in the local area, then in the After Haihan takes over the area, they will still hold official positions in official institutions.

Although he can no longer be the magistrate of the prefecture, the magistrate of the prefecture, and the magistrate of the county, he can still continue to be an official under another name, and Haihan's salary is even more than that of Daming, and he can save his own life, so why not do it?

Daming probably didn't expect that when the war started, there would be cases of people looking down on the wind and surrendering everywhere.The city of Nanjing, which was regarded as the political and economic center of the south by the Ming Dynasty, was declared to have fallen after only five days after the soldiers of Haihan came to the city.

After losing Nanjing, Chongzhen and court officials really realized the seriousness of the situation.Although the Haihan army has not been seen in the capital at this time, the Haihan fleet has been at Dagukou for many days, but it has not made a landing. It is obviously waiting for the time to launch—or waiting for Ming to make a statement.

But at this time, there were different opinions in the Ming court, and the peace-seeking faction believed that the general situation was over, and Haihan should stop the war first, and keeping Guozuo was more important than anything else.The main combat faction believes that Haihan has not penetrated too deep into the interior for many years, and maybe this time he will take advantage of it and retreat on his own.

Chongzhen hesitated, and the timing was delayed again and again. By the end of 1653, Daming had lost nearly half of the territory in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places.Although the situation in the north is better, the sea and Han armies in Liaodong and Shandong have been eyeing them all the time. Daming didn't dare to send troops to the south for reinforcements. Han captured.

But at this time, all parts of the Ming Dynasty saw that the momentum was already biased towards Haihan, and people responded one after another with troops.After all, if you surrender at the gate, you can only be a surrender, and if you raise troops in advance, you can also take the name of the rebel army, and you can get a chance to reward Haihan in the future.

(End of this chapter)