Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Okay!" Zhu Heqi nodded, looking very satisfied, "I will let the Navy and Nanyang Company send you off as soon as possible... You can go to Nagoya Tianwang City first. The Supreme Emperor is sitting there, and I will write to the Supreme Emperor to ask him Recruit another one or two hundred Japanese retainers for you, so that more people can work for you!"

"Thank you, my lord." Upon hearing this, Su Zhanyang quickly saluted and thanked him.

Zhu Heqi then said to Da Cering again, "Da Cering, where are your people?"

"Responding to the words of the Holy One," Celing Dunduobu hesitated for a moment, "The servants of the minister are nomadic far away in the Kalashar area."

Karashar is located at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, north of the Tarim Basin, and is the area around Bosten Lake.Although the Tarim Basin in this era was already very dry, thanks to the snowmelt in the Tianshan Mountains and the nourishment of Bosten Lake, the Karashar area is still fertile.Therefore, Cewang Allah Butan, who marched into the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, placed his khan court in Karashar, and Cering Dunduobu had a small number of troops, so he could only follow Cewang Allah Butan.

Zhu and Qi raised their heads and looked at Tse Wang Alabatan who was standing far away.

Although Cewang Allah Butan was not willing to lose the hundreds of cavalry under Celing Dunduobu's command, he did not dare to offend Zhu Heqi, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, I will immediately issue an order to the royal palace of Karashar. The purpose is to let them send the tribesmen of Ceringdunduobu to Nanjing immediately."

Zhu Hechi laughed and said, "Don't be in a hurry to come to Nanjing, you can go to Guihua City to get the pox first, and then go to Tianjin. And you don't have to carry cattle and sheep tents all the way to Guihua to Tianjin. Cattle, sheep, horses, tents, weapons Nagoya Tenno City will prepare for them everything they need to cross the sea and open up.”

The Tianwang City established by Zhu Tianwang is actually a licensed trading company, but it does not operate zero-yuan purchases, but provides logistics support and product sales services for zero-yuan purchases. Naturally, this efficiency is not comparable to that of ordinary yamen.

So Zhu Hexi simply outsourced the logistics service of colonizing the New World to Nagoya Tenno City, where Zhu Tianwang personally sits. Now Nagoya Tenno City has not only built docks, warehouses, and camps, but also built a building that can accommodate tens of thousands of heads. Pasture for livestock.Therefore, personnel, materials, and livestock can be transported to the other side of the ocean in batches by ship.This not only improves the efficiency of transportation, reduces loss and cost, but also improves the comfort of personnel.

In addition, those who cross the sea to the New World can also stay in Nagoya for ten days and a half months, and then board the ship when they have enough strength, so that the proportion of falling ill and dying on the road will be greatly reduced.

This is really a great benefit for the New World project that Zhu Hechi is most concerned about right now.

However, Emperor Zhu's attention was not all absorbed by the New World, otherwise he would not have summoned Cewang Allah Butan from the foot of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions to Nanjing City.

Countermeasures The official summoning of Arabbutan was placed after the ceremony of the "Yin Shang Grand Canonization" ceremony - in this grand canonization, a total of more than 100 people were granted the titles of Hou, Dian, Nan, Wei, and Bangbo The fifth-class title, and on average, there are about 100 households hanging under each lord, and more than 2 lords add up to more than [-] households. If one household has three members, it will have a population of [-] to [-].

More than 2 of them are young men who have received military training!

In the next few months, these people will be transported in batches to the Great Merchant Kingdom on the other side of the Pacific Ocean to act as descendants of the Yin and Shang people who have lived there "since ancient times".

In the past two years, the Ming court has organized four groups of "wicked people" and "herdsmen" to go to the New World—these are the tribesmen directly under Zhu Yimei and Zhu Celing. Be careful with the king or sweat, or else you will be a bare rod.

These four groups of "wicked men" and "herdsmen" together have a total of more than 1 people.Coupled with the first batch of immigrants who crossed the sea, there are now almost [-] "merchants" and "Yin people" in the New World, and they are already capable of fighting!

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"Cewang Allah Butan, enter the Emperor's Palace to speak! Anu, Prime Minister Left, Prime Minister Right, you also come."

The canonization ceremony outside the Huangji Hall was over, Emperor Zhu politely invited Cewang Allah Butan into the Huangji Hall, and also called Anu, Zhuge Sanhe, and Yang Qilong in together.

After entering the Huangji Hall, Emperor Zhu did not go to sit on his throne, but walked to a map stand placed in a corner of the Huangji Hall.

