Fast Travel: A Record of Unusual Creatures

Pull the timeline back to a year ago.

That is, when the naval army suffered heavy losses, no matter how much the surviving generals who led the troops to the sea did not want to spread the news, the relevant news was quickly spread back to the capital, which once again caused controversy in the court, and the officials quarreled.

Some people think this is a shame and must be fought back.

Some people think it is bad luck and not a crime of war.

Some people think it's time to take it easy and practice the navy more, otherwise, even if the navy of this level really approaches the border of the Daughter Country, it is estimated that it will be difficult to win the battle.

Some people think that there is no need to bury the lives of the soldiers in vain. At worst, build a city near Nanwan Island and send some soldiers to garrison it to guard against the daughter country and the escaped White Lotus Sect rebels. Those who only know how to run and hide Guys, they are definitely not the opponents of their big cavalry. It is enough to send a team to stay permanently.

Of course, there are many other proposed officials.

However, all comments can be divided into three categories. The first category is forget it. There is no need to waste people and money for it, as long as the people from Daughter Country and White Lotus Sect don't come back.

The second category is that it must be fought, and the country cannot be destroyed without giving up.

The third category is a compromise. You can neither ignore it nor make a big move. Instead, just like defending the northern Rong barbarians, build a city and build a defense line to defend it.

Just keep the Daughter Country and the White Lotus Sect out of the country.

is victory.

Officials with different ideas argued endlessly, each with their own positions and reasons, but in the end, all ideas were no match for the lack of money in the treasury, so they had no choice but to withdraw their troops and forget it for the time being.

Leave some manpower at most and keep an eye on the coastline.

As for the treasury that Emperor Xuanwu felt was abundant with gold and silver a few months ago, why did it run out of money after just a few months? Of course, it was thanks to the efforts of the royal clan and nobles and all the officials. It was their efforts to hold back , so that the full treasury can be directly raced.

Let’s talk about the clan first.

Although Qu Jie and the White Lotus Sect exterminated some of the local vassals in some counties, they still followed the rules and only exterminated the guilty vassals and their heirs. For some offshoots, or those who were incapable of doing evil themselves.

All were let off, and innocent people were not killed indiscriminately.

The overall situation was relatively chaotic before, so those offshoots of feudal lords who had escaped did not dare to take the lead at all, and had no chance to enter the capital. However, as the situation gradually stabilized, and the White Lotus Sect completely left the Daqian territory.

The offshoots of those vassal kings began to stir, and they all raised money to go to Beijing and cry at Zongzheng's side.

According to the ancestral precepts, as long as the vassal princes of various places are not completely extinct, or their titles are removed for crimes, their princely titles will always be valid. If the eldest son dies, he can be inherited by the eldest grandson. The second son inherits, even if the direct line is dead, it can still be inherited by the bastard, and the bastard is also dead, and it can still be inherited by the old prince brother who failed to inherit the throne and only inherited the county king.

Or the heirs of those brothers inherit.

So in reality, only the first and second generations of princes are more likely to be extinct. After three or five generations, it is difficult for this prince to be completely extinct.

So actually speaking, these offshoots of vassal kings who didn't have any inheritance rights at all now have the right of inheritance as a matter of course. At this time, they went to Zongzheng's side to cry mainly to be able to inherit the throne. The public's position is also very good, if it weren't for the death of the direct line, how could they have this chance?

As for the princes of the other clans, the emperor would be afraid to attack them out of consideration that the clans should be stronger. If they were too weak, it would be very dangerous to kill them all with one order.

Even if they are unhappy with the side branch taking over.

Eventually there was an intervention to help.

As soon as they helped, the final result was that those vassal kings and county kings that Qu Jie had finally wiped out were reincarnated from the dirty soil, and reappeared in another person, and it was impossible for Emperor Xuanwu to return the land that had become Huangzhuang to them. , I am even more embarrassed not to give them an acre of land, nor a penny of copper money, so they will be sent back directly.

Therefore, it can only be paid by the national treasury as usual.

Give them a few years' salary in advance.

Then, except for the injury to the treasury, everyone else can be considered happy, and there is basically no big loss.

Of course, the dead don't count.

Immediately after the clan, the nobles and officials are the ones who take money from the treasury, and their reasons for taking money are quite reasonable. Their family property has been stolen by the White Lotus Sect and Princess Jiahe, and now even eating is a problem. Not to mention expenses like children's marriage.

Whether it is true or not.

That's what they say anyway.

