Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

"What's the matter?" Qiu Shuzhen looked at her husband and asked.

"The future of the second and third child!" Zhu Heqi was talking, and then glanced at Bei Jiaxin and Da Boling. Zhu Heqi's second and third child were born by them.

Zhu Hexi continued: "The boss will always have a family to inherit in the future, but what about the second and third?"

Chapter 514 Zhu Hechi's Fishing Expansion Plan!

"Second and third?"

Qiu Shuzhen subconsciously glanced at Bei Jiaxin and Da Boling after hearing what Zhu Hexi said.

Zhu Hexi's eldest son, Yixin, was born to Qiu Shuzhen. He was not only the legitimate son, but also the eldest son.

Zhu Heyi's second son, Yitong, was born to Bei Jiaxin. He has a quarter of Portuguese ancestry. He is very beautiful, with big eyes and long eyelashes. One-third of the Portuguese blood kept him away from the imperial power of the Ming Dynasty.

And Zhu Heyi's third son, Yibo, is the son of Daboling... Daboling is not Bei Jiaxin, she is Zhu Heqi's love, and she is also a giant of the Chaozhou faction, and it is Zhu Tianwang, Zhu Heqi and his father and son who started their careers The "original shareholder" of Tianwangzhai in Dananshan.

Behind Da Boling is the support of the two Chaozhou clans, Su and Ye, especially Su Yong, Su Meng, Su Zhe, Su Zhanshan, Su Zhanhai, Su Zhanjiang and other powerful people from the Su family.

Moreover, Da Boling himself is also a hero of Zhu and Qiyuan, and also holds the title of Mrs. Guo (equivalent to the Duke of the State).

In addition, shortly after Zhu Hexi became King of Ming, he also canonized Da Boling as the Noble Concubine of the Zhinu Palace... Qiu Shuzhen herself was only the Princess of Ming, but Da Boling was the Noble Concubine!

The imperial concubine is even bigger!

What made Qiu Shuzhen even more speechless was that no one in the Ming court expressed any objection to Da Boling's title of Noble Concubine—this was something that could not be helped, the left prime minister Zhuge Sanhe, the right prime minister Yu Zhongxian, and the old man. But they all call Da Boling "Sister-in-law Big Belly".

Although Da Boling has always respected Qiu Shuzhen as a "little sister", she never expressed any intention of wanting her son Zhu Yibo to take over the heir.

But her strength is obvious!

And now Zhu Yibo is just a suckling baby, it's hard to say whether she can grow up, but with Da Boling's scheming, of course she won't jump out in a hurry.

But the future... is really hard to say!

Of course Qiu Shuzhen would be happy if Zhu Yibo could be kept far away, but what does Da Boling mean?

I saw Da Boling frowned slightly, thoughtfully, "Your Majesty... where are you going to seal Yibo? Didn't you mean that there will be no more vassals in the territory of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty? Don't you think so?" Do you want Yibo to become king in Liaodong?"

Zhu Hechi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "There must be several vassal kings in the northeast area. Didn't Grandpa Taizu seal the three vassal kings in that area? Ning Wang, Liao Wang, Shen Wang, etc.? These three kings have all developed and grown in the Northeast, so where is the possibility of the rise of the Manchurians?

However, the world today is very different from that of Grandpa Taizu. In the future, our mortal enemy of Ming Dynasty will no longer come from the deserts, grasslands, and forests in the north, but will come from the sea.

So in the future in the Northeast and Mongolia, the vassal kings will definitely seal some, but that's not the point.In the future, the focus of enfeoffment will still be in Nanyang, Dongyang, and overseas! "

"Overseas?" Da Boling smiled, "Your Majesty wants Bozai and Tongzai to be the kings of Malacca and Luzon?"

Bei Jiaxin added with a smile: "There is Batavia too! I heard that the land of Java is extremely fertile, and it is the second best place in Southeast Asia... Let Tongzi go to Batavia to be king." Yes. Malacca is the best place to go in Nanyang, so give it to Bozai.”

Da Bo Ling smiled and nodded, "Then I will thank you for Bo Zai."

Seeing that the two girls were very interested in overseas feudal states, Qiu Shuzhen also laughed: "My lord, do you want to start a war against the Dutch and the Spaniards? I heard that King Yanping and Marquis Jinnan (Chen Yonghua) I have given you a few folds, and I want to take down Luzon Island!"

Seeing the reactions of the three women in his harem, Zhu Heqi also laughed happily, as if he was very satisfied.

After all, he was born as a pirate, and he still has a bit of international vision.

But just Malacca, Batavia and Luzon are not enough!

