Chapter 325 Yu Dayou and the development of electricity in Ming Dynasty
"What Wang Qing said is reasonable. However, our goal in regaining Jiaozhi is to actually occupy Jiaozhi and make Jiaozhi a food base for the Ming Dynasty and an important base for controlling the Western routes. In other words, whether he surrenders or not, he will not surrender. For the sake of the people of Ming Dynasty, he and Ruan Gan, the indigenous lords of Jiaozhi, must be eliminated!”
Zhu Houzhao said something at this time, which can be regarded as setting the tone.
The officials who participated in the court discussions were all hawkish officials who took charge of the army and managed the people. They only focused on how to maximize the interests of the country and did not care about the so-called reputation.
Therefore, the officials in the court also understood and accepted what Zhu Houzhao meant. They knew that the Ming Dynasty was different from the previous dynasties and that it was impossible to be self-sufficient. As long as the current Ming Dynasty does not find ways to plunder the outside world, the problem of domestic wealth and poverty will intensify. Chaos breaks out.
Gui E, Minister of the Ministry of War, stood up at this time:
"Your Majesty, I believe that if Mo Dengyong from Jiaozhi is to surrender to the Ming Dynasty as Wang Ge Lao said, the Ming Dynasty can take this opportunity to ask Mo Dengyong's army to accept the reorganization of the imperial court, and his officials to receive training and appointments from the imperial court. The territory needs to be managed by officials dispatched by the imperial court. As for Ruan Gan's subordinates, the imperial court can inform Ruan Gan of Mo Dengyong's surrender and force him to surrender. If Ruan Gan refuses, he will raise more troops to attack! "
Lin Tingxuan, who had been the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, couldn't help but take over the words: "Your Majesty, I thought that Mo Dengyong would not be willing to be an idle minister of our Ming Dynasty as Gui Butang said. If he wants to seize his benefits, he will be killed. Jiaozhi is inevitable. An act of swordsmanship.”
"What Mr. Lin said is reasonable, and I also believe that swordsmanship is inevitable. I have three strategies, upper, middle and lower, for reference by your majesty and the princes in the court." Wang Shouren also took over the words at this time.
Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao asked Wang Shouren to come up with three strategies: the upper, middle and lower strategies. Although the Ming Dynasty's attack on Jiaozhi was basically like a tiger eating a sheep, and there was no suspense about the outcome, it would be best to regain Jiaozhi at the least cost.
In this life, Wang Shouren did not have serious physical damage due to being demoted to the dragon field. Therefore, his physique did not decline quickly due to being imprisoned and then demoted to the dragon field like in history, and he died before reaching his sixtieth birthday.
However, in this life, Wang Shouren could still stand in the court and advise Emperor Zhu Houzhao.
Now, even if it involves strategic matters to regain Jiaozhi, Zhu Houzhao found that it is much easier to deal with it with Wang Shouren in the court.
Wang Shouren said at this time: "In compliance with the order, I believe that the best policy is to agree to the Ruan family and send troops to attack the Mo family, but ask the Ruan family to allow my Wang division to land in Thanh Hoa, and use the road to attack the Mo family from the south. At the same time, If the Mo family asked to surrender, they would also accept the Mo family's surrender, and in the name of putting down the rebellion of the Ruan family, they would ask the Mo family to allow Wang Shi to pass through Mo family's territory and seize the opportunity to use the northern army to destroy the Mo family and the southern army to destroy the Ruan family. ”
"The middle strategy is that the Mo family refuses to surrender. The court still requires the Nguyen family to allow Wang Shi to land in Thanh Hoa, and to destroy the Mo family first and then the Ruan family from both directions."
"The next strategy is that if the Ruan family refuses to use the road to our Ming Dynasty, no matter whether the Mo family surrenders or not, the Ruan family must be destroyed first, and then the Mo family must be destroyed. This is because the land of Jiaozhi is mountainous in the north and plain in the south. It is naturally easier to attack Jiaozhi from the south”
After Wang Shouren said that, Zhu Houzhao smiled and nodded. He couldn't help but believe that Wang Shouren was an outstanding military consultant who could consider all changes clearly and could also foresee the future, because he was familiar with history and knew that nothing could be done. I will definitely ask for surrender.
