Chapter 2023 Paying Tuition
Three people had a meeting in their heads.
It’s Xiaohuan who does the phone lines.
He lay with his head on Zhao Han's side and his feet dangling on Jia Rong's side.
As scary as you want.
Zhao Han quickly told the other two people about the capital's information.
In fact, at this time, there was no good sense of confidentiality in the affairs of the court.
Only in the military and in the harem, there is a sense of confidentiality.
Jia Rong sneered and said: "Even if they knew they were attacking from the east to the west, they still had to mobilize troops from the south."
Jia Lian nodded and said: "That's right, whoever refuses to mobilize troops just won't. Loyalty to the Emperor, this is a big problem.”
"Hey, the feudal dynasty killed people." Zhao Han shook his head.
Sure enough, this is the army of King Qin from all over the world gathering in the capital.
However, the First Fleet hit and ran.
Now the army was dumbfounded.
At this moment, the Second Fleet finally dispatched troops, stabbing the vital point with a knife.
They sent troops directly into the mouth of the Longjiang River to block water transportation, and the food in the south of the Yangtze River was immediately unable to be shipped.
King Qin’s army has no food to eat.
The north has not had enough commercial grain for a long time.
There is no such thing as Jiangnan. It is cooked in Huguang and is sufficient in the world.
Huguang’s grain relies on the Longjiang River and is transported to the Longjiang Estuary, where it is transported to the north through the Grand Canal.
This is the channel of life.
Without Jiangnan water transportation, it would be impossible to hold on.
Two months later, King Qin's army was ordered to return and was only given food for two days. As a result, they collapsed on the way.
Become a bandit.
Sweeping around the capital.
Exaggeration?
In history, the late Ming Dynasty was even more exaggerated.
Civil officials could not find food, so in order not to bear the burden of food for King Qin's army, they took advantage of loopholes in the text about troop transfers.
The loophole is that the army has just arrived in a place, and as a rule, it eats its own food and grass that day, and it will be supplied by the local county the next day.
So they moved the soldiers back and forth, letting the team stay in one place for only half a day. They arrived in the morning and left in the afternoon.
The tricks you play are called shrewdness.
But how could King Qin’s team have so much food? Soon they ran out of food and some soldiers starved to death. Under such circumstances, there were actually a large number of soldiers who did not rebel but simply dispersed.
After this kind of torment, in the end, they died at the hands of the peasant uprising, instead of being captured by the soldiers and causing soldier riots like the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
The control of the army by the imperial power and system can be said to have reached its peak.
It must be said that the soldiers of the feudal dynasty were really resistant to pressure, and their internal friction index was very high.
However, just after King Qin's army left, the company's fleet headed north again and came ashore to attack again.
This time, the people above learned wisely. They did not let so many people come to serve the king, and only used 30,000 people to station on the main roads to prevent the capital from being raided.
However, water transportation is cut off. Not only the soldiers need to eat, but the ministers and the people also need to eat.
Soon the price of rice in Beijing rose to 3 taels of silver per stone!
And it’s still rising.
At the same time, the company's fleet was recruiting refugees just outside the gate of the capital.
Push the court’s face directly to the ground and beat him!
Starve to death or go overseas?
This is not a multiple choice question.
No matter how terrifying the sea is, it is only as terrifying as changing one’s son to eat.
In the past, people did not go to the sea. Most people had no access to the sea and died before they could reach the sea. Moreover, most people in the inland did not know that there was a way to make a living by going to the sea.
Now Rong Pharmaceutical Company has sent people to lay out this road in front of them.
They sent a cavalry team with some food and cooked gruel to lead the refugees to the seaside.
For a time, a large number of refugees, lured by the food, came to the beach, washed themselves and got on the boat.
A ship can carry one hundred tons of grain, and a person can live for a month with ten kilograms of grain.
One month is enough time to reach the southern island.
This time, Rongyao Company came up with its own secret weapon: a steamship.
This has begun to be built in the West, but it is still not widespread enough because of the high cost and imperfect equipment. At this time, a large number of sailboats still dominated maritime transportation.
But steamships can move forward when there is no wind. This is the biggest advantage.
This can live for 40,000 people.
In this case, the refugees boarded the boats and went to sea one after another.
Someone wanted to go home after eating. After returning home, they were killed by bandits and made into dried human meat.
As soon as this kind of thing is publicized, many refugees will become afraid.
In the end, there was simply no food to eat if we didn’t get on the ship.
Anyway, when doing big things, you can’t be merciful.
