I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 206 Land Reform Pilot in Southern Liaoning
Chapter 205

The sea battle at this time is like a giant tooth shark facing a dozen whales. Seeing it is an enemy, it will be more or less ominous.However, every time the megalodon opens its mouth, the whale must be bitten bloody.

This is the case with this new type of warship of the Ning Navy. Although it does not have many guns, there are only 24 guns in total, of which there are eight on the left and right sides, four on the front main deck, and two on the second deck. , there are two doors on the rear deck of the stern.Compared with the Europa battleship, which has dozens of cannons at every turn, it is simply not a class.

However, it is such an unpopular battleship, but its firepower is extremely fierce, and the rate of fire of the artillery is also extremely fast. There is no way this is the rate of fire of the rear-mounted artillery. Cannon, used for close-range bombardment.

The rate of fire of the Franc machine is also very fast. If it is equipped with enough sub-cannons, at least in the artillery sequence of the Ning Navy, it can fire [-] shells in about a minute. This speed is placed in the artillery army of later generations. What, but in this day and age, the rate of fire is a bit scary.

"Baga, Lu, doesn't it mean that the navy of the country has been abolished, and even the pirates can't beat it? What's the matter with this warship?"

Morimoto grabbed a guy dressed as a Han Chinese beside him for a long time, and asked in a growl, "Why are you lying to me!"

"I... I don't know... I..."

Before he could finish explaining, Kazubo Morimoto couldn't bear it any longer, quickly drew out his samurai sword and slashed horizontally, the Han man's head floated out in a somersault like a balloon, bringing up a rain of blood: "You My conscience is...broken!"

Although they were retreating quickly, Kazuku Morimoto seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar. They still had thirteen black-tailed boats at this time. It can be said that their strength is still there, but what if they still have strength?The sea to the south is Zheng Zhilong's territory, and they cannot rob it.

Otherwise, those who bought Zheng Zhilong's protection fees would settle accounts with Zheng Zhilong. Zheng Zhilong doesn't care about those small businessmen, but these days, there are no small businessmen who dare to be maritime merchants. They all have huge abilities and backgrounds behind them. Zheng Zhilong can't afford to offend people like him.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's only solution is to kill anyone who dares to cause trouble on his territory, just like Liu Xiang. You must know that Liu Xiang is one of the eighteen Zhilong Maritime Group, with more than 600 ships, including sailors. And more than [-] pirate members.He was also forced to jump into the sea by Zheng Zhilong.

Yang Tiansheng, Yang Liu, Yang Qi, Zhong Bin, and Li Kuiqi, one of the Eighteen Zhilong, were captured alive by Zheng Zhilong, and Liu Xiang was forced to commit suicide. Now the other members of the Eighteen Zhizhi, except He Bin and Guo Huaiyi, have defected to the Netherlands Apart from people, everyone else has turned to Zheng Zhilong. Now Zheng Zhilong is quite powerful, with 20 troops on land and sea, which is more than that of Ning Navy.

Of course, Zheng Zhilong can't do land battles, but it is more than enough to dominate Nanyang.There is no way out in Nanyang, but now there is the Ning Navy Navy in the north of Daming, it is hopeless that they can no longer loot the coast like in the Jiajing period, and in order to buy this dilapidated fleet, he even smashed the coffin into it I owed a whole lot of debt, and fled back empty-handed, and the creditor didn't eat them?

At this time, Li Zhixiang was no longer fighting alone. As a sea trial for a new ship, it was naturally impossible for a single ship to go to sea. In fact, there were more than 30 gunboats behind him. The speed of these gunboats was too slow to keep up.

Following the fierce artillery battle between the new ship and the pirates, these 30 small gunboats followed. Morimoto looked at the more than [-] gunboats chasing after him for a long time, although the distance was too far to see clearly The real size of the gunboat, he is still thankful, this time he survived and escaped quickly, otherwise he would be in big trouble.