This map shows the situation in the Western Regions including the seven territories of Ili, Junggar, Yaerqiang, Hami, Khotan, Kashgar, and Turpan.Each piece of land on the map is marked with the name of the owner in Chinese characters.

Among them, Ili and Turpan (including Karashar, Kuqa, and Aksu) are both written with the name of Cewang Allah Butan!The Ming court only owns a large piece of Hami, and the Junggar headquarters north of the Tianshan Mountains (including Urumqi and Kulkara Wusu) belong to Sonomu Arabutan, the younger brother of Tsengwang Alabutan.Plus the Khobduo Grassland owned by another younger brother of Ce Wang.The territory occupied by the three brothers Cewang almost included the territory of the entire Junggar tribe (there was no khanate at that time) when Sengge was in power.

And the three brothers of Cewang regard Cewang's Allah Butan as their respect... It's already a bit of a big deal!

Seeing this map, a gleam of fear flashed across Cewang Allah Butan's face.Before he knew it, the Junggar Khanate was about to be unified by him!

"Zewangarabutan," Anu suddenly said at this time, "If I remember correctly, the population of the territory left by Seng Ge is almost the same? What else are you not satisfied with?"

When Ce Wang heard this, he quickly knelt down to Emperor Zhu, "Your Majesty, I and the two brothers can get the land and population left by their father. He wants to capture and kill Galdan's great enemy for the Holy One... and as far as I know, Galdan has already received the assistance of Kangxi Khan who has just conquered half of India, and his vitality has also recovered. If he is not wiped out now, I am afraid that he will unite with Kangxi Khan to disrupt the Western Regions in the future and become a great disaster for the Celestial Dynasty!"

Zhu Heqi didn't speak. The person next to him was already old, and because of gout, he was on a walking stick. Zhuge Sanhe, who had become a "lame Zhuge", stroked his gray beard and sneered: "A mere Galdan, but a clown, is also worthy." Is it the enemy of the Celestial Dynasty?"

Yang Qilong also laughed and said: "The reason why Galdan became the enemy of the Celestial Dynasty is because he can't lose his tail. Now he only has Yeerqiang, Kashgar, and Khotan, so why should he become the archenemy of the Celestial Dynasty?"

Anu sighed quietly at this time, and said again: "The Holy Majesty's heart is kind, as long as Galdan is willing to repent, he is allowed to be ordained and become a monk, and he is allowed to practice in Yeerqiang, Kashgar, and Khotan. As for Kangxi Khan, since the Kangxi brother Chang Ning will come out to deal with it, you don't have to worry about it."

Cewang Arab said frankly: "Become a monk? If you become a monk, will you have no wife? Will you, an American lady, be able to remarry in a legitimate way?"

At this time, Zhu Heqi suddenly gave a dry laugh, interrupting Cewang Arabutan's thoughts, and only heard him laughing: "Cewang, although I support you and your two brothers to take back your father Sengge's inheritance, But the position of Khan in the Junggar Khanate was not left by Sangge...Sengge is just a Huntaiji of the Junggar tribe. And the three of you brothers have worked hard to stabilize the northwest of the country over the years. One Huntaiji is no longer enough to reward you So I plan to make the three of you kings, the kings of Yili, Junggar, Khobduo and Turpan!"

Cewang Allah Butan was taken aback for another moment, and looked up at the Ming Emperor, "Your Majesty, there are only three brothers, and you just named four county kings."

Zhu Heqi laughed and said, "Ce Wang, I will grant you two kings, one for yourself and one for your second son!"

Chapter 814 The Shang Dynasty had a sharp gun!

"Mini Eji, you said that the emperor gave my unborn child the title of county king..."

Tsewang Allah Butan was wearing the python robe of the King of Ming Dynasty, bowed and followed behind the American lady Anu, and walked step by step by the Xuanwu Lake beside the back garden of the Shunyi Palace, even though Anu was only ten years older than himself. It is called "Mini Erji", which means "my mother", and he is really a filial son.If his father, Sengge's spirit in heaven, knew about it, he would be very happy.

Anu has been "trained" by Zhu Heqi very well in the past two years, and her figure can be seen at a glance as a fleshy and easy-to-fat physique.Such a body is of course much better than the bean sprouts that can be blown away by the wind, but it is also easy to develop horizontally into a big fat man, especially since Anu has given birth to two sons and a daughter.If you can't control it well, then the holy family will be gone... So Zhu and Qi took Da Boling, who is also prone to obesity, to exercise with her, and personally drew up a strict diet and fitness plan for the two of them.And these two people have very good foundations, both have certain martial arts skills, and they are both heroines who can wear armor and go into battle.So I can work out, and the current figure is still in good shape.It belongs to the level of "fat but not greasy", plump and firm.

