Chapter 25.22 The Ming Dynasty seaside where ignorance and enlightenment intertwine
Chapter 1208 Chapter 22 The Ming Seashore where ignorance and enlightenment are intertwined
At this time, on the sea of Zhongguo, a European-style double-decker sailboat was embedded in the rippling blue sea. The hull was black, and the fortress-shaped Spanish hull was still shining with red light.
On the deck, pale-faced European sailors were pulling ropes to hang the sails. These European sailors were very weird. Some of them had their lower bodies directly placed in wine barrels and relied on strange crab limbs derived from the barrels to move.
The person at the helm was even more strange. There were two curled squid tentacles on his face, which turned into a mustache. The entire ship had sixty-seven cannons, but in addition to iron eggs, the projectiles fired by the cannons also had squirming flesh.
skull.
Ordinary human crew members may have to eat, drink, and defecate, but these crew members seem to have no worldly needs. Even when they live, they don't live in a normal cabin at all. The guy whose lower body is a wine barrel huddled directly in the wine barrel, while the captain
It will transform into an octopus and burrow into a large shell under the hull plywood.
As for the sailors who control the cables, after finishing their work every day, they will walk into the sailor's room. The corridor will be filled with black sewage. After walking through the black sewage, all the skin and flesh on the body will fall off and turn into skeletons, and these are separated from the organic matter.
Sailors who look like skeletons will enter the box and fold their skeleton bones into a full box.
The entire hull was flickering with light, and it was a strange cursed ship. But there was a luxurious cabin in which there were oriental silks, spices from India, porcelain, and gems from Arabia.
Sitting here is a lady who looks like a fairy tale character.
Of course, the entire ship is filled with dark magic, which makes such a beautiful creature seem a bit overwhelming.
At this time, a butler's voice was reporting to the young lady: "The situation in the East is different from Latin America and Africa. The legality here is very confusing. It is the influence of polytheism."
The Countess said: "Do as the Romans do, call me Miss Yang. In addition, your Oriental studies are very poor. In the East, legitimacy comes from the way of heaven, not polytheism. Whenever there is a great chaos, some of their descendants are chosen by God.
, claiming to be authorized by Heaven, and the people of each side will also acquiesce that Heaven will add "divine luck" to this monarch. However, Heaven's choice is only temporary. As long as one party (king) does not abide by virtue, Heaven's choice will not be felt.
, his territory and army will be annexed by another Son of Destiny chosen by Heaven."
The butler praised: "Earl, yes, the lady is really knowledgeable." After the compliment, he flapped his wings.
Yes, this butler is a parrot in a tuxedo. This is Western black magic that transforms human consciousness.
…In this era, there is magic in the West, but what about the East?…
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still the well-deserved overlord along the southeast coast.
Well, the Japanese plague was brought into China's national sentiment after the 21st century in the main world, and it was thought that Japan was harassing China's borders. But in fact, Japan at this time was not qualified at all.
The Japanese invasion during this period is actually like the border crisis that occurred in the 21st century when the United States encountered a large number of illegal immigration and drug smuggling from Mexico.
The Ming Dynasty named the crisis on the southeastern coast "Japanese pirates", which was actually a disparagement of illegal forces by the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, trade emerged on the sea and supported a large number of coastal border residents. They relied on ships and maritime trade to raise their armed forces, similar to the way the grassland people monopolized the trade between the East and the West and established an iron heel.
Wang Zhi, a Huizhou merchant, could not be reasonably accepted under the Zhu family dynasty system, so he established a force equivalent to a "maritime khanate". Most of the local forces were coastal fishermen. As for the inclusion of down-and-out warriors among them, that was not at the core. within the decision-making circle.
Narrator: At the beginning of the establishment of the Zhu Dynasty, the attitude towards businessmen was to kill fat pigs. Since the death of Shen Wansan, the subsequent power system has not left a safe and reasonable position for businessmen. This is not as good as that of the Qing Dynasty, which relied on Shanxi merchants to make its fortune. , in the power system, there will be one or two red-tops left for businessmen. Only the Qing emperor can use these fat pigs of red-top merchants in the Qing Dynasty. But in the Ming Dynasty, any civil servant can hold high the righteousness of "for the sake of the country" When businessmen are attacked, civil servants have a transcendent political status, but they can protect their interests with the principle of "not competing with the people for profit."