Zhu Heqi's ambitions are even greater. What he wants is an Eastern order completely dominated by the Great Ming Dynasty.

In the future, if the Great Ming Dynasty wants to maintain its number one position in the world for a long time and interrupt the process of Westerners dominating the world, it must obtain absolute control over East Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and even the Central Asian civilization circle.

And absolute dominance can only be obtained through bloody wars, and cannot be obtained by diplomatic means.

So Zhu and Qi have been refraining from making a move, and let the Dutch and Spaniards jump up and down to piece together an anti-Ming alliance.

Even after he learned that Bahai led the Five Thousand New Eight Banners cavalry into North Korea and forcibly rented Haizhou Port, he didn't react at all...

Moreover, he also proposed to the Tokugawa shogunate through Zheng Jing's representative in Japan, Tagawa Nanasaemon, to ask the Tokugawa shogunate to let Japan give up Ryukyu suzerainty and withdraw from the area.

But at the same time, he rejected Qiu Rong and Chen Shangchuan's request to raid and recover Ryukyu.

Of course, it is impossible for the Tokugawa shogunate to obediently give up the land and suzerainty of Ryukyu because of the unintimidating clamor of the Ming court.If they really did this, wouldn't they be sprayed to death by public opinion in Japan?A few veterans may be "heavenly punishment" for others.

Regarding Vietnam, Zhu and Qi also adopted a pedantic and unrealistic policy, demanding that the Hou Le court completely abandon the title of Dai Viet and the title of emperor, and adopt the title of Annan Kingdom internally and externally, and regard itself as the king of Annan.

Such a request, of course, was firmly rejected by King Zheng Gen of Dinh Nam of Dai Viet, who actually controlled the Hou Le regime.

And this way of showing strength in words but showing weakness in actions makes it easy for people to overlook the strength of Daming.

Once Japan, North Korea, and Vietnam ignore the strength of Ming Dynasty, they may be fooled by the Netherlands, Spaniards, Kangxi, and Wu Yingxiong into the chariot against Ming Dynasty.

Once they are firmly seated in the chariot, it will be difficult to think about it...

The reason why Zhu Hexi wanted to do this was to tie more than 2000 million peace-loving Ming people to his own chariot and let them support a war that would establish Ming's absolute dominance over the eastern world.

This war is a bit like the Qing Zhun War in history. It was through this long-term war with the Junggar Khanate that the Qing Dynasty incorporated Khalkha Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang and other places into its territory one by one.

If the Khan kings of Junggar coaxed Kang Mazi with good words and did not stretch their claws at Khalkha Mongolia and Tibet, the three emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong would certainly not waste so much effort to go west.

Even if Kangxi wanted to fight, the ministers and nobles of the Eight Banners would try their best to stop him.

The final result is mostly canonization, rewarding, saying something nice to each other and fooling each other before being pulled down.

Although these territories can still be drawn on the map, it is impossible to actually control them.

So Zhu and Qi are now bluffing and showing weakness at the same time.He just wanted to help the Dutch, the Spaniards, Kangxi, and Wu Yingxiong to make the sixteen-nation alliance a reality.

If you do it right, then you must fight!

If it is defeated, it can be annexed if it can be annexed. If it can't be swallowed, the king must be replaced by the Zhu family, and the army must be stationed.

Only in this way, countries such as Dongyang and Nanyang will become the places where Ming capitalism collects raw materials and dumps commodities!

But Zhu Heqi will not tell Qiu Shuzhen, Da Boling and Bei Jiaxin about this kind of dark thoughts now...No one will tell this matter!

Thinking of this, he smiled and said, "Okay, from now on, Malacca will give Bozai, Batavia will give Tongzai, and Luzon..." He glanced at the pregnant Yang Ziyun, "Ziyun, you You have to work hard to have a son!"

"Ziyun must have a good life!" Yang Ziyun seemed to think that he could work hard to have a son and a daughter, so he really nodded in agreement.

Zhu Heqi laughed loudly and said: "Since you all want your son to go abroad and become king, then the lonely family will turn around and discuss with the second chancellor and a group of university scholars. First, the canonization of the feudal king and the ancestral family of the feudal king should be legalized." come down."

The ninth volume of Qing Dynasty is coming to an end!

Chapter 515: The Four Years of King Ming, the Eve of the Great War!

The summer of the fourth year of Ming Wang Jianguo.

When the weather is getting hotter, in the capital city of Nanjing, people passing by on the streets take off their quilted gowns, and those who are more fashionable even put on brightly colored silk clothes to show off in the market.

