Chapter 377 We must not be fooled Cao Huachun was woken up by Quan Xu, his interests are consistent with Emperor Chongzhen, once a son of heaven and a courtier, once Chongzhen has an accident, his fate is definitely not better than Wei Zhongxian.Huayang Society stretched out his hand in the inner palace, as long as it was exposed, he basically found a reason to clean it up, and more than 500 people were refined in the crematorium alone, and as for those who died outside the palace, there were as many as 800 people, whether it was his henchman or not, his own people, as long as they were involved with Huayang Society, there was only one end, and that was death.The current Cao Huachun is in the palace, and it can be said that he is famous, even more terrifying than his predecessor Wei Zhongxian.As for in front of Wei Zhongxian, those eunuchs dared to make a black hand against the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and dared to make a black hand against the crown prince.At the same time, he also strengthened the construction of the factory guard, and restored some of the functional departments of Jinyiwei that Chongzhen had cut down, which is the real reason why the development of the full-dried Xuanyingwei is getting slower and slower.After all, Quan Gan is only a hundred households in brocade clothes, lacking the background of the brocade cloth and health organization, although he is in the palace, Cao Huachun took over the secret report of the factory guard, knowing that Quan Xu has cultivated more than one million acres of land in southern Liaoning in the past two years, and through this means, he has absorbed people from eastern Liaodong from time to time.At present, the population of southern Liaoning has broken through the 600,000 mark, although Quanxu did not expand the army, but Jiannu did not launch an attack on Liaodong, at least abandoned Shenyang, and lost a large part of the land in Liaodong.The good news of the recovery of Shenyang has not reached the capital, in Quan Xu's words, he is worried that Emperor Chongzhen is eager for quick success, and under the joy of recovering Shenyang, he ordered him to annihilate Jiannu.Cao Huachun naturally understands this truth, and he also understands Quan Xu's approach, but he can't understand the next approach.Quan Xu established the Liaoning South Council Center in southern Liaoning, with his confidant Shen Mingze as the speaker of the Liaoning South Council, and the governors of the four southern states as the deputy speakers, and replaced the function of the governor of Liaodong with the Liaoning South Council, which hollowed out Lu Xiangsheng.However, Lu Xiangsheng did not have any changes, he learned Quanxu's set in Guangningwei, and started a job while tuntian, but Lu Xiangsheng did not have Quanxu's background, and his progress was quite slow.In the past two years, Lu Xiangsheng opened five coal mines and built more than 30 hundred-household houses (small walled cities), which were further pushed to the eighteen miles south of the old city of Shenyang.At the same time, Lu Xiangsheng also opened two steel mills, obtaining an annual production scale of 200,000 catties of steel, although the imperial court repeatedly reduced the expenditure of the Liaodong army, as well as money and grain.However, Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng did not cry poor every day like Yuan Chonghuan at the beginning, nor did they cry bitterness.Although Cao Huachun is not a politician, he is in the palace and has heard and witnessed it, and he also knows that as a border army, if the imperial court does not control the ordnance and food, it is very dangerous.Cao Huachun proposed that Emperor Chongzhen send his ministers to Liaodong to comfort, at least to see what Quan Xu was doing and what he was going to do.Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun and said, "Did the factory guard hear any rumors?"
”"No, everything is fine in Liaodong!"
Cao Huachun said: "It's just ......
Emperor, Uncle Xiu Wu is now alone, he will be about to be thirty years old, if he doesn't get married again, I'm afraid that this Uncle Xiu Wu's title will have no successor!
”Chongzhen nodded and said, "Yes, I am also worried about this matter.It would be nice if I could go to Liaodong, I would love to see Liaodong and see what Quanqing is doing in Liaodong!
”Quan Xu actually didn't hide much from Chongzhen, how many fields he cultivated, how many factories he built, how many jobs he solved, and so on, Quan Xu would write to Chongzhen.Almost every month, unlike other ministers, Quan Xu's notes are all in the vernacular, and they are typical of later reports, with detailed data at a glance.Chongzhen didn't answer Cao Huachun about his decision, and he also had a headache.…… In fact, Jeon Wook has an even more headache.He knew that the real purpose of the Dutch coming to Liaonan was to test the reality of Liaonan under the banner of trade.Although eight large dockyards were built in one go, according to the drawings that Quanxu obtained from later generations, eight were built at one time, with the three-masted flying shear battleship as the main battleship.However, while building the infrastructure, the efficiency of building warships was naturally low, and when the Dutch arrived in Arthur, the eight clippers were not completed.Even if all the more than 40 gunboats under Mao Yuanyi's command were pulled out, not only would they not be able to deter the Dutch, but when they saw Mao Yuanyi's gunboats, the Dutch would have the confidence to attack southern Liaoning.Just when Quan Xu returned from Shuangchengwei to southern Liaoning, Quan Xu had been at a loss.At this time, Sanniang was in a good mood, she was holding a sharp dagger, and she kept sharpening a wooden sword and a wooden knife."
