Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 488 Drive away the red-haired ghost

At this time, Ming has no threat in the north, so the center of gravity of the empire can move south, continue to develop the ocean strategy, and use the advanced productivity and production methods of Ming to compete for ocean resources.

As early as the summer of the 17th year of Tianqi, when Zhu Youxiao convened a meeting of the Ministry of War, he put forward the instruction to streamline the marine army, that is, to eliminate a large number of guard soldiers, and even gradually abolish the outdated guard system, which will become a reality It is a kind of liberation for these guard soldiers that a large number of peasants and civilians in the army are directly converted to civilian registration, which can prevent them from being exploited by the upper-level officers as tenant farmers.

Of course, this will definitely touch the interests of many officers and landlords, making it impossible for these guard officers who have lived by drinking the blood of soldiers all year round to continue to live like parasites by exploiting guard soldiers.

It may even lead to mutiny in the army. Some guard officers took the opportunity to confuse the soldiers to make trouble. However, the current Daming is no longer afraid of mutiny. After all, the main military force now is the Imperial Guard and no longer It's these guard soldiers, as long as these guard soldiers make trouble, if the situation is small, they can be appeased directly with money and food, and if the situation is serious, they don't mind using the army to destroy them directly.

In short, no matter what, from now on, the Ming court at this time has enough ability to completely eradicate the cancer formed by the guard system that has adapted to this era. It will no longer be possible. As a Ming Empire that is about to transform into a trust empire, it is impossible to allow so many laborers to continue to feed a group of parasites.

In order to increase the speed of Ming's internal production of social wealth, it is not enough to rely solely on scientific and technological innovation and progress. With the production method of the first opportunity, under the large-scale production mode, more labor is still needed to realize the theoretical The transformation of knowledge and experimental results and social wealth, and then make the production economy of the entire Ming Dynasty more active.

If you want to realize that every common people in Ming Dynasty can have clothes, food, houses and houses, men can afford a wife, and women don’t worry about not being able to get married, then every labor force must not be idled or wasted. The population has reached [-] trillion. This huge base should not become a burden to Daming society, but should become a resource of Daming, one of the most powerful advantages, and the value of every Daming person must be reflected.

Therefore, we cannot allow anyone to be simply exploited by landlords or other exploiters. We must allow everyone to have an advancement space to realize value, and liberate the hands of the guard soldiers and give them sufficient career choices Freedom is the first step to take advantage of the demographic dividend of Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it’s not just that the guard system has been abandoned, a large number of guard soldiers have been abolished, and even the frontier troops and imperial guards have been required to reduce their staff, mainly because some elderly and disabled people will be concentrated and assigned to local areas to transfer to local areas. Administrators or instructors or other positions in the government.

The reason why these veterans and abolished soldiers of the frontier army and the imperial guards are distributed by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is that, after all, both the frontier army and the imperial guards have experienced wars, and they have contributed to the stability and stability of the border defense of Ming Dynasty. The road to expansion has made contributions. The second is that these people have actual combat experience and have certain abilities. If they are left alone, it will be difficult to continue to use their high labor value. Bad guys take advantage of it.

Zhu Youxiao doesn’t have to worry about the mutiny of the soldiers in the guard. After all, these people don’t have much fighting power, but if the frontier soldiers and the Imperial Guards disturb and cause trouble, Zhu Youxiao still has to be afraid, especially the Imperial Guards. Everyone has been exposed to modern military education and training methods. If these people who were dismissed from the imperial guards are used, sometimes it is difficult to guarantee that they will not form a powerful force that challenges their own throne.

Moreover, many officers of the Imperial Guard have received systematic education from the Royal Military Academy. Many of these officers themselves are well-versed in both civil and military skills. In Daming, where illiteracy is still at a relatively high level, these officers can even be directly regarded as It is used by local officials, so it may be a waste to just let him be a worker or a farmer. Of course, there are many people who are tired of the secular world and want to work hard, but those are voluntary, and the court does not encourage them. No objection.

From the 17th year of the Apocalypse to the 18th year of the Apocalypse, the first batch of large-scale abolition of infantry in the entire Ming Dynasty has reached more than 180 million (because many guards have the problem of empty pay, so the abolition of officers and soldiers may not be so many).

