Regarding the problems in Europe, Zhao Xin's idea was to muddy the waters. Compared with the life and death of Louis XVI, he was more concerned about not letting the British dominate the South Asian subcontinent. Let the Manchus annex the Gorkhas and force them to enter South Asia.
The essence of the subcontinent's support for the French East India Company was to create obstacles for the British.
Since 1785, the British East India Company has achieved actual rule in Bengal. It is no longer an ordinary commercial company, but has become a ruling institution with vast territory and powerful power in India.
You must know that the period from the 18th to the 19th century was an adventurous, radical and violent era. The British were never willing to share India with the French. Their goal was to dominate the Indian economy and dominate the Kingdom of Mysore and the Maratha people.
The previous wars are proof. In this situation, the request for help in local governance gave Beihai Town the best excuse to intervene.
The purpose of Zhao Xin's intervention in India is to make Europeans understand that there can only be one common master in the entire East and South Asia. To hell with your God!
By the way, the term "Southeast Asia" did not exist until the late nineteenth century. Europeans at this time collectively referred to Southeast Asia and East Asia as "the East", and countries such as Siam and Burma were collectively referred to as Outer India. And European colonists in order
Since colonizing Southeast Asia for a long time, many scholars have written a large number of "research works" since the early 19th century. In these books, they certainly describe the geography, climate, customs, products, language, etc., but
The most critical thing is that they distorted or erased the ancient history of Southeast Asia. They described the indigenous culture of Southeast Asia and the culture that was deeply influenced by Chinese civilization as imbecile, naive and incompetent, and boasted that the white people's colonization was morally inferior.
When Zhao Xin met with Peter, he told him that the number of troops dispatched from Beihai Town would be 1,500, of which 1,000 would stay locally for governance and 500 would go to France with the ship. This news was really disturbing.
Peter had mixed feelings. He was happy that with the help of the Seris people, the defense of the local governance was definitely impregnable. But he was worried about what the future of French India and the East Indies would be like with the arrival of the Seris people.
To Peter's great surprise, Zhao Xin actually knew the situation in India very well.
He told Peter that it was precisely because France did not provide enough support to the Kingdom of Mysore, and was not as good as the British in terms of weapons and training, and was always playing "volunteers", that led to Tipu Sultan's defeat.
And once Tipu Sultan is finished, the descendants of those Hindu princes will raise their heads, and no one will resolutely resist the British East India Company. The current problem of the French is not only the lack of land power, but also the inability of the navy to compete with the British.
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Peter was convinced of Zhao Xin's insights, but he was also helpless. As far as he knew personally, Louis XVI's policies towards the French East India Company changed over time, resulting in good and bad trade income.
The French only wanted to do trade in India and were not keen on collecting land taxes and land taxes. Their fiscal revenue could not support large-scale military operations.
In a word, hiring indigenous people to train, arm them, and launch wars requires sufficient military spending. But the king has invested all his money in the North American continent, so he has no time to care about India.
Afterwards, the two talked about the situation in France and the safety of the king. Zhao Xin no longer dared to be a stickman on this issue. In fact, even if he said it, others would not believe it. Peter said to Zhao Xin affectionately
He told how noble and approachable His Majesty the King and the Queen were, and said that if His Majesty King Zhao and His Majesty the King were lucky enough to meet, they would definitely become mutual friends.
Zhao Xinxin's confidant! I don't know what evil he did in his last life, but Louis XVI married Marie Antoinette. You can only say that he has Cixi's skills. He is obviously a novice in politics, but he still...
Likes to interfere in state affairs.
Originally, the National Assembly just put the family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace. Apart from being unable to leave, other treatments were the same and they were not deposed. However, Antoinette, who did not know that he was dead, was eager for restoration. When he saw that his nephew became the king of Austria, he
After declaring war on France, she passed relevant information about France to Austria. In order to realize his "republican" ideal, Robespierre had long wanted to attack the king's family, so she just gave him an excuse.
