Chapter 574 The Militia Returns to the Founding "No, No, No!"
”Sir Hono groaned: "Your Excellency Marquis, you are doing this a disservice to the relationship between the Spanish Empire and the Ming Empire!"
”Quan Xu smiled faintly: "Your pirates invaded our vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, slaughtered the people of the Ming Dynasty, and robbed the property of our Ming Empire, isn't this a harm to the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish Empire?"
”Europeans are very good at playing double standards, and it seems that it is also a tradition, with a history of hundreds of years.By the way, the most awesome thing to play double standards in later generations should be the United States, but the United States has not yet been established, the United States is a country of immigrants, and the main white people are Spaniards, Britain, French, Dutch, Portuguese, and almost all European countries have immigrated to the United States.When the British Empire was playing double standards, the Americans were still learning from the Indians to farm.That is, these shameless Americans, who learned to farm with the Indians, changed hands and began to buy Indian scalps, and also made a Thanksgiving to thank the Indians for their help to the Americans, Nima, you are so grateful?
Thank you for eight generations of ancestors!"
The reason why we have such great sincerity is to avoid war as much as possible!"
Sir Hono still brought up the old story: "Your Excellency Marquis, do you think that our Spanish Empire has insufficient power in the Far East, and you can be unscrupulous?
Let me re-examine it again, we are not without the strength of a war, our vassal state of the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the East India Company, there are at least one hundred and forty armed merchant ships, eight thousand elite soldiers, the strength of the British East India Company is slightly worse than that of the Dutch East India Company, they have a total of fifty-three Galen ships of more than 600 tons, plus 400 tons, 200 tons of warships, we Europe can gather a maximum of 300 warships in the Far East!
”"Then don't talk nonsense!"
Quan Xu waved his hand and said with a disgusted expression: "Sir Hono, then prepare for battle, don't say that I bullied you!"
”Sir Hono wanted to be tough in front of Jeon Wook, but the problem was that Jeon Wook seemed to have eaten them up and didn't care about the threat of war at all."
Eighteen million taels of silver!"
Sir Hono: "This is the greatest sincerity we can express. ”Compared with the supermarkets in the East, more than 18 million taels of silver is actually not much, and in the Ming Dynasty alone, the net inflow of silver was as much as more than 400 million taels.However, this also caused serious inflation to the Ming Dynasty, for example, in the fifth year of Orthodoxy (1440 AD), the price of grain in the north ranged from one to six cents per stone, and in the third year of Wanli (1575), the price of grain reached between three and four cents per stone.In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), it reached two taels of silver per stone and two taels of seven coins.Note that this is not the price at which the people will eventually buy grain, but the price of the official capital, which will be more expensive in remote areas and cheaper in the grain producing areas, which is just a slightly higher reference value in the middle.By now, the grain in eastern Liaodong is generally about five yuan per stone, the south of the Yangtze River will be cheaper, about three or four yuan, and the north is slightly higher about six or seven yuan, if it were not for the influence of Quanxu, the price of grain in the north should now reach seven to eight taels of silver, and the price of grain has risen by more than 70 times.The Spaniards and Europeans were not really interested in plundering silver to reach Europe, and as silver flowed into the Spanish Empire, the purchasing power of the Spanish peso continued to decline.In the days of Charles I, it cost 4,000 to 6,000 pesos to build a third-class warship, but now more than 70 years later, it costs between 58,000 and 80,000 pesos.Even if you take out 18 million taels of silver, in fact, this is only a few hundred tons of silver, and the transportation volume of one ship is enough, which is about four months' output of Mexican silver mines.Although there were some internal pains, as long as they could buy silk, porcelain, and tea from the Ming Dynasty, they could earn ten times or a hundred times more when they shipped them to Europe.At this moment, members of the General Staff handed Quan Xu a piece of information.After reading it, Quan Xu sneered with a sneer on his face: "Your combined fleet is heading towards Shengzhou Port at full speed, less than three hundred nautical miles away from Shengzhou Port, is this your sincerity?"
”"I don't know......," said Sir Hono, who was a little puzzled, and seemed to really don't know."
Sir Hono, you have to look for the reason from yourself, and it is not wise to blindly shirk responsibility!"
Quan Xu looked at the soldiers around him and made a look: "Our Ming Dynasty and the Spanish Empire, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Portugal, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Sweden and other countries are now in a state of war, even if you provoke a war again, then when will it end, you can go back!"
”"No......"
Sir Hono looked desperate: "No, it shouldn't be like this, I'm going to go back and find out what the hell is going on!"
”"No need!"
Quan Xu smiled faintly: "When this battle is over, you will naturally understand what happened!"