Emperor Xuanwu has never been able to solve the case, let alone retrieve the gold and silver. In addition, Princess Jiahe, who belongs to the royal family, is the one who did it. Now their children are getting married, and doing other things that are expensive and very reasonable What's wrong with borrowing money from the treasury?
nothing wrong...

The most important thing is that there are some officials who always feel that the fact that their property has been stolen is indeed likely to be a game of the two-person team of Emperor Xuanwu and Princess Jiahe.

It is even more confident to borrow money.

Even borrowing too much, I still feel that the law does not blame the public, and I have no idea of ​​​​repaying the money at all. It is really like borrowing money from my own family's public treasury, borrowing money from the national treasury.

Coupled with the disasters in various places, tax reduction and exemption.

In the prefectures that were ravaged by the White Lotus Sect, most of the good assets were divided up by the emperor himself and the noble officials who participated, and very few of them could be sold to the treasury, so after just a few months, the treasury was empty To the inability to prepare a new navy to attack the daughter country.

Simply normal.

Correspondingly, many honorable officials whose wealth was emptied by Qu Jie have regained quite a lot of wealth, and the one who has benefited the most is undoubtedly Emperor Xuanwu himself. Even he, the emperor, is working hard How could other officials not squeeze the cash from the treasury?

There is no money in the treasury, no matter how noisy it is, it is useless.

This matter can only let it go.

But a year later, that is when those sailors rescued by Qu Jie got the land and secretly sent people back to their hometown to pick up their family and relatives.

Even if most of them are very careful and try not to attract attention, local officials who have lost most of their population will cover it up if they can, not wanting to lower their evaluation due to the reduction of household registration.

But there is still a small part exposed.

At the same time, there are still a small number of officials who are very conscientious, investigate the relevant situation in detail and finally draw a conclusion.

Then report layer by layer and report to the household department.

Immediately afterwards, of course, Emperor Xuanwu was furious and ordered all localities to conduct a detailed investigation immediately. It took more than a month to finally investigate most of the information.

Knowing that the navy who died in battle sent people back to pick up the family members.

Those sailors who survived did not know that not all their comrades who fell into the water drowned. Some of them were rescued by the daughter country. They thought they had all drowned.

So what is reported is naturally death.

Now he is alive again, and even sent people to take away his family and relatives. Emperor Xuanwu naturally felt that he was cheated, but he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that the navy army lied about the military situation.

I feel that the real situation may not be what the sailors said. They encountered thunderstorms and huge waves at sea and suffered heavy losses. It was contact with the daughter country and the battle failed. Many sailors were captured and fled in embarrassment. He was punished, so he lied that he didn't see the soldiers of Daughter's Country at all, and encountered thunderstorms and huge waves, causing heavy losses.

After all, it suffered losses due to natural disasters.

But it is not the same as being defeated and damaged.

Thinking of this, Emperor Xuanwu became even more angry, and not only severely punished a series of officials immediately, but also those officials who he thought might have known the knowledge, and even those generals of the navy who escaped back and were not punished, were all convicted one after another. More often, Emperor Xuanwu was worried that severely punishing ordinary soldiers would cause mutiny, so he was not punished.

Still barely living a stable life.

As for the Daughter Kingdom, although Emperor Xuanwu really wanted to attack, he really couldn't afford the money, and at the same time he was not sure of winning, so he could only continue to endure.

The most is to specially allocate a few 10 taels of silver to the water army, let them train more, use water bandits and water thieves from all over the country to practice their hands first, and later gain experience and save enough money, and then send troops to attack the daughter country.

Other than that, it is nothing more than sending some spies.

Sneak into Daughter's Country secretly to inquire about news.

It can be regarded as making some preparations in advance to know ourselves and our enemies.

……

In the following years, the relationship between Daughter Country and Dagan Country has been relatively peaceful. Although Daughter Country has insisted on sending people secretly and continuing to extradite people from Dagan Country, Dagan Country has also been purchasing some special products from Daughter Country and dispatching The spies went over to find out the news.

They have neither established diplomatic relations nor declared war.

But there is always a delicate balance.

And the core of this balance can be maintained for a long time is that the daughter's state-owned magic medicine, that is, all kinds of antibiotics, those antibiotics are basically no different from the magic medicine that can cure all diseases in this era.

When the daughter country sacrificed the magic weapon of antibiotics.

At the same time, many high-quality and cheap products must be bound to antibiotics. If you can’t buy antibiotics without buying those products, you want to maintain the transaction between the two parties.

