Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Jing'an climbed the mountain and looked at the endless prairie in front of him, with blood in his chest.

Two thousand years ago, it was here that Huo Qubing sealed the wolf as Xu and created his own legend, right?
Looking around at the towering mountains around him, Zhu Jing'an took a deep breath and gave instructions.

"Send the order and let the army camp where it is."

"Get ready to rest!"

"I will then order people to rebuild the site where Huo Qubing sealed Langjuxu, so that future generations can pay homage to him. In addition, I will also build a Zen platform. Gu Yao will personally worship the ancestors of heaven and earth at Langjuxu Mountain."

Zhu Jing'an still couldn't help himself to do it again for his achievement of sealing the wolf as his master.

Well, when he returns with his troops, he will go to Yanran Mountain for a stroll.

Now that Feng Lang Ju Xu’s achievements have been wiped out, there’s no reason to let Le Shi Yanran go, right?

After giving these instructions, Zhu Jing'an led the team down the mountain.

Behind him, the generals of the Ming army followed step by step, and their eyes were quite enthusiastic.

Seal the wolf to live in Xu, this is to seal the wolf to live in Xu!
The most glorious martial arts in the history of the Han people, and now, they have achieved it.

How could it not be sentimental?

After today, all of the generals who participated in the confinement of Langjuxu will definitely leave their names in history.

Zhu Jing'an went down the mountain and returned to the Ming army's camp. He entered his tent and as soon as he sat down, he turned around and asked.

"Where have all the princes of Mongolia gone now?"

Zhang Jin heard this and spoke.

"Replying to Your Highness, Sanying Nuoyan Khan, Zhasaktu Khan and other tribes in Mobei have already responded, and the great khans of each tribe are ready to leave for Langjuxu Mountain."

"And all the princes from various tribes in Monan are already halfway there..."

"According to Xianguan's estimation, within a month at most, all the princes and great Khans from the tribes in southern and northern Mon will be able to come to Langjuxu Mountain and form an alliance with me, the Ming Dynasty."

After Zhu Jing'an heard this, he nodded with satisfaction.

"Well, so good."

Zhu Jing'an asked again as if he remembered something.

"By the way, how is the war going on over in Beihai?"

"Did it go well?"

The North Sea, also known as Lake Baikal.

The name of Lake Baikal in the Ming Dynasty has always been Beihai.

Zhang Jin heard this and replied.

"Returning to Your Highness, according to the news from the frontline troops, our vanguard has arrived at the shores of Beihai Lake and has entered the city of Irkutsk."

"And start preparing to launch an offensive!"

"Currently, Tsarist Russia's garrison in the direction of Irkutsk is no more than 200 people. I believe there will be good news from the front line soon."

Since the news came that Petroyev was defeated by the Ming army in Xinzhou and his troops suffered heavy losses, Bores, the governor of Tsarist Russia in Siberia, immediately led his people to evacuate to Omsk.

And the main force of Tsarist Russia in the east was reduced to Omsk.

Correspondingly, the military strength in other places will naturally be empty.

There are only 200 people left to garrison Irkutsk, that's because Irkutsk's location is relatively important, related to the ownership of Lake Baikal.

Lake Baikal is the transportation hub of the entire Siberia, and its importance is self-evident.

Otherwise, I'm afraid not even two hundred people will be left.

And this is indeed a good thing for the Ming army.

Zhu Jing'an heard this and nodded to show that he understood.

He was hoping that the front line would bring him good news.

Although the Irkutsk Fortress in Tsarist Russia was a bastion, Zhu Jing'an had no worries about it.

Because the current Ming army is already familiar with the offensive and defensive battles of bastions.

Ming Dynasty had countless methods on how to capture a bastion.

……

Capital City, Yangxin Palace!

Zhu Jianzhuo received Huang Quan's memorial sent by telegram from Nanjing.

Looking at the contents of the memorial, he frowned and began to think.

The Netherlands and the United Kingdom simultaneously sent applications to the Ming Dynasty to purchase arms. Huang Quan did not dare to specialize, so he hoped that the capital would make the decision.

Zhu Jianzhuo looked at Huang Quan's memorial with obvious hesitation on his face.

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Jianzhuo spoke.

"Yang He, go and send an order now to invite the chief minister of the cabinet to Yangxin Hall to discuss matters."

After all, the sale of arms to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands was of great importance, and Zhu Jianzhuo could not make up his mind alone.

Therefore, I am going to invite everyone in the cabinet to come and discuss matters.

When Yang He heard this, he said "I obey the order" and immediately left with fists clasped in his hands, preparing to go to the cabinet to deliver the order.

After Yang He went to deliver the order, Zhu Jianzhuo ordered people to get the arms production capacity reports of several large arsenals in the Ming Dynasty.

In recent years, with the application of steam engines and machine tools, the production capacity and quality of Ming Dynasty's arsenal have been increasing.

Judging from the current situation, even if the Ming army continues to expand its army, the arsenal's production capacity still has a considerable surplus.

If an arms trade agreement can be reached with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it will be of certain benefit to the current Ming Dynasty.

The first is to increase the source of foreign exchange, and the foreign exchange these days is not worthless paper money, but real gold and silver.

Secondly, it consumes the production capacity of the arsenal, which can further stimulate production.

