Chapter 186 Many Happiness
With the surrender of the Zheng Group, the blow to Yongli, the small court of Nanming, was very huge. They completely lost a huge boost, and with the surrender of the Zheng Group, it also cut off the possibility of them to continue to obtain financial resources at sea.
After solving the big trouble of Fujian Zheng's Group, the Great China and the DPRK released more troops to transfer to Guangdong and began to launch an offensive against the Yongli small court.
Under the fierce attack of the Dazhong army, the army of Yongli's small court could only retreat steadily and constantly lose the territory they controlled. First, the whole Guangdong was occupied by the Dazhong army, and then the Dazhong army invaded Guangxi before the end of the year.
Emperor Yongli saw that Guangxi was not guaranteed, so he had to continue to escape. During the Spring Festival, he fled to Yunnan, so that the Dazhong Army controlled the whole territory of Guangxi in February of the third year of Tianyuan, compressing the whole Yongli small court's sphere of influence to a small Yunnan territory, making the Yongli small court Jianghe. Under the sun, I can no longer resist.
In March of the third year of Tianyuan, Xiao Tianjian ordered the mobilization of more than 100,000 people from all walks of life who were good at fighting in the mountains, and launched a final attack on the small court of Yongli, Yunnan. The soldiers from all walks of life were divided into three routes and began to march into Yunnan from Guangxi, Guizhou and Sichuan.
The army of the Yongli small court could not resist the powerful Dazhong army at all, and the Tusi in all parts of Yunnan also received the imperial edict of the Dazhong Dynasty, telling them that as long as they defected to the Dazhong Dynasty, they would be treated leniently in the future. Otherwise, as soon as the Dazhong army arrived, it would be extinguished.
These toasts are not stupid. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty is over, only the Yongli small court is still weakly resisting in the end. It survives in Yunnan. The strength of the Dazhong army also makes them unable to compete with it at all. It is better to follow the Yongli small court and be exterminated after the Dazhong army comes. He quickly found a way out. For the change of the Central Plains Dynasty, the impact on them is not too great. As long as they are obedient, they can continue to work for the Great China and North Korea in the future. Therefore, all the Tusi in Yunnan also announced that they would turn to the Great China Dynasty at this time, and gathered local soldiers to help the Dazhong army deal with it. The army of the Yongli small court.
The result was that in just three months, the army of Yongli's small court was defeated by the Dazhong army one after another, and the Yongli Emperor had to continue to leave. Seeing that China was basically controlled by the Dazhong Dynasty, he could not escape, so Emperor Yongli was in hundreds of loyal servants. Under the protection of Wei, he fled from Yunnan to the Kingdom of Myanmar.
In May of the third year of the Dazhong Dynasty, Yunnan announced that the whole territory would be subject to the Dazhong Dynasty. So far, Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Dynasty also completed its control of the whole south, including Hainan Island. In May, a large number of Dazhong army and navy set out in Leizhou and crossed the sea to land on Hainan Island. Officials in the thirteen counties of Qiongzhou Prefecture on Hainan Island were powerless. They resisted, so in less than a month, they announced that they would surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty and accept the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty.
After the news reached Nanjing City, the government and the opposition suddenly became jubilant. Everyone breathed a long sigh of relief and ran to celebrate each other. Since then, the Dazhong Dynasty has finally been able to settle down.
After Xiao Tianjian learned that Yunnan and Hainan Island had been recovered, he immediately laughed. Even if he held a banquet in the palace to celebrate, he almost got drunk that night.
The reason why he was so happy was that in addition to recovering the whole southern provinces and calming the Yongli Rebellion, there were several other things that made him very happy.
