The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 758 Let the Heroes Check the Heroes

Mo Zibu took a newly invented Jun'en revolver and looked at it carefully. This was brought back by Mo Zhouzhen from Beihezhou.

The emperor loaded the bullets one by one very skillfully, and then fired six shots in succession at a distance of fifty meters in the shooting range of the imperial garden of the palace, and then fired six shots again at a distance of twenty meters.

Then, Mo Zibu knew the reason why the Ministry of War was unwilling to purchase.

The accuracy is too low. Fifty meters is just random shooting. Only experts can control the unpredictable trajectory. Only at twenty meters can it be considered relatively accurate.

The killing power was not enough. Mo Zibu hit the target with a bullet from 50 meters away, but it only penetrated the cloth armor, and the pork tied inside was basically not damaged.

If it were a human, he would probably only be slightly injured and would definitely not lose his combat effectiveness immediately.

As for ranges above 20 meters, it's still okay, but it probably triggers blood rage, and the battle can still continue for a short while. It can't achieve the effect of a rifle, which can make a person lose their combat effectiveness even if it hits the abdomen or thigh at 20 meters.

At the same time, this guy likes to get stuck. When Mo Zibu wanted to play the third round, the wheel got stuck.

The last reason, and perhaps the biggest reason, is that it is expensive, too expensive!
These are all iron-cased bullets, and about twenty bullets cost one silver dollar. If this is popularized in the military, mountains of gold and silver will not be enough.

Mo Zibu picked up a still warm bullet shell from the ground and turned to ask the Minister of War Zheng Huaide.

"What's the current price? Can Shenzhou Chixian, Nanyang, Dongyang, Anxi, and Beihezhou all produce it?"

Zheng Huaide was born in Mingxiang. When Mo Zibu entered Jiading, his father Zheng Qing abandoned his family and career to join him. He once held the high position of Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang, and only retired in recent years due to health reasons.

"Your Majesty, except for the Red County of Shenzhou, there are no factories that can mass-produce this product. Although it can be made by ordinary people, it is entirely handmade and the price is high, so it is not popular.

Therefore, the current production is carried out by the Fuxing Arsenal and several arsenals directly under the Ministry of War.

If calculated in silver dollars, one silver dollar could buy about twenty-six or twenty-seven coins in Jiangnan and Guangxi, and at most twenty coins in other places, and even less than twenty coins in Anxi, Northwest, Northeast and Nanyang.

It’s a bit more expensive in the East, only fifteen coins are available, but if you go to Beihezhou, you can buy ten coins with one silver dollar, which is a bargain.”

This is really expensive!

Just now, if Mo Zibu had fired those sixteen shots, it would have cost more than one silver dollar in Beihezhou.

If you save this money, it is enough for an adult to eat for fifteen to twenty days, even in Nanjing. Converted to later times, it would be around one thousand yuan.

With this calculation, this is not a revolver, it is a money-eating beast.

"It's so expensive, why do the people of Beihezhou like this thing so much?" Mo Zibu asked Mo Zhouzhen with a smile.

This revolver was actually not the idea of the eldest son Asen, but Mo Zibu's own memory. He drew a picture for fear of forgetting it. He originally wanted to find a place to experiment with it, but Asen saw it and volunteered to take on the task.

"Of course they like it, because no matter how valuable silver and money are, they are not as important as life. Xinhua people often say that if you lose your silver, you can go to the river to dig for it, but if you lose your life, you can only cry in the underworld." Mo Zhouzhen said with a smile.

"Besides, if we kill the enemy, we can probably find a piece of gold or silver on him. Besides, we can pick up the bullet casings, which can at least make up for the loss."

Mo Zhou was laughing while speaking, but Mo Zibu was already a little serious. He could hear the uneasy feeling in Mo Zhouzhen's words.

"Ye Mingyue, get in here!" Mo Zibu pretended to be angry. Well, he was indeed a little angry when he shouted.

A few seconds later, the big man who controlled the military power in Beihezhou and could shake the country three times with just a stomp of his foot, the dignified Guiyuan Earl Ye Mingyue, came crawling in.

Just as he was about to kneel down to pay his respects, Mo Zibu kicked him, making him stumble. "Why are you kneeling? This isn't a grand court meeting. Stop pretending to be scared!"

Ye Mingyue then climbed up as if he had been pardoned, and the stone in his heart fell to the ground. It seemed that the emperor was not going to pursue the crime of transporting the prince to Beihezhou.

As his mood lightened, his mind became more active, and he immediately began to flatter the emperor, "Your Majesty's kick was powerful and powerful, and you are as majestic as ever!"