It can also take the opportunity to withdraw funds to support further research and development work. Provide the most powerful support for Ming Dynasty's armament innovation.

But the disadvantage is not without it, that is, Ming Dynasty's current military trade may have hidden dangers of capitalizing on the enemy.

Without letting Zhu Jiazhuo wait long, Wang Shun and other cabinet members arrived at the Yangxin Hall.

Everyone saluted Zhu Jianzhuo and said they were seeing His Majesty.

Zhu Jianzhuo nodded slightly, and then ordered Yang He to give everyone a seat.

After everyone took their seats, Zhu Jianzhuo asked.

"I received Huang Quan's memorial, in which he mentioned that the Netherlands and the United Kingdom had both applied to the Ming Dynasty to purchase a batch of arms."

"What do you gentlemen think of this?"

Wang Shun asked, opening his mouth to inquire.

"Your Majesty, what arms do the Netherlands and Britain want to buy?"

Nowadays, the arms production capacity of several arsenals in the Ming Dynasty is still good, with considerable surpluses.

If the price offered by the Netherlands and the UK is high enough, it is not impossible for Daming to sell it.

Zhu Jianzhuo heard this and spoke.

"They want a batch of rifled guns and the ammunition used for the rifled guns, that is, blooming ammunition."

"In addition, there are rifled guns, rockets, observation balloons and other ordnance equipment."

In fact, there is not much technical threshold for arms production in this era.

Just like the rifled guns, rifled cannons, explosive shells, rockets and other cutting-edge weapons currently used by the Ming army, in fact, most Western countries can also produce them themselves.

It's just that their current production methods generally remain at the stage of manual production in small workshops.

The production efficiency and quality are far inferior to the large-scale assembly line mechanized industrial production used in Ming Dynasty's arsenal.

To put it bluntly, it is just that the production capacity cannot keep up.

Therefore, there is actually no need to consider whether the sale of ordnance will lead to technical leaks and lead to a surge in the military level of Western countries.

The only one that has a relatively high technical threshold and may lead to technical leaks after being sold is actually smokeless gunpowder.

However, the Ming army is not stupid. Of course, the export version of the arms cannot use smokeless gunpowder like the personal version.

The same goes for black powder!
Therefore, Wang Shun said after thinking for a while.

"Your Majesty, I think this arms trade can be agreed to."

"But the imperial court should raise the price appropriately!"

Li Mu, the Minister of Household Affairs on the side, heard this and immediately spoke in agreement.

"Old minister seconded the proposal!"

“It’s time to raise the price!”

Li Mu has always been the first to support things like this that can increase the court's income.

He is the Minister of Household Affairs, and every day he opens his eyes and spends hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, not to mention how stressful he is.

Especially this year, Ming Dynasty is not only doing major projects such as building railways, setting up telegraph networks, repairing the Yellow River embankment, and rebuilding the Imperial City of Nanjing.

They are still sending troops to the grasslands and preparing to recover Ryukyu and fight against Japan.

Every item costs money like water.

Especially when troops were sent to the grasslands, tens of thousands of troops fought on the grasslands thousands of miles deep into Mobei. The huge pressure on logistics supplies made the Ministry of Revenue want to curse.

Li Mu is now looking at the financial report from the Ministry of Household Affairs, and his head hurts.

If the two arms trade deals between Ming Dynasty, Britain and the Netherlands can be concluded, it will definitely relieve considerable pressure on the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Because, if the arsenal can be self-sufficient through the arms trade, then the court can reduce part of the financial allocation to the arsenal.

This part of the funding can be reserved for emergency purposes or allocated to other urgently needed areas.

With such a sum of money in hand, Li Mu can usually speak louder.

Seeing this, everyone in the cabinet stood up and spoke.

Everyone basically agrees with the arms trade, so there is no need to say more about raising prices.

Seeing this, Zhu Jianzhuo also made a decision and spoke.

"In that case, let the cabinet respond to Huang Quan."

"Since Huang Quan is handling this arms trade, the Royal Chamber of Commerce should take the lead."

When Li Mu heard this, his expression was a bit astonished.

The Royal Chamber of Commerce is responsible for the arms trade, so won’t the profits be transferred to internal funds?

Since then, shouldn't the household department have to continue to live a tight life?
Li Mu was unwilling to accept it, but when faced with Zhu Jianzhuo's decision, he did not dare to object. He could only follow the crowd and shout His Majesty's wisdom.

Although Lao Zhu relied on his son to conquer the world, he still had prestige as the leader of the Ming Dynasty's resurgence.

……

The news that North Korea and China approved the arms trade was sent to Nanjing via telegram.

Soon, Huang Quan got the news.

After thinking for a while, he asked his secretary to invite the Dutch Ambassador Anthony and the British Ambassador Charles.

Moreover, he also specifically ordered the secretary to pay attention to the journey and try to allow the two waves of people to meet outside the gate of the Royal Chamber of Commerce.

Many times, only through competition can we improve.

Well, only by allowing Britain and the Netherlands to compete and bid against each other can Ming Dynasty's arms be sold at a high price.

Upon hearing this, the secretary immediately clasped his fists and left.

Huang Quan sat back in his seat and prepared the quotation required for this military trade. (End of chapter)