Zhao Xin told Peter that the fleet from Beihai Town planned to set off in late March 1792, stay there for a month at most, and arrive in France by the end of July at the latest. Peter was overjoyed and burst into tears when he heard this.
grateful.
Before sending away the time-travelers who were going home for the New Year, Zhao Xin, as usual, wanted to meet with Liu Zheng and Tai Pingtai, who had returned from the island country to report on their duties, and learned more about the situation in the island country this year. So he became a fat white man who weighed more than 180 kilograms.
When Zhao Xin walked into the house panting, he was stunned for several seconds before he realized what he was doing.
"I'll wipe it! Why are you so fat?"
"Ouch! Boss Zhao's style has not diminished, but I see why you have turned a bit darker?"
"Bah! I stayed with the army in Outer Mongolia for several months before I came back." Zhao Xin pointed at his wind-blackened face and said, "You think everyone is like you. You are arrogant and extravagant all the time. You can tell from the lack of exercise."
"The conscience of heaven and earth! I have been running back and forth between Edo and Sendai this year, and I have been to Hisigaru twice. How easy is it for me!"
"You've gained weight twice just by running like this. If you hadn't sent a telegram every time to report your itinerary, no one would have believed it. It seems like you've eaten too much eel."
"Hehe, I really let you talk! Guess what, Katsuyama Densan gave me a cook, and the grilled eel is gone!"
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "That thing has a lot of calories, so be careful if you eat too much."
The two chatted for a while, and then started talking about business. Liu Zheng first talked about the situation of the island country this year. Basically, the three years of the Kanzhi were relatively stable, and the impact of the "Tianming Famine" was finally over.
Both the Tokugawa shogunate and the Sendai clan alliance are busy restoring agricultural production. Last year, the shogunate's annual tribute income increased from 1.3 million koku in the early years of the Kansei to 1.8 million koku, a large part of which was due to the use of Beihai Town.
A variety of new farm tools.
In recent years, both the shogunate and the Sendai clan have exported a large number of laborers to Beihai Town. The domestic labor force has decreased, and a large number of women at home have gone to work in the fields. In some areas of Beihai Town, manual seeders, manual double-row rice transplanters, and foot-operated threshing machines are used.
Machines were also introduced to the island country as the workers returned home. After studying the internal structure of these new farm tools, the shrewd island craftsmen quickly imitated them. Some wealthy landowners and famous people began to use them one after another, and the effect was surprisingly good.
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For example, the threshing machine before the island country was just a wooden board with dense iron teeth arranged on it. There was a bucket for collecting rice grains below. When the peasant women threshed millet, they would take a handful of rice and beat it on it. In fact, it is not only the island country, but also the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River.
It's similar in the south. Folks call this kind of threshing machine that relies on human power "beating bucket".
The "pedal threshing machine" in Beihai Town is a domestic invention originating from another time and space in the 1970s of the last century. It adopts a gear transmission structure; except for a few iron gears, everything else is made of wood. Whether it is rice or wheat
, two regular laborers, paired with three or four weak laborers, can harvest more than three acres a day, greatly reducing labor intensity; if an electric motor or diesel engine is installed, more than ten acres can be harvested a day.
Since almost two years ago, the Beihai Town Trade Department has been selling threshing machines along the canal through people from Songjiang Caobang. Each machine sells for 600 yuan, and Caobang can get a commission of 50 yuan for each machine sold.
Liu Zheng told Zhao Xin that despite Matsudaira Sadanobu's "Lanzheng Foreign Studies Ban" and his strong promotion of Zhu Xi's theory, in fact, this person had a strong interest in foreign learning - especially the cultural research in Beihai Town, and paid great attention to military affairs.
Relevant knowledge. He even asked people to collect information on previous battles in Beihai Town and compiled a "Book of Beihai Navy".
After that, he took out a thread-bound book from the bag he carried with him, handed it to Zhao Xin, and said: "I'm really not used to reading ancient books. I basically feel sleepy after reading two pages. I usually use them as hypnosis if I have nothing to do."
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Zhao Xin opened the book and flipped through it, and found that it described all the major and minor wars in Beihai Town from 1784 to 1790 by year, with a detailed analysis of the number of troops sent by both sides, tactics, results, etc. However, some of the numbers were wrong at first glance.