Wei Keng: The Zhu family blocked the way for merchants to ascend, so that in the late Ming Dynasty, "Shan merchants cooperated with captives, and Shaanxi merchants cooperated with bandits." Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the two forces at war with the Ming court were able to obtain materials from within the Ming Dynasty. And the Ming Dynasty Over here, Jiangnan Commerce is standing by and watching!
If Zhu Yuanzhang had not killed Shen Wansan when the Ming Dynasty was founded, it would certainly have been better to give him a title so that his heirs could establish themselves among the nobles.
Then the developed private capitalism in the late Ming Dynasty would never be isolated from the imperial court. Chongzhen's central government would not die of poverty.
Because the Ming Dynasty could "raise debt" in the final stage! If the people don't believe in the imperial court? Sell Zhu A'ao, um, and give her a marriage to the southern family that bought the most debt. Jiangnan wealthy businessmen have determined that this route of using money to buy the right to speak in the court is feasible. , among this group of rich men, those "Zeng Guofan" who could not pass the imperial examination, but were famous in the local area, would immediately raise the Ming Dynasty from the grave, tidy it up, and organize a new army to wipe out the invaders and bring down the Manchus. By the way, , Shanxi merchants, Shaanxi merchants and other competitors should be scanned.
The most critical step in transforming a feudal empire into capitalism was for capital to trade rights with feudalism and then gradually rise to power! However, Zhu Chongba completely blocked this step when he founded the country and did not give capital a guarantee of "political" status. So in the later period, No matter how capitalism sprouted in the late Ming Dynasty, it always turned its elbows outward when faced with the ceiling of power.
The perspective returns to the current Jiajing period.
The sudden rise of Binhai forces like Wang Zhi is outside the system, and from the standpoint of the Ming Dynasty, they want to attack.
The Ming court's strategy to deal with Wang Zhi at this time is also understandable. In terms of naming rights, it declared that these "Huizhou merchants" forces were barbarians, oh, that is, they were Japanese invaders. Just like the two political parties in the United States in the 21st century. , first accuse the other party of colluding with Russia and then colluding with China.
But he was the only one who dared to jump out and rebel. He was directly dismissed as a Japanese pirate by the Mingwen people.
Oh, Zheng Zhilong in the back is much more honest, and if we really count according to ethnic composition, the paternal and maternal lineage of the people who regained the treasure island also came from Japan.
The situation in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was that with the rise of the Age of Discovery, maritime trade on the southeast coast could always produce giant maritime merchants like Wang Zhi.
So these days, when doing business along the coast, whether you are a Japanese invader or not depends on whether you are against the Ming Dynasty and whether there are people in the court.
The Zhu Ming Dynasty boasted that the country was extremely upright. Without the blood of Li, Tang, and Hu, if the officials of the Song Dynasty usurped the country, the Ming court would define "whether you are connected to the outside world"!
Wei Keng’s comment: For such an “extremely politically correct” dynasty, even at the end of the feudal period, as long as the name was shown, the upstarts on the southeast coast who lacked names but had money would die. All the Western artillery and ships were given to Zhu Come over tomorrow.
The succeeding Qing Dynasty did not have the capital. First of all, it could not directly give the Zheng family the name of a Japanese pirate like the Ming cabinet did.
Three generations of descendants from Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties fought in succession to wipe out the Zhungeer clan. "Being able to fight" was the only way for them to declare their orthodoxy. In the end, when the foreigners came, they finally couldn't defeat them, so they withered and started to compromise from the top up. .
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In the 28th century of the main world, after obtaining a "parallel timeline" for comparison, historical research experts: If there is a "Minister of Westernization who holds real power in the late Qing Dynasty" among the court officials in the late Ming Dynasty, it will not only be a "Tongzhi ZTE", but also a "Tongzhi ZTE". Directly the rise of the empire. The Qing emperor's dynasty prestige capital cannot be exchanged, because he dare not give it to the feudal officials other than non-banner people, so Zeng, Li, and Zuo Shang have to find a balance, but the Ming court " "Capital" is free and has relatively few concerns.
