Chapter 181 Destroy the country with one word

One year before the Time Travel Group came to this time and space, in the first month of 1626 AD, a great battle broke out between the Ming Empire and the Hou Jin Dynasty in Ningyuan City in the Liaoxi Corridor. The Ming army commanded by Yuan Chonghuan held on to Ningyuan City amid internal and external troubles.

Twenty thousand troops were used to resist the more than 100,000 Houjin troops led by Nurhachi. In this battle, the defenders relied on solid city defenses, sharp artillery and united determination to defeat the invading enemies, which was called the "Ningyuan Victory" by the Ming court.

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This victory was of great political and strategic significance to the Ming Dynasty, which had been losing the battle for eight or nine consecutive years and was about to lose all its territory in the Northeast. The 43-year-old Ningyuan Dao Yuan Chonghuan became famous in the first battle.

He was promoted to governor of Liaodong in March of that year. Nurhachi, who was nearly 70 years old, suffered the most serious defeat in his more than 40 years of leading the army and died of illness eight months later.

Regarding the "brilliant results" achieved by the "Ningyuan Victory", the Ming Dynasty's domestic propaganda was quite effective. Some people even counted Nurhachi, who died eight months after the war ended, among the results of the "Ningyuan Victory" and called him Nurhaci.

He was injured by city defense artillery fire at the foot of Ningyuan City - I don't know where Hou Jin found the miracle doctor, who was able to delay the death of the fatally injured person for eight months.

After Nurhaci's death, the two sides decided to negotiate a temporary peace after several negotiations, and reached a peace agreement in the first month of 1627. However, the war between the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin Dynasty did not end here. By May, the Ming Dynasty withdrew from North Korea.

The powerful Huang Taiji surrounded Jinzhou. After the two sides fought for more than 20 days on the battlefields of Jinzhou and Ningyuan, the Hou Jin army, unable to conquer the fortified city, finally retreated. This battle was once again hyped by the Ming court, calling it "

The Great Victory of Ningjin".

On the fifth day of June in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, which was the same day that the "Speed" escorted the colonization fleet to Black Earth Port and returned to Victory Port, Huang Taiji finally ordered the withdrawal of all troops. The next day, Yuan Chonghuan wrote "Jinzhou Report on Victory",

This battle was called "a martial arts feat that has not been seen in decades." However, although the war in the north had ended at this time, the news of this great victory had not yet reached Guangzhou because of the long distance between the north and the south.

Southerners like Li Nai had no idea about the wars that took place in the far northeastern frontier. Although the imperial newspaper repeatedly reported news of invasions led by Hou Jin, they were repelled each time by the heroic frontier troops.

The harm caused by the barbarians in the north seemed to be within a controllable range. But when Li Nai saw the borders of the Ming Dynasty drawn by Ning Qi, he couldn't help but feel deeply worried about the war in the north.

"In fact, the large area east of the Western Liao Corridor is no longer under the control of the Ming Dynasty." Ning Qi said and drew on the map with a pen, and directly delineated the large area east of Jinzhou as part of the Ming Dynasty.

Territory: "In terms of the actual control area, the areas east and north of this line are already Hou Jin's territory."

"Beilu is so powerful!" Li Nai didn't have too many doubts about Ning Qi's explanation, because even the entire Ming Dynasty couldn't find a second such detailed map, and Ning Qi didn't deceive on this issue.

His necessity.

As for Li Nai's lament, it was not convenient for Ning Qi to give him any more spoilers. In fact, the strength of the Houjin army at this time was far inferior to that of the Ming army, especially in terms of siege warfare.

The numerous firearms caused the post-Jin army, which was still in the cold weapon era, to suffer a lot. It was not until four years after Chongzhen that the Jin began to cast red cannons, and the balance of victory began to gradually tilt towards the post-Jin side. And then the Denglai Rebellion

, and even brought a lot of advanced military technology to Houjin, bringing the armament levels of both sides closer in a short period of time.

Of course, the subsequent decline of the Ming Dynasty was not just due to insufficient military power. The reasons were caused by many aspects, including natural disasters and man-made disasters, which cannot be summed up in a simple way. Moreover, the military decline in the northeast was by this time

It can no longer be reversed by changing a few generals or local governors, it will only slide faster and faster towards the abyss of failure.

Having said that, Ning Qi did not want Li Nai to focus too much on the war in Northeast China. After all, the main direction of cooperation between the two parties was business, and at most there was cultural cooperation, not political and military cooperation.

In order to divert Li Nai's attention, Ning Qi took the initiative to ask: "Gui Xing must have dealt with the Folangji people before, right?"

Li Nai did not deny this, nodded and said: "Every year, I will send ships to Manila to trade with the Folangji people. As for the Folangji people in Haojing'ao, they also have many trade contacts."