"Ai Qing's comprehensive summary, I think the Mo family will definitely ask for surrender, so now we have to see whether the Ruan family is willing to lend a way to our Ming Dynasty, but regardless of whether the Ruan family is willing or not, our Ming army must land in the southern part of Jiaozhi The important town of Thanh Hoa, if the Nguyen family agrees to use the road, it will be fine. If not, we will directly occupy the important town of Thanh Hoa and look for opportunities to destroy the Nguyen family!"
Zhu Houzhao made the final decision. Although the courtiers present said "Your Majesty is wise!", they didn't understand why His Majesty had the confidence to believe that the Mo family would definitely ask for surrender. Even Wang Shouren didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor was so proud. He was still confident, but he had to admit that although His Majesty the Emperor was younger than him, prone to impulsive actions, and seemed very reckless and imprudent on the surface, he seemed to really know the world five hundred years earlier than himself, and he always failed. Can anticipate opportunities.
Therefore, Wang Shouren did not question Zhu Houzhao at this time.
The envoys sent by the Nguyen family left the capital with the condition that the Ming Emperor asked the Nguyen family to agree to allow the Ming army to land in Thanh Hoa and destroy the Mo family under false pretenses.
And at the same time.
The dispatch troops of the General Staff of the Guards also went to Guangzhou Prefecture with Zhu Houzhao's request for the navy to immediately mobilize troops to Thanh Hoa.
anyway.
Ming Dynasty's basic strategy for recovering Jiaozhi has been established, and what follows is the specific combat issues of the frontline troops.
During this period.
Zhu Houzhao also asked the Daming Stock Exchange to issue war treasury bonds to gather capital for the war.
Because in order to occupy Goa, the Ming Dynasty had issued such bonds, and it also made people who were trying for the first time a lot of money, and even created many private millionaires and even multi-millionaires.
But now, the Ming Dynasty once again found national debt due to war, and the people are still rushing to invest money in the Ming Dynasty military. There is no other reason. Everyone believes in the strength of the Ming Guards. After all, they run on the cement road of the main road every day. They saw the army with their own eyes, and naturally they could see that the Ming Dynasty would definitely win in the battle with Jiaozhi.
At this time, the people of the Ming Empire obviously had confidence in the Ming Empire.
The Ming Dynasty's army also received a large amount of financial support. Of course, behind these financial support was also the support of the people.
And because the people have invested in the war, they are paying more attention to the imperial war than ever before. It seems that nationalism has suddenly increased a lot, which is more effective than brainwashing education. Especially some selfish middle and upper class people talk about the country. They don't care about national justice, but now because they also believe in the strength of the imperial army and have invested in the war, they are now more concerned about the war that Ming Dynasty is about to launch than ordinary people.
"The act of resorting to military violence is not beneficial to the country and the people. Killing should not happen in China!"
The great scholar Bai Songyi rudely criticized the military policy of the current dynasty at Yuelu Academy, but after the speech, he also handed the bundle of silver he received to his servant and said: "Go to Wuchang Mansion immediately to buy one. With a national debt, there are more and more troops from Changsha to Baoqing. Everyone can see that the possibility of Annan becoming Jiaozhi this time is not 10% but 90%!”
"Sir, I have a letter from my family. I have invested all the 50,000 silver dollars in my house, and said that I will wait for you to recover Cochin for the imperial court, so that he can earn more than 100,000, and he can also try to get the latest batch of 200,000 silver coins produced by the Royal Industrial Company first. Get the steam mining machine! ”
Even Mao Bowen, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army of the Guards who was in Wuzhou at this time, received a letter from his family. For a while, the pressure on him increased a lot. He knew that he could not take his troops to attack Jiaozhi this time, otherwise he could not take it lightly. It was not only the court's soldiers, horses, money and food that suffered a loss, but also their own money.
Because of this, Mao Bowen had to put down his posture and ordered his lieutenant: "Go and call the boy named Yu!"
