Chapter 1485 Haihan Mode

Haihan's layout in the north has never been for the fundamental purpose of seizing land or population. The garrison troops built strongholds to attack Houjin, and colonies were set up for commercial development. These are actually just means used to achieve the goal. The real goal is still to Gradually achieve complete control of the sea power in Northeast Asia. As long as the maritime trade routes in the region are controlled, the international trade in this region will basically fall into the hands of Haihan, and this is almost the same as a monopoly operation. The profits will be unimaginable.

Haihan has basically completed the layout of the entire Ming Sea Territory. The next thing to do is to weave this net stronger to ensure Haihan's absolute control over the Daming Sea Territory, and then gradually open the net. , covering countries other than the Ming Dynasty one by one. Japan, Korea, and Ryukyu mentioned by Wang Tom just now are among this list. Although these countries are not as big as the Ming Dynasty, they all have one obvious thing in common. The point is that maritime countries rely heavily on shipping for foreign trade, and are more easily controlled by Haihan through force and economic means.

Although Li Nai's vision has improved a lot after long-term contact with Haihan, he is still a little unable to understand Haihan's actions from the perspective of international relations. In his opinion, Haihan controls the Ming Dynasty. This is already an extremely powerful measure. If other small countries on the periphery of the Ming Dynasty are to be included in this control, I am afraid there will be many battles to be fought in the future.

In fact, Haihan had already promoted and implemented similar policies in the South China Sea before entering Liaodong. Haihan used the Indochina Peninsula as a bridge and extended its tentacles all the way to the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca. During this period, Haihan frequently engaged in armed conflicts with various countries in the region. Conflict. The South China Sea Trade Alliance, led by Haihan on Amborna Island in 1633, can be regarded as a phased achievement of Haihan’s control of international trade in this region. Although this area is really dominated by the sea The trade volume controlled by the Han Dynasty is probably less than 50%, but the effect of the trade alliance is very obvious. The cross-border trade volume between the countries in the alliance has increased significantly in the past year or two.

The Li family has invested in many industries in the South China Sea and has maintained commercial relations with many countries in the alliance. The amount of goods sold to these countries every year is extremely large. Now these industries have gradually entered the profit period, and it is said that they are making money every day. It's not an exaggeration. Privately invested industries can achieve very generous returns. From this, he can roughly deduce that Haihan's benefits must be very considerable, and may even be astronomical figures that he can't even imagine. .

It has been two years since the establishment of the South China Sea Business Alliance. Judging from the operation status, this international business organization model with Haihan as the core has been proven to be feasible. In addition to benign resource exchanges, it also contributes to regional peace. It has indeed played a certain promoting role. As one of the most direct beneficiaries of the Li family, Li Nai naturally believes deeply in the model promoted by Haihan. So when Wang Tom said this, he immediately thought of Haihan’s role in Southern approach.

"Then what you want to do in the north now is similar to what you did in the South China Sea two years ago?" Li Nai asked.

Wang Tom also admired Li Nai's association ability and nodded: "Yes, but not entirely right. The environment in the north is still very different from that in the South China Sea. There are fewer countries here, but the strength of each side is stronger.

, it will be more difficult to surrender by force. However, if we can achieve our plan in the future, the trade volume will be much larger than that of the South China Sea, and the benefits will be more generous."

Chen Yixin added next to him: "But even if we want to establish the Northern Business Alliance in the future, Houjin will definitely be excluded. They are not within our scope of consideration."

Li Nai thought for a while and then asked: "So, Houjin's maritime trade channels have actually been cut off by you, right?"

Chen Yixin responded: "Even if it is not cut off 100%, at least they can no longer buy large amounts of salt and iron from sea smugglers. The coastal salt fields under Houjin's control have been almost destroyed by us. These two resources

, it will probably make them nervous for a while.”

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the social productivity of the Hou Jin Dynasty was undoubtedly much behind. Many production technologies were gradually mastered only after it captured a large number of Ming Dynasty craftsmen. However, resources such as salt and iron, which are produced under official control, are for ease of management.

