1825 My New Daming

Chapter 16 The Strong, Rich and Cowardly Ming Empire! (Seek collection, ask for monthly pass, ask for recommendation, ask for follow-up)
The wheels of the train beat on the rails rhythmically, making a "boom, boom" sound, and occasionally there was a "woo-woo" roar from the steam engine head.

At this time, Zhuge Weidao had already boarded the train bound for Turgaysk, and was driving on the vast plain of the Raksha Empire covered in ice and snow.The straight-line distance from Petersburg to Turgaysk exceeds [-] kilometers, and the length of the railway line between the two places exceeds [-] kilometers.These days, the speed of the railway is only [-] to [-] kilometers per hour, and it takes more than [-] hours to travel [-] kilometers, which takes about five or six days.

However, compared with the long journey of taking a horse-drawn sled to Bagua City, the capital of the Golden Empire, and then from Bagua City to Yining, the capital of Daming Yili Province, this trip can only be described as comfortable and fast.If the latter walks away slowly, it will not be sure for two or three months!

And this time on the road is really very precious to Zhuge Weidao.Because his memory has never been "recovered", it seems that it was deleted during "soul reloading".So he can only re-"import" a little bit of necessary memory.You can't be like a stupid B everywhere, you don't know this, you don't know that. He is a Zhuge military adviser who can pinch and count!
So before boarding the train leaving Petersburg, he asked Guo Xiaobao to spend public funds to buy him many books on history, geography and naval affairs, intending to "make up for it" during the journey.Most of these books are in the Raksha language, but fortunately Zhuge Weidao still remembers the Raksha language, and he can not only speak, but also read.In addition, Natalie, who is with her, has studied Chinese seriously, and she has been learning it as her second mother tongue since she was a child, so if Zhuge Weidao can't understand, she can help translate it.

Of course, he wants to complete the "repair" in a few months and master everything that Zhuge Weidao's deity has learned in the past twenty years, that's out of the question.

Because he had already inquired with Guo Xiaobao, the original Zhuge Weidao could also be regarded as a "heavenly bull" in a Zhuge family with many talented people-a natural genius!
That "true Zhuge is the Tao" finished high school at the age of 16, and was admitted to the Daming Naval Academy with No. 1 grades. At the age of 20, it was the first in the graduation examination and comprehensive score!

Just two years later, he was admitted to the Naval Staff College with No. 1 grades, and then graduated from the Staff College with No. naval attaché.

If there are no accidents, after he completes the task of "bringing back Natalie", his next position should be as first officer or second officer on a fast cruiser or an armored battleship - such a highly technical position cannot be To be fooled by the knowledge that Zhuge Weidao has mastered today.

So after returning to Daming, Zhuge Weidao had to continue to study hard!
It was already dark outside the train, and Natalie and the accompanying Rakshasa maid had already gone back to their cubicles to sleep.

And He Zhongtang and the people from the Jin Empire mission had already returned to their carriage and squinted.

That Sushun Xiaoshunzi was also arranged by Zhuge for Tao to rest.

Only Zhuge Weidao's military officer secretary Guo Xiaobao was still yawning and accompanying him, not because Guo Xiaobao didn't want to sleep, but because Zhuge Weidao didn't let him go!
This "silly Zhuge" had a lot of stupid questions, and Guo Xiaobao had to answer them patiently.

"Baozhi, how come the Luzon Islands are half of us and Spain? Why do we occupy a Luzon Island, a Palawan and some miscellaneous small islands? We don't want so much land in the south?"

The silly question of "Silly Zhuge" came again!

Guo Xiaobao held his eyelids and replied: "Isn't this the case when King Zheng Chengzhong died of illness when he attacked Luzon Island? The Zheng family horses who followed him to the south also died of many diseases... So after conquering Luzon Island, they had to withdraw their troops .”