One is that the Nanjing Tai College, which he planned to build last year, was finally completed outside Nanjing City after the Spring Festival. The first batch selected nearly 800 students from all over the country to enter the school, becoming the largest Taixue enrollment in all dynasties, and will continue to recruit the same number from all over the country in the future. Students will be enrolled for four years. After four years, the number of students in Taixue will reach 3,000. Although this is less than the number of students in any third-rate university in later years, this is just the beginning. In the next step, Beijing Taiyuan will also open classes, and the number of students will reach hundreds, and there will be a few more years. In time, the lack of suitable officials and professionals in China and North Korea will be greatly alleviated, laying the foundation for China's future prosperity.
The second piece of good news is that after half a year of preparation, China Maritime Trade Group was officially established in Guangzhou Prefecture. According to the conditions agreed by Xiao Tianjian and Zheng Zhilong at the beginning, the court household department will take out some equity and invest it in the group company, but the household department is everywhere where money is used. I couldn't allocate so much money at once, so at the behest of Xiao Tianjian, the Ministry of Household raised funds by issuing high-interest rate bonds, and easily raised three million taels of silver, which was converted into Dalong silver dollars, that is, three million yuan. In addition, more than 150 sea boats were invested, plus Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Quanzhou, The land needed for the port terminals needed for the opening of ports in Wenzhou, Ningbo, Songjiangfu, Jiaozhou and Dengzhou was invested in the trading group as the national share capital after conversion, plus the Zheng family's 3 million taels of silver and 120 sea ships, as well as a total of 120 merchants jointly invested 5 million taels of silver. There are also more than 150 sea boats, which jointly supported the first government-private joint group company in Chinese history and announced the start of business!
Moreover, the General Administration of Customs under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household was also established before the year to manage the import and export trade affairs of ports in various places. Moreover, Dazhong and North Korea announced that all private ships should be prohibited. Merchants going to sea from other ports must go through the maritime trading group companies located in these eight commercial ports to unify import and export trade. It is managed and subject to the inspection and examination of local customs. After paying taxes, transactions can be carried out. Moreover, Macao occupied by Portuguese is declared as an illegal commercial port. No Chinese businessman is allowed to continue to trade with foreigners in Macao.
All foreigners must conduct import and export trade transactions with China and North Korea through various commercial ports, otherwise it will become illegal. Once the navy of Greater China and North Korea finds that someone privately berths a ship that trades with non-commercial ports, it has the right to seize ships and arrest those who violate the law.
Through such means, the whole of China's foreign trade will be managed in a unified way. In this way, the taxes collected by commercial ports and customs alone will be an astronomical figure in the future, and with the expansion of maritime trade, such income will become higher and higher in the future, which is not included in the national equity of trading groups. In the future, the income brought by China and North Korea will be at least more than 10 million taels of silver per year, and it will grow more and more geometrically. After a rough calculation, the officials of the Ministry of Household almost laughed. In the future, they finally don't have to worry about spending money every day. It is.
Moreover, through the efforts of major shipyards, those shipbuilders from Europe did not hide under the high salary. After more than half a year of hard work, they not only built two Western three-masted sailboats built in the early days, but also built their strength in the shipyard. With the cooperation, a large number of Chinese craftsmen who have studied with them for more than half a year are familiar with the construction method of Western-style sailboats. They have started to build four new Galion sailboats with a displacement of about 500 tons at the same time in Nanjing Shipyard and Ningbo Shipyard.
One of these sailboats has just been completed and launched in Nanjing Shipyard. As the Chinese emperor, Xiao Tianjian, after learning the news, personally went to Nanjing China Shipyard to host the launching ceremony for the ship. In accordance with Chinese tradition, he even invited monks to pray for the ship.
This Galion sailboat is an excellent sea ship equipped by many European maritime countries at present. The hull is narrower than the Clark sailboat, which reduces the height of the bow and stern of the ship, improves the stability of the ship under bad sea conditions, and with the increase of the length-to-width ratio of the hull, the sides can be arranged. There are more artillery, and the speed at sea has been accelerated a lot. Westerners use this kind of ship to travel around Europe, the East and even around the world. At the same time, they also use this kind of ship as a warship to compete for the interests of the sea.