At this moment, the warship of the Ning Navy hit the fifth shell, which was a gunboat named "Ma Yun", which was Kato Keshige's direct subordinate black tail boat.

Kato Keshige was lucky, the cannon did not hit the deck, but because of the undulations of the waves, the trajectory of the cannonball in the chamber changed. The cannonball actually flew over the "Ma Yun". About five feet on the deck, that is, nearly one-third of the main mast exploded.

The violent explosion broke the main mast of the Ma Yun, losing two-thirds of the mast, which meant that the Ma Yun had almost lost its forward kinetic energy. If it was normal, it would have little impact. They still have spare masts on board. It's a big deal to put it on.

Now, they have no chance.

Kato was forced to be impatient again. He rejected the retainer's proposal to let him escape in a lifeboat, but ordered: "Fight to the death!"

Because they knew they couldn't escape, if Europa's battleship, they would raise the white flag and surrender, but the problem was that Xiaotian didn't have the habit of surrendering easily.You must know that after the opponents surrendered, Xiao Tian tortured and killed prisoners of war and captives, so they judged others by themselves, and they thought that as long as they surrendered, the end would be extremely miserable.

"Straverse!"

As the main rudder of the Ma Yun began to turn, the Ma Yun aimed its side at the new ship of the Ning Navy, and the ten broadside guns on the black-tailed ship aimed at the new ship of the Ning Navy.

"500 meters!"

"300 meters"

The Ma Yun delivered the most threatening blow to the warship of the Ning Navy, ten artillery pieces fired at once, but it is a pity that these days the pirates did not fire solid shells, but grape shells.

Grape bullets are bundled with a net bag, which looks like a bunch of grapes, so it is called grape bullets.Although the range is not as good as that of solid ammunition, a shot fired at close range can knock down dozens of enemy soldiers in an instant. In naval battles, it can knock down a large number of enemy officers and sailors to achieve the purpose of paralyzing the enemy ship.

These days, pirates aim to capture merchant ships, and they don’t have time to change their bombs. In naval battles, the correct use of grape bullets is to use grape bullets to paralyze the sailors and soldiers on the enemy warship before jumping into battle.

Hundreds of small grape bullets with hundreds of rounds are like shotguns, setting off a wave of wild flying on the new ship of the Ning Navy, making the sails crack and punching out many holes, Ning on the deck Seven sailors of the navy were directly killed in battle, and more than a dozen were injured...

The damage caused by this artillery to the new ship of the Ning Navy is nothing more than this. This artillery made Li Zhixiang and the sailors and soldiers on the new ship furious.

The six three-inch guns on the bow fired a volley, and the six blooming shells fired at a distance of about 250 meters from the Ma Yun. This time, the Ma Yun was unlucky to grandma's house. The orange fireball soared into the sky on the Mayun.

The shock waves of four huge shells tore apart the whole black-tailed boat. With the sound of flames and explosions, the Ma Yun disappeared directly from the sea. Like a volcano erupting.

The Ma Yun exploded and sank, and one of the samurai swords was blown to the new ship of the Ning Navy by the shock wave. Coincidentally, the knife smashed on the bow gun on the second deck like shrapnel, causing consistent heavy damage to the gun barrel, although The cannon left a gap about two inches long and three inches deep.

Li Zhixiang ordered the cannon not to fire. If the cannon was severely damaged, it would be a lot of fun.

The shipbuilding technicians on this new ship recorded: "Never fire within 250 meters, it is easy to cause accidental injury!"

With the sinking of the five small day warships, the morale of Ning Haijun's soldiers was greatly boosted: "Master Li, this gun is so easy to use!"

"Do you still need to say it?"

"Should we apply to Cheng Shuai to replace all naval guns with this type of breech-loading smoothbore gun?"

"it is necessary!"

Li Zhixiang said: "We should also equip some tiger squat guns!"

