Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 207 Straight advice
The thriving and prosperous Ming Dynasty undoubtedly put great pressure on the Manchu Qing. In fact, there are not many provinces that the Manchu Qing can really control completely, leaving only Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong. , Northern Jiangsu, Northern Anhui, and most of Shaanxi, a total of almost six provinces, and they are really not too rich provinces.

In fact, gradually, the Manchu Qing was increasingly facing the same situation as Wu Sangui, that is, although the soldiers and horses were strong, they inevitably lacked stamina. Inventory is directly reduced by half.

Comparing with Wu Sangui, he still has more strength, but compared to Nanming who is thriving, even Kangxi himself knows that the gap is gradually widening.

Especially with the loss of Liaodong, he cut off the back road. The current situation is already desperate, and although Yue Le repelled the Wu army's reinforcements several times on the western front, he has already besieged Pingliang City. The water was not leaking, but after three or four months, although Pingliang City had been bombarded to pieces, it still stood firm and upright, and Yue Le, who was in a hurry, was full of bubbles.

Needless to say, on the eastern front, the current overall national policy of the Qing government is to temporarily avoid confrontation with the Ming court, and has even started small-scale trade to alleviate the food crisis in the country. Although the southern front has continued to have small victories, there are indeed no major victories at present. It's always a bit difficult to open the situation, with more than enough defense and not enough offense.

Fortunately, there is basically no war on the northern front. The Mongolian and Russian tribes are entangled, but no one has the time to pay attention to him, especially the Mongolian tribes, especially the Chahar tribes on the Horqin Grassland. After Ting's firearms support, he obviously had other thoughts. After all, marriage with the Manchu and Qing generations was still useful, but he had some other thoughts.

Not only did they not continue to threaten the confidant of the Qing court, but they resumed trade with the Qing court in Shanxi, and even a considerable amount of firearms aided by the Ming court flowed into the Qing court.

It seems that a considerable number of people in the upper class are not very clear-headed, or they still want to restore the glory of the Great Yuan, and want to win over the Qing court to continue to maintain the Mengman alliance, but reverse the upper and lower levels.

Or they just simply feel that the Ming court is powerful, but they are unwilling to be a vassal of the Ming court, and want to keep the Manchu Qing to fight with the Ming court and lose both sides.

Of course, it may also be because of the simple lack of brains, the conflicts with the Ross people and the Koreans are too great, to the point where they can no longer be distracted and go south.

Khalkha Mongolia, on the other hand, was determined to fight Junggar.

The Mongols have always had this kind of obsession, thinking that the reason why they have been reduced to being bullied by anyone in the past hundred years is entirely because the Mongolian tribes cannot work together. As long as they can unify Mongolia, they Mongols are invincible in the world of.

But in short, no matter what the actions of the Mongolian side are, the status quo of the Qing court is not very optimistic after all, and as the saying goes, poverty means thinking about change. But it is far from the bear in the late Qing Dynasty in the original history.

To put it bluntly, it is not rigid. To be honest, as a feudal regime, it is actually still on the rise. It is only because of Nanming, the budding regime of the asset sister, that it has been hit by dimensionality reduction, so it seems powerless.

Therefore, since the fall of Nanchang, the voice of reform has not stopped. After all, there is no immutable shackles of the ancestral law. Their ancestral law has changed several times in the past few decades, and the people of insight in the Qing court all It can be seen from the heart that many systems within the Ming court are better.

However, the system of the Ming court is based on the reality of the false monarch. As the founder of the country with unparalleled prestige, Liu Dapao has no absolute authority within the Ming court. , that is to kill oneself, how could Kangxi agree?

So after countless quarrels, it is surprisingly consistent with history and has come to the old road of utensil reform. It is believed that the reason why the Qing court lost in the Jiangxi battlefield is that the progress in various battlefields is not so smooth. Utensils are not as good as people, especially firearms are not as far away as the Ming court, and Wu Sangui and Burni both have firearms supported by the Ming court.

So much so that now no one in the army is bragging about the absurdity of riding and shooting into the customs, and has begun to encourage the soldiers of the Eight Banners to learn how to operate firearms. More than half of the energy of the central court has been devoted to how to imitate Ming court firearms on the body.