The transformation of a feudal country from early liberal capitalism to imperialism required the feudal empire to have huge prestige, maintain internal stability, and promote the development of the capital system. The biggest "capital" Japan won during the Sino-Japanese War was actually huge prestige, which allowed its subsequent reforms to suppress Live in contradiction.
It must be said that although the Ming Dynasty had weak control over the western frontier (it abandoned the Hetao), until the end of the dynasty, it used tough measures against foreigners. Because of its absolute prestige capital, even if the battle failed slightly, the internal prestige of the Ming Dynasty could not be shaken. !On the contrary, it can continue to consume the outside world by granting the coastal officials the right to self-determination in the military and economy. (The Qing court did not have this authority and was afraid of rebellion on the frontier, so it did not dare to authorize talents outside the Confucian system in Fuguang.)
In modern times, in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a trend of blind obedience in the East to the West, believing that it began to lag behind the West during the Ming Dynasty.
There was even an argument in the Internet that "Spain conquered the Ming Dynasty, but finally gave up due to an accident. Ming Dynasty was lucky to have escaped." It was as if the Ming Dynasty was a broken house that shook and collapsed with a casual kick from the sea.
However, in the first year of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty had already proved its strength. The Portuguese sent five ships to first destroy the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and then drifted directly towards the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the autumn wind. As a result, two ships were destroyed.
The ship and the governor-general in India were directly captured.
As the leader of the time and space army that traveled here, Wei Keng attaches great importance to the huge capital of the Ming Dynasty. Even though he has the advantage of foresight that spans hundreds of years, he does not dare to act rashly.
Back to the present scene, the sails of seagoing ships are pushing on the foggy sea surface. The waves beat at the small port, causing dozens of merchant ships docked here to sway left and right.
This female vampire slowly approached Macau. Oh, these days, the Portuguese in Macau have just humbled themselves ashore.
Oh, these red-haired barbarians today do not have the wisdom of later generations of colonists who boasted about "resting in a place as big as cowhide, and finally a large cowhide circle".
It is also impossible to build fortresses and turrets. The officials in the Ming Dynasty here could not see this!
If the Red-haired Barbarians really dare to attack the bottom line of the government, the unscrupulous people (pirates) engaged in maritime trade in Guangdong will immediately put on the skins of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers and follow the instructions of the adults to pacify this small business shop of the Red-haired Barbarians.
When the vampire countess came ashore, she could clearly feel that Western businessmen were very humble, completely different from the arrogance of other colonies.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Europeans who traded with the East classified the Ming people as white.
This "Miss Yang" found that it was difficult for her to establish a family here. Although she could enter the human market as a day walker, her appearance in the East was "as white as a yaksha".
So after getting off the boat, she took out a pendant from her chest. Inside the pendant was a ruby-like blood-red liquid. This was her blood, and this was her family token. Now she held this gem in her mouth, and her original golden hair
It became jet black, and her eyes changed from cat-eye green to black. She took off her Western dress and put on an Oriental hairpin skirt.
Her father claimed that her family ancestors came from an Eastern stranger a hundred years ago. She was fascinated by the Eastern magic inherited from her father when she was young.
…Eastern and Western ideas began to converge at this time…
Hundreds of kilometers to the north, in Fujian, Wei Keng clicked, disassembled the steam engine, and said to the fascinated eyes of more than fifty children and students from the local fishing village: "This is a pneumatic ball machine. It is a wonderful way to save manpower and leverage nature."
In the past hundred years, our Mohist art has improved it and turned it into the power of iron oxen and steel horses."
Wei Keng thought silently: This plane faces fantasy enemies, and the carrier on which its "extraordinary" power is based is also restricted by 99% of other basic rules.
For example, telekinesis is actually based on a certain kind of "magnetic" protein. This protein can act like a nanorobot, and the human nervous system can "wirelessly" send power to these proteins across the air to form a "force field."