"Why do you equip that thing? It doesn't hit very far. The infantry don't care about this kind of gun anymore!"

"Infantry is not rare, but it doesn't mean we are useless. If it is done within a range of more than 200 meters, such a guy will be enough for the pirates to drink a pot!"

Li Zhixiang was also very helpless, because the ten shotguns of Ma Yun's guns caused some damage to the sails of the new ship. More importantly, they did not go to sea to fight, but sea trials. Almost exhausted, with the pirates running wild in the small days, they could only retreat with hatred.

However, the gunboats of the Ningjun navy that arrived later began to salvage the young warriors who fell into the water. Not to mention that there are really a lot of warriors in these small days. After half an hour of salvage, more than 400 drowned chickens were rescued on board.

Among them is Kuki Hirotaka, one of Kato's sixteen generals. Kuki Hirotaka participated in the Korean War with Kato Kiyomasa, and during the war, he participated in the Ulsan Bay Naval Battle. At the age of 19, Kuki Hirolong escorted Kato Kiyomasa to break through Overcoming the blockade of the Ming army, he forcibly rushed into Daoshan City and made great contributions.

Now 53-year-old Kuki Hirotaka has a hot temper. The first moment he was rescued on board, he shouted: "I am Kuki Hirotaka, who dares to fight me!"

None of Ning Haijun's sailors can understand the language of Xiaori, but although the language is not clear, but Jiugui Guanglong's arrogant appearance, and his squeaking ghost screams, don't use your head to think, think with your knees, and you know that he has no good words in his mouth .

The soldiers of Ning Haijun were very angry, without further ado, they took a crossbow or a firecracker, and shot at Jiugui Guanglong for a while.

Immediately there was an extra sieve on the deck, yes, he had become a sieve.

Li Zhixiang returned to Lushun Port, only then did he know that Cheng Shijie was looking for him, and he and Shen Shikui hurried to Jinzhou.

And sent the battleship this time, and the sea trial report of the new ship. The sea trial effect of the new ship is still good. This new ship has been unanimously approved by the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy.

Thanks to the results of this naval battle, this new ship was named: "Sea Shark".

Cheng Shijie ordered the Lushun Shipyard to build the first batch of eight Sea Sharks. It's not that he doesn't have the strength to build more, but the artillery can't keep up.

The production speed of the breech-mounted smoothbore guns is not fast. You must know that a Sea Shark-class warship needs to be equipped with 190 two guns. You must know that the artillery of the Ning Navy also needs a large number of artillery, which inevitably caused a land-sea battle.

After the production tasks were arranged, Cheng Shijie noticed that the problem he wanted to solve had already been solved.

"You mean these five ships were made by pirates in the old days?"

"That's right, we captured more than 400 little day pirates!"

Cheng Shijie frowned and said, "What are you doing capturing these dwarfs?"

"Commander, this is what I think. These dwarfs have been living at sea for a long time, and they are proficient in naval warfare. They have been recruited..."

Cheng Shijie didn't like the little pirates, he said directly: "You are not afraid of them..."

"They're not five feet tall, what are they afraid of doing?"

"Most of them are gay..."

"gay?"

When Li Zhixiang understood what a gay is, he immediately shook his head and said, "Throw them all into the sea and drown!"

"They can swim!"

"Tie them a hundred catties of stones, if they can still swim up, count them awesome!"

Cheng Shijie continued: "Are all the black-tailed boats you sank this time?"

"Seventeen ships, all black-tailed boats!"

Shen Shikui smiled wryly: "The black-tailed boat has obvious characteristics, we definitely won't admit it!"

Song Xiance said with a gloomy face: "This is going to confront Zheng Zhilong!"

Cheng Shijie solemnly said: "Don't care about Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Zhihu, the sea is the lifeblood of Liaodong, and our lifeblood can only be in our own hands."

"That's what I said, but the problem is that I'm afraid Zheng Zhilong won't easily..."