Foreign missionaries such as Nan Xiren were even more exceptionally promoted, and their status was extremely high, because they preached everywhere that Liu Dapao's firearms were good, in the final analysis, it was because they had obtained the technology from the Dutch, and he himself was even more so. It was an errand entrusted to the person in charge of the new armory.

What's more, Kangxi has put down his body to study and understand the situation in European countries seriously, and has set aside an office in the capital for the British East India Company, and even opened a new joint venture with a British company. Qingshu Pacific Company.

Of course, due to the absolute control of offshore trade by Lao Le and other naval departments, this new company has no serious use so far.

But in short, the Qing court learned from the Ming court in everything, and this regime is indeed quite dynamic, and it is really reforming, but some parts related to the highest power have been reformed speciously.

Boom, boom, boom~
On the school grounds, accompanied by a burst of intensive shelling, the dust that covered the sky and the sun was rolled up, and rows of densely arranged cannons were bombarding non-stop. The young emperor Kangxi, who saw this scene for the first time, was trying to sit up straight. , pretending to be calm and composed, but the joy and excitement in his eyes could not be concealed.

However, in the eyes of the other nobles who have been on the battlefield, they are all frowning, and even faintly disappointed.

"Okay! Okay! Nan Xiren, you did a good job. With such a magical weapon, why worry about being invincible! Prince Kang, look at how my Qing Dynasty's mighty cannon compares to the Ming court?"

After hearing the words, Prince Kang Jieshu struggled for a long time, but suddenly he stood up and reached out to touch the temperature of the cannon body, finally sighed, and said truthfully: "Returning to the emperor, the range of this cannon is probably... I am afraid that there is still some distance between it and the artillery of the Ming court. The more important thing is the heat dissipation. According to my understanding of firearms, the temperature is so high. I am afraid that if it is fired continuously, the risk of exploding the chamber is still very high. "

Kangxi was surprised and said: "This cannon is so excellent, is it still not as good as Nanming's?"

Jie Shu smiled wryly: "I also want to say something about the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, but... on the battlefield, if you are inferior to others, you are inferior to others, and there is no room for falsehood."

Nan Huairen couldn't help but said: "Prince Kang, when I imitated this batch of artillery, I used a large number of Ming court artillery for comparison. The batch of artillery I made is already difficult to distinguish from the Ming court artillery. Before that, I A comparison test was also carried out, and this thing is only better than the Ming Pao, is it true that Prince Kang thinks too much about Ming Ting's firearms?"

Jie Shu shook his head and said: "There are quite a few soldiers in the capital who have been on the battlefield. If you don't believe me, just ask a few of them to come over and have a look. There is indeed a gap between this thing and the Ming court."

"This...how could this be?"

"If this gun is exactly the same as the Ming court, then it should be the problem of gunpowder. Your Majesty, I heard that the gunpowder of the Ming court is shipped from overseas, and the factory is not set up in Chenghai. It was established in Wanwan, and I only know that a lot of human and animal excrement will be used to make this thing, but almost no one at the Ming court can tell the specific production method."

After finishing speaking, Le Erjin added: "I have heard similar rumors. According to the information I have learned, the production of gunpowder is the top secret inside the Ming court. It is rumored that it was made by a deaf-mute from the original Tiandihui. Tang is responsible for the production, and all the people used are deaf-mute, just to keep it secret, and besides gunpowder, other technologies of the Ming court seem to not pay much attention to secrecy, whether the secret of the superior firearms of the Ming court is not in the Firearms, but what about gunpowder?"

Nan Huairen nodded and said, "If there is a real difference between the firearms I imitated and the Ming court's, it might really be due to the gunpowder. Your Majesty, I beg you to give me some Ming court's gunpowder for research."

"It's not difficult, but, if there is something special about this gunpowder, can you guarantee to research it?"

"This... back to the emperor, the production of gunpowder is different from firearms after all, I'm afraid... it's really difficult."