In this summer, the most popular clothing color in Nanjing is noble and gorgeous purple... aniline purple!

Zhinu Palace, which is privately owned by Zhu Hexi, has been launching silk and cotton fabrics dyed with artificial synthetic dye aniline violet since last winter. Satin and cotton dyed with dyes are very popular because they are not easy to fade, and the color is thick and uniform...

However, because purple natural dyes are too rare, the popularity of sulfur black and sulfur blue cannot be compared with aniline violet...

Under the impetus of Zhu Heqi, the king of Jian Guoming, the large-scale demolition and construction that had lasted for several years finally brought a lot of new looks to Nanjing.A series of open roads have been opened and paved, and the city's drainage system has also undergone large-scale transformation.

In Longjiangkou, Yifengmen, Sanshanmen, and the few days outside the Nanjing Imperial City, many tall and straight buildings were built, and they became more and more beautiful.Many new-style enclosures with red brick exterior walls and glass windows have appeared, and they have gradually acquired the style of a modern metropolis.

By the way, there are many carriages and tricycles on the streets of Nanjing today, especially the latter is particularly eye-catching.

This kind of tricycle is divided into two types: freight type and transportation type. Among them, the small freight tricycle is a trailer mounted on the two rear wheels, which can be decorated with miscellaneous things. It is the favorite of small city traders.

The small three-wheeled vehicle is the favorite transportation tool used by officials in Nanjing.

Nanjing City is a city that occupies a huge area. Even if you don't count the huge and empty eastern part of the outer city, if you only talk about the inner city of Nanjing and the bustling western part of the outer city, it is an incredible city.The yamen of the Nanjing Imperial City and the Nanjing Imperial Court are all concentrated in the eastern part of Nanjing's inner city, which is a little far away from the bustling living area of ​​Nanjing City.If you don't have a means of transportation, commuting to and from get off work every day can be a bit tiring.

Of course, high-ranking officials can afford to keep a horse-drawn carriage or simply ride a horse instead, but middle and low-level officials do not have this condition-how big is the house to keep a horse and put a horse-drawn carriage?

So every day before and after get off work, you can see the mighty traffic flow on several main roads leading to the Imperial City of Nanjing.

Countless officials in Confucian uniforms, with beards (and some without beards), big swords in their waists, and hollow grenade hammers, came and went on small tricycles like this.

Well, the original Confucianist fighters who once shocked the situation have now started their daily life of clocking in and going to work from [-] to [-].

And these officials who go to work on small three-wheeled wheels have given the city an air of being a political center.

It was in this spring that Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi returned to the city of Nanjing after a long absence.

They have been in Dengzhou City for more than three years. It is also a metropolis that is developing extremely rapidly, and even a bit deformed and prosperous... Unlike the balanced development of handicrafts, commerce, and finance, Dengzhou has almost no What kind of handicraft industry, although it is a bit of trade, there is no way to compare it with Nanjing.But the financial industry in Dengzhou is so prosperous!

In the Dengzhou commercial port, which does not occupy a large area inside the outer wall of Dengzhou, there are at least hundreds of banks and banks.Tens of thousands of funds come in and out every day!

In addition to the well-developed financial industry, the real estate market in Dengzhou is also very prosperous.To the south of Dengzhou Commercial Port, there is a secluded neighborhood surrounded by tall fences, within which hundreds of courtyards of various sizes have been built.

Regardless of the size of the area, these courtyards all have tall and solid outer walls and thick wooden gates.Moreover, their gates seem to be closed forever, and there are very few sounds within the high walls, and it seems that no one lives in them.

However, these seemingly vacant properties are all worth a lot of money. The cheap ones cost two thousand silver dollars, and the most expensive ones are even worth over ten thousand...

But whoever thinks that Terengganu under the rule of King Zhu Cijiong only has a developed financial industry, an expensive real estate industry, and a tepid import and export trade, then it is a big mistake!

Because the territory of Dengzhou under Zhu Tianwang's rule not only included Penglai County, but also three large counties including Fushan, Ninghai, and Rongcheng.These three states and counties are all along the Bohai Sea, and the most indispensable thing is the relatively closed peninsula and offshore islands.

It is not difficult to train troops on these peninsulas and offshore islands without telling the eyes and ears of the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, Dengzhou Town of Daming spent nearly 400 million silver dollars a year, almost all of which were spent on recruiting troops, equipment training, hoarding supplies and building barracks.

At the end of the third year of King Ming's supervision of the country, four "town-level camps" had emerged in Fushan County, Ninghai Prefecture, and Rongcheng County, including Zhifu Island Day Camp, Yangma Island Day Camp, Weihaiwei Day Camp, and Chengshanjiao Day Camp. camp"!

