Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 741

Although Bengal is actually under the control of the Ming Empire, it is still part of the Mughal Empire in name, and it is not easy for the imperial government to send people to rule directly. It is more likely to follow the example of the later British and give the right to rule. the West India Company.

Like that behemoth, the West India Company also officially obtained the dominion and diplomatic rights endowed by the empire, and the right to cultivate overseas mercenaries belonging to the company. Earlier than the British East India Company, this greedy behemoth of the empire era began to gallop on the world stage .

The war against India further aroused the pride and patriotism of the citizens of the Ming Empire. At the same time, a large number of new ambitious adventurers began to go south to India with dreams and meager savings to open up their new lives.

With the support of these people, Daming's footsteps are not limited to Bangladesh!

But this also brought some troubles to Song Qingshu.

Although Ying Tiancai is the official capital of the Ming Empire, Song Qingshu usually prefers to go to Songjiang to work in his villa next to the port. Compared with Yingtian's ancient capital that still retains the atmosphere of the feudal era, Songjiang and Shanghai County are his. Looking at the new city that has grown up step by step, it even has a lot of modern urban atmosphere that he is familiar with.

Outside the window, the ship’s bells are jingling. On the pier, the several-meter-long cargo arm built using the pulley block and the principle of leverage is pulled by the dock workers to continuously lift heavy cargo boxes onto the ship. Dozens, even more than 100 at the busiest time, some went to the coastal areas, some to the colonies of Southeast Asia, and as far as the farthest to go to the New World to pan for gold. They were found in northern Mexico and Texas ceded by Spain. Many new mineral deposits, these are business opportunities.

Recently, the route to Chittagong, Bangladesh has been newly opened.

The busy scene always reminded Song Qingshu of the office life he had experienced in the past. In the past, he would always look at it with pride during his breaks, but today, he was obviously a little bit upset.

On the left side, there is a thick stack of newspapers stacked there, and the headlines printed in ink are full of exciting or interesting news, such as "The commander of the Indian army was beaten by his father at the pier, because he could not marry a daughter-in-law, he called on Ming Dynasty to have ambitions." Young women enthusiastically went to support the troops stationed in India. ", or "How!The veteran of the expeditionary force bought a thousand acres of manor in Borneo, frankly catching up with the good times." Almost all major news revolves around overseas.

But at the corner of the newspaper, there are a series of small headlines written inconspicuously.

"Weeping Blood, when will Master Wang set up the Central Plains?" "

"Why Don't Men Wear Wu Hooks?"Charge Guanshan Fifty States! "

A series of brilliant victories has gradually reversed the submissive fear of the Ming people towards the northern slaves, especially the millions of northerners who fled from the north to the south. Cry to the north.

Although the title is small, the noise is not small. A few days ago, thousands of people, including Song Qingshu's retired veteran Ma Shouyingji and passionate youths, bared their left arms and tied red scarves on their arms, begging for their own help. The Northern Expedition took the lead.

This is a problem that Song Qingshu cannot get around no matter what when he is in power.

To be honest, it's not that Song Qingshu hasn't thought about this issue, on the contrary, he still thinks deeply about it, but right now, it's really not the best time for the Northern Expedition!
The fighter plane is nothing but the right time, the right location, and the harmony of people!At present, the Northern Dynasty has gradually settled down, and rashly sending troops will not achieve people and miraculous results. For the common people, it is more about being able to live well, and they don't care who is ruling on top of their heads.

Moreover, the north is not like the colonies of the Ming Dynasty today. It is predatory development, just grab a ticket and leave. It is still in the Little Ice Age, and the famine needs to be relieved. The backward infrastructure needs to be built, especially the border defense and the management of the Yellow River. These two items need to be invested in hundreds of millions of silver taels, and it was these two items that brought down the previous Ming Empire.

And politically, Song Qingshu never wants to accept the impact of the northern landlords before the new bourgeoisie replaces the old conservative landlords as the ruling class in the south, otherwise, who knows if there will be a historical regression.Moreover, the decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty at this time is likely to evolve into a confrontation between the two economic forms like the American Civil War.

The weather, the people and the harmony did not occupy the advantage, and the geographical advantage did not actually occupy the Ming Dynasty. Now it is not an overseas colony. The actual territory of the Ming Dynasty is about the same as that of the Chen Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty in the north is the Sui Dynasty in history. Once the Northern Expedition, the Qing army in Sichuan If it's heading south, Song Qingshu is likely to be careless.

