1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 646 The Qing Mission ([-])

On March 1650, 3, Heishan City, Hanzhou.

After a group of officials followed Qi Tian out of the steel plant, everyone was very excited.After more than half a year of experimentation, the crucible steelmaking method was successful.Cut the carburized iron material into small pieces and place it in a closed clay crucible, heat it outside the crucible, the iron material will continue to absorb the carbon in the graphite and melt into high-carbon molten steel, the oxygen in the steel can be removed, and various inclusions can also be removed from the The liquid steel is removed by floating, and the quality of steel (tool steel) is better than all kinds of metal materials at present.

And this means that the current steel production and quality in Qi State will be greatly improved. In the machinery industry, molds and processing tools with better hardness and strength can also be produced with higher quality steel (tool steel), and even Some hydraulic grinders, boring machines, and machine tools currently used on a large scale have also been upgraded, providing a solid and powerful material foundation for the rapid development of Qi's industry.

"After the craftsmen in the steel factory have mastered the crucible steelmaking method, the spies of your polling office must strengthen the security and confidentiality work here to prevent any leakage of secrets!" Cao Ning, the commander of the polling office of Qi Tianchao, ordered.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured. Our polling office will definitely block any technology from flowing out of our Hanzhou mainland. If there is any leakage of secrets, I ask you to apologize to your Majesty." Cao Ning said in a deep voice.

"Industry is the internal driving force for the strength of our country. Leading technology is the foundation for our country's industry to surpass other countries. If our country's industrial technology can continue to lead, in the future, not to mention the Nanyang region, it will be a world power. Naturally, there will be a place for my Qi country." Qi Tian looked sideways at the huge chimneys of the steel plant, and said leisurely: "And what our Qi country currently lacks is only population. But I believe , after tens or hundreds of years of continuous immigration, this shortcoming will be made up sooner or later.”

"This year's immigration season, due to the outbreak of war with the Dutch, the number of immigrants may be slightly less than last year. However, even so, the total number of immigrants is between 3000 and 40. More than [-] people were born, and it is estimated that the population size of our country may exceed [-]." Cabinet Prime Minister Pan Qifeng said with a smile: "Now, we have ended the war with the Dutch and reached a series of business cooperation frameworks. In the future, in In the Nanyang region, there will be no other forces that can prevent our Qi country from carrying out large-scale immigration. With the expansion of our sea transportation power, I believe that the speed of our Qi country's immigration will also accelerate."

"There is no other force in the Nanyang region that can stop us from immigrating, but the ever-changing situation in Ming Dynasty is always a hidden worry." Qi Tian said: "I heard that in the past two years, in order to target our immigration affairs in Daming from Qi State, the Dutch, At the same time, in exchange for the license to trade slaves, they secretly sold a lot of muskets, cannons, and slaves. I am worried that the situation on the entire continent will change unpredictably.”

A large number of firearms were obtained two years ago. If the Qing government started to organize and train firearms units based on this, at this time, it would almost be able to form combat effectiveness.In this way, the hundreds of marines and thousands of self-rescue troops currently deployed by Qi State on Denglai and Changshan Islands may not be able to continue to maintain their superiority in firearms in this area.If one is not careful, he may suffer a big loss.

"Jiannu doesn't have a boat, so it shouldn't be able to threaten the safety of Changshan Island and Denglai." Qi Dajiang said: "Even if we can't hold on in Shandong, they can't do anything to me when we retreat to the sea."

"Don't underestimate Jianu. After all, they occupy most of the world and have huge advantages in manpower and material resources." Qi Tian said: "Moreover, in order to unify the mainland, Jianu is not only good at learning new weapons and tactics, but also They know all kinds of flexibility. Look at them, they even sent a mission to our country to negotiate peace! Do you still think that Jiannu only won most of the world by massacre and looting?"

"...Your Majesty, the enslavement delegation has been in Hanzhou for more than a month. If they are kept in the barracks, it may damage the reputation of Qi." Pan Qifeng hesitated and said softly.

"Could it be that if we treat these envoys who established slaves with food and drink, they will say something nice to us in front of Emperor Shunzhi and Dorgon? Besides, we fought with Jiannu for several years, In their eyes, our image and reputation may hardly change." Qi Tian said nonchalantly.

"Is it going to be detained for a long time like this?" Pan Qifeng didn't quite agree with Qi Tian's statement. Although our Qi country is located in the Hanzhou mainland, we are also immersed in Chinese culture and determined to be a great country in the south. How can we ignore diplomatic etiquette? It is a "barbaric" act of arbitrarily detaining envoys from other countries.