Under the cover of Dengzhou, the "City of Liberty", four field towns of the Ming Army, all fully staffed, were established under the nose of the Qing Dynasty without anyone noticing.

If you count the troops of the Dengzhou battalion on the table, Daming has more than [-] elite soldiers of the Lu division stationed in Dengzhou!

This number is enough to support a cross-sea expedition!

And just as the preparations for the war in Dengzhou were coming to an end, Zhu and Qi's agreement of "no war for three years" had almost expired.

The five-year flat Liao Dynasty is about to begin!

Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi, the director of the Dengzhou Camp, naturally wanted to go back to Nanjing to discuss the matter of starting the war with Jian Guoming Wang Zhu Heqi face to face.

Of course, the two of them also want to witness the prosperity of Nanjing, the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty... It is said that the prosperity of the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed the level before the fall of the Ming Dynasty!

When Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi heard about how prosperous Nanjing was in Dengzhou, they still couldn't believe it. After all, Nanjing City in the late Ming Dynasty was a metropolis with a population of one million!

And at that time, the population of China as a whole had [-] million to tens of millions!

But today's population in the world is 6000 to 3000 million, and the population under the rule of the new Ming Dynasty will never reach [-] million.

With such a small population, can it really support a prosperous city with a population of one million?

In addition, does Yuanru, who lives in a wealthy and gentle township, still have the drive of "hard work will win" back then?Can they still fight?

However, when Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi returned to Nanjing, accompanied by Zhu Heqi, Da Boling, Zhuge Junshi, Mr. Yu, Su Yong and others, they boarded the newly built Yuejiang Tower.When he climbed up and overlooked the city of Nanjing, which looked like a busy construction site, he seemed to have returned to 30 years ago...the summer when the two of them followed the hapless Emperor Longwu into exile in Nanjing city.

Although the city of Nanjing at that time was more prosperous than Nanjing now, what Zhu Tianwang felt were two completely different atmospheres.

In Nanjing in the first year of Hongguang, it is impossible to feel the vigorous and upward atmosphere that Nanjing City had in the four years of King Ming's supervision of the country.

Look at those bearded Confucians with long swords and empty hammers rushing out from the Nanjing Imperial City on a small three-wheeled... This momentum, this turbulent energy, how can there be such a scene in Hong Guangnian?

Zhu Tianwang put away the binoculars, turned his head, and said to Zhu Hechi with a smile: "Those Yuan Confucianists riding small cars look very energetic! Sure enough, they still have the energy to do business in Guangzhou and Chaozhou back then! Yes, very Not bad...it's time to fight!"

Zhu Heqi also nodded, thinking: "It would be great if they can be so energetic when they go to work!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi smiled and said to Zhu Tianwang: "Father, the clearing and equalization of land in the middle school has been basically completed...the farmland controlled by the imperial court exceeds 800 million mu, and the population has been found to be 700. There are more than ten thousand, of which there are as many as seven million strong men, and one out of seven men is enough to have a million people, even if they are folded in half, they can pull out an army of 50, which is enough!"

Chapter 516 Surprise attack!Where is the surprise attack better?

The equal land system certainly means fairness to the middle and lower classes!

In particular, the new Daming version of the equal-field system is also combined with the two "great fairness" of equal tax and average service... Of course, the "equal service system" in the "three equal systems" can also choose to pay for exemption.

"Equal service" refers to military service and labor service. Of course, serving officials do not have to serve—serving is equal to serving. Of course, there is no way to serve in the place of household registration.Others, as long as they meet the adult standards, have the obligation to serve, but they can be exempted as long as they pay...

After the imperial court received the exemption money, it then spent money to hire mercenaries, or gave an additional subsidy to the young men who served normally.

Therefore, the mobilization standard of one out of seven and one million troops is unlikely to be achieved before or at the beginning of the war.

This level of mobilization is usually only possible in times of extreme crisis.

But even if this amount is reached, it can only be maintained for a short period of time... After all, the silver dollars needed for equipment, military pay, and food for 100 million people are astronomical.

Moreover, the impact of Qiding Fayi on production is too great, and one year or two years of gritted teeth can survive. If it takes a long time, who can bear it?

Therefore, in the long-term war, with the national strength of the new Ming Dynasty, it is already very good to be able to maintain the size of an army of 50.

And this 50 army seems to be a lot, but because the new Ming Dynasty is taking the route of both sea and land, and it is still [-]v[-] on the mainland...so the force is not as abundant as imagined.