The time travelers of the Reclamation Society paid close attention to the entire process of their contact with the Ming Dynasty. After all, this is dealing with a big country. As a "small" party, it is more affected by "interests and interests", so we must be cautious and cautious.
It is a very objective reality that in the 21st century, multinational companies can ignore the protests of small countries at will, but they must have a special "public relations team" for big countries. Of course, some people in the 21st century confuse this concept and use the terms of "equality" and "freedom"
In the name of allowing small countries to challenge big countries, even in the name of "military security", they must adopt pre-emptive strategies against big countries to so-called maintain their own security.
Eastern Europe exemplifies the disasters caused by this kind of carelessness between "small" and "big" people, and wantonly following internal emotions.
Back to the present, the special reception team of the Reclamation and Development Association took the Ming court envoys to first take a huge steamer to travel around the island.
When these officials approached the coastline, they saw the bustling docks and couldn't help but sigh that this was a paradise. The Reclamation Association revealed intentionally or unintentionally: It was a pity that such a good piece of land had no famous scholars.
The civil servant paused for a moment and realized that this meant "offering soil".
Of course, those royal guards used notebooks to write down shorthand.
The Reclamation and Development Association had long realized that Dongchang Fanzi would come to record, so they gave them a map in advance, which showed the farmland and roads in the Jilong District, as well as the signboards at each road sign node.
After the imperial envoys and imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty got off the big ship, the steam train at the station and the steam boiler like a big water tank were being boiled. There was a puff of white air, and the pressure indicators on the pipes were swinging.
At the same time, the control levers are adjusting the steam pressure. Under the rolling force provided by the coal mine burning in the front boiler, this hundred-stone black iron monster rushes forward with brute force.
The guest house staff told the stunned Ming Dynasty: Although this thing is much slower than a pack horse, it can drag ten thousand buckets of rice.
This steam locomotive does not travel on railways. At this time, the steel production in China is not enough to lay rails, and there are only a few hundred thousand people. The population is sparse, and it is impossible to train enough railway workers.
The two tracks are "convex" cement rails. This kind of cement rail uses baked wood to drive piles every five meters. Bamboo ribs are laid between the piles, and then cement sand and gravel are attached. They are supplemented at the turning places.
The brick body is used to resist the wear of the iron wheel. The cement track is 30 centimeters wide and has sufficient bearing capacity.
The Reclamation and Development Association has counted various methods. Whether it is building hardened cement roads, paving gravel roads and using crawler tracks, they are not economical enough.
As the eight-car train rumbled over, Ming Envoy saw a strange scene at the station.
Ordinary residents wearing linen boarded the economy carriages at the back carrying large and small bags, including cages carrying sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks.
The envoy wanted to take a closer look, but he had already been invited to the first-class cabin. This separate compartment had eight tables and chairs.
As the truck drove, we saw large fields along the way. Compared to the acres of land in the Jiangnan area, here were neat acres of land divided into two hundred steps. This was a plan to facilitate land management.
At present, the land on Taiyuan Island has not been traded. It is completely managed by the company and the local people in the reclamation area through contracts signed, that is, transplanting rice, plowing and filling, and harvesting. The company is responsible for the work that requires large-scale cooperation.
Fees are charged per acre. As for daily management, it is left to the public.
This was the large plantation management model of the colonial system.
If the land is naturally annexed like in the south of the Yangtze River, landlords with small farmer mentality will quietly move the boundary markers in a few years, and the canals and field ridges on the dividing line will become a mess.
At present, the dividing line of farmland on Taiyuan Island is a tree, and the trees have been moved to death. Therefore, the straight planning is currently maintained, which looks quite pleasing to the eye.
But in the eyes of Ming Envoy, his expression became more and more shocking. Such a well-field system represented the government-like land management.
A follower raised his hands and whispered to Shangguan: This is not an ordinary maritime trader, but a force with a farming and warfare system. Compared with the harassment of several Japanese pirate ships, this place has the ability to gather tens of thousands of warriors.
