Chapter 693 The Inertia of Technological Development At first, Helena did not understand the true meaning of national assimilation at all.However, the Central Plains has been doing this kind of thing for more than 2,000 years, and it has long been familiar with it.For example, in the Western Regions, during the Han Dynasty, the local aborigines of Qiuci were Cypriots, and after Qiuci became a vassal of the Han Dynasty, its nobles began to take pride in wearing Hanfu, practicing Han customs, and speaking Chinese, and over time, they became "Han people".However, the sinicization of the Western Regions is often repeated, most of the people in the Western Regions do not have the concept of "national integrity", when the Han Dynasty was strong, they all claimed to be Han people, when the Xiongnu were strong, they became Xiongnu again, when the Tang Dynasty was strong, they called themselves Tang people, since the decline of the Tang Dynasty, after the Hui people ruled this region, the people of all ethnic groups called themselves Hui to the outside world.Later, the Mongols came to the Western Regions, and they became Mongols again.Including the current place name, in fact, it sounds very tongue-twisting, like Jimsar, Gurbantunggut including the current Urumqi, in fact, they are all transliterations of Mongolian, Urumqi is the meaning of the red temple, and the Gurbantunggut Desert is the meaning of the place where wild boars haunt.The Republic of Venice was separated from the Holy Roman Empire, and in fact it was not just a Venetian city-state republic.The territory of the Holy Roman Empire was centered on Germany, roughly equivalent to the whole of present-day Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein, most of Denmark, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary, and eastern France, western Poland, and northern Italy.Straddling the north and south of the Alps, it was the only large country in medieval Europe to have an imperial title.The empire's territory reached its widest during the reign of Emperor Henry VI (1191~1197) of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, exceeding one million square kilometers.Including Britain is actually a member of the Holy Roman Empire, the king originated from the Duchy of Hanover in Germany and enjoys membership in the German Confederation, and the Netherlands is also the same, its king enjoys membership in the German Confederation as the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and the famous French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire once commented on the Holy Rome after the Thirty Years' War as follows: "Neither holy, nor Rome, nor empire." ”Because the Holy Roman Empire had lost Northern Italy at this time, so that the German king was no longer the emperor of the Romans, and North Germany was no longer in the hands of the Catholics, so it was not sacred, and the loss of more than half of the land also lost the reputation of the empire.)
So its rule was very divided, and the local lords were completely autonomous, with their own armies, courts, and even the power to collect taxes.In this case, the Republic of the Venetian city-state, which simply existed like ants, was not even qualified to participate in the Thirty Years' War, which was in full swing.In fact, the Thirty Years' War can be compared to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, and in this case, these people who were forced to come to the Republic of Venice may not take their oath very seriously.However, China's experience in assimilation is too rich, Helena has followed Quan Xu in Liaodong for several years, and she can be said to be familiar with the system and system of Liaodong.As a result, the first student of the Shang Kingdom began to appear in the Republic of the Venetian city-state, and Helena copied her homework simply and rudely, and she even copied the town, fort, and jia system in Liaodong.In the Republic of Venice, small towns were set up, and small towns were built with a thousand households as a main body, and a city was set up with a primary school in the city, but a number of towns were set up with a city, and the city had a secondary school, and a university was established in Venice.All the children of new immigrants have the same rights to work, the same rights to education as citizens of the Republic of Venice, and you can not recognize yourself as Venetians, but you will not be able to go to school.These new Germans, who began to learn Italian and also the Venetian way of life, were brave on the battlefield, gained the approval of the Venetians, and before they knew it, they became one.After the initial success of immigration, the Venetian city-state began to continue to expand the scale of immigration, this time no longer with military personnel as the main target of immigration, but with workers, merchants, and scholars, just like the talent attraction policy of Liaodong, with better conditions of attraction.For the manufacture of warships, in order to liberate human resources, Helena decided to order from the Liaodong shipyard, and the Ming Dynasty has countless personnel, and it is also possible to hire the Ming people in Liaodong to drive the warship to Venice.The Venetian generals were also red-eyed about the naval guns on Helena's Princess, and they thought that the 130mm naval guns on the Princess, which could fire sulfur shells, should be purchased on a large scale."
Your Excellency, I think we should purchase these cannons in large quantities, and we should pick out the fastest, most skilled sailors, and the strongest hulls to equip these cannons, each with four guns, no, even two of them can greatly increase the attack power of the warship!
I have the most excellent warships under my command, and we should be given priority to equip!
”"What is the priority of equipping you?
My fleet has fewer good ships than yours?
”"Mine, mine, all mine!
Whoever dares to rob me, my friends don't have to do it!
”"It's as if we like to be friends with you......