The Galion sailboat built by Nanjing China Shipyard can carry 20 24-pound guns and 12 12-pound guns at the same time. It can also carry several small Franco machine guns at the bow and stern. As a means to deal with small boats, at least in China in this era, this ship has no rival for the time being. It is.
It's a pity that when this kind of ship was built, because China did not produce oak, and there was no large amount of material that could be used as a substitute, it could only be replaced with other wood. In the early stage, because before the surrender of the Zheng family, there was no access to the sea, and it was impossible to purchase a large amount of high-quality wood from Nanyang, so it was temporarily made. Most of the camphor, pine and fir trees are used as substitutes, which can be found locally. In this way, there may be no way to match the warships made of oak in Europe in terms of strength for the time being.
But even so, Xiao Tianjian was very happy after looking at this new Western-style Galion sailboat. The most important thing for him now is to let Chinese shipbuilders learn to build Western-style sailboats to master the most advanced shipbuilding technology in Western countries. As for the matter of wood, it will be gradually picked from the South Ocean in the future. After buying and solving Jiannu, it can also be solved from the northeast. This will not be a big problem in the future. As long as he insists on increasing investment in the shipbuilding industry and wants to build a large number of such excellent sea ships with China's current financial, material and human resources.
So he personally named the ship "Bolang", hoping that this ship can carry the Chinese people on the ocean in the future, fight against the wind and waves, and create a new era on the sea for China.
In addition to these good things, good news also came from the machine manufacturing factory. Xiao Tianjian personally presided over and designed several hydraulic machine tools. In addition to the earliest boring machines, today's lathes, planers and punches have also achieved breakthrough success in the first few months of Tianyuan three years after many trial failures. At the beginning, it can be put into use, but the milling machine is still being tested, and it has not yet succeeded in the end, but according to the preliminary judgment, it is not far from success.
The successful trial production of these hydraulic machine tools will undoubtedly play a significant role in the industrialization of China and North Korea in the future, so that China and China and North Korea have at least stood at the forefront of this space-time technology in the mechanical manufacturing industry.
Although there are still many problems with these original machine tools, especially the parts are not accurate enough, and the quality cannot be well guaranteed because of materials. However, with the development of the smelting industry in the future, the materials will become better and better. In addition, these prototype machine tools are put into use, and machinery is used to replace handwork. After copying these machines, the accuracy of the parts will get better and better. In this way, a large number of machine tools can be put into various industries in less than a few years.
In addition to the arrival of these good news one after another, there is also good news from Xiao Tianjian's home. After giving birth to Xiao Tianjian's first daughter, Fan Linger suffered the result of rain and dew flowers again before the New Year and became pregnant again. Moreover, Fan Yutong also conceived a child for Xiao Tianjian after the New Year. This At the latest, before the end of the year, Xiao Tianjian's family will have a new family. For the matter of having a child, Xiao Tianjian has no idea about family planning now. It is that the people who come do not refuse to be more and more good. In this time and space, he has no relatives at all. There are only these three wives and concubines. Now these three wives and concubines are different He gave birth to children for him, which was his closest person, so Fan Linger and Fan Yutong's pregnancy made him unable to close his mouth happily.
Now the chaos of Yongli has been pacified, and the whole southern provinces are under the rule of his Dazhong Dynasty. Although there are still some remnants of the Ming Dynasty jumping out to make trouble from time to time, under the general trend of thinking of peace, these guys who try to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty are just clowns, facing The powerful suppression of the Great China and the North Korea was quickly extinguished, and even a little big splash could not be raised. How could Daming not turn over? How could Xiao Tianjian be unhappy?
So this is why Xiao Tianjian had a banquet with his ministers in Nanjing. If it hadn't been for the bodyguards and cabinet ministers, Xiao Tianjian would have been embarrassed on the spot.
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