The implication is that the court should be cautious about this. If it is not handled well, it will be more troublesome than the Mongolian Tatars.
…The only thing that can be understood about pirate civilization is strong ships and heavy artillery, but the only thing that can be understood about farming civilization is the minefield system…
The vehicle arrived at Jilong City, which smelled of coking coal.
Compared with the acres of mines and fields outside, this time is the real core. A heavily industrialized city that integrates steelmaking, ammonia production, three acids and two alkalis, and machinery production.
The design is quite compact. While many chemical productions produce waste heat (converting ammonia into nitric acid), they also produce waste residue and waste water, so that every coal mine burned can produce more efficient output value as much as possible, not just a certain production line.
This is advanced, but a whole set of facilities are connected in series like the human body, and the waste heat will be reused and sent to the factory steam boiler for reproduction.
Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs.
The purely white agricultural country did not have such design capabilities and factory management capabilities at the beginning. Therefore, everything had to copy the urban zoning, logistics transfer, and personnel management of the cities in the existing industrial countries.
Jilong City is the place where the Overtime members of the Reclamation and Development Society are most concentrated, because outside farmland management, business road operations, and even the military can find replacements for local talents from the Ming Dynasty. Only in this industrialization, there are no education-related talents for more than ten years.
The chain cannot be grown.
When we arrived at the Industrial City on this trip, we naturally wanted to introduce the Ming Court envoys to the two things they were most concerned about, muskets and armor.
In the armor factory, the production lines are usually sealed and open only on Mondays of every month. Factory workers usually work in other hardware workshops to produce screws, iron hoops and other parts that are currently in short supply. But now, the Ming envoy has arrived.
Start a production.
In Factory Building No. 023, when all the work members queued up to enter each work station and stood at attention, the team leader reported "everyone is in place", "inspection completed" and "everything is normal", and then the machine started to run.
At first, people in the Ming court curled their lips when they saw all the workers running quickly and reporting the numbers in a serious manner. This was because people with agricultural thinking did not understand the rigid appearance of residents in industrial conditions.
But as the circles of iron sheets were directly forged, and the dust cover on the musket was finally fixed with screws, and everyone did not need to move, and only had to complete the task at hand, they couldn't help but change their expressions.
When every other stick of incense is burned, three sets of armor come off the production line. When the sun sets from morning to three o'clock in the afternoon, on the "clothes hanger" array in the middle and rear of the production workshop, rows of clothes and armor are labeled with sizes. Just like the Terracotta Warriors.
The same military formations were displayed, and these tung oil-scented armor formations exuded a terrifying force.
The nobles of the Ming Dynasty in brocade robes could not help but walk to the armor formation. In less than an hour, hundreds of armor prototypes were completed. The rest was the work of installing and fixing the armor parts. According to the production schedule, one armor was produced every morning.
Half an hour and two hours of production in the afternoon, the production capacity of this factory of more than 300 people can exceed the output of tens of thousands of craftsmen in the capital who forged for several months with small hammers and small furnaces.
The impact of industrialization efficiency has brought down the thinking of the people on this timeline.
…Should we ask about the charge of “privately forging armor” now?…
Then came the gun factory, where shiny steel pipes were drilled out under the drill, and the accumulated steel pipes were joined by workers with other parts and screws were inserted to fix them.
After the production of this batch of muskets, they will enter the quality inspection step, where several soldiers will randomly select them. Then the quality inspector will carry these still-warm guns into the shooting range to shoot, and the revolving gun will fire six times.
The sound made the literati who saw this weapon for the first time feel his heart beat rapidly when he heard the gunfire.
On the field, the tester fired a volley of rounds, and then used a small hook like an ear pick to clean the paper shell embedded in the barrel of the revolver. Then he inserted bullets. Generally speaking, the firepower was good.
After the shooting was completed, the inspector reported: "Twenty firearms from this batch were randomly inspected and twenty were qualified."