"Soldiers are like this, the more lethal the weapon, the more they love, this disease comes from the violent factor in the human bone marrow, there is no cure, only 20,000 volts of high-voltage electric shock can be cured.Helena let out a low sigh when she saw the Venetian generals spitting over each other.She really wanted to tell the generals that these naval guns, which were very powerful and remarkable in their eyes, were actually inferior goods, and that the most powerful and fastest guns in the world were in the East, and although the caliber of that cannon was as large as the smoothbore guns in their hands, the cannonballs fired were several times more powerful than sulfur shells, which could directly blow up enemy ships to pieces!
However, seeing that everyone is so happy, she will not pour cold water, let them be happy first, I hope that this time she can successfully get the 130mm rifled gun in her hands, even if it is one!
She whispered to the archon, "Actually, we shouldn't rely on external procurement, we can copy it......
The principle of this artillery is actually not complicated, but the shells are made more complex and more sophisticated, and if the Chinese can do it, we can do it too!
”The archon sighed: "Imitation?
How can it be that simple!
This cannon is made of steel, right?
We will not be able to solve the technical problems of steel processing in a short time, let alone get the large quantities of steel needed to produce this artillery in large quantities, all of this will require sufficient time, and what we lack most is time!
Therefore, dear Princess Dandoro, you must hurry back to the east as quickly as possible, and purchase more naval guns before the other countries get the news, and it is up to you to repel the invasion of the Ottoman Empire!
”Helena sighed, "I'll do my best." ”"You're not doing your best, you're sure!"
The archon looked at Helena and said: "This time, you are no longer going to the East as a private person, you will carry the friendship of our Venice city-state republic with diplomatic privileges of the Venice city-state republic......
Helena sneered: "Friendship?
Do lions be friends with rabbits?
They value gold more. ”"You may try to extend an invitation, the gates of our Venice city-state republic are open to His Excellency the Governor of the East, the Venerable Marquis, ready to welcome him!"
The consul said seriously: "Why don't you set off in a few days with enough gold coins, spices, and the books and talents that the governor has named, and as for the rest of the goods, we will organize another fleet to send them over?"
”Helena frowned: "So urgent?
”The consul smiled bitterly and said, "The Ottomans are not willing to give us any respite, not a day!"
”Thinking of the great threat posed by the Ottomans, Helena also felt a sense of powerlessness, gritted her teeth, and said, "Okay, I'll leave in a week!"
”"Take your child!"
The consul also knew that Helena had given birth to a child of oriental blood the last time she returned, and that the girl's hair was black and her eyes were black, but her skin was unusually fair.Helena shook her head: "No, no children!"
”"Better bring it!""
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Helena has been in contact with Quan Xu for a long time, and she also knows how much attention Oriental men attach to bloodlines and heirs, once this child is brought back to Dongfang Daming, I am afraid it will be difficult to bring it back.But when she thinks of Venice's huge defensive pressure, she can only put her country before her home.…… Quanxu's choice is the same as Helena's, putting the country before the family.The current princess Zhu Weiyuan is a double body, her mood is very weird, the four King Kongs are waiting carefully, Concubine Li Kang proposed to Chongzhen that her daughter is pregnant, and she wants to go to Liaodong to see.Chongzhen didn't have the heart to hold a Concubine Li Kang as a hostage, you know, if he killed Concubine Li Kang, it would make Quan Xu feel distressed for a while, and he didn't mind killing people.But the problem is that Jeon Wook probably won't care about this woman.Concubine Li Kang is in the current Shang Wang's Mansion, and Quan Xu rarely goes back.When the Shang Kingdom was first established, everything was complicated.People's hearts are floating, some people want to shoot Quan Xu's sycophants, and they want to build the Shang Palace, and they came up with a plan, the pre-built Shang Wang Palace must be atmospheric enough, Liaoyang City can plan 4,500 acres of land to build this Shang Wang Palace.If the Forbidden City's area of 720,000 square meters is almost equivalent to more than 1,400 acres, it is better here, and it is more than three times the size of the Forbidden City.The proposal of the speaker of the Liaoyang Prefecture must be selfish, that is, he is ready to make Liaoyang City the political center of the Shang State, and this proposal has met with opposition from a large number of Jinzhou representatives.Think about what fart to eat.Although the land in Jinzhou is very tight, and it is somewhat difficult to plan out 4,500 acres, but we can relocate the enterprise, Cheng Jingxian, vice chairman of the Jinzhou Council, proposed that he is willing to donate his land in Fuqiao Town, which is the warehouse that Cheng Jingxian used to store grain.However, objections were raised......