What are you doing here?"
Sanniang smiled slightly: "I, the mother, have been out to play for many months, and when I go back, if I don't bring gifts to Jingyang and Jingran, the two of them will be unhappy!"
”Speaking of this, Sanniang held up the wooden sword that had just been sharpened and said, "Xianggong, look at it, how about this wooden sword?"
Is it good-looking?
”"How old are the two of them?"
Quan Xu was a little speechless for Sanniang, people's mothers prepared gifts for their daughters and sons, either sachets, or purses, or small toys such as windmills or rattles, Sanniang is good, a wooden sword that is more than two feet long, and a wooden knife that looks very thick.At this moment, Quan Xu's head flashed.Suddenly there was something to deter the Dutch.During the struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union in later generations, the two sides launched an all-round arms competition, and although the Soviet Union's national strength was inferior to that of the United States, it was not much different, reaching about 70 percent of the United States.The strength of the economy is related to the strength of a country, but it definitely does not mean that when the GDP is strong, the country is strong.Just like Japan's GDP is three times that of Russia, but the world never thinks that Japan is stronger than Russia, but in the same way, Brazil's GDP is stronger than Russia's, but no one thinks that Brazil is stronger than Russia.Simply pursuing DGP doesn't make much sense.Of course, the United States carried out strategic deception against the Soviet Union, the most famous of which was the Star Wars program, which was used by the United States to deceive the Soviet Union, and the United States itself could not afford to play it.Later, the Soviet Union was really fooled and invested a lot of money in the field of space, and as a result, the Soviet Union was dragged across.Naturally, Quan Xu can't replicate Star Wars, but he can take strategic deception.Quan Xu sent it back to southern Liaoning by radio waves in the secret letter, and the Gun Bureau in Jinzhou, the Gun Bureau received Quan Xu's order, and rushed to work overtime overnight to create a batch of coastal defense artillery.This shore defense gun is simply a behemoth, with a barrel of an astonishing eight hundred and eighty millimeters.Even if Quan Xu wants to cast such a caliber cannon in southern Liaoning, it is naturally unrealistic, even if it is a giant mortar cannon, but it is naturally very easy to make a model to bluff people.First of all, Quanxu has a malleable and malleable tinplate, with wood as the bone, tinplate as the skin, and then the barrel of the gun is painted with black paint, you can create a giant cannon that is real and fake.At the same time, on the port of Arthur Pass, the improvised fort also pointed obliquely in the direction of the sea with thick and long gun muzzles.On August 20, the fourth year of Chongzhen, the 22 armed merchant ships of the Dutch delegation finally obtained permission to berth at Lushunkou.Led by the guide ship, the twenty-two armed Dutch merchant ships slowly sailed into the harbor.Alfonso, the Dutch East India Company's plenipotentiary for the Far East, stood atop the Alexia, which was sailing at the head of the fleet, and looked at Port Arthur with a telescope.At that moment, he exclaimed, "Oh God!
”"Mr.
Alfonso, what's wrong?""
Colonel Duncan, look!"
Alfonso handed the telescope to Colonel Duncan.Colonel Duncan passed through the telescope, looked at the giant battery on the shore, and was speechless for a long time: "This ......
This......
How could there be such a huge cannon in this world?
”"Colonel Duncan doesn't know anything!"
Alfonso said with trepidation: "Forty years ago, the Turks made and used a giant mortar cannon with a caliber of 1066 mm, and a shell hit a Spanish first-class battleship, directly hitting the bottom of the first-class battleship from the bow, and just one cannonball sent a first-class battleship to the bottom of the sea!"
”"One door!"
Alfonso muttered: "However, this Earl of the Ming Dynasty has more than one door, one or two, three ......
Oh God, they actually built more than twenty forts!
”"Look here, they're still building a fort!"
Colonel Duncan pointed to the family soldiers in the binoculars, and the family soldiers on the battery were stapled together with wooden planks to cover the barrels of the guns."
They are ......"
There was a missionary in a long robe with a cross drawn on his chest: "They have a saying in the Ming people, called the false is the real, the real is the false, the false is the real, the true is false, the true is false, they are deceiving us......
Let's think that their defenses are very empty, and as you can see, there is not a single gunboat in the whole port, all the ships are merchant ships!
”Colonel Duncan pointed to a musket infantry major beside him and said, "Robin, look at those pretending people!
”At this time, there were rows of skinny and skinny soldiers in armor and carrying inferior swords and guns standing on the harbor, and behind the soldiers were groups of tall and mighty men who were dressed in common people's clothes and had strong bodies.Alfonso sighed and said, "This Oriental nobleman deliberately showed us that they are very weak!"
”"yes!"
Duncan ordered: "We must not let everyone withdraw the gunpowder, the cannon is emptied of the chamber, and the gun must not be misfired, otherwise the consequences will be unthinkable!"
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