Therefore, the fastest standard for the Northern Expedition must be to start from Songjiang until the completion of the Songhan Railway in Jingzhou, Wuchang, so that he can realize the rapid deployment of troops for thousands of miles like the Russian Siberia Railway in later generations.
"Squeeze this matter again! If you can, try not to report it!"

"But if we don't report it, the Rulin Newspaper will report it. Besides, everyone is looking forward to it, why..., good! good! Don't look at me like that, just don't report it!"

It is said that women can't bear the vicissitudes of life and melancholy eyes of men, swept away by Song Qingshu's tired eyes, the thirteenth princess, editor-in-chief of Yingtian Daily, Zhu Yuhui finally had to surrender, and helplessly raised a pair of small hands.

Song Qingshu can be regarded as a pioneer in controlling public opinion. Later generations of the U.S. government suffered a great loss in this regard. During the Vietnam War, the media reported a lot of tragic scenes of the U.S. military in Vietnam missing arms and legs, as well as the broken walls and remnants of Vietnam after the bombing. Yuan, the homeless people, caused a huge anti-war wave in the country, and this is a large part of the reason why the US military was forced to retreat.

Today, the mainstream newspapers and periodicals in Ming Dynasty are all from the West India Company. In this regard, Song Qingshu is ahead of the Yankees, but after dismissing the beautiful reporter, the next cabinet report that he found casually made Song Qingshu frowned again. He got up, and after a while, he knocked on the bell on the door.

Song Yongzhong, who was dressed in a general's uniform, came in immediately and saluted sharply.

"Big guy!"

"Tomorrow, you go north to carry out the mission of rescuing Hauge. By the way, you can find out for this cabinet what is going on with Dorgon's new Beiyang army!"

Hauge is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, if he can be controlled in his hands, many people can be separated from the Eight Banners under his banner at that time, and at least the seeds of suspicion can be planted in the Eight Banners. , Since last year, the arrangement has already started, and the good news from India, the rescue of Hauge is almost at the ripe stage.

"The commander of the last commander!"

Still so straightforward, Song Yongzhong bowed his head neatly, saw that Song Qingshu seemed to have nothing to do and continued to give orders, turned around and backed away, the office of the Xuanfeng Army was not far from Song Qingshu, went deep into the capital of the enemy country, and rescued the dignitaries, he still had A lot needs to be prepared.

Who knew that at this time, Song Qingshu suddenly opened his mouth and stopped him.

"and many more!"

"What else do you want, Commander?"

Putting aside his official duties for the time being, Song Qingshu stood up suddenly, walked to Song Yongzhong's side, and while he was standing respectfully at attention, he stretched out his hand to help him tug on his slightly wrinkled upper arm sleeve, and then nodded immediately.

"When you're leaving, go to Yu'er's place to have a look, save her from complaining all the time and I'll make you disappear!"

Listening to the words of encouragement in Song Qingshu's tone, Song Yongzhong's cold eyes suddenly seemed to warm a little, and he didn't call the commander again, he just bowed his body, and then backed out again.

Looking at his back, Song Qingshu gave a wry smile with emotion. Sometimes, he even suspected that his previous memory of future generations was just a dream. The iron horse, but the world of Jiangnan Fengyue, has truly integrated into his soul. He has never held hands in his previous life. Now he can actually consider his son-in-law from the eyes of a father-in-law. It is estimated that a hundred years ago, a hundred He couldn't imagine a dream.

But Little William is dishonest and disloyal to Daming. He is out of the game. Zheng Sen, although he does have feelings for Yu'er, but Zheng Sen is an ambitious man, and his ambition is always higher than love. For his merits, last month, he had already married a North Korean princess, so Song Qingshu himself was unwilling to marry Yu'er to him.

Then only this elm-headed Song Yongzhong is left. The selection front is transparent in front of Song Qingshu. Song Qingshu knows exactly what Song Yongzhong has done for Yuer. Maybe this taciturn man is Yuer. The most reliable support for children.

"Perhaps, it's time to change his position!"