Seeing the back of his stepmother and sister-in-law, Tsewangarabutan, who was following Anu, felt a little... Missed his wife Ah Hai a little bit.Ah Hai and Anu are sisters, they are also fat but not greasy, and their faces are even more beautiful!

Before Cewang Allah Butan left Karashar Khanting, his wife Ahai was pregnant with a second child.However, the birth of a son and daughter is not yet known, but Emperor Zhu has already been named the king of Turpan County.No matter how you look at it, this is a bit outrageous!

Anu coughed in a low voice, waved her hands, followed her several Mongolian maids and bowed back dozens of steps.Anu then turned his head and looked at the heroic son left behind by Seng Ge.If you only talk about military capabilities and political skills, Cewang Arabtan is far superior to Galdan.It's just that Galdan is a great lama and has the blessing of theocracy, so that he can suppress Cewang Allah Butan...but in the end he couldn't suppress it.

But no matter how powerful Cewang Allah Butan is, in the palm of Emperor Zhu, it is still useless to turn somersaults.

And only that idiot Galdan thought he could rely on the support of the Yellow Sect and the Mongols' yearning for the Genghis Khan Empire to fight against the great emperor of the Celestial Dynasty... He doesn't look at the fact that Burni's grandfather is both Genghis Khan and the King of the Golden Wheel, no Or become a running sweat?That Burni had already entered the city of Beijing, but in the end, didn't he honestly hang out with the Ming emperor?

And I... can't escape the palm of the great emperor!

Thinking of this, Anu's face became hot, and he quickly stopped his mind: "Cewang Allah Butan, let me ask you, do you think the Great Emperor is your father, and are you a subject of the Great Emperor? The three of you Is the land under the jurisdiction of the brothers the territory of the Celestial Dynasty?"

Cewang Allah Butan was stunned, "Mini Eji, of course I am a subject of the Great Emperor, and our Junggar tribe is of course a vassal of the Celestial Dynasty."

Anu breathed a sigh of relief: "In this case, then I will tell you why the great emperor named your unborn second son Turpan County, he is practicing the law of favor!"

"Tweet?" Allah Butan was a little puzzled.

Where is grace?

Anu laughed and said: "The so-called Tween means that the emperor distributes the land and population controlled by the princes and kings to the sons of the princes and kings as evenly as possible... In this way, a large princely country can be divided into several small princely countries. This is For the king or prince of the big vassal state, of course, there is no kindness. But for the other sons of the king who have no right to inherit the throne and land, it is kindness."

"But what kind of king and crown prince can agree to this matter?" Tse Wang Alabatan asked again.

Anu laughed and said, "It's better than destroying the country! If Galdan had promised to share part of the land and population with the three of you brothers, why would you be in such a mess today? Cewang, Galdan is the reincarnation of a god and Buddha. Always follow the law, it is inevitable that you will be arrogant, and almost bring disaster to all of us. You lost your father since you were young, and you have gone through ups and downs. You should know that the world is difficult... you will not be as confused as Galdan, so that We Oirats have brought about the genocide, right?"

Of course Tsewang Allah Butan is not Galdan, he is mortal, and Galdan is a "half-god".

"Mini Eji," Cewang Allah Butan bowed to Anu, "Please tell the emperor that Cevan Allah Butan will never learn from Uncle Galdan, and that Cevan Allah Butan is willing to distribute the land to the people. Son... Ce Wang will make them loyal to the Celestial Dynasty forever and defend the border for the country!"

Anu waited for this, and smiled at the moment: "Ce Wang, you asked me to help you speak ill of General Ling, but I didn't speak for you. So you haven't offended him yet, and you can still get along with him in the future.

By the way, you don't want to put the palace in Karashar anymore, go back to Ili, that is the territory of the king of Ili County... Don't think about opening up the territory, guard your land and people! "

The Ili mentioned by Anu is not exactly the same as the Yili in Xinjiang of later generations. The Ili she mentioned covers the entire Ili River Basin, even including the Balkash Lake (Balkhash Lake), plus a part of the land in the Chu River Basin. Vast territory.Its western border is next to the territory of Xiqing Suiye Mansion!

For Tsewang Allah Butan, being able to preserve this vast territory and pass it on to the descendants of Junggar is already powerful enough. If you want more, you are afraid that you will lose money by stealing chickens!