Zhuge Weidao nodded, and said in his heart: "Zheng Chenggong died of an illness after accepting Lu Song. It's a fulfillment of his previous wish, but this tropical disease is indeed severe!"

Guo Xiaobao said again: "Later, King Wuzhong wanted to conquer Borneo as a priority... His old man figured out that there are treasures on Borneo Island, and he must completely conquer the coastal area. So he temporarily gave up on the southern Luzon Islands. Use troops.

And in order to prevent the Spaniards from supporting the Tubang princes in Borneo.He signed a peace treaty with the Spaniards, and only took back islands such as Luzon and Palawan, and leased all the scattered islands in the south of the Luzon Islands to the Spanish Habsburg dynasty. "

"King Wuzhong knows that there is oil in Borneo!" Zhuge Weidao thought, "It must be taken... After all, the large oil fields in China are not easy to develop, and the oil on Borneo is only a few digs away. It’s just here, and several oil fields are near the coastline, so it’s very convenient to transport.”

"But why didn't King Wuzhong take over the Southern Luzon Islands after he took over Borneo?" Zhuge Weidao asked again.

Guo Xiaobao shook his head, "Brother Daozi, it's not hard for you to see people carrying burdens!"

"Why, is Borneo difficult to fight?"

Guo Xiaobao sighed and said: "It's not difficult to fight, but too many people died in building the city, deploying defenses, and garrisoning the fields after it was conquered... No less than [-] soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty died of illness in Borneo in the past ten years!
Even the son of King Wuzhong, Marquis Wenzhong of Wuxiang died of illness in Borneo! "

Zhuge Weidao also knew the severity of tropical infectious diseases. Even after the advent of quinine, tropical infectious diseases such as malaria were still fatal to immigrants from the north!
In the early years, only by desperately clearing the virgin forest into a clean cultivated land can the harm of the disease be effectively reduced.If the Ming army could capture enough native slaves or buy some black slaves, it would save a few deaths.

However, the sequelae of such a method are also quite large, it is easy to catch slaves, but it is difficult to drive them out!It is inappropriate in an area like Borneo that must be completely taken.

"This Marquis Wen Zhong of Wu Township is..." Zhuge Weidao was silent for a while, then asked again.

Even his grandfather has forgotten. Guo Xiaobao is also speechless. It seems that Zhuge Weidao's amnesia is quite serious.

Guo Xiaobao sighed and said: "He is Ling's grandfather! Your father Youde's title is also Wuxianghou, and his posthumous title is Zhongyi, and the current Wuxianghou is Ling elder brother."

"What about me?" Zhuge Weidao asked, "Do I have a title?"

"No," Guo Xiaobao shook his head, "The Zhuge family has only two hereditary titles, one is King Wu and the other is Marquis of Wuxiang."

"Oh," Zhuge Weidao nodded, "Then let's talk about how the development of Nanyang is so dirty."

Guo Xiaobao paused for a moment, and then continued: "Because there are too many dead people, the voices of opposition to the development of Nanyang have arisen. Wu Zhongwang and his old man can't convince everyone, so they have to suspend the southward plan.

He originally planned to wait until the local population of Ming Dynasty increased, and at the same time wait for the cinchona trees imported from South America to grow, and then go south in a big way.Who knew... before that day, the old man passed away during the western expedition. "

Guo Xiaobao stretched out his right hand to gently caress the map on the table, and sighed: "Wuzhong Wang joined the army at the age of 25, turned the tide from the fall, helped the Ming Dynasty from peril, flattened the Central Plains, settled the Northwest, smashed the Yellow Dragon, stepped on the grassland, swept the In the Western Regions, on the snow-covered plateau, against Raksha Baiyi, and conquered Annan, Siam, Chenla, Nanzhang, Ava and other countries in the south of the sky, and sent troops to the New World and opened up the new Manchuria.