Feng Shui is not good there.In short, just because of the construction of the Shang Palace, the six councils of the Shang State have their own ideas, but the Golden State has the largest population in the Shang State, has many parliamentarians, and has the best economic development, and has both convenient water transportation and convenient railway transportation.Jinzhou is the starting point of the Liaodong Railway, which now has a mileage of nearly 3,000 kilometers, and all prefectures have carried out a new round of infrastructure construction, that is, overhaul of the railway.If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, which is right.In fact, it turns out that businessmen are quite willing to invest in transportation.With the establishment of the Zhenbei Parliamentary Office, the 2nd Division, the 5th Division, and the 9th Division, three integrated divisions, 12 brigades, and 7 independent regiments, totaling more than 125,000 officers and men, began to move to Zhenbei Prefecture.At the same time, four construction brigades and six engineering brigades, with the young and strong of the Guanning Army as the main force, began the railway from Yizhou to Daning City, which was called the Yining Railway, with a total length of 244 kilometers, and 10 brigades started construction at the same time, of which each brigade was responsible for the length of 244 or 5 kilometers.Now the railway system of Jinzhou has been built to Yiju, which is also the place where Quang Ninh Houtun guards, once the railway is built to Daning City, Daning City will become an important transportation hub in the north of the Shang Kingdom, and at the same time, it will also become a military base for the former Qing Dynasty.Although Huang Taiji became emperor more than a year earlier than in history, and also moved the capital from Shenyang to Kulun, however, Quan Xu did not intend to make Huang Taiji comfortable, whether it was a traitor in the Qing State or Huang Taiji himself, he must be punished.Long before the establishment of the Shang State, the General Staff of the Quanjia Army had formulated an expeditionary plan against the Qing State to retaliate against Huang Taiji.Quan Xu is not a generous person, he is actually very careful, Huang Taiji betrayed Quan Xu's trust, the two sides said that they would live next to each other in Liaodong, but Huang Taiji didn't say hello, and went to Kulun with the tribe and people, who did he look down on?
Therefore, Jeon Wook was very angry, and the consequences were serious.Of course, the place where the emperor ran was very right, and the plan formulated by the general staff of the Shang State was not only to push the Qing Dynasty, but to take advantage of this opportunity to enter Lake Belga and establish preparations for the establishment of the Beihai Council, which had been put on the agenda.On the shores of Lake Belga in later generations, it was a famous production base and a famous freshwater base, with huge freshwater resources and more than 20,000 tons of gold reserves.This is a huge fortune, and the Far East ceded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not counting the value of the land, just the resources on it are as much as three trillion.In front of the Far East, the resources of the three northeastern provinces, that is only the younger brother.This piece of fat, Quan Xu is determined to win.To defeat Huang Taiji, the army used by Quan Xu is three integrated infantry divisions, plus Qi Yuanbi's department, with more than 160,000 people, at the same time, Quan Xu also organized North Korea, mobilized 500,000 North Korean workers, participated in the construction of the railway, and used the railway as an artery, which can effectively rule the area on the shore of Lake Belga!
Quan Xu was also busy during this time, he presided over the meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture's industrial distribution macro adjustment plan in the morning, and at noon, at lunch, he met with the sons of the leaders of the Indochina Peninsula, and vigorously praised their clever behavior, for this reason, Quan Xu decided to transport the captured Guanning army equipment to the Indochina Peninsula to increase the military strength of the Indochina Peninsula.In the afternoon, listen to the work report meeting of the Government Council.Finally busy until dark, Li Yanqing asked, "Lord, shall we go back to the palace now?"
”Quan Xu shook his head and said, "Go to the Gun Bureau!"
”The Gun Bureau is a department second only to the ministerial-level department and bureau-level existence, which makes Sun Yuanhua very excited, he is a person-raiser, a craftsman leader, and he did not expect that one day he could become a high-ranking official at the level of a squire.After becoming the director of the Gun Bureau, his passion for weapons research and development increased.He himself likes this kind of thing, originally this thing should be the former deputy marshal of the whole family army, Mao Yuanyi also serves as this position, but Mao Yuanyi served as the Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Industry.This is the current grass platform team of the Shang State, and there are many vacancies in the nineteen ministers, and many are part-time.When Quan Xu came to the outside of the gun bureau, the sound of guns and cannons was endless, and the success of bolting rifled rifles made the merchant army enter the era of hot weapons, and the armor officially withdrew from the sequence of the commercial army's standard equipment.The time has come when artillery will rule the battlefield, but the vast majority of people are not yet aware of it.Sun Yuanhua is leading the Gun Bureau to develop a railway armored car to patrol the safety factory of the railway, this kind of steam armored train, the biggest difference between ordinary trains is armor.Armor up to sixteen mm thick, at this time, was almost invincible, even with the light machine guns of the whole army, it was just as helpless.Quan Xu looked at this giant Mac, a little speechless.The conscience of heaven and earth, Quan Xu did not give a word to the armored train, it was completely the inertia of scientific and technological development.