It should be known that more than 1000 years ago, Su Wu, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, was detained by the Huns for 19 years. .

If my Daqi Kingdom detains the enslavement envoys for no reason and let the world know, it will only increase their hatred by seeing me as a cruel and rude barbarian. At the same time, it will make these enslavement envoys famous in the world.

After a month of constant questioning, the whole country of Qi already knew the purpose of the enslavement envoy's visit to Hanzhou.Dorgon asked the Qi State to withdraw all support to the Denglai Yongchu court, and promised not to go ashore to attack coastal towns under the control of the Qing court.

In return, the Qing court will pay Qi State 400 million taels of silver, 5 taels of gold, [-] furs of various colors, and [-] pearls in batches within five years, allowing Qi State to temporarily segregate between Denglai and Liaodong Islands, thought to be used by immigrants.

For the immigrants most valued by the Qi State, the Qing court promised that it would proactively collect more than 3 people every year for the Qi State to transfer back to Hanzhou, and carry out population transfers in Haizhou (now Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province) and Quanzhou respectively.

At first glance, the conditions given by the Qing government are very generous. Not only did they give a lot of money to bribe Qi to stop interfering in the situation on the mainland, but they also took the initiative to help collect immigrants for Qi to use.

But after thinking about it for a while, I feel that the conditions of the Qing court are not as simple as they put forward. The 400 million taels of silver, 5 taels of gold, and a large amount of furs and pearls were not paid to Qi State in one go.Dorgon actually came up with a "mortgage" payment method, and it was limited to five years.

If during this period, the Qing court defeated the Denglai Yongchu court in a devastating manner, and also took advantage of the trend to cut off all the resistance forces in the country, and then unified the world.At that time, a powerful and unified dynasty could not be easily shaken by the small state of Qi.In case they turned their backs and refused to accept the debt, could Qi Guo still take the IOU and go to Beijing to ask Dorgon to collect the debt?At that time, even if warships and marines are dispatched to carry out violent "collection", they may not come back.

Another point is that the Qing government helped you collect immigrants, who knows what you mixed with these people.Hooligans, hooligans, all kinds of criminals, defeated soldiers, rogues... Maybe the Qing court felt that all useless people, or all kinds of burdens in society, were all thrown at you.Take our Hanzhou continent as a place of exile, a place of shelter for all kinds of people.

Finally, there is one more point, Quanzhou is the place where the immigrant population is handed over. You must know that this large seaport is Zheng Zhilong's most important naval base and shipbuilding base.The Qing court listed Quanzhou as the immigration delivery place, clearly trying to provoke the cooperative relationship between Qi and Zheng Zhilong.You see, in order to better accept immigrants, Qi State is going to contact us, Daqing, to attack Quanzhou, and directly attack Zheng Zhilong's core.

Therefore, Qi State scoffed at the conditions given by the Qing court.We have several immigration windows in Denglei, Fujian, Guangxi, etc., which can provide a stable source of immigrants, and we can also select the appropriate type of immigrants. How can you need the Qing court to help collect some unreliable people.

Moreover, some radical officials and soldiers in the Qi State still have a reason that they cannot express, that is, the Qing government cannot successfully unify the world, and it is best to maintain several split regimes so that the Qi State can take advantage of this Chaotic situation, to achieve long-term immigration.

Qi Tian was noncommittal about this. He knew that some local officials and people in Hanzhou, after more than ten years of subtle influence, many people have already had a certain sense of belonging to Hanzhou, and began to combine their own interests with Hanzhou. And broke with the former mother country - Daming.

As the next generation grows up, more and more people will gradually break away from the influence of Ming Dynasty and take Hanzhou as their foundation.Perhaps their affection for Da Ming is only due to their relationship with their parents, and there is only a little sense of closeness, but if they are asked to sacrifice their own interests for Da Ming, and to support and help Da Ming indefinitely, I am afraid that they will meet with fierce opposition.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, it is said that many southern people strongly opposed the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and the restoration of rivers and mountains. They believed that the northern people who fell into the hands of the Jin people were no longer Song people and should not sacrifice their own economic interests for the meaningless Northern Expedition. .

Perhaps, after 50 to [-] years, the majority of people living in Hanzhou will be like those ordinary people in the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition to having a sense of cultural closeness to the former Ming (Mainland), I am afraid that they will completely dissociate themselves from it. The other party is regarded as a foreigner, a citizen of a foreign country.

At that time, whether the local Hanzhou people will support the government to emigrate from Daming (mainland) at any cost is probably unknown.Instead of spending a huge amount of money to immigrate from Daming at a huge price, it might be more popular to subsidize the money and goods to the local people and improve the living standards of the local people.