Anu's tone became a little sad, "As for Galdan...you don't have to worry about it. If he repents, the emperor will not kill him all. The three states of Yeerqiang, Kashgar, and Khotan will be destroyed. It was left for him to raise lamas. If he really wants to be punished, General Ling will send troops."

"Cewang Allah Butan understands!" Cewang Allah Butan bowed again.

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In the Imperial City of Nanjing, in the shooting range behind the Hall of Martial Arts, someone is shooting a gun at this time.

"Bah..."

With a clear gunshot, the head of a humanoid wooden target located 150 steps away was immediately punched out by a bullet.

"Okay! Mommy is a sharpshooter!"

The applause after the bullet hit the target was precisely Su Zhanyang who had just sealed the Marquis of Jizhou, a great merchant.And it was Su Zhanyang's stepmother Ye Yuling who fired the shot.Su Zhanyang had an expression of admiration... It was definitely not flattery, it was admiration from the bottom of his heart!

After Ye Yuling heard his applause, she laughed like a silver bell: "A Yang, you are also an army officer with a professional background, how could you be deceived?"

"Cheated?" Su Zhanyang was at a loss, "Aniang, what are you talking about? This kind of musket is not very accurate when it hits a target that is fifty paces away. You just shot a target that is 150 paces away. You This marksmanship is simply amazing!"

Zhu Heqi was standing next to Da Boling at this time, and immediately reached out to take the flintlock gun from Da Boling's hand and threw it to Su Zhanyang, and said with a smile: "A Yang, you should see for yourself!"

"This is..." Su Zhanyang took the rifle thrown by Emperor Zhu, and after only one glance, he was immediately stunned, "Is this a rifled gun?"

Because he found four spiral rifling at the muzzle.

"But Auntie reloaded very quickly, and she didn't hit the bar with a hammer, she just poked lightly..." Su Zhanyang still shook his head again and again.

Of course he has played with rifled guns. Rifled guns even appeared earlier than flintlock guns, so early rifled guns all had matchlocks.Although the accuracy of rifled guns is much higher than that of flintlock guns, due to the problem of air leakage when rifled guns are fired (in fact, smoothbore guns also have the same problem), it is not possible to use significantly smaller projectiles to avoid serious air leakage when firing , causing the projectile to fail to obtain sufficient thrust.

And the larger projectiles are easy to be stuck by the rifling, so it is very laborious to fill. When the projectile is stuck, you have to lightly tap the bar with a hammer-this is also very dangerous. Will knock out sparks and ignite gunpowder.

Therefore, the rifled guns of this era are facing difficulties in loading, and the problem of extremely slow rate of fire cannot be solved.

It is also for this reason that rifled guns cannot become muskets equipped by line infantry.It can only be issued to a small number of skirmishers with excellent shooting skills.

Just now Su Zhanyang watched Da Boling reload the bullet with his own eyes.I didn't see her making too much effort, and quickly stuffed a fixed-load bullet into the muzzle of the gun, and tamped it down with a cleaning rod.

This is clearly loading a musket!

But what he is holding in his hand now is clearly a rifled flintlock gun!

Could it be that there is something weird about this rifled flintlock?

Thinking of this, Su Zhanyang quickly picked up the flintlock rifle and studied it carefully.

As soon as you study it, you will immediately learn the way!

Because he found an inscription on the wooden butt - Tianyi Shang, Jizhouhou Supervisor.

Obviously, this is a rifled gun handed down from the Shang Dynasty...it really has a sense of age.

And this gun was made under the supervision of Jizhou Hou in the Shang Dynasty.

Su Zhanyang felt quite familiar with the title of Marquis of Jizhou.Thinking about it more carefully, it seems that the one who was conferred just now is the Marquis of Jizhou!

"Master Qi, Auntie, what's going on here?" Su Zhanyang looked at Zhu Heqi and Ye Yuling in astonishment, "This gun can't have been passed down from the Shang Dynasty, right?"

Of course it is impossible. If the Shang Dynasty wanted such a gun, King Zhou Wen and Jiang Ziya would have to be shot by King Zhou of Shang?

"Hahaha!" Zhu Heqi laughed again, "Ayang, what are you talking about? How could this gun belong to the Shang Dynasty? Does it seem to have been buried in the ground for more than 2000 years?

Let me tell you, this is a Dagong seven-year-made rifle made by the Nanyang Gun Factory in Foshan.It just went into production and hasn't issued troops yet, so you haven't seen it. "

"But what happened above..." Su Zhanyang thought for a while, and then changed the question, "No, why is the rifle reloaded so fast? I watched Auntie reload just now."