But Nalan Mingzhu suddenly said: "Your Majesty, gunpowder is nothing more than a secret recipe. Although it is not easy to develop and crack it, once you know the secret recipe, it is the easiest to make. I think that it is better to simply crack …Think of a way to steal this secret recipe? The Ming court focuses on business, and most businessmen make a lot of money.”

"It's on Wanwan Island. I'm afraid the merchants in the Ming Court don't know about it. How can they steal it?"

"Wanwan Island is so big, there must be a solution, and besides, aren't there still indigenous people who are still resisting on that Wanwan Island? Isn't the descendant of the big belly still there?"

For a while, everyone started talking about it, but they all felt that this matter might indeed be possible, but no one could come up with any specific plan to steal the secret recipe, and no one took the initiative to stand up. He took the initiative to take this matter on himself.

Kangxi was also quite disappointed about this, but he suddenly heard a shout from the audience: "The strength of the Ming court lies in Liu Dapao's knowledge of people and his good use of them, and his lack of love for power. Integration, I heard that the Ming court has recently issued a patent law to encourage craftsmen to innovate, and to study strange techniques and tricks, is it just because of gunpowder?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and their faces became ugly for a while. They all looked at the person who spoke, but it turned out to be only a Han.

Of course, he is also a Han with a special status. It is Chen Tingjing, the teacher of Kangxi, who is also from Shanxi. In fact, the Shanxi Han is now basically the second echelon after the Liaodong Han. People come to use.

Seeing Chen Tingjing knelt down in the room, he shouted loudly: "Just three years ago, Liu Dapao only had a corner of Chaozhou in his hands. He was a junior in terms of seniority, and he was the last in the world in terms of military strength. I cut down the feudal clan. They only focused on Geng, Shang, Wu, and Sun Sifan, even if he rebelled, who would pay attention to him?"

"Not to mention the small and poor people in Chaozhou Prefecture, Chenghai City three years ago due to the policy of relocating the border and banning the sea, the people's livelihood was in decline, and the establishment of the county was about to be abolished. Daqing's confidant's troubles, to put it bluntly, in today's world, it is impossible to say that Liu Dapao can be called the first prince, right?"

"Is he, Liu Dapao, really talented? Or is Chaozhou a treasured place of geomantic omen, with the temperament of the emperor? Or is it that we, the Manchus, made unforgivable strategic mistakes as opponents?"

"I thought there might be all these things, but what really made him, Liu Dapao, make such great achievements in such a short period of time, and made Geng Jingzhong gratified that the two feudal lords did not hesitate to condescend and take refuge in him, isn't it precisely Is it because of Nanming's unique political system?"

"I heard that the territory of Nanming is changing with each passing day. Their sailors don't even put their minds on us at all, but have been developing the South China Sea. Chen heard that Nanming's oil has become as cheap as ten taels of silver. Even ordinary people can eat a meal of stir-fry every now and then, Your Majesty, lords, is Nanming's strength only in firearms? They are becoming stronger and stronger!"

Kangxi's complexion was extremely gloomy, and he couldn't help asking: "According to what you mean, I can still live well, but I should thank him Liu Dapao for not killing me? What is the meaning of the teacher's aspirations and prestige? ah."

"The veteran believes that the strength of Nanming lies in the system. It is because of the patented law that Nanming has a steady stream of strange skills and skillful techniques, and there are skilled craftsmen who have passed Jiang Zhiqing in an endless stream. The political system of the company's general meeting of shareholders, so the heroes of the world are willing to work for it."

"I think that if we want to change and learn, we can't just learn the superficiality and not learn the roots. I suggest that the imperial court can also set up a political conference to invite the world's sages to participate in the discussion of state affairs. The minister thinks that the emperor should also establish a patent law to cultivate Domestic skilled craftsmen, like this, can compete with Nanming!"

After speaking, he knocked his head down.

But Kangxi's face was already dead green.

These words, in fact, have been discussed in the court for a long time, and Kangxi did not stop, but after all, the Qing court is different from the former Ming Dynasty. It has never been used to the so-called direct remonstrance. So much so that most of these words were just discussions behind his back, and no one really said them in front of him.

Not to mention, speaking out in public made him unable to step down.

For a moment, the entire school grounds could be heard falling needles.

(End of this chapter)