1825 My New Daming

Chapter 241 Daming Poor, Why Are You Fighting? (Please subscribe, please collect)
"Woooo."

When the piercing battle alarm sounded, Sergeant Lu Benwei, an observer who had worked in the Ming Navy for eight years on the mast plate of the Cao Guogong armored cruiser, was a little dazed.

He is just a farmer from a remote small county in Yunnan, because the land in his family is already the minimum size of the family farm according to the provisions of the "Equal Field Order" and "Field Limit Order" (the land limit has not only an upper limit, but also a lower limit). The share cannot be split, so it must be inherited by his elder brother.But he could only "ask for land" from above after graduating from junior high school, and at the same time join the army as a soldier, becoming a sailor.

And the reason why he wants to be a soldier is not to make meritorious deeds, that's what low-level officers from civilian backgrounds daydream all day long, and he didn't even think about it when he was a soldier.In the Ming Army, it was very difficult for a soldier to be promoted to an officer. No matter how good a soldier was, he could only be promoted to a first-class sergeant major.Lu Benwei is also very interested in being a first-class sergeant major. His purpose of joining the army is just to "ask for a share of the land".

The so-called "request for land allocation" means that the state grades the children of Ming farmers who apply for land. Those with high scores can be allocated land first, and those with low scores are sorry. I am afraid that there will be no land for life.

Of course, having no land to distribute doesn’t mean that the country doesn’t care about it——Zhuge Wuzhong Wang, an “idealistic” traveler, has already drawn rules for his descendants.If due to the large population, the dictation of land as stipulated in the "Equal Land Order" cannot be implemented, then the imperial court will help the Ding Nan who "asked for the land" to purchase real estate in the city.Don't think about a good location in the center of a big city. Generally, a small piece of land is allocated near the suburban satellite city of a big city or the industrial zone of a newly industrialized city, and the young men pay for the house by themselves.

So now in the suburbs of large and small cities in New Daming, there are many neatly planned towns, all of which are built with single-family two- or three-story Chinese-style small buildings.The people who live there are not rich people, but poor workers who have failed to find land, and finally have to go to the periphery of the big cities to take a piece of land to build a house.

Throughout their lives, they have two cars in one small building (the car has just been invented and has not yet become popular, but there will definitely be one in the future), one wife and two or three children.Well, in the imagination of the citizens of the new imperialist Ming Dynasty, a poor person is only as poor as this.If you want to be poorer, you have to change to a Japanese wife who is better at living.
However, Lu Benwei is more motivated and unwilling to be a poor worker. He prefers to be a rich peasant with a family farm. To become a rich peasant, there are generally only two ways, one is to earn points.Now the Ming court still has a little land to share, but it is already very precious, so ordinary people can't get it, and they have to serve the country for a few more years to earn enough points.In addition, you can also earn a lot of points by studying hard and taking an agricultural college entrance examination.But Lu Benwei's studies were relatively poor, so he couldn't get into the Agricultural College.So being a soldier is the only way for him to earn points.

In addition to earning points, you can also go to a vassal state or go to the frontier "no man's land" to become a rich peasant.But that requires a lot of capital, and the risk is also high. If you don't do it, you will lose all your money and become "poor among the poor".At that time, even Japanese wives will not be able to marry.

So Lu Benwei became a soldier.Because he has very good eyesight, a quick mind, and a quick learner, he was assigned to the navy as an observer.There are only two main tasks, one is to use a telescope to look around at sea; the other is to use a stereoscopic rangefinder that looks a bit like a bamboo pole placed horizontally at first glance to measure distant islands, ships and the warship where you are. s position.

There is nothing important about his position at ordinary times, except that there are a lot of assessments, but when it comes time to start the battle, whether the artillery can be fired accurately or not depends first on his observation level, and then on the "babacus soldiers" in the gunnery bridge Is the abacus well played?

But Lu Benwei didn't understand at all that he was sitting on the armored cruiser, looking at the scenery of the Indian Ocean, thinking about the happy life of being a "big rich farmer" after earning full points, why is he going to war all of a sudden?
Also, what happened to the Ming Kingdom in the past two years?Why do you fight with people at every turn?The last time there was a war in Japan for no reason. The newspapers said that a small group of Japanese careerists created troubles in the Kii Waterway in an attempt to provoke a world war between the Ming Empire and the British Empire, so that they could take advantage of the chaos and seize The story of the sinister purpose of the Japanese regime seems a bit fake!
And the result of that war, in Lu Benwei's view, was that a large number of officials were promoted for their meritorious service, and the prices of Japanese brides and Japanese girls increased by [-]% to [-]%!
This time it was even more inexplicable. I traveled all the way to the Indian Ocean to fight with people!
Is there someone in India who wants to make troubles to provoke a world war between Ming and Great Britain?

Just when Lu Benwei was astonished by the inexplicable outbreak of war, the alarm sound in the loudspeaker beside him suddenly stopped, and then the voice of Captain Lei Teng came: "Everyone , I am Lieutenant Colonel Lei Teng, the captain of Cao Guogong, and the battle is about to begin. I hope that each of you will fulfill your duties in this battle, win victory and glory for our empire, and win great military achievements for yourselves! Long live Daming, Long live the emperor!"

Then a group of bridge officers cheered from the loudspeaker: "Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the Emperor!"

Then, the music of the Ming Empire's national anthem "Song of the Red Turban Army" sounded-of course, this song was composed and written by King Zhuge Wuzhong himself. The tune is impassioned and the lyrics are inspiring.

Lu Benwei, who still didn't understand the sudden war, stopped thinking about it, and started singing along with the music of "Song of the Red Turban Army": "Get up, people who don't want to be slaves."

"Report, nineteen thousand yards away!"

"Eighteen thousand yards!"

"Seventeen thousand yards!"

"Ten thousand."

Following the report of the navigator, the atmosphere in the bridge of the Blake armored cruiser also ignited. After all, the opponent is only eight 8-ton third-class cruisers, not three 3000-ton Blakes at all. The opponent of the class armored cruiser.

Although the Ming Empire is a formidable opponent, today's victory must belong to the British Empire, no, it belongs to the Indian Empire.

Unlike those officers and soldiers of the Ming Navy who didn't quite know why they were fighting, the officers and soldiers of the Royal Indian Navy knew why they were fighting!
The British in the fleet all know that their empire on which the sun never sets is based on victories. Spain, the Netherlands, France, as well as the Indian states, and the barbarians in the New World are all subordinates of the empire on which the sun never sets defeated.And they, the English, can change from the islanders of a wild island in Europe to the people of the richest country in Europe, which is almost equal to the people of the Eastern Celestial Kingdom in terms of per capita income and living standards. victory!
If they can defeat Ming Dynasty, then their empire will become the number one in the world, and they will follow suit to reach another level!

As for the Indians in the fleet. Most of them are of the Kshatriya caste and were born in the family of Chamindar landowners.They are quite satisfied with Emperor William's rule, and they all think that Emperor William will definitely make their India great again!
Well, India is great now!He is not only the eldest son of Great Britain, but also the master of the Indian Ocean, with the second largest GDP in the world, second only to Ming Dynasty.

As long as we work harder and defeat Ming Dynasty, India will be truly number one in the world, then the 19th century will be the century of India!
"Thirteen thousand yards!" cried the navigator at the top of his voice. "It's thirteen thousand yards, sir!"

Colonel Jervis nodded heavily: "Okay! Now the left rudder is full! We are going to pass in front of the enemy's line. May God bless us, may God bless Emperor William and the Indian Empire!"

(End of this chapter)