Mo Zibu waved his hand dismissively at him, "Stop the flattery. Let me ask you, do the people of Beihezhou find it difficult to fight the Jurchens of Hezhou?"

This is the problem that Mo Zibu felt from Mo Zhouzhen's answer, because when the people began to worry about their lives instead of their silver dollars, it meant that the pressure from the external environment was still very great.

"Your Majesty, the army is not struggling. The Jurchens of Hezhou do not know how to form military formations. They attack in a swarm and retreat in a swarm as well. Therefore, any army of more than 300 can easily defeat an enemy ten times their size.

But it is still a bit difficult to encounter it among the people.

In the southeast of the Xinhua Grand Commandery, there lived the Hezhou Jurchen Black Mountain and other tribes. These Black Mountain Jurchens were tall, agile as monkeys, ran like horses, and were skilled in using bows and arrows and scimitars. They were extremely fierce whether on the plains or in the mountains.

"A naval captain under my command, Darjab of the Sunite people, said that these people truly have the bearing of the Jurchens north and south of the Xing'an Mountains, and the imperial court should send troops to wipe them out as soon as possible."

Mo Zibu was somewhat shocked. He slowly asked, "Dalzab is saying that these Hezhou Jurchens are as brave as the Jianzhou Jurchens of the past, right?"

"Your Majesty is wise and enlightened. Nothing can be hidden from you. That's what Darzab said. However, I think the Hezhou Jurchens cannot compare with the Jianzhou Jurchens. They may have courage, but they are far behind in other aspects.

Even if it was the Jianzhou Jurchens, I was able to gain considerable benefits and development space by relying on Li Chengliang's strategy of nurturing the enemy and pretending to be submissive and submissive to the Ming Dynasty.

Its subsequent rise, especially during the reign of Huang Taiji, was only possible after it received a large number of firearms, especially artillery, from the Liaodong Army.

Ye Mingyue said slowly, "That's why I didn't report Darzab's shocking words, because the Hezhou Jurchens are far from the level of the Jianzhou Jurchens during the time of Laonu."

"I understand." Mo Zibu nodded. "It's a good thing that you have confidence and can make independent judgments, but you should also organize the information and submit it to me, the Ministry of the Navy, and the Privy Council.

One person's shortcomings are the sum of many people's strengths. War is a matter of national importance, and all matters involving military affairs should be handled with extreme caution."

Mo Zibu knew why. The navy was directly linked to him, the emperor.

Although the navy has developed greatly in recent years, Mo Zibu could no longer afford the subsidies and had to establish the Ministry of Navy and divide some of the jurisdiction out.

But up to now, every naval officer and soldier is still receiving royal allowances to a greater or lesser extent, and everyone considers themselves as the Sea Guards, or even more guard-like than the Guards.

Therefore, when they encountered problems, they were not used to writing to the Ministry of the Navy, let alone the Privy Council and the Ministry of War.

Hmm, Mo Zibu touched his chin. Perhaps, it is time to abolish the Ministry of War and split it into the Ministry of the Army and the Ministry of the Navy.

"I understand. I will conduct a detailed investigation as soon as I return and report all the information." Ye Mingyue quickly apologized and accepted the task.

"Go!" Mo Zibu waved at him, then said to his son Mo Zhouzhen, "You should go down too. There's no need to waste time here. Go back and spend more time with your mother. Tell her what's in your heart and don't make her too sad."

After Mo Zhouzhen and Ye Mingyue left, Mo Zibu called Liang Wengeng, the pacification envoy of the Southern Pacification Division of the Jinyiwei, and Li Jinzhong, the eunuch commander of the Imperial Horse Administration.

In history, Liang Wengeng was a great pirate in the South China Sea. In this time and space, he was selected by Mo Zibu and sent to the French Navy for further studies.

But after coming back, others, such as Chen Tianbao, Mai Youjin, Fan Wencai and others were doing well in the navy, but this guy actually awakened his talent as a spy and joined the Jinyiwei.

The eunuch Li Jinzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Stables, had just returned from Hezhong Province. He had made great contributions this time and would soon be promoted.

"Li Jinzhong, accompany Envoy Liang to the Southern Pacification Office and report to me all the information the Southern Pacification Office has sent back over the years regarding the various Jurchen tribes in Beihezhou."

Liang and Li had a silent conversation. It seemed that the emperor was still worried about Ye Mingyue. It depended on whether Ye Mingyue's future reports were truthful.