Such continuous multiple rounds of muskets silenced the envoys once again. Before they could say anything, Kentuo would pass through the group and present these firearms to the envoys for viewing.
During the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants looked at the firearms in their hands and were very curious about the rolling structure.
Of course, more advanced firearms have not yet been demonstrated, and the disadvantage of the air tightness of the runner is an unsolvable problem.
In the era of fixed-loaded bullets, range and accuracy are the core competitiveness.
Bolt-action rifles are ready for production, but because no stable copper mine has been found yet, paper bullets are still not eliminated in terms of ammunition.
The Ming Dynasty confirmed that the craftsmen in the capital could not make such a firearm. Of course, it is not to mention that it is difficult to control the quality of handicrafts. This is a product that uses vernier calipers every day to ensure standardized production, and the weight error of the cardboard shell bullets is not more than ten percent.
one gram.
...Pacific Company did not regard the Ming Dynasty as an enemy, but wanted to transfer the excess population of the Central Dynasty...
After the armament observation was over, the Reclamation Association and Ming Dynasty returned to the negotiation table.
However, at this time, both sides were speechless. They were making armor privately and hoarding land to build cities. According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this was considered rebellion. And even if they could not be suppressed, there would be a new round of blockade that prohibited sampans from entering the sea. But in this way
If so, Jiangnan will experience another wave of Japanese invasion tomorrow.
Of course, there are no Japanese in the Reclamation Team. As a force taking the capitalist road, the army is highly nationalistic.
And the number of Han Chinese in East Asia is large enough. Even if nationalism produces xenophobia, it will still be a mainstream trend.
The Ming Dynasty envoys could see that there were eight agricultural towns around the entire industrial zone, the largest of which had 3,000 households. Counting this town alone, three households were selected to conduct one drill every ten days, and soon
Thousands of gunmen were brought out.
Note: These are not retired soldiers. In ancient times, there were ten households and one soldier. They were soldiers who had to fight abroad for a long time, and transportation was inconvenient. Once they were recruited into the camp, they could not be released. A general died in a hundred battles, and a strong man returned after ten years. This is no joke.
Training in the countryside is only a dozen miles away. Even if there are three households and one village, agricultural production will not be affected.
When productivity further develops, as railways expand throughout the country, household registration management enters the grassroots level, half of the male population can be mobilized to the battlefield - this was the case during the First and Second World Wars. The more industrialized a society is, the higher its mobilization power will be.
The Reclamation Society was also unwilling to fall out with the Ming Dynasty, because the imperial court in the northern capital was not the main resistance to the direct "overseas colonial strategy."
The biggest resistance is the current landlord Confucian group in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This official-based group monopolizes resources. Whether it is "commercial economy" or "small peasant economy", it extracts internally rather than develops externally. This is the Ming Dynasty in the next few decades.
A force that would cause headaches even at the end of the dynasty.
So something unexpected happened to the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. That is, the reclamation and expansion team took out a map. In front of the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty, they divided the state and county capitals on Dayuang Island.
Of course, it is not that the Reclamation and Expansion Corps established a government and established a government on its own, but rather requested the imperial court to establish a government and establish a government here and appoint officials. As for the tax system, it is easy to say, it can be thirty to one.
...Travelers of the Reclamation Regiment: Although we train soldiers privately and make armor privately, we are righteous people...
On the other side, Wei Keng was having a conversation with the Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain.
Wei Keng looked at the Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain: "Didn't this fellow Taoist, the forefather of your sect, give you a decree?"
The Taoist priest looked stunned, thinking that Wei Keng was pretending to be a ghost, until Wei Keng took out something: a Taoist scripture, which belonged to Master Zhang Lu of Longhu Mountain.
Note: In this area of the heavens, Wei Keng can directly bring items from upstream in time.
What Mr. Wei is focusing on right now is the alchemy technique that has been developed for a thousand years. Wei Keng is now investigating further upstream and finds that zombies also appeared earlier in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During that great epidemic, Taoists used the technique of lead and mercury.