The production areas are often concentrated. The destruction of several salt fields along the coast means that there will be problems with the salt supply of the entire Houjin. As steel is a military supply, it is difficult for Houjin to rely on self-production to meet demand, so it purchases pig iron through smugglers.

It was also one of the ways it obtained resources in the past.

The Haihan Fleet patrols near the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula from time to time. If there is an opportunity, it may even land ashore to attack the local Hou Jin army. The few salt fields cannot be resumed at all. And it turns out that there is a secret deal with Hou Jin.

Several smugglers were warned by Haihan not to transport any more supplies to the Houjin Controlled Area. There were one or two who were lucky enough to think that they would not be caught by Haihan, and they all left and never returned.

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Once the salt and iron resources were cut off, Hou Jin had only two options left. One was to mobilize a large army to the Liaodong Peninsula, push the Haihan defense line southward, drive Haihan back to the sea, and completely drive out of Liaodong. Based on the previous results,

Calculating this, it would be impossible to achieve this without sacrificing 8,000 people on the battlefield, and Hou Jin might not be willing to pay such a high price to try.

Another way is to continue to step up the offensive against the Ming Dynasty. The resources cut off by Haihan can only be obtained from the Ming Dynasty through looting. Compared with fighting against the Haihan army, which has very advanced equipment and tactics, the Ming Dynasty

Bian is obviously a soft persimmon more suitable for being picked and rubbed. As long as Hou Jin's brain is not broken, he will definitely choose to continue to attack Ming Dynasty as his main direction.

Li Nai frowned and said: "But I heard Chief Yan say before when I was in Sanya that one of the purposes of Haihan's occupation of Liaodong was to contain Houjin for the Ming Dynasty and reduce military pressure. But according to what you said, not only did this pressure not

To alleviate it, but to allow Hou Jin’s grievances against you to be transferred to Ming Dynasty?”

Chen Yixin said: "This is actually not a contradiction. Think about it, if we enter Liaodong, Hou Jin will attack the Ming Dynasty, right? But after we entered, we not only contained part of Hou Jin's troops, but also cut off the resources they needed.

Important resources, if they attack the Ming Dynasty again, will their strength become weaker?"

Li Nai thought it made sense at first, but upon closer inspection, he felt that something was wrong. Haihan's series of actions were indeed intended to weaken Hou Jin, but the reason for taking these measures was not entirely for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

I think it was just because Hou Jin was an enemy of Ming Dynasty, and it helped Ming Dynasty weaken its opponents. But if we dig deeper, Haihan's strategy was only for his own benefit, weakening Hou Jin so that they could carry out their own plans in Liaodong.

That's it. Whether the Ming Dynasty could withstand Hou Jin's plunder was not the key issue that Haihan was concerned about.

After figuring out this relationship, it was much easier for Li Nai to understand Haihan's series of actions in the north. Haihan did these things not just to rescue the Han refugees in Liaodong, or to help the Ming Dynasty deal with powerful foreign enemies.

It's just for its own benefit. For Haihan, all measures are based on the same criterion, which is to try to maximize the benefits that Haihan can get. And all strategies are based on this criterion.

Formulated and executed, Daming is just a larger prop in this layout.

Li Nai quickly understood the rationale, but he did not try to voice any further doubts. Although he still retained the nationality of Ming Dynasty, he was actually no different from those immigrants who had changed their household registration to join Haihan.

If necessary, he can even give up his identity as a Mingren and join Haihan at any time. Considering the position of the issue, he will almost never stand on the side of Ming again, and will consciously view the relationship between the two countries from the perspective of a Haihan citizen.

conflict of interest.

After sorting out the clues, Li Nai finally figured out what Haihan's strategy in the north was based on. As for the specific implementation process, Haihan still took many cover measures, such as retaining Dongjiang Town.

military establishment, such as trying to contact the Ming court and expressing a willingness to resolve sovereignty disputes through negotiations. These measures make it difficult for the outside world to truly see Haihan's true purpose, and people like Li Nai are well-positioned to bring Haihan's senior generals face to face.