Oh, this also exists in the internal skills of various sects in the Ming Dynasty. Some sects can wield swords from a distance.
The sword energy can break through the air and can even absorb stars. It is very powerful!
Regarding these internal strength methods, Mr. Wei is using computers to decipher and conduct "nano-engineering" modeling and calculations.
Because of the maximum "power" of radiation in the body, several protein structures exist.
Wei Keng's original words to the biology department were: Whether it will be "Nine Yangs" or "Nine Yins" at that time will be the result of different configurations.
…This is a world where magic, martial arts, and steampunk meet.…
While the steam engines are being distributed to students, the research department has come up with a "fantasy" style steam engine.
Referring to the principle of "thought power" existing in this plane, proteins are instantly magnetized to form a force field. First, human fingernails and hair are put into drugs such as acetic acid for precipitation and purification, and then a current magnetic field is applied to magnetize, and during this process, the operator moves the hand
Reach into it and interact with the thought power of this "magnetized protein".
After completing the cross induction, such as entering the steam engine ready for engraving, when the steam engine is pressurized to ten atmospheres and maintained at 8 degrees, and after the power is turned on, the original cross induction "force field" will increase. That is, the operator can control it from a distance
The power of mind drives the complex operating levers inside the steam engine and adjusts the transmission of small mechanical gears in the steam engine. Just like a flexible tongue can roll bubble gum into "squares" or "balls" at will in the mouth.
Wei Keng in the history of the plot line goes back further: it is the control of the primitive steam engine by "zhen qi". (In this plot line, the robot built by Yan Shi is such a thing)
What was finally researched was a bunch of mechanical gears with very few external levers, but it could move the machine according to the user's wishes like an automatic transmission! - pure mechanism technology.
Wei Keng stared at these students and whispered: If such a tradition is to be passed down, the world needs to change.
Wei Keng came to this upstream plot point this time to deploy cause and effect. "Causation" needs to be inherited to the downstream for five hundred years, or even thousands of years later, and the plot world conditions must be considered.
For example, this kind of "organ technique" is an important cause and effect that will spread to the downstream. There are too many inheritance elements of "organ technique" that are submerged at this point in the Ming Dynasty.
As the saying goes, the rich in martial arts are poor in culture. This is the nutrition needed for the inheritance of "martial arts". In the inheritance of martial arts, the effect of "feeding moves" in battles has a great impact on the cultivation. Only the ancestors are decorated because of "martial arts", and they must continue to rely on martial arts from generation to generation.
Only a family of generals with a strong foothold in the political system can inherit it stably, as was the case with the Yang family's marksmanship in the Song Dynasty.
In modern history, running schools has also experienced "poor literature and rich science and engineering". Even in the early 20th century, various universities gave priority to liberal arts education! Because science and engineering equipment and instruments experiments consume too much, if there is no support from mature industrial chain interest groups, this is
It can't be done.
At the same time, just like the inheritance of "martial arts", it needs the support of the political status of "military generals" in order to be passed on.
Now, in the inheritance of Mohist machine arts in "science and engineering", it is also necessary for those who inherit the tradition to obtain sufficient "political status" in the East in order to have a stable inheritance. At present, the imperial examination has filled up the channels for "poor families to obtain political status"
, the craftsmen were demoted to those who were skilled in craftsmanship.
Wei Keng did some calculations. The mechanism technique requires a variety of facilities to polish a precise mechanical gear. The price is thousands of taels of silver, and it requires a worker with ten years of service to spend half an hour to process it. This threshold is at present.
The vast majority of people were screened out in the Ming Dynasty.
"You will be rich, have hundreds or thousands of obedient people, and have enough leisure time."
Wei Keng: Damn it, it seems that only the Ming Dynasty vassal king is left! And now the Ming Dynasty vassal king is verifying the "periodic table of chemical elements" (taking pills) with his own life.
Narrator: The sub-world is inherently unstable and cannot be transformed by the overlord's force. This is completely in line with the "sensation between heaven and man". That is, the people's hearts in the sub-world determine the future development, because if the plot line is violently manipulated, everyone's thinking will lead to new developments.
