Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 205 What is a reactionary dictatorship?

If it is said that the difficulty of driving the Dutch is very low.

Then the power of the Spaniards entrenched in the Philippines is relatively stronger.

"Your Majesty, the city of Manila is now a fortress city. The Spaniards have greatly strengthened the defense of Manila through the route from Manila to New Spain. In addition... they have also formed a fast offshore fleet to defend Manila. The main It uses a paddle ship improved from the Calaisian battleship, although it cannot sail far, it is extremely fast, and it is very difficult to fight in offshore and port areas when equipped with bombardment guns."

Luo Jiangong said.

The Calaisai battleship is actually a kind of warship called a centipede ship in the East, and it is mainly used in combat in the Mediterranean where the wind and waves are not strong.

The multi-layer oar seat adopted can provide extremely strong maneuverability to the boat by hundreds of people paddling.

"Ironclad ships can be used to deal with it." Zhang Hong, Minister of the Admiralty, said, "But the key to the problem lies in New Spain's Pacific Fleet."

"They haven't appeared in Manila yet." Luo Jiangong also frowned.

"Maybe it will be broken in the middle of a storm." Zhao Wen, the prefect of Guangzhou, said.

"No, no, no, I can't make this estimate." Zhang Hong shook his head again and again, "If New Spain's Pacific Fleet got the news of the defeat of the British in the Indian Ocean, it might not come to Manila again, but become a ruined ship in the Pacific Ocean." Hand over to the fleet to stop our exploration ship going to the New World."

Zhu Daohua frowned slightly upon hearing this.

"This is indeed a trouble, but it's nothing serious." Zhu Daohua said, "The Nanyang Fleet doesn't have to wait any longer, give the Spaniards an ultimatum, let them exchange Manila with a Pacific route map, otherwise their Manila Governor's Palace will have more fortresses I can't keep it either!"

Of course not.

Luzon is so close, all the Spaniards in Manila can be starved to death as long as Daming sends a large army to surround it.

The New World has always been one of Zhu Daohua's most concerned places. After obtaining a route from Japan to Hawaii, the route from Hawaii to the surrounding area of ​​Vancouver in later generations can be explored soon.

If I could get my charts from Manila to New Spain.

Then Daming can march to the New World from the north and the south.

Establish a trading port and use the land of the New World to attract poor people who have no food and clothing in Han to settle in the fertile soil of the New World.

This is a top priority related to the stability of the new Ming regime.

Because the Ming and Qing battles did not form a seesaw in the Han area.

Moreover, Emperor Zhu was avoiding the tug-of-war as much as possible. The Ming army's offensive was usually a quick blow to seize the critical moment.

Greatly avoided the population loss caused by the war.

So the two years of war came down.

Although there were some population losses-mainly caused by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's coercion operations in northern Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and other places.

But in the densely populated Guangdong and Guangxi, Hunan Jiangxi, Liangjiang, Huainan and other places.

The impact of the war is relatively small.

So the new Ming Dynasty is actually a dynasty built on the body of a not-so-damaged Qing Dynasty.

In fact, many of the social conflicts in the Qing Dynasty will fall on the head of the Ming Dynasty.

With a large population and little land, the people's ability to withstand climate disasters is extremely low.

This is the number one threat to every feudal dynasty, even more powerful than the nomads outside the pass.

Because in general.

As long as the Central Plains dynasty can maintain basic financial health, and at the same time, it does not encounter the abnormal era of unprecedented strength of nomadic peoples like the Song Dynasty.

The standing soldiers of the Central Plains Dynasty are generally able to hang and beat nomadic herdsmen who have no food and clothing.

The number one enemy that destroyed the financial system of the Central Plains Dynasty was the emergence of a large number of landless peasants who were unable to resist climate disasters due to land annexation.

Once a disaster occurs, these farmers can only leave the land and flee famine for survival.

Accompanied by refugees, uprisings, continuous wars and the destruction of agricultural production.

As a result, the foundation of the Central Plains Dynasty was gradually hollowed out.

finally.

Or destroyed by the peasant army.

Or people from outside the pass entered the pass to pick peaches.

Or the internal military leaders formed a warlord separatist situation, fought for a hundred years, and then met the "Lord of Destiny" to rule the world.

Boss Zhu knows very well that if the problem of overpopulation and too little land is not solved, then his Ming Dynasty may self-destruct one day.

Therefore, after he became emperor, he put more emphasis on how to alleviate the domestic population pressure than the Ming and Qing battles.

The approach is actually multi-pronged.

The first is to vigorously promote industrialization.

Industrialization can absorb a large number of people, and it can also transfer the country's financial pillar from agriculture to industry and commerce through industrialization, so that it will not encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters. Agricultural production will collapse, and the imperialists of the Ming Dynasty will have no military pay to fight.
The second is immigration.

Now there are two directions of immigration.

One is to immigrate landless peasants from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian to Borneo and Java.

This is because the people of these two provinces have a tradition of traveling to Nanyang and are relatively adaptable to the Nanyang climate. Now that there are broad-spectrum antibacterials such as garlic medicine, the population loss caused by the immigration process is relatively small.

Going to Nanyang is no longer a desperate gamble like before.

Instead, there was an imperial court organization, which issued muskets, trained troops, and went to colonize in the form of a military settlement.

