Chapter 842 In desperation, Quan Xu had no choice but to transfer a regiment of troops from the first, second, and fifth divisions to the battlefield of Tianzhu in the form of actual combat training.With Quan Xu's permission, Qi Yuanbi began to transfer troops as quickly as possible, knowing that it was not an easy thing to draw three regiments out of more than a hundred regiments.You know, when you finally come across an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, who wants to give it up?
At the time of the meeting, all divisions, brigades, and regiments, that guy, was so angry that he almost lifted the roof.In desperation, he directly came to a compromise solution, a bowl of water is level, each brigade draws a division, plus the special service department directly under the division, each division is transferred out of seven divisions, and the provisional formation of the 601st Regiment, the 602nd Regiment, and the 603rd Regiment.All three regiments have seven divisions under their jurisdiction, with more than 2,500 people, and the three regiments have a total of more than 7,800 people, which is almost equivalent to a brigade that is not under the organization.Regarding Qi Yuanbi's careful thinking, Quan Xu didn't take it too seriously, waved his hand, and agreed directly.Qi Yuanbi has singled out all the elites in the north, and with the formation of the three expeditionary Tianzhu slashing regiments, they will start pulling out immediately.The three regiments immediately braved the bitter cold and marched in the direction of Shanhaiwei, where they needed to board ships and carry out long-range missions.The weather in Hanhai Province, especially in winter, is actually the most boring time.The weather is too cold, even if you have a fire kang and a fire wall, it can only meet people's temperature needs indoors, but outdoors, that kind of extremely cold weather is really not something that people can endure.It's just that Quan Xu doesn't care, he has the thermal underwear of the later generations, and he also has the physique that he doesn't borrow, and when he is fully armed, he can stay outdoors for a long time.Since Sanniang became pregnant, she no longer relied on Quan Xu in everything as before.It's about raising a baby with peace of mind.The north is still frozen, but the south is as warm as spring.The current Da Ming is really too big.Although the Ming Dynasty at this time was not yet an empire on which the sun never set, its territory surpassed that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, not only bringing the entire Far East under its rule, but also adding 1.5 million square kilometers of Xinhua Province.Of course, the area of Xinhua Province is not only the 150 kilometers of the Plain de la Plata purchased from the Spaniards, in fact, under the guidance of the strategy of the divine envoys, the Ming Dynasty's soil in Xinhua Province has also increased rapidly like blowing up balloons.Almost every moment a new territory was annexed, and the Anxi army went all the way to the west, sweeping through the small countries of Central Asia along the way, and the slogan of this march was to return to the broken leaves, and not let the poet immortal Li Bai live in a foreign land.At this time, Hanhai Province is still thousands of miles of ice and snow, a piece of crystal, while Guangzhou in the south is as warm as spring, through the management of the whole Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou has become an extremely prosperous international city, commercial center.Different from Hainan Province, the geographical location here is too convenient, and the population is more than Hainan, here there are not only sugars from Hainan, high-quality rice and flax produced in Hunan and Hubei, steel, fertilizer, rock salt from Liaodong, timber and herbs from Guangxi, fruits from Guangdong, and various goods from foreign merchants, most of which go to sea or sell domestically through Guangzhou.The sea commercial routes with Europe and the Middle East have been opened, and more and more people in Guangzhou and Chaoshan choose to go to sea to do business, and more and more merchants from Europe and the Middle East have come to Guangzhou to do business, and the whole Guangzhou is almost a new look every day.Under these circumstances, a merchant ship from Spain arrived at the port of Canton, and this mission was the Spanish mission headed by the Duke of Morales.With the official decisive battle between the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire, Fili IV of Spain, who also attached great importance to the comprehensive strength of the Spanish Empire and the Ming Empire, spoke publicly at the Spanish Imperial Parliament: "The Ming Empire and the Spanish Empire are the two most powerful countries in the world.We should coexist peacefully as much as possible, once we want to go to confrontation, it will be a great harm to the Spanish Empire and the Ming Empire, and even to the whole world......