If the dimensional rules change, the cause and effect will be unpredictable, and future disasters will be uncertain. Therefore, if you want to deploy cause and effect, you must go with the flow.
Find the people who bear "karma" in this world, and point out the direction in which the causal line can grow and develop.
While Wei Keng was teaching students about steam engines, on the school field a few kilometers away, Li Changkang of the Space-Time Expeditionary Force was organizing militia training.
For the craftsman team, Su Qianheng even hired a local craftsman to operate a simple lathe and started making guns and bullets.
At present, the "Socialist Party" regards workers as the first class, that is, "workers" and "peasants" as the basis. This is breaking the "standard".
Although the carpenters and blacksmiths have not yet emancipated their minds and are still submissive, due to the increase in wages they receive, they have begun to have a "I make the decision" attitude towards the lathes distributed to them.
The time traveler began to guide these local craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to think about their own value.
A group of workers who think about "the value of their craft" is the core asset for the progress of an industrial team.
The Time and Space Legion followed the principle of "localization" and began to tailor technology trees for these craftsman teams.
The steel pipe of the gun is forged by hydraulic wrought iron and drilled out with a boring machine. Compared with modern rifles, the steps are reduced by at least 30%. The effective range (breaking through a layer of mountain armor) may be only fifty meters. As for the
The bullets were even more perfunctory, using paper shell bullets.
We are still in the 16th century, so the use of transcendent technological creations should be limited. Even if technological creations are needed, "items" that transcend the times cannot be left behind hundreds of years later, allowing later generations to find the time-travel node.
At this time, on the school grounds, recruits wearing linen clothes were training on straw sandals.
Standing on a high-rise red brick building, Wei Keng said: "I also want to make a copper-shell quilt with a single head, but now the wrought iron barrels have serious wear and tear on the rifling. And China is short of copper."
These infantrymen have only a 30% chance of hitting the target at 50 meters.
Wei Keng extremely doubted whether they would have the guts to fire a second round when faced with the iron heel of the current Ming Dynasty.
Paper-cased bullets have a serious problem of difficulty in extracting the shell.
Imagine the scene after the firecrackers were stuffed into the cracks in the wall and exploded, and you want to dig out the shredded paper? They are all stuck inside the cracks in the wall.
On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in the production of paper bullets, the paper had to be soaked in oil and then pressed with a special press to turn into a cardboard comparable to metal. Even so, in storage, the paper shell would be slightly affected by moisture.
It will be soft again. If the protection is not enough, it will be difficult to extract the shell after firing. You must use a small metal hook like an ear pick to take it out.
Therefore, using the experience he had when he first went to the Austrian plane, Wei Keng simply designed the breech of the rifle into a runner style, which is an extended version of the revolver with a butt. Because the firing parts are unreliable, the industrial precision is not enough.
, it is too rough to prepare chemicals with nitric acid in large ceramic vats. In order to prevent the fatal problem of spontaneous combustion of the primer, flint hair is still used.
Su Qianheng faced this first group of 100 local fishermen and gave a lecture.
Three months later, the savage instructors rolled up their sleeves and corrected everyone's posture when holding firearms: "Bullets are stupid, bayonets are heroes. The firecrackers in your hands are mainly used for assassination, and firing can only be done when ordered by your commander.
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The firearms received by these recruits were all one-person long, and the sharp bayonets at the front glowed with a quenched blue light, giving people the impression of a cold weapon at first glance.
The so-called "bullets are stupid, bayonets are heroes" is what is shouted to the new recruits.
Later weapons experts studied the lethality of bayonet and bullet damage and believed that this was a foolish judgment.
Weapons experts of later generations said that modern military officers “didn’t understand guns and cannons”, so today’s military officers who train modern troops say that they don’t understand “soldiers”.
The most important thing in the army is discipline. Cold weapons have entered the era of hot weapons, because firing will bring huge psychological support to the panicked recruits who have just entered the battlefield. Recruits who fire randomly waste ammunition, and what is more terrible is that they are immersed in firing.
It is impossible to accept other commands.
A soldier who cannot obey orders is no longer a soldier.