Just like being chased by the enemy, you must send people to stay behind. The team responsible for staying behind means being abandoned, but if you don't do this, the entire army will be destroyed.
In war, it is impossible to talk about ordinary morality.
At the same time, the Second Fleet sent troops to land.
Two major fortresses were built, Jiangnan Fortress and Jiangbei Fortress.
Use the bastion system.
The imperial court hastily issued an order prohibiting major county governments from distributing goods to Rong Pharmaceutical Company.
There was a huge loss for a while.
However, at this time, they had another choice, which was to seize the county government and rule it themselves.
At the same time, the county government was threatened with force to trade.
And they can be self-sufficient with food from overseas, and they can persist for at least two years.
But it would be good if the court can persist for one year.
Rong Yao Company has long stored enough gunpowder, cannons, iron ore, saltpeter... and other war materials.
After the construction of these two fortresses, construction continued.
A mere 1,500 people can resist more than 10,000 people with this kind of fortress.
It is suitable for elites like them, but there are few people.
And they built fortresses in areas where goods were produced.
Guarantee the production of commercial and trade supplies.
They mainly occupy vast rural areas.
In the city at this time, there were very few producers.
Only a few cities have a large number of handicraft factories.
For example, the land of Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Rong Yao and the others have already established many steam factories overseas.
All they need is the origin of the raw materials.
For example, the origin of tea, raw silk, and porcelain.
They don't care about the heavily guarded cities, they just need to occupy the countryside.
In rural areas, the court had no soldiers, and it was impossible to send troops to guard them.
Relying on the many fortresses, they occupied the most important raw material producing area in the southeast.
With food overseas and trade goods on land, there is no need to worry about confrontation with the imperial court.
In this case, they have already occupied a strategic advantage.
It can be said that this is the power of time travellers.
To put it bluntly, disease, accidents, one's own will and execution ability are the greatest enemies of the time traveler.
As long as there are no problems in these three aspects, if you want to rebel, the probability of success is not small.
The three of Zhao Han are not lacking at all.
The court was completely panicked.
Hurry and send a large army to the south of the Yangtze River, including eight thousand cavalry. Want to rely on cavalry to crush the opponent.
Unfortunately, the cavalry cannot cross the river.
You must face the Jiangbei Fortress first.
The pirate fleet blocked the Yangtze River, and the court panicked.
The emperor then issued a decree to revive Wang Ziteng.
However, Wang Ziteng said that he was seriously ill and could no longer lead the army.
The emperor personally sent people around Bashu, crossing the Longjiang River from the upper reaches, and all the way to Jinling, which had not yet fallen, to check on Wang Ziteng's illness.
Wang Ziteng was sitting at home, surrounded by servants.
"My lord, you are deceiving me!" The eunuch said in shock.
“Deceiving the emperor, I will let you know what deceiving the emperor is right now!”
"The king treats his ministers like pigs and dogs, and his ministers regard him as an enemy!"
As he said that, he asked his servant to pour a bottle of poison into the mouth of the great eunuch!
The great eunuch struggled for a while and died as if by chance!
"This whole evil thing has finally come to an end today!" After Jia Lian learned about this, he couldn't help but say something from the original work.
"Huh, the emperor seems to be aloof, but he is so fragile. As long as someone pushes you, you will fall!" Wang Ziteng looked at the letter coming from outside.
This is about the pirate rebellion and siege of the capital.
This made him know that the imperial court was very weak.
I can't deal with any pirates, I can only let the pirates come and go as they please.
Before, on land, we could rely on more soldiers to cope with it, but now it is at sea.
What matters at sea is the size of the ship, the number of cannons, the speed of the ship, and the quality of the sailors. It has nothing to do with the number of people.
Soon after, news came from the capital.
The queen died of illness...
Concubine Yuan was promoted to imperial concubine.
Okay, this time it was the queen's turn to die of an inexplicable illness.
After the Jia family learned the news, they were filled with joy.
However, Jia Baoyu knew that Concubine Yuan had been rescued from the harem by a group of men in black and was missing.
Actually, I went to an island somewhere.
The palace is not that strict.
…………
Three months later.
Jiangbei Fortress.
To the north is an army of 50,000, known as 200,000, densely packed.
But they soon found that this fortress was too difficult to chew.
They used many divine cannons to bombard the fortress.
However there was only some simple destruction.
Behind this fortress is Longjiang.
The pirate fleet controls the water and can resupply at any time.
If a fortress is always supplied, it can hold out for a long time.
Because it can not only replenish supplies, but also replenish soldiers.
That is, both sides compete to see whose finances go bankrupt first.