"Does Mr. Li know where the Fo Langji people come from?" Ning Qi then asked.

"I only know that it came from a very far place in the west, thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, but I don't know the exact location." Li Nai answered honestly. Although Zheng He drew a detailed nautical map two hundred years ago, covering all areas of Southeast Asia.

Including the vast area of ​​​​the Middle East, it is a pity that these precious materials have not been effectively used. The few overseas ports that Ming Dynasty merchants can go to are also extremely limited, let alone the geographical understanding of thousands of miles away.

"The country of the Francois is here, and we are used to calling it Spain. The Francois in Haojingao are actually from a vassal country of Spain, which we call Portugal." Ning Qi pointed to the country located in the southwest corner of the European continent.

Spain explained to Li Nai: "France is here, England is here, and the red-haired people are here. Their hometown is here... In addition, the sea route they took to the Ming Dynasty by boat is like this..."

Li Nai was quite surprised when he looked at the coastline that circumnavigated almost all of Africa and most of Asia: "No wonder Western goods are so expensive. These Western countries are so far away from the Ming Dynasty."

"These countries established countless colonial settlements along their routes, encircled the land as their own, and built trading points, just like they did in Manila and Batavia." Ningqi said on the map.

The locations of Manila and Jakarta are indicated above.

However, Li Nai did not understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words. He and He Qiang were looking at the map and exclaimed: "It turns out that Batavia is so far away from Guangzhou!" "Yes, no wonder the red-haired people will blockade Manila and force the sea to

Merchants went to Batavia to trade."

Ning Qi had no choice but to continue: "These Western countries together are not as large as the Ming Dynasty, but they have occupied many places around the world, and the production of these places is enough for them to earn a lot of benefits from the Ming Dynasty. Like you will

The various spices purchased at large prices are actually products of these colonies, not goods shipped from their hometowns."

He Qiang said in confusion: "But the Ming Dynasty maritime merchants also made a lot of money from trading with them."

Ning Qi sighed and said: "They also dug out the silver from the silver mines in the colony. For them, digging silver is as easy as digging stones. Do you understand?"

Li Nai finally understood what Ning Qi meant, and asked: "Mr. Ning, what do you mean, as long as there are enough colonies, making money will become easy?"

"This is not just about enclosing land to make money, it is about opening up territory!" Ning Qi said with hatred: "Every time they occupy a place, they will declare that the area belongs to their country. Think about it if

The Ming Dynasty also started doing this two hundred years ago. What is the situation now? Places like Batavia and Manila all belong to the Ming Dynasty and belong to the Han people. How can it be the turn of these foreign devils to make the decision?"

Ning Qi became more emotional as he spoke, and his voice became a little louder. Li Nai and He Qiang looked at each other. They had never had such an idea before. Those distant trading ports occupied by Westerners could have been the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

?These maritime merchants occupied some land here and there thousands of miles away from their homeland, and established towns, villages and ports. This can be regarded as opening up territory for the country?

Li Nai was stunned for a long time before shaking his head and saying: "I will never act like this, it is very inappropriate..."

Ning Qi laughed angrily: "You're right, you really can't expect Daming to do these things! The porridge in your own bowl is not cold, so how can you have time to stare at the meat in other people's bowls!"

Li Nai didn't quite understand the meaning of Ning Qi's words, but he could feel from Ning Qi's tone that this "Master Hai Han" had a bad impression of Ming Dynasty, so he had to quickly change the topic and said: "Your side

Since you call yourself Haihan, it is said that your country is on a continent thousands of miles away. I wonder where the Haihan country is. Can Mr. Ning point it out for me?"

Ning Qi looked at the map and then added the entire North America on the other side of Taiping: "This entire area is my territory, Haihan."

"But why are the words United States and Canada marked here?" Li Nai looked at the land on the map that was much larger than the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and asked in confusion: "This should be the name of the country, right?"

Ning Qi smiled and said: "Oh, these two countries have become history. When our country of Haihan was founded, these two countries were already wiped out. It was just before the map could be corrected."

There is not much fallacy in what Ning Qi said. From the moment the Time Travel Group came to this time and space, it was almost destined that Canada and the United States would never appear again in the long river of history. Although the "Mayflower" in 1620

It had already arrived in North America with the first batch of immigrants to establish settlements, but it was not until the shooting of Lexington in 1775 that the American War of Independence began. Canada was founded more than half a century later than the United States. For

For the Chuangchuan Group, which is full of ambitions to achieve the goal of "there is only one China in the world" in this time and space, these two regions probably will not have the chance to survive until independence - in the years before that, the Chuanchuan Group established

The regime must have already set foot on the territory of North America.
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