Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 543 The Battle of Kabul Begins (Please Subscribe!)
For example, Daming recently lacked copper, so anyone who sells copper ore or copper ingots will be exempted from tax.

And those who export copper ore and copper products are all heavily taxed.

Another example is that Daming has been short of food, sulfur and saltpeter, etc., and these can be handled in the same way.

If Daming produces a lot, too much to be used up, and exports can bring huge benefits, then they should actively export.

Such things include various industrial products, porcelain, silk, tea, steel, clothing and so on.

Then there is the kind of products that are available in Ming Dynasty and also in other countries, and the products made by Ming Dynasty have no advantages, so tax relief can be given to encourage those merchants to export.

Examples of such things are sailing ships, copper coins, sugar, agricultural implements, and so on.

To put it bluntly, the customs is the department serving the first five-year plan of Ming Dynasty.

In order to make the first five-year plan smoother, Zhu Kezang also completely liberated female workers.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, rituals and music collapsed in the south of the Yangtze River. It was already a common phenomenon for merchants to wear silk and women to go out. In history, Liu Rushi traveled around as a mere woman, so the restraint on women was not so strong.

What's more, Zhu Kezang also took this into consideration, and issued an imperial decree: to allow cotton mills and weaving factories in various places to set up male and female factories based on gender.

In the past, many women from their own families were allowed to enter factories disguised as men.

After bringing more income to the family, many families still could not resist such economic benefits, and had to abandon stereotypes and customs, allowing their daughters to enter factories with only female workers.

The social foundation of traditional Chinese Confucianism is being destroyed little by little.

True Confucianism, which emphasizes pragmatism, gradually gained the upper hand.

In order to thoroughly implement His Majesty Zhu Kezang's thought that "women can hold up half the sky", factories for women workers have been established in various places.

The result was a massive influx of female workers into the cotton textile industry.

In this way, it is impossible to prevent the decline in the price of cotton and silk after the advent of advanced spinning and weaving technology.

As the price of cotton cloth and silk dropped in the Ming Dynasty, especially the price of cotton cloth, ordinary people in the Xinguangfu area of ​​the north wore more and more cotton-padded clothes in this cold winter, and many people who could only wear patched clothes began to have a complete garment.

This is the industrial age of the Ming Dynasty, allowing the common people to live with more dignity, and there is still a long way to go before they can live a real life.

In the 28th year of Kangxi, the second day of December.

Prince Kang Jieshu led 15 Junggar musket infantry, [-] Kazakh cavalry, [-] Khiva soldiers, [-] Bukhara soldiers, and a small number of Han Eight Banner elite gunners, a total of [-] Mongolian advance troops!
The advance army sounds nice, and should be called miscellaneous soldiers.

The Kabul River is the junction of the current Holy Mongolian Empire, the Bukhara Khanate and the Mughal Empire. Like last time, Prince Kang is going to directly lead the army to forcibly cross the river from the shallow and narrow section of the upper reaches of the Indus River.

Previously, because the troops of the other two Khanates had not assembled well, Jieshu had led [-] Kazakh cavalry to burn, kill and loot everywhere in the area south of Kabul.

The two cities around Kabul were broken one after another, and each of the captured cities suffered serious damage. The elderly were killed, young adults and children were robbed, as well as the gold, silver and food in the city. The cities that the Qing army passed through Almost became an empty city.

However, because he was too complacent, he accidentally lost his way and crashed into the Alamein Mountains, and heard that the Mughal governor of Afghanistan, Aamir Khan, led an army of [-] to encircle him.

Jie Shu didn't know anything about the Mughal army at this time, so his first thought was to run away.

But Aamir Khan chased after him, so Jie Shu could only turn around and shoot. It turned out that the Kazakh cavalry who had been briefly trained by the Qing general killed the Mughal army and collapsed!
If it weren't for the Mughals who came with another [-] reinforcements, Jie Shu wouldn't have waited for the troops to gather, and would have just entered the pass and killed them.

After all, for the first battle in Tianzhu, Jieshu is ready to hold his hand, and when he comes back, he will wait for the 15 troops to gather.

It was winter, and it was the dry season. The water level in the shallow and narrow part of the upper reaches was so low that no boats were needed, and soldiers could cross the river just by wading through the water.

On the third day of December, an army of 15 Mongolians came to the river.

clang!clang!clang!
On the other side across the shallow and narrow section of the river, the alarm bells of the military barracks of the Mughal Empire rang.

A large number of soldiers of the Mughal Empire rushed out of the barracks and came to the river.

"The devil! The devil is coming!" A soldier of the Mughal Empire shouted in horror.

The ferocity of the Jieshu Mongolian army has already carved a deep mark in the eyes of the Mughal soldiers, which made the Mughal soldiers and ordinary people feel fearful when they mentioned the Qing Mongolian army.

Even though Jieshu's army hadn't started to cross the river, the 20 Mughal army on the other side of the river was already timid before fighting.

This is not their fault. The Mughal Empire had a deep caste hierarchy. Under the leadership of the unique sects of the Mughal Empire, people of low castes were bullied by high castes and never resisted.

So they only pin their hopes on the next life, and in this life they will eat and wait for death. An army composed of such people is destined to be unlikely to have much combat effectiveness.

"These savages haven't started crossing the river yet, the river is blocking them, let's not be afraid of them!"

Some Mughal Empire officers shouted, trying to appease the soldiers.

Although they also feared the Qing army, this was not a direct face-to-face fierce battle with the Qing army, but to prevent the Qing army from crossing the river.

Even if the water in this section of the river is not deep and the river surface is not wide, they still have some confidence just to prevent the Qing coalition forces from crossing the river.

In any case, those who can become military officers must at least be of a high caste with a certain status.

The wealth of the entire Mughal Empire is in the hands of the high caste. As a member of the high caste, they undoubtedly do not want the Qing army to invade. After all, the Qing army came to rob their wealth.

After being appeased by the officers for a while, the Mughal soldiers really calmed down a lot. Yes, it was across the river. They only needed to shoot arrows at the river when the Qing army started to cross the river to stop the Qing army.

At the beginning, archers from the Mughal army were sent to the front to bend their bows and set arrows. As long as the Qing army started to cross the river, they would shoot arrows without hesitation.

Across the Kabul River.

Jie Shu raised his hand and gestured a few times in the void.

Behind, a general of the Junggar army bowed to accept his orders and retreated.

Boom boom boom!
After a while, with the sound of artillery, countless shells fell on the group of Mughal soldiers on the other side of the river.

The shells exploded, blowing up the Mughal army on the other side of the river at once, causing heavy casualties.

Many Mughal archers who were ready to shoot arrows at the front were directly thrown off the river bed by the blazing waves of shells.

The quality of the artillery from the Raksha Kingdom looks pretty good!

Boom boom boom!
With only an interval of twenty breaths, there was another round of shelling.

During the continuous bombardment by the Qing army and the full half-stick incense of the Mughal army, at least [-] Mughal soldiers were killed and injured, and the morale of the remaining Mughal soldiers was knocked down, and they fled around under the shells , a mess.

(End of this chapter)