Although the infantry and cavalry are being abolished in large numbers, the entire navy and flight battalion are still increasing greatly, especially the size of the navy.

The current Ming Dynasty has not yet entered the era of electrification, and cannot manufacture electric motors, so the flying battalion still cannot become an independent military branch, the air force, and it can only assist the infantry and cavalry in combat with the navy.

Therefore, the expansion of the flight battalion is not much, and the largest number is the navy. This is also related to Ming's policy of vigorously expanding and competing for maritime interests.

Western maritime hegemony began with the plundering of the world by private armed caravans, but later on, it gradually turned into overseas plundering with the state as the main body. strength.

It was precisely because the Ming court had its own sea power that it was able to wipe out the Zheng Zhilong pirates, a huge maritime disaster, and allowed the Ming Dynasty to directly open up sea trade.

And now, Daming even has an overseas colony of Java Island, which serves as a foothold for Ming to compete for the interests of Nanyang.

Since Java Island was occupied by Ming Dynasty, it has basically been completely assimilated by Ming Dynasty. Most of the indigenous residents of Java Island have disappeared. Even if they are still alive, most of them have accepted Chinese culture and learned to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters.

The entire Java Island has successively built several important coastal ports, and even Zhu Youxiao directly ordered the formation of Ming's fourth largest fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, in this area, forming a corner with the South Sea Fleet stationed in Hai'an and Nansha. West can enter Wanwan, threatening the red-haired ghosts who have occupied the southwestern part of Wanwan and established Wanwan City and Chixian City, and the Frang Robots who occupy the chicken coop in the north of Wanwan. Dongke can take back Java from the Red Fangui. Eastern region of the country.

However, this also shows that because the center of gravity of Ming Dynasty's empire is still in the north in recent years, the entire ocean world is still the backyard of the western powers. The special part of the islands on the sea is that some natural good ports are controlled by these Western fans.

But now, the Ming Dynasty has ended the war in the north, and the national power of the empire has taken off again. Zhu Youxiao can free up his hands to compete with these Westerners, at least not let the marine interests of the whole world call these Frangji people He and the red fan ghost were taken away.

For this reason, after Zhu Youxiao abolished a large number of infantry and cavalry that wasted military expenditures, he did not reduce the military expenditures of the empire. Instead, he continued to increase military expenditures, and even added most of the increased military expenditures to Naval construction and ship construction.

Not only that, Zhu Youxiao also specially convened a meeting between the cabinet and the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and decided to start planning how to intervene in the battle for maritime interests in Nanyang.

In the end, Zhu Youxiao still decided to intervene in the struggle for maritime interests in the South China Sea by taking back the bend as the first way. The mouth of the domestic radical conservative.

Zhu Youxiao’s copybooks are already full of memorials saying that he, the emperor, is militaristic. Although Zhu Youxiao has sent many officials who are tougher than duck mouths to go to the west or north for large-scale development or educational support, but still Many people still verbally object to Zhu Youxiao's external expansion.

According to the plan, the public opinion guidance under the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites took the first step, that is, began to let various official media such as "Daming Daily" report on Wanwan, and explained that Wanwan has been an inalienable part of Daming territory since ancient times.

At the same time, Hanlin, who is very knowledgeable, began to cite scriptures to explain why the Wanwan Island next to the Penghu Islands on the southeast coast has belonged to the territory of China since when, and why there were Han officials in Sun Wu during the Three Kingdoms period Admin here.

In addition, while emphasizing that Wanwan Island is the inherent territory of Ming Dynasty and instilling this concept into the consciousness of all classes of people in Ming Dynasty, at the same time, they also began to make these Flangji people and red ghosts from Europa over the years The history of how to gradually encroach on the territory of Ming Dynasty is disclosed in a series, and this is used to arouse the ethnic sentiment in the readers' hearts, as well as the disclosure of the bloody massacre of many indigenous Gaoshan people. The sense of justice of the people of Daming.

The purpose of these public opinion orientations is to lay a mass foundation for the entire Ming Dynasty to regain the Wanwan island in the future, and thus gain the support of most ordinary people.