Seeing this, Mao Bowen's deputy general couldn't help but wonder: "Sir, that boy Yu Dayou has always had a bad temper, and anyone dares to contradict him. Don't you hate him so much that you even transferred him out of the Chinese army? Why do you want to see him again today?"< br>
"What can I do! Damn, those officials in the imperial court are really old foxes, and their ideas are really vicious. Now this battle must be won. Not only must it be won, but it must be fought well. Otherwise, it will not only be the court that suffers, but besides Although the boy named Yu has a bad temper, his analysis of the war situation is better than that of the military staff. What this boy said the day before yesterday is no different from the decree issued by the General Staff of the Guards! "
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As he spoke, Mao Bowen threw the documents in his hand on the case: "This Yu Dayou is young and far away in Wuzhou, but he thinks the same as His Majesty and the elders above. You say he is great! Next, How to fight, it’s best to ask him first!”
Mao Bowen said and waved his hands involuntarily: "Forget it, this guy has a stubborn temper. I ignored military law and beat him with a military stick. He probably still hates me as the coach now. I will go see him in person and tell Huguang what happened a while ago." Bring the fine wine sent by Governor Qin Jin!”
Mao Bowen's lieutenant general was very surprised, thinking when did the coach have such a good temper and be able to tolerate Yu Dayou.
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Here, Yu Dayou still used the telescope used in the march to observe the terrain in Wuzhou, and determined the accuracy of the military map surveyed and mapped by the Jinyi Guards in Jiaozhi by calibrating the actual terrain of Wuzhou with the military map published by the Ministry of War.
"Zhifu, have you asked the military securities bank (which helps with the bond investment business) to help you buy the coupons? The war has not started yet, but the price of the war coupons outside has increased several times. Now even if the court does not pay, , brother I'm afraid that all my brothers will fight the monkeys desperately. Please tell me when this battle will start. I really want to wait until this battle is over as soon as possible so that I can exchange it for real silver dollars and marry your sister-in-law back home!"< br>
Yu Dayou's former classmate, Lu Borang, who has now graduated from the Marine Warfare Department, participated in the battle to regain Jiaozhi this time because he wanted to experience land warfare in the jungle first, but because of this, he was able to fight side by side with Yu Dayou.
Yu Dayou was not angry because Lu Ti was younger than him but deliberately pretended to be his elder brother. He just stood up, patted the grass clippings on his body, stamped his thick-soled military mountain leather boots on the ground, and began to unbuckle his belt. Hissing, he said:
"Why are you buying coupons? I, Yu Dayou, join the army not to make money, but the battle in the north won't be fought for a while. I guess our army will have to stay in Guangxi for a while, but you should be transferred. According to Yu , The imperial court will probably attack from the south this time! You, the Marine Corps officer, are just right.”
"Then why did the imperial court mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to gather in the southwest and find the women (the ancestors of the Zhuang people were called Ma people in the Ming Dynasty, and they were also known as wolves, and the wolf soldiers were more famous) to sing folk songs?"
Lu Boring said something and pointed to a female servant who was looking this way in the rice field in front: "Look, that female servant is very graceful and she is suitable to be my younger brother and sister!"
Yu Dayou lifted up his trousers and kicked Lu Boring onto the wet ground: "A dog can't spit out ivory. It's hard to tell who is the younger brother and who is the older brother!"
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"Don't think that because you are invincible in the Shaolin Temple, I am afraid of you. Look at your legs!"
As he spoke, Lu Tiang feinted, and his iron fist went straight towards Yu Dayou's temple. Yu Dayou sidestepped, and was about to attack Lu Tiang's chest with his elbow when he heard a burst of folk songs. Yu Dayou couldn't help but pull it back, and caught Lu Tiong who was in the air. He turned to a female figure who was walking towards him.
The woman pointed at Yu Dayou and said to an old man: "Father, I want him!"
"What's so good about a Han soldier? There are many handsome young men among our wolf soldiers," the old man said.
This tall and plump girl said coquettishly: "I want him", and immediately blushed with embarrassment
Lu Boring burst out laughing at this time. Yu Dayou didn't know what was going on, thinking that these should be the wolf soldiers who were transferred under the order, so he only raised his hands and said: "Yu Dayou, a hundred households in the Fourth Infantry Division of the Third Army of the Guards, has seen two of them. I wonder who they are?"
As soon as Yu Dayou finished speaking, a messenger came on horseback: "Lu Boring, the general has an order for you to immediately lead your troops to Qinzhou and board a ship to Xiangshan!"
Lu Boring couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that Yu Dayou's words had actually come true.
At this time, the sound of "The commander has arrived" came again. Yu Dayou couldn't help but frown, thinking: "This guy must have bought war coupons too!"