Of course, at this stage and for a long time to come, immigration is Qi's basic core strategy.Qi Tian also believes that this policy will be unswervingly implemented in his lifetime.But after a hundred years, no one can guarantee whether this policy will change.Therefore, many radical "Imperial Han elements" hope that the Ming Dynasty will continue to be chaotic. In the shortest possible time, large-scale immigration can be carried out continuously from it, and the mainland of Hanzhou, the Nanyang Islands, and those newly discovered territories , fill more Han people.

"When the immigrant fleet returns to Daming in June, let those enslavement envoys go back with them." Qi Tian thought for a while, and then said: "However, before they leave, arrange a large-scale naval and military exercise, let these gangs Jiannu has seen the might of our Qi State."

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"Are you Erjitu from Tala's family?" Tong Guoning's eyes widened, looking at the Qi State officer in front of him, who was dressed in a blue and black military uniform and had a tiger beard on his face.

"That's right. Lao Tzu is Erjitu from the former Tala family. In the seventh year of Chongde (1642), he was captured by Qi State in Jinzhou, and then traveled all the way across the ocean to Hanzhou. However, now Lao Tzu changed his name to Ji Tu. Now he is a deputy battalion commander of the cavalry regiment of the Daqi Kingdom, leading his sons to explore the inland of Hanzhou, and sometimes they also beat the natives."

"You...you have surrendered to Qi?" Tong Guoning had an expression of disbelief on his face.

"If you don't surrender, why are you still dying for the Aixinjueluo family?" Ji Tu sat down imposingly, looked at the dry cakes, dried salted fish and a large pot of corn paste on the table, and couldn't help but be amused, " Are you offending all the men in our barracks? I’ll feed you some pig food! Xiao Han, go and get some good wine and meat, I’m going to entertain the folks from Liaodong today!”

Hearing this, a young cavalryman following behind saluted Ji Tu, then turned around and left.

The Great Qing Dynasty made Wang Weichang look at this former Eight Banners officer and soldier with doubts on his face. He was both shocked and somewhat strange that there would be a bannerman surrendering to the enemy.The Eight Banners, which are known as loyal, brave and good at fighting, will also be surrendered to others?
"Are you a child of the Tong family? Tong Yangzhen? Or Tong Yangxing?"

"My ancestors taboo about nurturing the truth, and my father taboo about the year of Beijing."

"I heard that Dorgon of Aixinjueluo's family led you into the pass, planning to seize the world that once belonged to the Ming Dynasty?"

"My Qing Dynasty entered the customs six years ago, and now it has swept the world, and unification is just around the corner."

"Not necessarily so." Ji Tu smiled, "Our Daqi Kingdom's meddling will probably create a lot of obstacles for you, and it will be difficult to defeat other separatist forces, right?"

"Therefore, the Qing emperor and the regent sent me to Qi State to realize normal diplomatic relations between the two countries and to repair them forever." Wang Weichang interjected.An idea came to his mind, to see if he could get some internal information of the Qi State through this former Eight Banners officer and soldier.This person has surrendered to the Qi State for nearly eight years, and he is still a middle-level officer in the Qi Army, so he must know a lot about Hanzhou.

"It's useless." Ji Tu glanced at the Han official, and then said, "Our Qi State will not allow the Aixinjueluo family to occupy Daming and unify the world. Otherwise, where will we get the population?"

"As long as the Qi State stops supporting Denglai Yongchu's hypocrisy and stops harassing the coastal towns of our Qing Dynasty, our Qing Dynasty will naturally help to collect the population they need and hand it over to them."

"Our country of Qi has ships and soldiers, so why do you need to help us collect immigrants?" Ji Tu said disapprovingly, "In my opinion, as long as our country of Qi interferes, the Aixinjueluo family will never be able to calm down the rebellious forces along the coast. The reporter said, how many eloquent Jurchens in Liaodong dare to swallow the whole world? Dorgon, a yellow-mouthed child, is too greedy?... At that time, it may be a catastrophe for the entire Jurchen clan!"

"Hmph, if you have demoted the Qi people, this ass will naturally sit on his chair!" Tong Guoning heard the other party call the regent by his name, but without respect, he was dissatisfied, "Don't think that you are the only one in Qi who has a lot of firearms. There are quite a few guys in the hands of the men of the Eight Banners. When the time is right, it will be easy to push Denglai and destroy the hypocrisy of Yongchu. It is to drive all your soldiers stationed along the coast into the sea It’s just a matter of time to go!”

"Oh, your firearms unit can be used in actual combat?" Ji Tu asked thoughtfully, "When are you going to do it?"

(End of this chapter)