open sea

Chapter 1126 Lonely
It was easy for the Ming army to actually occupy Rio, and the fact that the Brazilian governor was not stationed in Rio was nothing to the Oriental military government.

Now that the military occupation has been decided, it doesn't matter whether the governor is or not.

Most of the quarrels in the world are not terrible, the real horror often exists in the calm creeps and palpitations.

The military drills of the East have spread to North Asia. The land and sea parade was launched in Jincheng, and the aboriginal cavalry recruited by Hulan galloped on the grasslands. The east coast of northern Florida did not need to conduct parade exercises and training. They were simpler and rougher. Send the battle report to Changsheng directly via Mexico City.

In August, October, and November of the eighth year of Wanli, the Changdao Right Guard Banner Army wiped out 270 people who landed and infiltrated on the coast, of which 120 were French pirates, 46 were English pirates, and [-] were Dutch pirates.

Twelve of them were persuaded to accept that this piece of land was not New France. Yang Zhaolong, the county magistrate, picked a small boat from their boat to give them water and food to send away.

But Ou Luoyi, who met the merchant, was not so lucky. The godson of the tobacco tycoon Li Yuxi who stayed on Long Island also shined in the battle report. The small fireboat finally caught up with French pirates driving two ships close to the coast of Quebec in November.

The results are self-evident. The pirate ships entered the St. Lawrence River from the bay. They originally wanted to go to the so-called "New France" at the mouth of the river to buy special products such as beaver skins, but they were shot away by the Iroquois militia from a distance. Wanting to exit the bay, they bumped into a caravan of fire boats that came after hearing the news. Neither of the two boats made it.

The defense order given by the imperial court to Muye County was not to allow the Ou Luoyi to disturb the law and order or occupy the land, but the order Li Yuxi gave to his nephews and apprentices was to never allow any Ou Luoyi to land on the east coast and leave alive.

The city wall on the east coast is an important front line for the Eastern military government and an important experimental site for the railway, but for Li Yuxi, the east coast is the lifeline of his wealth and no barbarians are allowed to touch it.

As for Chen Mu, who was in Changsheng, it was the first time that he received an important letter from the imperial court in an urgent manner. The handwritten book was almost as thick as the "Guidelines for the Banner Army's Prevention of Gunshots", and the Jinyiwei galloped all the way without the battle report. It was sent to Kuwu Island, and from Kuwu Island to four thousand miles, where the horses could no longer gallop, and the natives of the Heishui Mohe Islands rode eastward on deer, and thousands of households took turns to transfer them along the way.

Finally, when they arrived in Jincheng, they were sent to Changsheng by messenger again by boat.

When Chen Mu received this thick letter, he thought that the cabinet was looking for something urgent for him, but he didn't expect that this volume of more than a hundred pages of beautifully bound letters was all handwritten by the emperor.

The emperor's handwriting... made Chen Mu very envious.

The Taige script commonly used by scholars is neatly like printed publications, and it even makes it hard to believe that it was handwritten.

The tone of the letter is still very close. Although I haven’t seen it for several years, the intermittent letters between the mainland and the New World have never been interrupted. The emperor is still like a child in the book, and most of the pages on the surface are like a self-admired ruler. Silly complaints.

But Chen Mu knew that this kind of words probably came from the emperor's deep grievances that some of his political actions could not be approved by the courtiers.

The Minister of Dongyang also took a good look at the idiomatic sentences of Lord Wanli: Although the empire has changed, I am still lonely.

When a series of such sentence patterns form a parallel, the embarrassment impact on Chen Mu is even stronger.

The emperor complained from the very beginning about the source of his loneliness, which came from power, although when he started writing this letter on the Mid-Autumn Festival in the eighth year of Wanli, his power had greatly improved compared to four years ago. The army took it for granted, and strengthened the original control of education in the division of power in the imperial system, and tightly grasped the power of emerging handicrafts and industries.

However, the emperor who was free from the bureaucratic system could not govern the empire with ease like Zhang Gelao, the chief assistant of the empire.

In Chen Mu's understanding, this is also the reason why the emperor asked for the letter to be expedited and sent Jin Yiwei to send it to Changsheng, waiting there, and the reply letter had to be sent by Jin Yiwei himself - their correspondence cannot be seen by others.

This is basically the emperor's strategy manual for seizing power. The main purpose is to report to his revolutionary mentor Chen Mu on the progress of seizing power, and to ask questions about the problems he encountered one by one in the book.

In terms of military affairs, Wanli hoped that after the Northern Expedition ended, a group of inland military households would be moved to the hometown of Duoyan Sanwei in Wulianghai, and that in the same year, the officers of the Siyong Battalion, who he personally practiced, would assign a place to recruit sergeants for drills. Weapons and armor are supplied by the three major military centers of Beiyang, Xuanfu, and Nanyang. In the absence of war, [-]% of the production capacity can be used to arm the four guards with light equipment a year.

In this way, the domestic guards were gradually sent to East Asia, North Asia, South Asia Xinming, and West India.

The so-called light equipment refers to all military uniforms, armor, cold soldiers and firearms except artillery.

The emperor's problem was that he could neither accept the low combat effectiveness of the old Banner Army nor the high military expenditure of the Beiyang Banner Army, so he asked Chen Mu what to do.

In terms of education, the emperor coordinated the schools in various provinces through the provincial masters of education and politics, unified management of the old yin and yang studies, medicine, and official schools in all county offices, and allocated funds for the repair of local official schools and folk social studies. He also wanted to set up a special telegraph room Connecting the world school with the line, will educate the common people as the inherent power of the emperor.

But for the disciplines of school reform, the emperor neither wanted to completely follow the ancient system, nor did he look down on the education of Xu Jie Songjiang School of Literature, which was dedicated to being an official.

And, neither knowing how to do it nor whether it can be done, learn what he has learned in his head.

This is also a problem that the emperor needs Chen Mu to solve.

In terms of industry, the emperor faced a new group of workers that had never existed in ancient times. They were also one of the four peoples, but their lifestyles had undergone earth-shaking changes. In the contemporary era of surging demand for steel, he appointed Xu Guangqi in Beizhili restarted the government-run iron smelter, and Ye Mengxiong laid the railway between Beiyang and the Great Wall. The faster the progress, the more problems he encountered.

The hardest thing is about farmers.

The emperor has discovered that where the industry is prosperous, it is more and more difficult for farmers to be stable. When workers and merchants are connected, farmers who form the cornerstone of the empire face unprecedented tests. On the one hand, they have seen the wealth of merchants and the extravagant spending of workers on vacation On the other hand, it is becoming more and more difficult to bear the heavy farming work.

People gradually achieved a balance between leaving their homes and working in factories and working hard and working hard, but this balance was not what the emperor wanted to see.

It is a good thing for a country to become rich, but once the wealth comes too fast, it will bring new problems, the gap between the rich and the poor.

The most frightening thing about the gap between the rich and the poor is not that only one person in a hundred people is rich, but that ten people in a hundred people become rich, and there are still [-] people who are about to become rich.

For the eighty other people who watched helplessly, it was more like a nightmare than poverty and starvation.

Emperor Wanli rarely used a metaphor in his letter. He compared a small fishing boat docked by the port. Two people boarded it, but eight people did not.

But the boatman couldn’t help it, the boat really couldn’t hold any more people; the two people couldn’t help it either, they didn’t work so hard to get on the boat to give up space to others.

Emperor Wanli said that this was the responsibility entrusted to him by God, and that no one else could solve it, only he could.

Only he can stop four more ships at the port.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)