Refining the "golden elixir" and putting it into wells to remove diseases from the water source, so that 70% of the people in the villages can survive!
These "one thing reduces one thing" correspondences are the upstream stabilizing valve of the biochemical plot. Once these knowledge systems in the colonial era are lost, the biochemical crisis will worsen without limit.
Now Wei Keng is preparing to recover the alchemy technique.
To the Taoist priests of Longhu Mountain, Wei Keng's ability to trace back the time upstream is a truly magical skill.
The Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain saw that the handwriting was similar to the Taoist notes carved on the stone in the mountain behind his sect. He was doubtful that this was the original work of the sect's ancestor, and respectfully asked: "How many years has the immortal master practiced?"
Wei Keng: "The situation in my world, time and space are different from your understanding. The Han Dynasty is a thousand years to you, but it was only a few days ago to me."
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wu Dou Mi Dao initially belonged to the "evil path". Its founder, Zhang Daoling, established a preaching organization based on the Twenty-Four Rules, and set up positions such as offering wine for management, establishing Wu Dou Mi Dao into a well-organized sect with clear division of labor.
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After Zhang Daoling's death, his son Zhang Heng inherited the position of Heavenly Master and was called the Successor Heavenly Master. However, there are few records about him. Instead, another Bashu native, Zhang Xiu, made a great contribution to the perfection and development of the Five Pecks of Rice Road during the same period.
His contribution was ranked equally with that of Zhang Jiao. Later, Taiping Dao was eliminated, but Zhang Heng's son Zhang Lu took advantage of the warlord separatism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and relied on the organizational system of Wu Dou Mi Dao. This force was active in Bajun and Hanzhong for more than ten years.
Developed the Five Pecks of Rice Road into a larger force in Hanzhong and Bajun areas, and used this force to resist the Eastern Han Dynasty.
It was Zhang Lu who really reformed this evil cult, improved its teachings, developed production, and joined Cao Cao, taking away hundreds of thousands of Hanzhong people, leaving Liu Bei with a big hole.
Zhang Lu's case proves that a combination of a force that radiates ideas to the outside world and a ruling group that controls the rule of law can benefit both sides.
Throughout the history of the earth, it is difficult for super religions to become extinct, but there is only one super religion that disappeared directly because it always loves to compete with secular power, and that is Zoroastrianism.
The branch of Zoroastrianism that spread to the East was the Ming Sect and the White Lotus Sect. It was passed down from generation to generation starting from Fangla's rebellion, and even sent away the rule of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Of course, this religion itself was also sent away in the end.
The space-time legion led by Wei Keng, the "New Mohist Family" created on the timeline of the Ming Dynasty, is now known as the "Immortal Family" and has become a "religion".
Currently, the Pacific Company Reclamation Association adopts a position rotation system, which does not produce royal power, so it will not compete with Emperor Ming for destiny. However, it will actively participate in all topics related to its own interests, and be prepared to directly collide with any obstructive forces.
preparation.
For the "New Mohism", this obstructive force could be the Ming Dynasty. Change to the "mandate of destiny" that is inclined to the Mohism.
Pacific Company was ready for another "friction" to force the Ming Dynasty to recognize part of the treaty.
Wei Keng: Jiangnan, the so-called sprout of capitalism, is definitely not suitable for the further development of capitalism. With the ideological ceiling of Confucianism, all the sprouts that grow are bean sprouts.
Six days later, a stone statue was erected on the cement pier, and the inscription was written by the envoy of the Ming Dynasty. The ribbon was successfully cut, and everyone present applauded...
The envoy from the Ming court picked up the map. Although there was no guarantee, he was still ready to promote the surrender of the new territories in the southeast in the court.
For this mission, they originally thought of stabilizing the southeast, but now they did not expect that they could gather new territory in the southeast for the imperial court. Throughout history, only the benefits of land donations from the "Shangdang" people encountered by the Zhao State during the Warring States Period could be compared. .