Well, it wasn't that Mo Zibu was particularly unsure of Ye Mingyue. Although Ye Mingyue acted without prior approval and shipped the fifth brother, Mo Zhouzhen, to Beihezhou, Mo Zibu could understand. Ye Mingyue had the opportunity to join the core of the navy and rise up the ranks. After all, those with less experience than him, such as Chen Tianbao, were already vice admirals in the navy and commanded a region.

And now Ye Mingyue is only the admiral of a small fleet of the Xinhua Fleet, whose main battleships are only two third-level Fengfan battleships. Compared with Chen Tianbao, who is also a lieutenant general, his prospects and power are much smaller.

This was unreasonable, so Ye Mingyue received compensation in other ways, which was that he would become a vassal in North America in the future and would take over a large piece of land.

Only in this way can more smart people be willing to lose some things and go to Beihezhou to develop colonization.

What Mo Zibu had to guard against was not Ye Mingyue's disloyalty, but that such people were generally very courageous. For example, Ye Mingyue dared to smuggle Mo Zhouzhen to Beihezhou. If this happened in the Hongwu Dynasty, Ye Mingyue's entire family would have had to go to Caishikou.

But Mo Zibu didn't care, because he needed such a daring guy to break some rules and go out to colonize.

The only thing that worries Mo Zibu is that Ye Mingyue has gained so many benefits in Beihezhou, and because she is bold and cares about her own interests, she may choose not to report certain things.

Well, this still seems a bit disloyal!
Mo Zibu touched his chin and pondered for a moment. If it was really what Ye Mingyue sent back, it would be very different from the information sent by the Jinyiwei's Southern Pacification Division's scouts.

Well, Mo Zibu is going to throw his future to Central America. If you can gain a foothold there, the emperor will still grant you land. If not, that's it for your life.

Thinking of this, Mo Zibu stood up again. It happened that Pan Youdu, the chief executive officer of Fuxing Company, was in Beijing. Mo Zibu planned to ask Pan Youdu to send back the information of the Gold and Silver Security Department of Fuxing Bank for a look.

What if what Ye Mingyue said is closer to the truth, and the Jinyiwei Southern Pacification Division and Beihezhou External Investigation Office are just slacking off?

It is always safer to get confirmation from three parties. This is what it means to be an emperor. Once the channels for obtaining information are closed, he will be like a clay Buddha in the Forbidden City, unable to hear or see.

. . . .

Three days later, the reports from the Beihezhou External Investigation Office of the Southern Pacification Division of the Jinyiwei and the Gold and Silver Security Office of the Beihezhou Branch of the Fuxing Bank of the Fuxing Company were all summarized here by Mo Zibu.

There is not much difference between the two, only slight differences in details and emphasis.

Of course, Ye Mingyue hasn't arrived yet, and he is still in the capital. It will take several months or even a year for him to arrive.

After carefully reading the intelligence reports that he had only glanced over before, Mo Zibu suddenly discovered that the Indians living in the areas east and south of the Xinhua Grand Marshal's Office, known as the Heishan, Baihe, and Nanshan tribes of the Hezhou Jurchens, were very unusual.

Their fighting power seemed to be very strong, and their numbers were not small, and they actually looked a bit like the Jurchens to the north and south of the Greater Khingan Range.

Even the report from the Gold and Silver Security Department of the Reconstruction Bank stated that with a little training, these people could be comparable to the Saurons.

The Beihezhou Detective Office of the Southern Pacification Office stated that the Jurchens of Hezhou, including the Black Mountain Tribe and the Southern Mountain Tribe, were tall and extremely strong, while the white Europeans in the Americas were all short and ugly.

This... Mo Zibu was very puzzled. If the Indians were so fierce, how could they be scalped by American cowboys?
Emperor Mo is really ignorant. In fact, it was decades later that the Americans defeated the Indians.

At this time, apart from bullying the Indians on the eastern plains, the Americans did not dare to provoke the Black Mountain Tribe, the South Mountain Tribe, etc. mentioned by Dayu.

This is because the Black Mountain, White River, and South Mountain tribes are none other than the Sioux Indians, who were historically known for their bravery and ferocity and lived in the Dakotas, Iowa, and Montana east and south of Xinhua.

They were the most powerful cavalry on the Great Plains of North America, and were able to defeat American cavalry units repeatedly decades later.

Originally, the Indians did not successfully domesticate war horses, but the arrival of the Spaniards brought them war horses, as well as firearms and modern military knowledge.

This greatly enhanced the fighting power of the Indian Sioux. These warriors in the jungles and swamps were not as weak as their fellow tribesmen in the eastern United States.