"Although the Spanish Empire at this time is imperial twilight, however, the performance on the battlefield is not so bad, the decline of the Spanish Empire, and the decline and fall of the Zhu Ming Empire in history are two completely different concepts, which is very similar to the British Empire three hundred years later.Although Britain won World War I and World War II, it lost its hegemonic position over the world because of the bankruptcy of the imperial finances.As they learned more about the Ming Empire, the more they felt fear of the Ming Empire, yes, fear, it can be said that in the history of the last few hundred years, there has not been an empire as powerful as the Ming Dynasty.The combat effectiveness of the army of the Ming Empire has long been counted by the Spanish Military Observation Group with detailed and real data, and they even speculated that on the battlefield, an infantry regiment of the Ming Royal Army can fight a regiment of the Ottoman Empire with absolute superiority.The Ottoman Army, which has an army of one million, is like a child in front of the Ming Army, vulnerable to attack, and such an army of the Ming Dynasty still has more than one million.As for the naval strength of the Ming Empire, it makes people feel hopeless, even if the time goes back to before the Spanish Armada was destroyed, the Spanish Navy has no strength that can shake the Ming Navy.The Spanish Empire maintained more than 100 infantry regiments and more than 300,000 troops, which had caused problems with the empire's finances, and more seriously, their military resources were also strained.The Ming Empire, with a population of more than 100 million, maintained millions of army and hundreds of thousands of navy while not affecting the construction of its own empire and the development of overseas territories.When the Duke of Morerras arrived in Canton, it was already late in the evening, and at this time, any city in Europe would be plunged into darkness.However, on the road of Daming, street lamps were lit.This kind of street lamp is a very large glass cover, which is even more dazzling under the curved shade reflected by the tin surface light plate.A street lamp illuminates the whole city as if it were day.Morales looked at this scene and sighed with some emotion, since he was a nobleman of the Spanish Empire, it was impossible to light up his manor or castle, but the Ming people were very extravagant to light up the street lamps.If Spain dares to learn from the Ming Dynasty, the government will definitely go bankrupt in minutes.I have to say that standing outside the city and looking at the bright lights of Guangzhou City, this scene is intoxicating.As the staff of the diplomatic department led Duke Morales and his party into the city of Guangzhou, Zeng Dezhao, his interpreter, was actually shocked.In fact, it has been more than four years since he left Daming, but in just four years, Guangzhou City seems to have changed, and all the previous low buildings are gone.In fact, there are slums in any city, even if it is the city of Beijing in later generations, the place where Lao Cheng lives is the slum of Beijing, a single room of more than 900 yuan a month, it is not very convenient, and it is more than four kilometers away from the subway.The situation here is not to mention Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and even the general county town is rare, but this is the Beijing city at the foot of the Son of Heaven, however, the Guangzhou city of the Ming Dynasty does not.Although Quan Xu did not personally promote, however, the businessman's sense of smell is very keen, the city is expensive, but there are too few places that can be developed, on the basis of respecting the rights of the people, real estate development companies have also appeared, this kind of company began to appear as early as the renovation of Beijing, in just a few years, expanded to tens of millions.This kind of real estate company takes advantage of the price difference, buys land from poor people, and then tears it down and rebuilds it to build a new high-end community to sell to those who are middle class or affluent.Standing on the street and looking at it, there is a row of blue brick and black tile shops, the shop street is three or four hundred meters long, and behind the shops are rows of roofs, I don't know how many are hidden into the courtyard......
Although it was night, all the shops were open, snack bars, restaurants, medical halls, medicine shops, gold and silver shops, pawn shops, tea shops, inns, inns, and countless counts.In addition to the shopping street in front of you, you can also see alleys stretching deep in, and the streets are full of various stalls.There were shippers or porters working as coolies on the docks, and women dressed in red and green, and the shouts and calls of pack horses, mules and donkeys came and went.On the long street, countless pedestrians, business travelers, and stalls crowded the otherwise spacious street.Scholars with wide robes and big sleeves, bearded people with narrow sleeves with lapels, and civilians in short brown cloth shirts walked among them, and it was very lively."
What a paradise on earth!"
Duke Morales asked with some curiosity: "Zeng Dezhao, are there many such cities?"
”"Of course, Guangzhou City is the capital city of Guangzhou Prefecture and the provincial capital of Guangdong Province, how can there be one hundred and eighty such cities!"
Looking at the streets, there are dense crowds of people.One hundred and eighty?
Morales' heart was even more sour when he thought of Spain.Morales stayed in the city of Guangzhou for three days, and then sailed north, passing through Quanzhou, Shanghai, Dengzhou, and Tianjin along the way, until he came ashore from Tianjin, where Morales began to arrive in Tianjin.Morales believed Zeng's words a little, because he saw that the city of Tianjin was even more exaggerated, and the Persians in small sleeved robes and flowered fur hats sold Persian dates for makeup and saffron pollen for perfumes.Of course, the stalls are indispensable for the condiments that are very popular with the Ming people, black pepper and thick mustard.There are also people who like to secretly raise Kunlun slaves.There are white people selling their goods, and there are human traffickers selling white European women, which is one of the favorite goods of the Ming Dynasty.After all, it's a country where white is beautiful, and white beauties are still quite popular, ps: I fell asleep while writing, sorry!