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The Ming Empire is now like a new, thriving tree of pillars suddenly emerging from the trunk of a dead old tree. Facing the sun, it is a piece of bright green and majestic vitality. Underground, in the darkness, there are also countless roots and soil, dirt, reptiles, and rotting corpses constantly doing cruel and bloody struggles.

People can't see these, they only see the dazzling side of the empire, but these are also extremely important to the empire, and sometimes the dark side is even more important than the bright side.

This is Song Yongzhong's Selected Front Army. Today, the existence of the Selected Front Army is somewhat similar to the British MI[-], the Soviet Union's KGB, and Israel's Mossad. , Instigating rebellion, creating chaos, and rescue, the hands of these black gods of death are stained with the blood of how many anti-China nobles and die-hard chiefs in Southeast Asia and the Indo-China Peninsula. It is their presence that ensures the prosperity of the Ming colony.

Now, the dark roots behind Song Qingshu have touched the north again.

Although two-thirds of the land of the Ming Dynasty from the Huaihe River to the north has fallen, there is still a piece of land that has always been planted with the flag of the Ming Dynasty under the eyes of the new base camp of the slaves, and that is Zhang Haocai's Denglai Road. The long and narrow area at the tip of the peninsula and Jinzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula are the corners of each other. It is guarded by a navy squadron of the Ming Dynasty. When the Jiannu shaved their hair and changed clothes, they took in tens of thousands of righteous people and organized them into three Shandong provinces. Division, the defense can be described as a gold pool barrier.

Especially here is where Song Qingshu's soft knife cuts flesh. The north needs the south, rice, cotton cloth, medicinal materials, porcelain, and a lot of goods from the south. The south also needs good horses, bullocks, goats, and furs from the north. In these two ports, there is still a certain amount of trade between the south and the north every year, but Song Qingshu pulls half a ship of grain and half a ship of Sujiao from Southeast Asia, black pepper from India, frankincense from Arabia, myrrh, jade from Burma, and so on. There are all kinds of luxury goods such as silk and satin. If you want to buy food, you have to buy these things. Although luxury goods are very appetizing to the slaves and nobles, they really have little effect on the country.

Little by little, the folk wealth of the Northern Dynasties was absorbed and drained by the Southern Dynasties. It was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it was difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. , can only open one eye and close one eye.

Starting from Songjiang, hidden in the cargo ship, within half a month, Song Yongzhong and his subordinates landed at the bustling port of Laizhou.

With the easing of the situation, the economy is slowly recovering. This Laizhou Port has long lived up to the depression of Shandong during the severe drought, but it is quite lively. It is next to the market near Laizhou City, and there are businessmen from the north and the south everywhere. , the flags of groceries from the north and the south were fluttering and flickering, and there were shouts of sales on the street, which seemed quite lively.

Among them, Song Yongzhong and his entourage did not look awkward at all. For the sake of the task, they all shaved their heads a long time ago. Now they stick a lump of hair on the back of their head with fish glue, which is just like Jiannu's money rat tail. , also wearing a thick mandarin jacket, leather jacket, and carrying a luggage roll, looking at that appearance, it is really the same as those traveling Beishang.

But agents are never ordinary people, looking around like looking for goods, suddenly a young guy who looks like a front sergeant pats Song Yongzhong, who is dressed up in front of the shopkeeper, and whispers in his ear.

"The head of the house, there are two second tumors in the corner, who seem to be the grandson of the eagle claw. They have been staring at us since we came out of the port and all the way to this market!"

Dorgon is not stupid either. Back then when he built slaves to fight Tieling, Liaoyang, and Shenyang, he used spies to sneak in first to create chaos. Then he took the city and left such a messy hole for necessities. He also guarded against Song Qingshu Mix sand in it and send spies, and spy members like Yongzheng's blood drop organization are also monitoring this port.

Glancing at a few rogue-looking guys wearing thick mandarin jackets and leaning against the wall lazily basking in the sun from time to time, he snorted coldly in his heart. On his face, Song Yongzhong seemed to be afraid Like my son's little boss, he opened his mouth and reprimanded him.

"Where are so many things coming from, just look at your things honestly, if you lose a ginseng branch, I will deduct half a month's wages from you!"

He scolded the buddy, and under the watchful eyes of those slaves and running dogs, Song Yongzhong looked like an old Jianghu, and he went to the shops with southern and southern groceries where the southern character was bigger than the northern character...

(End of this chapter)