At this time, the main food of the Sioux Indians was North American bison. In addition, due to the unique conditions in North America, there was basically no shortage of meat, so they naturally grew extremely tall.

After hundreds of years of hardship in the Middle Ages, Europeans were hungry, cold, and undernourished, and they were all short. It is said that the average height of Napoleon's French army was only about 1.58 meters.

Europeans experienced a rapid increase in height, and it was only after the Industrial Revolution that they began to live a better life.

It was not until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China that their average height began to exceed that of the Chinese people who had lived in a semi-starved state for more than two hundred years during the Qing Dynasty.

The U.S. government was able to defeat the Sioux, but it was not until around 1850 that the Americans' physical fitness was strengthened by the fertile land of the thirteen states, and after the rapid development of industry, percussion guns became popular, and weapons formed a generational gap that crushed the Indians.

But now, the Americans do not have enough power to deal with these Indians in the Midwest who are elusive in the jungles and swamps and have cavalry and flintlock rifles.

Haha, if these Indians are really that easy to deal with, the US government would not have to introduce a policy of scalping for money. Do they really think that American capitalists have so much money that they have nowhere to spend it?

They were forced into this situation and had no other choice but to use this method to make their subordinates fight the Indians with red eyes.

Well, although he didn’t know that this was the Sioux tribe in history, or that Mo Zibu had no idea what the Sioux tribe was, he still realized that his North American colony had encountered a problem.

Although the Hezhou Jurchens' Black Mountain, White River, and Nanshan tribes were completely unable to fight against Dayu's regular army.

However, they could still hide in the mountains and fight guerrilla warfare with Dayu, using their familiarity with the geography to attack Han settlements and destroy factories.

What’s more, these guys are not easy to catch. They run away when you approach them, and come out when you leave.

Currently, the Xinhua Grand Commandery is still in the northeastern part of North America and has not entered the main activity locations of the Hezhou Jurchen Black Mountain Tribe and others. Once it continues to move deeper, the conflict will definitely become more and more serious.

No, we can't let this happen. We must control these Indians.

"Your Majesty, the Anxi Dushisi reports that the Lieutenant General of the Black Banner Army, General Weiyuan, Hailancha, has passed away in Yili. His son, Hai Anlu, has requested to carry the coffin back home."

Hearing the eunuch's report, Mo Zibu stood up with an exclamation.

Historically, Hailancha died of illness in 1793. That was because he had developed a chronic illness during his fight against the Gurkhas with Fu Kangan. The situation was a little better in this time and space, so he lived a few more years.

"Approved. Order the Ministry of War to grant him the same posthumous treatment as an Army General, and order the Ministry of Rites to send personnel to select a site in Beijing for him, and not to bury him back in the Northeast.

He ordered the Anxi Dushisi to immediately prepare a memorial service, and ordered the Imperial Household Department to select a eunuch to go and offer condolences. He also appointed Hai Anlu as the General Protecting the Nation, and awarded him five thousand silver dollars and one hundred pieces of brocade.

Mo Zibu quickly made arrangements. Although Hailancha was a Sauron, he had made many military achievements after joining Dayu and was quite loyal.

Suddenly, Mo Zibu had an idea. He thought of who to send to North America. Since the purpose was to wipe out the Hezhou Jurchens, who were similar to the Raw Jurchens, the Cooked Jurchens would naturally have to take action.

Let Fu Kang'an go to Beihezhou (North America) and let him take the Solon people, Barhu people, Xibai people and others with him.

Well, they alone were not enough. Mo Zibu summoned the Imperial Academy scholars who were waiting to be recruited today and said, "Send an order to the Governor-General of Guangxi, Mo Gongbai, ordering him to select fifty brave chieftains from Guangxi to come to Beijing.

Let Fu Kang'an lead 15,000 troops to Xining, and Luo Siju go to northern Sichuan to recruit Tibetans from the Jiarong area and prepare to march into Qiangtang. After they have dealt with the Gurkhas, they will also come to Beijing immediately.

In addition to sending various Jurchens in the Northeast to Beihezhou, Mo Zibu also planned to transfer 10,000 wolf soldiers from Guangxi.

This is called letting heroes check heroes, and letting good men check good men.

As for the Gurkhas, they have been dealt with in Hezhong, and Mozibu will not tolerate them anymore.

Moreover, we have used the Gurkhas to figure out who has evil intentions in Qiangtang and who is following the central dynasty. We have already got the answer. It is time to wipe them out together.

(End of this chapter)