If it can be done, this will be a benefit that will be passed down through the ages. The Dajuan Island in the southeast is obviously extremely rich, and its grain production is comparable to that of Shangfu in the southeast.
The ruling clique of the Ming Dynasty had become too ambitious and too ambitious. The Ming Dynasty's imperial examination candidates were candidates directly in the capital. They stayed at the emperor's feet for a long time to gain qualifications and wait to join the cabinet, rather than going out to gain governance experience.
This is a chronic disease of the Jiangnan literati group in the Ming Dynasty. It has been like this since the founding of the dynasty. It is at the center, boasting of its extraordinary talents, and being arrogant towards those below.
Little did they know: my perspective was limited to the prosperity of Jiangnan, and I lacked imagination for the complex situations in various parts of Kyushu.
The Ming Dynasty was filled with literati from the south of the Yangtze River, which made the Ming Dynasty the one with the weakest control over the frontiers among all the dynasties that unified the north and the south.
Decades later, these scholars would do such stupid things in governing the country: In Liaodong, Li Chengliang, who had already been feudalized, was demolished. He was complacent about solving the border troubles, but he never thought that the Ming Dynasty could not even control the Loop, and demolished the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong. The "Great Wall" made room for the rise of alien races.
The Reclamation Association now dares to let Ming Dynasty come to build the government because it is certain that the existing system sent by the imperial court cannot be governed.
Li Changkang, a member of the board of directors, said: The imperial power of the Ming Dynasty did not extend to the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and local power could not be seized even by the clans. We established a consultative bureau to attract scholars and other distinguished scholars to help us recruit Little Ice Age refugees from various states in an open and honest manner, and go to sea. Kentuo.
Three months later, the envoy left Da Yuan Island, and some of the eloquent orators of the Reclamation Association followed the envoy team and took the gold and pearls to the southern capital and the northern capital respectively to establish relations.
For the Kentuohui, which "bowed its head and bowed to its subjects", it was necessary to give the people in power in the Ming Dynasty enough dignity and face, and they could not let the Ming court order a sea ban.
The maritime ban means that the government directly prohibits fishermen from contacting overseas forces.
Now the Kentuo Association recruits from fishing villages in Guangzhou and Zhejiang, quietly sets up bases on coastal islands, and then recruits people to go to sea.
With official status as a settler, you can recruit fishermen to settle the land in an honest and fair manner.
The gathering of fishermen can be legalized, but as for the authorities, it can be done through "official-business collusion."
At present, the Spacetime team is preparing to set up a special project to deliver benefits to people in coastal counties and government offices. It will launch an "overseas donation".
Kentuo will pay taxes to the local government with ten copper coins per person for each trip to sea, so that the government can cooperate with the immigration.
It also strengthened its business contacts with the Ming Dynasty on land. For example, in the "mining" industry in Zhejiang, it transported "mining" exhaust fans and crushing mining machines to increase mining output, and dispatched ships to purchase these minerals.
You must know that many of these "mines" involve the royal family and powerful officials in the DPRK.
In this way, the population and minerals extracted from the Ming Dynasty have obtained a raw material base for "industrial upgrade" and a market, which can then be used to invest in ships.
Build water conservancy, roads and other infrastructure in further places such as Luzon and Hainan for expansion.
So far, the development of the Reclamation Society has been very rapid. This is not only the technology transferred from the time and space gate, but also the continuous correctness of the strategy. This is something that very few newcomers in the sub-plane can achieve when traveling through time. Many other
Without a "calm leader" to lead the time and space worm travellers, the little information they have is often wasted in fighting against the indigenous forces.
It is extremely important to remember what you came to do.
On Damuan Island, Wei Keng looked at several lines that the reclamation would extend to Nanyang, and marked several points on the Nanyang Islands. Those are biochemical and biological phenomena in various timelines and different plots hundreds of years in the future.