You must know that the battlefield is not just about shooting, but also about observing enemy targets, attacking enemy positions, fighting for bunkers, setting up flags, and guiding artillery to fire targets.
The recruits' first battlefield shooting basically failed to exert the effect of bullets. After a round of volley fire, they collapsed when the cavalry rushed in front of them. They felt empty and had no cards. Even if the commander gave orders to the recruits, they would not listen.
Therefore, in the early days of firearms, commanders chose to use the lie of "a man with a bayonet but a fool with bullets" to make the recruits focus on their bayonets first. They subconsciously used their hands to "poke and poke" with the bayonets instead of clasping their fingers on them.
On the trigger.
And for all soldiers: everyone "shooting bullets" together is a psychological trump card.
When everyone has a psychological trump card, the unit's resistance will be enhanced.
So Su Qianheng now began to emphasize to these new recruits under his command: "A hero does not shoot first, the bayonet determines the outcome."
Wei Keng shook his head and did not stop it completely. He only added one sentence in the infantry drill: "Tactically, try to ambush the enemy, use the bunker to attack, attack at close range, and aim to attack."
At the same time, Wei Keng strengthened the training of team leaders. These team leaders are required to have elementary school mathematics and Chinese literacy. At least the squad leader level must be able to write battle report formats (the format of various message notes and leave letters in elementary schools), and be able to
Use a ruler to measure distances on the map.
In military entertainment, the Jianghu method is used to tell the classics of Chinese war culture. For example, in the Cao GUI debate, one vigorous effort and then another failed, which has the current operational significance.
As a general with a certain level, Wei Keng knows that morale is a floating concept. The effectiveness of firepower is related to the combat courage of soldiers. How to maximize the effectiveness of the projection of firepower is a skill that an officer must study.
…At this time in the sea of East Asia, a new armed group began to rise...
The army on Wudao is new in every aspect, and to some extent it is newer than the Beiyang New Army.
The Beiyang New Army is a combat force created with the country's silver under the feudal order. Its specific organization is only equivalent to the army of a large family in the 21st century. It is not linked to economic, industrial and overseas trade interests. Once the national treasury runs out of money,
, so that if the army cannot find financial support, it will disperse in a hurry.
The monthly military pay for the soldiers of the Beiyang Army was 5 taels of silver. Calculated based on the salary of the middle-level employable people, one tael of silver at that time was worth 2,000 yuan, which was 4.5 taels, which was the monthly salary of 9,000 yuan in the early 21st century.
Now, Wei Keng is quite generous in providing them with funds to purchase local military household quotas, but the salary for ordinary soldiers during military training is only half a tael of silver, and the officers only have a monthly salary of one tael.
The key to raising an army is not money, but the treatment of soldiers.
Now in the new army of the Space-Time Administration, there is no need to worry about all daily necessities, and the bedding used is all linen from the weaving shop. Pens and paper are given to study every day. And everyone has a glass can every week, and the training is the best.
The best team gets double.
What's more worth mentioning is that in the military, "salary" gradually increases with "military rank".
Overall, from the perspective of military supplies, the bulk of military expenditures are supplied by local workshops, and some of the products produced are given to the military for "military tax". Of course, after collecting the tax, they have to do things, and the military will help them sell the supplies.
Military power is the most arrogant and channel-creating force.
Compared with the feudal army, the biggest difference between the industrial era army and the feudal army is the loss of "military support". The feudal system had no industrial finance and could only directly give silver rewards, while the industrial army relied on the "treatment" provided by industrial production to ensure morale.
From this point of view, Beiyang is actually still an "old army" in essence.
The old feudal army would eventually collapse due to the financial shortage of the feudal group. For example, Chiang's eight million army could only issue gold yuan coupons.
But for the industrial army, as long as the local industrial potential is preserved, the military opens up commercial markets and raw material channels.
So how many troops to raise depends entirely on the population! This was the case with the outbreak of Germany in the two wars.
Although the "Soji Party" currently only has a small foothold on the border of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Keng is also prepared to have the margin to deal with the "big attack" of the Ming Dynasty's army.
Mr. Wei estimated the finances in the last years of Jiajing and found that they were not as wealthy as his grandson.