Obviously, the supply line is short, and the party that uses sea transportation for supplies has an advantage.
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At this moment, a red-haired merchant ship was watching the battle between the two parties at the mouth of Longjiang River.
The cannon roared, and another attack failed.
Both the captain and first mate are red-haired men.
After reading it with the telescope, the captain couldn't help but regretted: "It seems that this Eastern dynasty is going to end. Why can't we do this?"
The first mate said: "It's very simple, Jia must Dan, because we don’t look like the locals.”
“Is it that simple?” The captain couldn’t believe it.
"Yes, it's as simple as that. Because they look different, we can't get them to obey us sincerely, and we won't treat them as the same kind. Everyone has different thoughts." said the first mate. .
"Just because they look alike, they were able to conquer this Eastern dynasty? I still can't believe it's such a simple reason." The captain shook his head.
"The reason is actually as simple as that. If we don't look like them, we can't really integrate into these people. We come here to make money. If we look different from them, we lack a sense of belonging to their ethnic group and are unwilling to gain experience among them. There is a sense of accomplishment, so we will not think about leading them to gain honors. "The first mate is obviously a cultural person, very powerful, and he must be a philosopher.
He is right.
Until the 21st century, a person’s appearance still determines the stability of the ethnic group.
“Can you explain it to me in detail?” the captain asked curiously.
“Can, for example, people from Rongyao Group treat refugees and treat them as the basis of their rule? Will we do this?”
"No, we don't trust them, and we don't trust them sleeping together." The captain thought for a while and shook his head.
"This is the key. The distance is too far, and there are too few of our own people. These are not excuses. The key is that the appearance is different. We cannot regard them as our own people."
< br>"I understand, the people of Rongyao Company are the same as them, so the manpower of Dongfang Dynasty can be transformed into people of their company on the spot. This is the key." The captain finally understood.
"That's right. If we choose to convert these people into our own people, then if we work hard for so long, doesn't that mean we are working for them?" The first mate shook his head.
“Yes, we are here to make money, not to give them money. And these people in Rongyao Company are here to rule. Their main purpose is not to make money, but to gain power. Gain glory and gain fame among this tribe." The captain understood completely.
He also felt very sorry.
Because of Rong Yao Company’s tactics, many of them have understood clearly over the years.
That is exactly their colonial strategy.
Introduce your own people, then open up the land and kill the natives.
The only difference is that it is too difficult for them to bring in their own people.
"Yes, our colonies can only bring in a few thousand people at a time. Their colonies can have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people at a time. They expanded to a million people in two years. This is something we can achieve in decades. "The first mate shook his head.
"This is the basis of their victory. The same technology, the same approach, but with a larger population, they have gained the dominance of this huge Eastern dynasty. I am really not willing to accept it." The captain shook his head.
The first mate smiled and said: "That's right, so when we get here, we can't just watch. Captain, which side do you think we are on?"
"We must be on it. On the court's side, they don't understand business and can give us an opportunity to monopolize goods. The court will not have commercial competition pressure from us, and the Rongyao Colonial Company is a larger colonial group. "Captain. said.
The first mate nodded: "Yes, we have to help the court to restrain Rongyao Company. They have taken advantage of their own advantages and have taken away a lot of our places on the entire southern islands, just because they can Bring more colonial population ”
So the red-haired captain decided to go to Beijing.
They secretly bypassed Rong Yao Company's fleet, arrived at the court, and met with the Holy Emperor.
After bowing down and bowing, the emperor was overjoyed when he heard that they were willing to use the fleet to help the court gain maritime superiority.
Rong Yao Company is actually not that strong. The key is that the fleet is too powerful.
To build such a fleet, it would take the court more than five years to buy ships.
And time waits for no one.
This is the power of the navy. Once you take the lead, it will be difficult for you to catch up in a war.
Unless your industrial strength is strong enough, your opponents will not be able to destroy your industry.
The emperor decided to make the captain of the red-haired man the Marquis of Dinghai.
And gave them a lot of gold and silver to help them buy warships.
One month later.
The red-haired captain returned home happily with two million taels.
He decided to retire.
Yes, he was lying to the court.
No way, he really wanted to help the other party, but who made them act like this, they actually paid the full amount directly.
Then why would he risk going to war?
Wouldn’t it be nice for him to run away?
However, the emperor still had a big harvest, and the harvest was: ocean trade, no businessman, no treachery.
Never give out the full amount of money until you see the goods; similarly, never give out the full amount of the goods without seeing the full amount of money.
The tuition fee is worth paying.
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