When Yu Dayou came to Mao Bowen, he found that Mao Bowen really wanted to analyze the war situation by himself, and he also saw that Mao Bowen really wanted to fight the war beautifully and earn more money.
Yu Dayou told Mao Bowen his analysis of the war situation, knowing that the imperial court would land in Qinghua in the south.
certainly.
Yu Dayou's analysis undoubtedly coincides with the decisions of the imperial court such as Zhu Houzhao and Wang Shouren.
No matter in any era, a nation has outstanding talents in certain aspects, and governance can naturally make good ministers and generals useful. In troubled times, capable ministers and generals often die unjustly or fall into disgrace.
Yu Dayou is undoubtedly a general of the Ming Dynasty, and this has been proven by history.
but.
Now, except for Zhu Houzhao and Mao Bowen, no one knows that Yu Dayou will become a general star.
Even Yu Dayou himself doesn't know now that he will become a general star in the future, and he doesn't even know that His Majesty the Emperor has begun to pay attention to him.
Zhu Houzhao did set up an archive. Although he did not tell others directly, he did secretly observe these talents who had outstanding performance in the original history.
Zhu Houzhao believes that even if he, a time traveler, can change history and bring about changes in this society, it cannot conceal the value of these heroes in today's Ming Dynasty.
Maybe there will be no more Japanese rebellion in the Ming Dynasty in this era, but this does not mean that Yu Dayou will not become a famous general.
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"After the landing in the south, more land field forces need to be invested. We cannot just rely on marines. I am thinking about whether we can deploy the First Division of the Third Guards Army and other troops on the northern front and transport them to the south through naval transport ships. Go!”
Zhu Houzhao knew that Yu Dayou was in the First Division of the Guards, and naturally wanted to see Yu Dayou's performance on the battlefield in advance, so when he wanted to increase the army strength on the southern front, he transferred Yu Dayou there first.
When Emperor Zhu Houzhao spoke, the Privy Council did not dare to disobey.
However, Yu Dayou did not become happy after receiving this order. He said bitterly: "What should I do? I am seasick!"
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But no matter what, not even Mao Bowen could say anything about the central government's orders, let alone Yu Dayou, who could only obey military orders.
In any case, the Ming Dynasty's Southern Front Corps has begun to gradually gather towards Yazhou. Regardless of whether the Ruan clan of Jiaozhi agrees to allow the Ming Dynasty to land in Qinghua and use the conquest mode, the Southern Front Corps will march from Yazhou to Qinghua.
War is not a fight, just do what you say. Even if an accidental war conflict turns into a war, there will be a gradual process ranging from months to years. Now the Ming Central Committee has proposed to recapture Jiaozhi to now officially deploying troops to establish a strategy. It has been almost more than ten years. Even after the strategy is established and the troops are mobilized, it will take some time before the first shot is officially fired. After all, the troops and horses have not yet moved the food and grass first. Both the logistics and the tactical command of the forward commander are needed. time.
At this time, Zhu Houzhao also made a decision, which was the decision of the commander-in-chief of the Southern Front Corps. The Northern Front was led by Mao Bowen, a veteran with extensive experience in fighting in the southern mountains, while the Southern Front Corps needed to be good at both land and sea operations. Zhu Houzhao still let Wang Hong became the commander-in-chief.
After all, Wang Hong was a famous naval war general who had thwarted the invasion of Western colonists several times. Although he was in the civilian system, it would be safer to use Wang Hong. After all, in the Nanyang area, from the deputy envoy to the governor, Wang Hong stayed in Guangdong and Guangxi. most familiar.
After Zhu Houzhao established the commander-in-chief of the southern front corps and considered the issue of unification and coordination of the northern and southern fronts, he asked Wang Shouren to serve as deputy privy envoy to supervise Nanyang, coordinate and direct the northern and southern corps to recover Jiaozhi, and even asked Wang Shouren to We have full authority to handle the matter. You can handle it first and then report it to the central government.
There is nothing that can be done about it, because although the Ming Dynasty has made great strides into the steam age, it has not yet entered the information age, not even radio waves. Due to geographical isolation, it is difficult for Zhu Houzhao himself, the emperor, to be more than 5,000 kilometers away. Remote control coordinates the north and south lines.