And everyone knows that once Daming starts to conquer Wanwan Island, it will inevitably provoke a war with the Frangji people and the Hongfan ghosts, which will cause great turmoil in Nanyang.

After all, although Wanwan Island is just a small island, even in this era there are hardly many people, so few people favor this place, but from the perspective of geographical location and military value, this Wanwan Island The city is retreating to protect Fujian, Nanzhili and Zhejiang, etc., and entering can threaten appetite, and even scientific research.

And Zhu Youxiao himself can't just watch Wanwan Island being built castle after castle under his nose by the French robots and the red ghosts, becoming these Westerners who threaten the coastline of Daming and control the entire Daming from entering Nanyang or even going out. Southeast Asia competes for the weight of the entire Pacific Ocean.

But the so-called reciprocity, Zhu Youxiao will not let Daming start a war with the Western factions rashly. After all, these Western factions are not stingy when they pay tribute to Daming, and even because they are afraid of Daming's maritime strength, they are no longer like before. That embarrasses Daming's maritime trade fleet, and even tried to have a direct conflict with Daming. Regarding this, Zhu Youxiao also decided to convey it to these Western fans through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asked them to leave Wanwan Island immediately. Evacuate as soon as possible.

However, what was not unexpected was that these Western fans directly rejected Daming's request for them to evacuate from Wanwan, and the reason for these Western fans is also very simple. Now this is the new continent I discovered, I occupy it, and I am here Owner.

Of course, as the emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao did not intend to be polite. After receiving the news that Xiyang Fan refused to withdraw from Taiwan Island, Zhu Youxiao immediately ordered to start the recovery of Wanwan Island and ordered the East China Sea Fleet to directly enter Penghu Islands, and the South China Sea Fleet and the Ocean Fleet also moved westward, and used this to recover the entire Wanwan Island, and thus allowed Da Ming to better compete for the maritime interests of Nanyang, and could go out, directly extending Da Ming's sphere of influence to the entire The Sea of ​​Japan and even the Pacific Ocean.

However, these Western fans who had already occupied Wanwan did not realize that Da Ming was preparing to take military action because of this. They simply thought that Da Ming might not do anything to Wanwan Island, at most it was just a declaration of sovereignty.

But these western fans obviously didn't carefully investigate the current changes in Daming. They didn't know that Daming had completely turned into a trust empire that was actively expanding abroad, so he never knew that Daming had begun to raise force.

The Wanwan City at this time is a city built by the red ghosts after occupying the southwest of Wanwan, but in the Wanwan City at this moment, it can be seen that most of them are western cultural elements, even the architectural style is the same. They still speak their native language, not Chinese.

Moreover, the entire Wanwan City also showed strong discrimination, but the Wanwan City of Nuoda strictly restricted the entry of the Gaoshan people and the Han people, and even enslaved the children in the Wanwan City, so that many children had been raped by these people. Influence.

However, just when Xiyang Fan thought that Daming would not start the recovery work on Wanwan City not long after he just finished fighting the North, Heiwa had already arrived at Chixian City with the advance fleet, and it was only at this time that aroused The surprise of Western fans.

Only then did these Western fans remember to actively mobilize troops to rescue Wanwan City, and even rescue the Western Fan army in the east of Java Island.

But what these Westerners would not have imagined was that Da Ming had broken their minds. After the ocean-going fleet had already ambushed in Java Island, as long as the Western-style fleet appeared in the east of Java Island, Daming's ocean-going fleet would launch an attack immediately. These Western fleets trying to go to support Wanwan City will try the feeling of being surrounded and rescued.

Of course, what Xiyangfan didn't expect was that the Ming navy's attack speed was very fast, and it successfully occupied Chixian City after a few rounds of shelling. Some soldiers of the red-haired ghost tried to stop the advance of Daming's army with firearms, but obviously their firearms were already gone. There is no advantage.

At the same time, these Western fans, especially the red-haired ghosts, would not have thought that the fleet they came to support had been wiped out, but they hurriedly withdrew from Chixian City and continued to move to other cities on Wanwan Island .

(End of this chapter)