The old man Wu Zhongwang had served as a general for more than [-] years. During this period, there were always [-] years of fighting outside. He did not take off his armor and his horse did not take off his saddle until he died in the army.It can be said that you will do your best and die after death! "

Zhuge Weidao also lowered his head to look at this Rakshasa version of the world map. The Yangyang China on the map is very big and beautiful, but it is not big enough, not beautiful enough!

The Ming Empire on the map at this time, if you count Korea, Annan, Siam, Chenla, Nanzhang, Ava, Ryukyu and other dependent countries, plus Borneo, Luzon, and New Manchuria (that is, Alaska) Overseas provinces, plus border provinces such as Mongolia, Baikal, Waixing'an, Beiyang (outer northeast coast plus Sakhalin Island), Ili and other border provinces, the total territorial area is properly around 800 million square kilometers.

To be honest, such a big empire is indeed big enough!

But it's not perfect. First of all, Ming's territory in the Americas is not big enough. Only Alaska is a land of ice and snow.

Secondly, Daming does not have those shipping hubs like Malacca!Without taking down Malacca, it would be impossible for Ming Dynasty to get involved in the oil-producing regions of the Middle East.At the same time, the Palembang Oilfield in the Malacca area is also a large oilfield with low production costs!Such a shipping throat was actually firmly controlled by the British Empire.It's a bit unbelievable!

Furthermore, Daming did not swallow Australia, which is still a British territory!

In the end, Japan did not have time to be destroyed. Is this left to Ben Zhuge?

Obviously, that King Zhuge Wuzhong didn't finish all the work, and Zhuge Weidao could guess the reason why he didn't finish it.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao asked Guo Xiaobao: "Does my great-grandfather, King Wu Zhong, like to do everything by himself?"

"Yes, yes," Guo Xiaobao said, "everyone knows about this, but the old man Wu Zhongwang is much stronger than Zhuge Kongming. But still lived to the age of 75."

Understood!
Zhuge Weidao thought to himself: "This ancestor is a workaholic. He worked hard for the country and the people for 50 years until he passed away. But the others probably didn't work so hard. Because King Wu Zhong made that set seem to be Centralization of power! Although there are representatives of the eight great families and hundreds of meritorious families discussing politics together, they have not divided the territory, and even their original territory and army have been taken back to the country by King Zhuge Wuzhong.

In addition, King Zhuge Wuzhong's governance of the new territories were all overseas provinces and frontier provinces, not to mention the closure of the country, and there were no autonomous dominions or trading companies.Although there are a few vassal states, those states are already there and were not established by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, once Zhuge Wuzhong Wang passed away, others would have little motivation to expand."

"By the way, Baozhi," Zhuge Wei said, "Did King Wuzhong mention his plans to conquer the New and Southern Continents in his legacy?"

"Yes, yes," Guo Xiaobao nodded, "King Wuzhong knew that he had been militaristic in his life, which made everyone very hard. So he asked everyone to rest and recuperate for 20 years in the legacy form. Then he will prepare for military preparations for ten years. After 30 years, launch the Great battle, go south first, then go east, conquer the southern continent, at least half of the new continent!"

Zhuge Weidao looked at the map and said with a smile: "I guess, after 20 years of recuperation, everyone feels very comfortable and doesn't want to fight anymore?"

Guo Xiaobao provoked Thumbs up, "Your opinion, that's what everyone thinks. My Ming Dynasty is the richest country in the world, with the largest industry, leading technology, vast land and abundant resources, a large population, developed industries, and products sold all over the world. There is no need to fight at all."

Zhuge Weidao smiled, and looked at Guo Xiaobao's simple and honest black face: "It is impossible not to want to fight. The tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps going! The British Empire will never give up the world hegemony that was exchanged for countless blood and lives. And we Even if we don’t want to dominate the world at all, as long as we are big enough, economically strong enough, and industrially advanced enough, we are doomed to be unable to live in harmony with the UK. So a world war is inevitable! Treasure, this is our generation of soldiers lucky!"

(End of this chapter)