, Zhao Xin estimated that it either came from folk rumors, or was inquired about by orchid scholars from the island countries.
As for Liu Zheng himself, he lived a very good life as a child. The two women Ishikawa Murafumi gave him have already given birth to a son and a daughter. Considering that the medical conditions in the island country are so poor, he brought them all back this time.
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After hearing this, Zhao Xin nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well done! Liu, the organization has decided to give you a difficult task."
When Liu Zheng heard Zhao Xin's tone, he immediately got excited and thought to himself, are you planning to let me change the territory? His mind turned around a few times quickly, and then he said with a nonchalant expression: "Brother Zhao, are you planning to let me change my territory?"
Should we go to Nanyang or Annan? We must obey the organization's arrangements."
"You are very enlightened!" Zhao Xin showed his habitual treacherous smile and said: "Congratulations on your wrong guess, go to Culun!"
"What?! Mongolia!"
"Yes! No matter how much trouble there is in the island country, it will be like this. We still have to put our focus back. How about going to Khalkha to be the governor for a few years? Stop eating eels and change your taste. Roasted lamb kidneys are a great supplement."
"No, Brother Zhao, Boss Zhao!" Liu Zheng said with a wry smile: "I admit that we have been a bit arrogant and extravagant in the past two years, but this is not the reason for sending me to another place, right? Let Zhang Jingxuan go, he has been staying in Eastern Siberia.
It’s been two years and I have a lot of experience.”
"You're thinking too much," Zhao Xinhe looked up and looked outside the room, and then explained softly: "Zhang Jingxuan can be a deputy. I'm afraid he will have to practice for a few more years to become a chief officer. I asked him to go to Irkut before.
Ci Ke is just a general out of luck. If I ask him to go to Khalkha again, I think there will be no bones left that can be eaten by those lamas and princes."
"Then where do you plan to transfer him?"
"Let him come back and serve as Lao Chen's deputy."
Letting Liu Zheng go to Khalkha is the result of Zhao Xin's careful consideration in the past two months. Khalkha Mongolia is too big and the transportation conditions are poor. Liu Sheng and Fan Tong can combine Sanyin Nuoyan and Zhasak Tuhan.
It will be fine if the Ministry and the Tang Nu Wulianghai Ministry are well managed. As for the Kulun side, because of its importance, it is not far from Kyaktu, so a heavyweight must be sent there.
In other words, Liu Sheng's status is like the "Deputy General of the Left Side of Dingbian" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, commanding the entire Mobei; Fan Tong is like the "Minister of Affairs of Kobdo", managing Kobdo and Tangnu Ulianghai; and Liu Zheng is
"Kulun Minister" manages the entire eastern part of Khalkha Mongolia.
From Zhao Xin's selfish point of view, the reason why he did this also played the role of "separation of powers among the three powers", so that no one could think of one family being dominant.
Compared with Liu Sheng's iron hand and Fan Tong's soft knife, the people who sit in Kulun must first be good at communication and be able to deal with the intricate political relationships among the Khan tribes, Zhasaks and Lama banners.
The various Mongolian tribes that came to the Manchu regime once again assimilated into the regime of Beihai Town and turned their allegiance to Beihai Town.
During the two years that Liu Zheng had been in the island country, he had been able to navigate between the two major samurai groups, the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Sendai Domain Alliance, and even interacted with ministers in Kyoto. Such experience was almost rare in Beihai Town.
In addition, Beihai Town is different from the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties need to let Outer Mongolia stick to its borders as a shield for the Qing Empire and Tsarist Russia. But now the entire Eastern Siberia has fallen into the hands of Beihai Town, except for Tangnu Ulianghai and Tangnu Ulianghai in the west.
The Khovd region and other regions have lost their role as a barrier. In this way, the military system of "integrating soldiers and civilians" can come to an end.