There are very few people who can clear up doubts, so these strategies of Haihan are probably very confusing to outside observers. Even those businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who have been in Liaodong for a few days may have a hard time understanding what Haihan is doing.

The true intention of the moves on this chessboard.

"It may be difficult for people of this era to understand what we are doing now, but in a few years, when people look back on this period of history, they should have a more objective and comprehensive evaluation of us." Qian Tiandun concluded: "But we

Now we don’t need everyone’s understanding, we just need the order to be executed effectively.”

"Commanders, with all due respect, I always feel that these actions are too hasty. It has only been a few years since Haihan was founded, and it is necessary to rule such a vast sea area. Although there is no opponent of comparable strength, the limited troops are

It feels a bit unsettling to deploy dispersedly in such a large area and continue to launch wars." Li Nai is familiar with these people, so he doesn't have to worry about making the other party unhappy if he speaks his true thoughts.

Qian Tiandun said: "Your feeling is right. If we follow the normal course, even if we want to expand externally, we should probably attack Guangdong and Guangxi first and seize the coastal areas closest to Hainan Island from the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

But our plan is to control the key coastal areas first and not fall out with the Ming Dynasty. Although the risk will be greater, it will also buy us more time. I can't explain to you why time is special to us

It’s precious, but there’s a reason why we have to do it.”

The travelers gave up their lives in the original time and space and took risks to come here, naturally in order to make a career in this time and space. And the time left for them to develop is only a few decades at most. What they can do is

Things are actually very limited. In addition to establishing a country, of course they also want to do some deeds that can leave a name in history and benefit future generations. They must build and develop the country of Haihan according to their inherent thinking, even when they are buried.

He was still fighting against the landlord class on the continent currently ruled by the Ming Dynasty. Throughout his life, he only established a new Han regime to replace the Ming Dynasty.

But what the time-travelers want is not such an ending. They want to establish a country that achieves primary industrialization, and the ruling area will be unprecedentedly large, so that the Han regime of Haihan will become the most powerful country on earth. In history,

It will replace the status and role of Western colonists in the long history of civilization and change the future development process of civilization on this planet.

These ambitious goals need to be completed in just a few decades, so they can only adopt leapfrog development to save precious time. This reason cannot be told to an outsider like Li Nai, and there is no way to give him a reasonable reason.

explain.

But Li Nai responded calmly: "Life is short, so of course I must try my best to do something good. If I had the skills of the chiefs, I would probably think about founding my own country and getting an emperor to do it."

Li Nai's words would definitely be taboo in the Ming Dynasty. If someone from Jin Yiwei heard it, they would probably arrest the person first regardless of what happened. But it doesn't matter if he said this in front of the Haihan generals.

Because Haihan did not set up the position of "emperor" at all. Since there is no emperor, of course there is nothing to be taboo about.

Sure enough, everyone laughed when they heard this. There must be some people among the time travelers who have thought about becoming an emperor, but the executive committee has institutionally prevented the emergence of an emperor early on. If they break away from the Haihan group, a single time traveler wants to be in this world.

It is much more difficult to make a name in time and space. Even those who know the historical process and master advanced weapons manufacturing technology want to create something like Tiandu Industrial Zone from scratch on their own.

existence, I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve even if I spend my whole life.

If everyone wants to achieve their goals, they cannot do it without relying on the collective Haihan. The more powerful the person, the more deeply they feel this truth. Li Nai wants to be the emperor, but that is because he only sees ten thousand people.

The scenery above, I don’t know how many difficulties you have to face when you are an emperor. This is not an easy and pleasant profession.

Qian Tiandun smiled and said: "Forget it if you become the emperor, even if you are the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you may not be as happy as you and I. What we want to do is much more important than being the emperor. But we have to eat the food one bite at a time.

Things have to be done step by step. What we have to do now is to finalize the development and construction plan for Liaodong as soon as possible and revitalize Liaodong so that we can continue to advance the follow-up matters."
Chapter completed!