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "We need to be strong to strike iron. As long as we are strong enough, Zheng Zhilong will be friendly. If we are weak, then we deserve to be beaten. If we don't want to be beaten, we should practice hard and strengthen maritime patrols. Since Shanghai Bei, if they cross the line, beat the fuck up!"

"Yes!"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "We are seriously short of sea power now, so we will continue to expand the shipyard. It is meaningless to expand the Lushun Shipyard. Eight giant shipyards are enough, so we will build a new shipyard in Donggang, Jinzhou. Like Lushun Shipyard, build eight large docks to ensure that our shipbuilding speed can keep up!"

"The shipbuilding speed can be increased, but the problem is the artillery!"

"The cannon factory must also be expanded, and the artillery will be given priority to the navy!"

At present, for the Ning Navy in Liaodong, Jiannu is not a threat for the time being. The only threat comes from the sea, from Zheng's pirate group.

To prevent Zheng Zhilong from making troubles, we can only arrange for the Ning Navy to patrol and expand the scope of the patrol.If you want to destroy a group of pirates at sea, if you don't have reliable information, you can only hit a dead mouse.

The incident of the pirates also reminded Cheng Shijie that the matter of the strategic grain storage warehouse was imminent. When Cheng Shijie was preparing to establish a strategic grain storage warehouse system in Liaodong, he had to come forward to receive an incident.

This time the person who came to Liaodong was Li Wang, son of Sohyun of Joseon (the original character is Wang, which cannot be typed out).

As the son of Joseon came to Liaodong, Cheng Shijie naturally needed to come out to receive him. After all, Zaiji, he is also the son, with a different status. He accompanied the son of Zhaoxian to play in Liaodong for a few days. I want to purchase Liaodong-style armor and weapons.

For North Korea, the armor produced by Liaodong is not only good in quality and strong in defense, the key is that the manufacturing price is lower than that of their own, especially the defense ability, which is simply incomparable.

Cheng Shijie naturally welcomes door-to-door purchases. To Cheng Shijie's surprise, the purchase of armed equipment is only a child's play, while the larger purchase orders are for luxury goods, such as luxury four-wheeled carriages, silk, gold, and jewelry.

In fact, although there are more than a dozen textile factories of various sizes in Liaodong, which produce woolen cloth, cotton cloth, linen cloth, linen cloth, Gebu, canvas and other fabrics and clothing, they do not produce silk, which is mainly due to the needs of Liaodong. crop-based.

Many people do not know that the sales of products in Liaodong, North Korea have always been good, whether it is porcelain, furniture, and of course luxury four-wheeled carriages. In addition to bridge-type shock absorption and spring shock absorption systems, this carriage also has bearings, Steering mechanism, these devices have some technological content.

The most important thing is that North Korea requires these carriages to use high-quality wood, and to inlay gold, copper, silver and various precious stones on the carriages.Due to the addition of too many luxury goods, such a carriage is actually very expensive. One is as high as 6000 taels of silver, and North Korea purchased fifty of them in one go.

Looking at the wealthy procurement group, Cheng Shijie lamented that North Korea is really rich, or that the Korean royal family is really rich. The strange thing is that they spent 35 taels of silver on purchasing weapons and equipment, but they spent 30 taels of silver on purchasing carriages. Including other luxury goods, the total purchase price is as high as more than 100 million taels of silver.

Then these orders became part of the weapons and equipment. As for the return of North Korean Prince Sohyun to North Korea, how to explain the expensive weapons purchased by North Korea is out of Cheng Shijie's consideration. People spend their own money, and Cheng Shijie can't control it. .

Immigration work is the focus of development in Liaodong, but as the population of Liaodong has exceeded 300 million, especially the land in the four states of southern Liaoning is running out. Most of the immigrant people would rather have land that is not suitable for farming in southern Liaoning than land in Liaozhongwei or Guangningwei.