In this case, in order to improve the efficiency of war command, Zhu Houzhao could only delegate power.
Moreover, when Wang Shouren went to the south, he must also completely trust Wang Shouren. He could neither change commanders at will nor command at a higher level. History has proved that even if he is a military god, commanding at a higher level can easily lead to problems. He cannot imitate Chang Kai. state.
Therefore, now Zhu Houzhao simply relaxes and doesn't worry about anything. He just waits for the outcome of the war. If the outcome is good, he will be rewarded. If the outcome is not good, he will be held accountable. Now he only does what he likes. things.
The so-called stealing half a day's leisure is what Zhu Houzhao is now. He decided to do something that he wanted to do in his heart. For him as a time traveler, the most regrettable thing in this era is that there is no Internet, no movies, TV and other videos. , let alone various electrical and intelligent equipment that can make people comfortable.
Although he lived in the 21st century in his previous life, he did not have the time or ability to enjoy many so-called things because he was poor.
Now, he is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he is fully capable and qualified to have the best in the world, including women. However, he cannot have some things from later generations, which has to be a pity for Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao started from his own heart, and now he really wants new things to appear.
Therefore, he asked the Academy of Sciences to speed up the research and application of electricity. Of course, studying electricity was not to satisfy Zhu Houzhao's inner desires. Zhu Houzhao himself knew that if electric energy appeared, it would undoubtedly bring more earth-shaking changes to the world.
Ming Dynasty has actually been able to create voltaic batteries. After all, this is simple, it is nothing more than a copper-zinc battery as a power provider.
But in terms of the actual application of electricity, the Ming Dynasty can only manufacture light bulbs and light the light bulbs through large voltaic batteries.
As for light bulbs, Ming Dynasty now only has arc lamps and tungsten lamps.
Because arc lamps use electric arcs to emit light, they require metal electrodes, consume a lot of energy and are hot, so they are not suitable for home use. They have little significance except for military use. Therefore, Daming is now focusing on how to install tungsten filament lamps into homes, and You can turn on electricity at any time to make the tungsten lamp shine.
Because Zhu Houzhao knew that the best filament material for the light bulb invented by Edison was a tungsten filament lamp, Daming now took fewer detours when manufacturing light bulbs and did not first conduct filament experiments using various fiber materials.
If Ming Dynasty now wants to make progress in electricity, or even at least realize the problem of electric lighting, what it lacks is not qualified light bulbs, but sufficient power supply.
Electricity can be used by humans in history because Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction and used magnetic induction to generate electric induction and then generate electric current. Now, the Daming Academy of Sciences has begun to re-experiment through this theory proposed by Zhu Houzhao and it has been proved, so that many people People believe that electricity can indeed be generated through electromagnetic induction, but it will take time to directly apply it.
But Zhu Houzhao hoped that this time would not take too long. After all, he really hoped that the electrical age would come as soon as possible. In the end, he could at least enter the radio age, making communication more convenient for Ming Dynasty. After all, in the future, Ming Dynasty’s territory would be even wider. It will be more difficult to rule.
But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao can now use the electric light in a short period of time. Sometimes even a faint light between the beds is more interesting than fumbling around in the dark.
But for Zhu Houzhao's concubines, His Majesty would not only light up the night lights in the bed tent at night, but also make them wear all kinds of strange clothes, and even call them uniform temptations.
Zhu Houzhao admitted that he sometimes had a little too much fun, but life is all about having fun, as long as it doesn't affect others.
The emperor of the Ming Dynasty can now let his young concubines dress up in nurse uniforms or white-collar uniforms and play various games in their free time, but at this time, on the South China Sea, the imperial fleet has gradually approached the Jiaozhi Kingdom.
The Ruan clan of Jiaozhi was not stupid either. He also guessed the Ming Dynasty's purpose and refused the Ming Dynasty's request to land in Thanh Hoa. This was destined to force the Ming Dynasty to rely on force to capture Thanh Hoa first.
At this time, Yu Dayou and his officers and soldiers, who had worked hard to solve the problem of seasickness, had already shipped out the Ming Dynasty version of the Gatling gun, and quietly landed ashore on a landing assault boat at night, preparing to give the monkeys in Cochin a new battle. The baptism of new firearms of the era.
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