Or to put it more succinctly, it can even be called a daughter country to dump a big country, it is very easy.

The transaction came down in just five years.

Apart from spending a lot more gold and silver in the Dagan Kingdom, many honorable officials are less likely to die, and a lot of high-quality and cheap things have been produced, there are almost no changes in other aspects, and they are basically the same as five years ago.

But daughter country is different.

After five years, the territory of Daughter Country has changed from the original Jiahe Islands to 72 islands and a peninsula of 200 million square kilometers.

The total area exceeds 500 million square kilometers.

The arable land area exceeds 200 million square kilometers.

In other words, there are nearly 30 billion mu, much more than the entire arable area of ​​Dagan, because although Dagan has a large area, there is not much land suitable for cultivation, unlike Qu Jie's daughter country, which only has 200 acres. Of the more than 100 square kilometers of the peninsula, [-] million square kilometers are suitable for farming, and there are basically no deserts and barren areas.

As for Dagan, even in areas such as the south of the Yangtze River that are most suitable for farming, the arable land is only 50.00%. If the entire country is calculated, the land suitable for farming only accounts for 13.00% of the total land. Therefore, even if the country is more than Qu Jie's current Daughter's Country is nearly twice as large, but the arable land is only half of the Daughter's Country's land, perhaps less than that. After all, some arable land is not cultivated at all.

On the other hand, Qu Jie relied on all kinds of agricultural machinery to set up a large farm to reclaim wasteland and plant, and basically used all the land. If she hadn't been merciful and hadn't dumped cheap grains into Dagan territory, she might be able to do so in less than a year. Let all the peasants go bankrupt.

After all, they still have to pay agricultural taxes, poll taxes and other taxes when the land income is lower than the cost.

They don't go bankrupt, who goes bankrupt?
This was only territorial and agricultural progress.

All walks of life, including light and heavy industry, including national construction, education, etc., have made great progress.

Although it may not meet modern national standards.

But it can be considered semi-modern.

We have basically solved the food and clothing problem and completed the basic literacy work. The next thing we need to do is to become well-off, and to expand the scale and level of education, so as to make up for the unstable foundation caused by Qu Jie's overthrowing of seedlings. We have to wait for the first batch of All the students have completed their studies and entered all walks of life. After continuing to study and improve for a period of time, the negative impact can be eliminated.

Not all results are just lofts in the air.

Qu Jie will collapse as soon as he leaves.

Yes, although the Daughter Country is developing quite well now, most of the good things here are pinned on Qu Jie alone. Once she leaves or disappears, many industrial equipment will be impossible to copy and will be worn out. There are not many people who can practice cultivation.

At least we have to wait until the first batch of technical secondary school students, college students, and technical personnel from all walks of life are trained, and all basic subjects are passed down, before all aspects of the daughter country can be fully implemented and no longer a castle in the air.

So at present, what the Daughter Country needs most is peaceful development. As long as it continues to develop peacefully for decades and climb the technological tree for decades, there are plenty of lands that can be taken at any time. There is no need to go to Dagan Country No matter what they are fighting for, even the population issue, it is because they have captured a large number of people from other countries.

become less urgent.

At least there are people working.

But after all, races are different, so naturally they can't be treated equally, and they still have to be graded.

Those captured islands, or nationals of tribes or countries on the peninsula, must learn the language of the Daughter Country, join the White Lotus Sect, and make certain contributions before they can obtain the nationality of the Daughter Country.

Otherwise, you can only be considered a savage.

Neither property nor life enjoys any protection.

However, you can join the barbarian army. Although you still have no nationality, as long as you charge into battle and make meritorious service, you may still receive certain rewards and protection in the future.

If the credit is large enough, it is possible to obtain nationality.

However, Qu Jie wants to develop peacefully, and is unwilling to have any disputes with Dagan again, but Emperor Xuanwu and the others don't think so. They originally thought that the dignity of a big country should not be violated, and wanted to attack the Daughter Kingdom. In recent years, the Daughter Kingdom has also shown Antibiotic miracle drug this good thing.

Those honorable clan officials who are not willing to have the magic medicine that can save their lives in the hands of others, but also want to get the formula of the magic medicine, lying down to make money, and even Emperor Xuanwu himself, after accumulating strength for five years, let the water After five years of military training, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Pick a date and officially declare war.

And dispatched a total of 30 naval troops.

Swear to destroy the daughter's country, if it is not destroyed, it will not be returned.