As mentioned before, there were many types of military service performed by the four Mongolian tribes of Khalkha for the Manchu Dynasty. They were assigned according to the number of archers. Their nature was similar to the historical service and tax. However, it had to be without the oppression of various Zasak lords and Lama banners.
, the life of herdsmen is not so miserable.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! You must know that after the Qing government pacified the Junggars, the biggest beneficiaries were the princes, nobles and upper-class lamas of Khalkha; most directly, all the pastures of the Junggar tribe were destroyed
The Khalkha nobles and various Hutuktu families were divided among them.
This is also the main reason why Qianlong wanted to kill Erlinqin Dorji during the "Removal of Posts". After giving you such great benefits, he actually colluded with Amulsana!
Therefore, Liu Zheng's task is not only to deal with the nobles and lamas, but also to mobilize the masses through a large number of work teams, fight against the local tyrants, and let the grassroots herdsmen change their way of life. You must know that these people are the powerful pillars of the Beihai Town regime. As for those who
The work team will be the team of cadres accumulated by Beihai Town for going south in the future.
After listening to Zhao Xin's explanation, Liu Zheng suddenly realized and finally felt relieved. He said to himself that Boss Zhao still regards him as a brother. After all, we are also the founders of Beihai Town!
Zhao Xin's final advice to Liu Zheng was to unite the middle and lower classes, weaken the upper class, and attack the die-hards among the princes, nobles and the six lama banners. In short, in one sentence, Khalkha is the Khalkha of Beihai Town, not any lord
And the great lama’s!
"Then who among the four Khalkha tribes do you think should be suppressed and who should be united?"
"You need to analyze this yourself." Zhao Xin didn't want to tell Liu Zheng the answer directly, but he still added: "Whoever has the biggest pasture and has the most disputes with various ministries, you will do it to him!"
Before leaving, Liu Zheng walked to the door and hesitated for a moment, then turned to Zhao Xin and said: "There is something...forget it, maybe I am too worried."
"If you have something to say, just say it."
"Before I boarded the ship from Ishinomaki Port, I met the boss of Murataya on the dock. He told me that one of his subordinates accidentally saw Heita and Katsuyama Denzo in Gion Kobe, Kyoto more than two months ago.
There is also a relative of the Konoe family who is having a drink at the restaurant and even invited the most famous oiran to come."
Zhao Xin frowned for a moment, then opened it again, nodded and said: "Okay, I understand."
Half an hour later, Pingtai sat respectfully opposite Zhao Xin and began to report on the progress of the past year.
Since the fire in Kyoto, the Mansei clan has suffered heavy casualties, but those who were lucky enough to survive seemed to have realized something. Basically, the doors were closed and they rarely went out. Kanin Gong Norihito took in several more side rooms in one go.
The main thing every day is to create little people.
As for Emperor Kokaku, he continued to compete with the Edo side with the support of the Sendai clan, and it was still about giving his biological father a title. Since this man did not show up at all and was focused on holding festivals in the palace, it was difficult to do anything.
Chance.
Zhao Xin was noncommittal after hearing this. He knew that this kind of thing cannot be rushed. It would be great if it could be completed in 5, 6, 7 or 8. Sometimes the opportunity comes in an instant. If you miss it, you don't know when the next time will be.
After he finished talking about the business, he chatted with Heita for a while. He pretended not to care and said casually: "After the fire at dawn, Gion was not affected, right?"
"Fortunately, it recovered after a year."
"Hey, I really want to go there to drink flower wine and find some husbands when I have the chance."
Heita showed a look of fascination on his face and sighed: "Although I have been to humble positions, I would never dare to find a husband. Those in Gion are all beauties in the world, and the appearance fee is extremely expensive."
Zhao Xin laughed and said: "Okay! When we are not busy after the New Year, we will find an opportunity to go to Kyoto together to see more."
However, when Zhao Xin laughed and watched Pingtai walk out of the courtyard, he returned to his seat with a gloomy expression on his face. After thinking for a while, he called in Xu Funan, who was the confidential secretary.
"Activate Ishinomaki Port's secret line and let them thoroughly understand the situation of Heita and Katsuyama Denzo in the past two years!"