The other direction is Liaodi.

The Qing government's policy of closing the wicker wall outside the customs and the policy of plundering the aboriginal people of Manchuria as soldiers made this vast Liao land unprecedentedly barren.

It has become a farming paradise that can absorb a large number of people.

The people who immigrated to the Liao region mainly absorbed the landless people from the Central Plains, Lianghuai, Shandong and other places nearby.

But whether it is Nanyang or Liao, in fact, in Zhu Daohua's opinion, there is no need to worry.

Because this place is right next to Daming's mouth.

It can be eaten anytime.

The key is the New World.

The current situation in the New World is that the United States has just become independent, and the Canadian colonies of Britain and the United States are not as "friendly" as they were in later generations, and the two sides are at war.

Although New Spain has strengthened its power in New Spain because of the rise of Ming Dynasty, Spain is already an old empire that is as thin as the west.

Not enough to worry about.

Europe is now about to fight big again.

The old colonial countries in Europe also ignore the Americas for the time being.

Whether it is Britain or France, in the next ten or twenty years, they will shrink their power back to Europe and die.

After the baptism of Emperor Zhu, Nahuang will definitely be better than the Nahuang of later generations when he returns to France.

Although Boss Zhu was also worried that Nahuang would really play a unified Europe.

But after careful measurement.

Emperor Zhu also believed that compared with the chance of occupying the New World, even if Nahuang could really unify Europe, it would be worth it!
Can Europe really be united?
Perhaps Napoleon could temporarily hold Europe together by force.

But what about when his strength weakens, or when he dies?

The probability of the unification of Europe is very small, and it is the tradition to split into small and fragmented countries.

So Zhu Daohua thinks the risk is worth taking.

When Napoleon returns to Europe, the brains of European dogs will be played out in the next ten years.

Occupy as much territory as possible in the New World.

When the Europeans react in the future and want to compete with Ming Dynasty for the new continent.

At that time, Ming Dynasty had enough population available in the New World.

Now every time a ship of immigrants is transported to the New World, in the American War 20 years later, Ming will have a better chance of winning.

Therefore, for Emperor Zhu, if the Spaniards can be forced to hand over the route map from Manila to New Spain at the cost of temporarily not moving the Luzon Island on his lips, it will save the Ming Dynasty the time and money it would take to explore the route by itself. In Emperor Zhu's opinion, the cost is definitely worth it.

After arranging the Nanyang Raiders.

Zhu Daohua left Luo Fangbo to finish the meal with Luo Fangmei, who had a big belly again.

Luo Fangmei's current position is unprecedentedly stable.

This stability is backed by two legitimate sons.

Now Boss Zhu has quite a few heirs.

For example, the Princess Wengzhu sent by Annan and Myanmar can be produced.

In addition, there are wealthy families in China who sent women into the palace.

However, according to the etiquette, only the sons of the Ming dynasty are eligible to inherit the throne.

Even if the queen has no heirs, she can only adopt one prince to the queen's name as a legitimate son to inherit the throne.

But Luo Fangmei didn't need it.

In addition to the crown prince Zhu Yichi, the third son of the emperor Zhu Yixian is also a legitimate son.

Moreover, the two-year-old prince Zhu Yichi is in good health. He is a tiger-headed tiger-brained man, and he eats a lot of meat.

The third child, Zhu Yixian, showed no signs of dying either—Emperor Zhu himself was a doctor. In fact, the key to reducing the infant mortality rate lay in hygienic conditions.

And after giving birth to the eldest and third child, Luo Fangmei became pregnant again without stopping.

She can really be regarded as the "hero mother" of the Ming royal family.

Until now.

Emperor Zhu already had five sons, of which Luo Fangmei contributed two, Shi Xianggu gave birth to one, Tokugawa Manji also gave birth to one, and the other was born to Ruan Yue, the lord of the Xishan Dynasty.

At once, five sons were sown.

In addition to leaving one to inherit the throne of Ming Dynasty.

The others must be arranged.

After all, Emperor Zhu did not intend to learn from Taizu and raise the royal family like pigs.

Instead, we must learn from King Wen of Zhou and entrust his heirs and nobles.

Xia Junyi people.

Since there is a set of enfeoffments, the American territory is the most suitable.

Entrusted to the Americas, in the future Zhu Fatty Emperor Zhu Yichi will not have to worry about his son's throne being taken away by some uncle - if he is still persecuted across the Pacific Ocean, then he really deserves it.

And it can also allow all the sons to have a share of the throne to inherit, and there is no need to complain that the emperor's old bean treats one more than another.

But the problem is.

All the sons of Emperor Zhu were young.

And the window period for opening up new continents is the 20 years.

Now let the princes go to the New World not to expand the territory, but to die.

But if the colonization of the New World is started now, and a governor is installed, then the future will most likely be as independent as the United States is now, and the hard-working American territory may have nothing to do with the old Zhu family.

It's really embarrassing.

Of course, Emperor Zhu had selfish intentions. If such a good site would be like the United States, it would become a republic of gun-toting mobs.

That's really not reconciled.

What is a reactionary dictatorship (tactical retreat).

Therefore, the reason why Emperor Zhu has not started the colonization plan of the New World for a long time.

The key is that.
He hasn't thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

(End of this chapter)