”On the Zheng He battleship, it is not accurate to say that this yacht without artillery is just a little bigger, and it belongs to the battleship-class yacht at this time.Since Li Xin swore that if the European Combined Fleet attacked the port of Shengzhou, it would definitely hit his head and bleed, Quan Xu did not have to worry about this war that did not belong to him.Nowadays, the whole family army has grown into a whole, like a small court, and the council is equivalent to the court of the Ming court, although it is very busy, and it is discussed every three or five times.But important matters, Quan Xu directly decided, there is no need to discuss at all, but the problem, including all parliamentarians and deputies, feel that it should be.The General Staff Headquarters of the whole family army has developed seven divisions, namely, the Operations Department, the Equipment Department, the Logistics Department, the Military Affairs Department, the Operations Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Communications Department.The Sixth Division of the General Staff Department was seconded and developed from the Second Department of Xuanyingwei, and now the functions of Xuanyingwei have gradually changed to the direction of the Inspectorate, which is a little smaller than the power of Jinyiwei, they have no arrest and power, and once they need to arrest the task, they need the cooperation of the military.In fact, when Quan Xu decided to fight Zheng Zhilong, the Operations Department of the General Staff had already conceived a plan, this time Zheng Zhilong's strength was weaker than the whole family army, and he would not think that he was strong and could crush the whole family army and navy like last time.In the navy, a very unsolvable problem is that the sea area is too vast, if the other party wants to run, you really want to catch up, they are all sail warships, although the warships of the whole family army are more narrow and long, and the speed is slightly faster, but this advantage is not obvious.The difference in speed between one and two knots, with a distance of dozens of nautical miles, makes it difficult to catch up for a day, not to mention, at night, when it is difficult for the sail warship to sail or drop anchor.If the opponent takes the risk of running, it is easy to lose the target just like a cavalry chase.On the basis of the Battle of Quang Ninh, the General Staff drew inferences from one case and designed this war, deliberately exposing the defensive void of the port of Shengzhou, so that the European Combined Fleet thought that there was an opportunity.What's more, in just two years, Quanxu's restorative construction in Luzon was more prosperous than the Spanish colonization of the Philippines for nearly sixty years.Since Luzon was far less attractive to immigrants than Liaodong, Quan Xu was adopting the methods of cheating and abduction, coupled with the distribution of criminal prisoners and prisoners of exile, so as not to force the number of immigrants to more than one million.However, Luzon is not Liaodong, Luzon has the characteristics of Luzon, in Liaodong, the land is 100 acres per capita, of course, there are certain exceptions, for example, occupy ditches, swamps, sand and gravel shapes, the area is slightly larger.But not in Luzon, where the cultivated land is almost 1.19 million hectares, or nearly 120 million acres.Henan Province is the breadbasket of China, slightly more than one-third larger than Luzon, but the area of arable land is only equal to that of Luzon.The land allocated by the people of Luzon was based on tilt, and the per capita land was 800 acres.In the absence of mechanization, it was simply impossible for a family to plant three or four thousand acres of land, however, Luzon was positioned as a subtropical fruit plantation with a large number of plantations.The Spanish colonizers had already transplanted rubber to Luzon, but the area was not large, and Liaodong began to develop the use of rubber, such as wheels, sealing rings, and that's right, shoe soles.The demand for rubber in eastern Liaoning was increasing, and the cultivation of rubber and tobacco, as well as the cultivation of fruit trees, became the pillar industries of Luzon.The diligence of the Chinese is on full display in Luzon, according to the plantations of the Spanish colonies, a plantation with an area of almost fifty square kilometers.The output of a year is also not much money.However, the Chinese are poor, they are not willing to waste an inch of land, even get up early and work in the dark, Luzon is simply a paradise for immigrants, there is no drought, no cold, abundant rain, fertile land.In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Luzon had already transported 1.6 million stone of grain to the Central Plains, and now Luzon is a well-known and wealthy place.The point is that the Luzon fleet, renamed the port of Shengzhou, consisted of only twenty-four Exocet warships, three of which were parked in the dock of the port for repairs due to aground or other reasons.More than 20 medium-sized warships of about 500 tons have been put in the eyes of the fifteen-nation joint fleet at all, although the guns of the whole family army are sharp, but many wolves can defeat lions, not to mention, the Exocet warships are still old warships, equipped with front-loading smoothbore guns, and belong to the same batch as the ones purchased by Helena.Just after noon on February 13 in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the city of Shengzhou was disturbed by a rapid sound of war drums."
The militia of all towns will be rebuilt quickly, and those who violate it will not be severely punished!""
What's going on?""
Something is wrong, this morning, the fishing boat that went out to sea to fish discovered the fleet of Westerners, more than 200 warships, are coming towards our Shengzhou Port, and it should arrive in half an hour at most!""
What!"
Lin Feng, who was leisurely drinking tea, was almost choked: "Quick, go back to the council!"
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