The problem now is that Liaodong spends too much money, and education needs to increase investment. After the Ninghai Navy expands, it also needs to conduct large-scale joint exercises, as well as road and ditch construction, especially the need to build a new shipyard. , Expansion of new warships, expansion of artillery factories, there will inevitably be a serious gap in funding.

To solve this problem, nothing more than open source and throttling.

However, Song Xiance proposed another method, allowing farmers to solve the problem of farm management by themselves. He proposed that new immigrants can borrow money from the bank, and then buy land from the management committee.

Cheng Shijie frowned: "In this way, the risk of the whole family is on the heads of the people. How can they resist the risk? Now farming, not only need to work hard, but also need to see whether God will give face. When encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, this is not forced. Do the common people hang themselves?"

Song Xiance explained: "What the sect means is that on the basis of all this, it is all voluntary!"

"Voluntary? You won't use coercive means to make the people voluntary?"

In Cheng Shijie's view, this so-called voluntariness is not the real voluntariness of the common people. "Voluntary" under the threat of holding a knife is not only not good governance, but also harmful to the people.

"My lord, among the current immigrants, there are already many self-cultivating farmers and small landlords who want to avoid taxes. They have some savings, and they are not willing to be our military households."

Ningjun’s agricultural reclamation company is responsible for the management of the military households in the fields. The agricultural reclamation company is responsible for providing seeds, farming tools and land, and arranging for the military households to cultivate the fields. [-]% of the proceeds go to the Ninghai’s agricultural reclamation company.

However, with the passage of time, especially when Cheng Shijie severely injured Jiannu, Liaodong gradually stabilized. Living.

Those small landowners have no background, no background, and no tax-free privileges. Ordinary farmers belong to stones and can no longer squeeze out oil. Therefore, these gentry and officials set their sights on ordinary small landowners.

Despite their reluctance, these small landlords could only deal with the low price of their land to gentry with connections and backgrounds. Some small landlords took refuge in their relatives and friends, and had no choice but to go to Liaodong to try their luck.

Now in Liaodong, only military and martyrs own independent land, and private individuals can only buy commercial land, which is neither gravel land nor alkaline waste land suitable for cultivation.

However, the people of Daming are very good at farming, just like Guo Changxi, a businessman in Guide Prefecture, Henan Province. He was originally a cloth merchant, but because he had no background, he was eaten by big fish and small fish. He couldn't hold on anymore and had to sell it The ancestral house and shop came to Liaodong with hundreds of taels of silver.

Last year, there was a bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes in Liaodong. He went with the flow and purchased a batch of milling machines, planning to open a mill to process potato flour.

He bought more than 150 acres of beach land in Kuanhe section, a tributary of the Liaohe River, and planned to build a factory. But the problem was that when he was just about to start construction, he found that more and more mills were being built, and the profits were getting thinner. will lose money.

Guo Changxi found that the soil on the river beach was good, although most of it was covered with stones. Is this a problem?The obsession of the people of Ming Dynasty to farming, not to mention just some stones, even a mountain of stones, if necessary, can be removed bit by bit, so this problem is not a problem for Guo Changxi at all.

Guo Changxi hired some refugees to pick up stones on the river beach, and used the stones he picked up to build a river embankment. In this way, at the beginning of spring, he used 150 mu of commercial land under his name to plant wheat and Crops such as soybeans and corn.

For Song Xiance, Guo Changxi was obviously taking advantage of the Liaodong Management Committee. The commercial land he bought was not used to build a factory, but was transformed into fertile land, especially along the Kuanshui River, where watering is very convenient. Such a meal After the operation, it turned out to be a good farmland.

Guo Changxi's success was immediately imitated by others, some bought swampland in southern Liaoning, and some bought hillside land.

Along the Kuanshui River, it has been transformed into a small town with 6 to [-] acres of fertile land, which has brought an income of [-] to [-] taels of silver to the management committee.

(End of this chapter)