"Ayang, you should take a look at this."

Ye Yuling smiled and took out a strange-looking bullet, and handed it to Su Zhanyang.

Su Zhanyang took the bullet and looked at it, and found that it was a cone-shaped bullet. The bullet was made very finely, with several grooves on the bullet body, and there was a cork stopper on the bullet's butt.

Then, Su Zhanyang took this weird-looking bullet and pointed it at the muzzle of the rifled gun.

Sure enough, it is one size smaller, so it should be easy to stuff in.

"The bullet is made smaller, but is it airtight?" Su Zhanyang immediately asked the question.

"No air leakage," Zhu Heqi smiled, and took the question, "Ayang, haven't you seen the wooden plug at the bottom of the bullet? The wooden plug is inserted into a groove at the back of the lead bullet. By stabbing the bar down, the bullet can be expanded a little, just enough to block the barrel of the gun, so the problem of sealing will be solved?"

"That's right!" Su Zhanyang immediately felt a sense of enlightenment, "Isn't the problem of holding your breath solved? And the bullet is one size smaller and it must be easier to load it... Now the problem of the difficulty of loading a rifled gun is gone. !

Master Qi, with this gun, I will be invincible tomorrow... I can hit anyone I want in the future!Even if you call all the way to London and Paris, it will be fine. "

This Su Zhanyang's heart is wild enough, and he has already thought of going to London and Paris to buy it for zero yuan.

Zhu Hechi shook his head and said, "Ah Yang, now is not the time to fight London and Paris... Our top priority is still in the New World. That is the key to our long-term rivalry with the Westerners!"

Don't look at the fact that Ming now has an advantage over the West in terms of military and economy, but now is an era of extremely inconvenient transportation.Ming's superior force could not be projected to Europe at all, and Europe was also unable to send enough troops to the east of Malacca.

Therefore, this contest between East and West is expected to continue for a long time!

The key to determining the outcome of the East-West struggle in the future is the resources and living space of the New World.

Su Zhanyang became cheerful when he heard this, "Master Qi, you mean to distribute this kind of rifled guns and cork bullets to the Yin merchant soldiers in the New World first?"

Zhu Hechi nodded: "Ah Yang, I have already prepared 30 merchant-made rifled guns and [-] rounds of cork bullets, as well as some spare barrels and molds for producing cork bullets. There are lead materials. Take them with you when you go to the New World. As for how to use them, you must listen to Zhou Peigong.

This kind of cork is still kept secret until now, not to mention Westerners, even here in Daming, few people have seen it.So it must be used at the most critical time... In the New World, you and the Westerners will have a big battle to fight! "

At this point, Emperor Zhu's words became very serious: "Westerners will easily give in in Malacca, but they will never give in easily in the New World, because that is the foundation for their prosperity and prosperity in Europe. So you must have Fight the Westerners. You must be determined to beat them to death!"

Hearing this, Su Zhanyang seemed to know his true mission, and he puffed up his chest and said to Zhu Hechi, "Don't worry, Master Qi, the boy will definitely make great achievements in the New World!"

Zhu Hexi patted Su Zhanyang on the shoulder, "Ayang, work hard, I am waiting for your good news in Daming!"

Chapter 815 King Shang Zhou, You Are a Threat to the Civilized World!

Spring of 1688, England, London.

The streets of London are still as dirty, dilapidated, and narrow as ever, with the stench of excrement and sewage everywhere, and the destitute people who lost their land and drifted to this big city to beg for a living can be seen everywhere.

London is still in the era of the pre-industrial revolution, but its handicraft industry has been quite developed. The dilapidated city of London is full of child labor and impoverished Irish laborers, or they have to go to the city because of the loss of land due to the enclosure movement. The poor people in England who make a living... Compared with competitors on the European continent, England's advantages in manufacturing, apart from abundant coal resources and easier access to iron ore from Sweden, are probably more poor and cheaper .

Although the country of England has been packaged brightly and beautifully in later generations, it seems to be a country full of gentlemen, full of aristocratic styles.But in fact, this is a colonial country conquered and ruled by the feudal nobles of Normandy!

The Anglo-Saxons of later generations (they are actually outsiders) have lost almost all their land since hundreds of years ago, and most of them have become serfs of the cruel Norman nobles... … Private property in England was said to be sacrosanct after their lands had been seized by the Norman nobles and reduced themselves to destitute serfs.So until a long, long time later, most of the land and industries in Britain were still concentrated in the hands of the descendants of these Norman nobles.